Welfare and benefit systems

A contemporary reflection on current practice, this book gets to the heart of what 'youth work' is about.

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment.

Viele Ökonomen sehen im Sozialstaat nur einen Kostenfaktor.

Human beings have the most immature newborn and longest maturational schedule of any animal.

A comprehensive guide to empirically supported approaches for child protection cases The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Child Maltreatment offers clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals an evidence-based approach to best professional practice when working in the area of child protection proceedings and the provision of assessment and intervention services in order to maximize the well-being of young people.

Research into children and domestic violence in recent years has emphasized the importance of giving positive support to a non-abusive parent for effective child protection.

As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and consequences.

In vielen Berufen sichern Fallbesprechungen und Fallsupervisionen die Qualität der täglichen Arbeit ab.

Wenn das eigene Kind Suizidgedanken oder Suizidabsichten hat, ist das für Eltern eine tief erschütternde Erfahrung.

"Das Berliner Archiv der Jugendkulturen entwickelte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Postillion e.

Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally.

'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their plans dissolve in dust' NEW YORK TIMESIn thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects - architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so.

When it comes to parenting a child with a hidden disability, everyone seems to have an opinion.

Recently, many political voices have indicated a strong desire to track down absent fathers who have absconded without fulfilling child support obligations to their biological or adopted children.

The rate of young unwed couples and teens having children is increasing, and many of these couples choose to "e;co-parent"e; children, rather than to marry and remain in a relationship.

The lack of practical information available to the families of vulnerable individuals - and sometimes a similar lack of resources for the professionals who deal with them - can lead to frustration and in some cases tragedy.

In this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.

This book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern with EU social policy fragmented and merely symbolic.

Well-publicised cases of child abuse have brought heavy media criticism of the social work role in prevention and child protection.

Written by a leading child psychologist, this clearly written and practical book provides a template for interpreting change and meaning in children's lives through their play activity.

This text examines the enormous pressure placed on University students in Japan, Korea and Taiwan which have led to the rapid expansion of the "e;cramming"e; industry and to a growing number of students looking to religion and spirituality for guidance.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed the equality of all human beings in dignity and rights.

How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power to take their children away.

This book assesses which work-family policies work best, and explains why they are unlikely to be adopted everywhere.

At the end of the 20th century, New York City had one of the worst child welfare systems in the United States: 50,000 children were in foster care; they and their families were often neglected or abused by the system; parents had no voice; and the services designed to protect children were more often harming, rather than helping, them.

Reach children and families and help them navigate the child welfare system Case planning is one of the fundamental steps in working with dependent children, yet it is also one of the most challenging.

Human development is about the growth of agency, which is developed in interaction with their parents and families but if parental agency is insufficient, agency in the form of child welfare will be required to fill the gaps.

Das Handbuch präsentiert im Arbeitsbereich der einzelfallbezogenen Jugendhilfeangebote erstmalig eine umfassende arbeitsfeldspezifische und methodische Information für Betreuer/ innen, Koordinations- und Leitungskräfte, Berufsum- und einsteiger/ innen und Studierende Sozialer Arbeit.

Written by an experienced adoptive parent, this clear, sensitive and practical handbook is designed to encourage and support adoptive and long-term foster parents, their children and adolescents.

Working with Young People offers a new outlook on social, cultural, and educational work with young people.

This volume, first published in 2005, focuses on more than a century of interaction between political institutions and social policy outcomes.

Jeder kennt Spielfiguren aus verschiedenen Gesellschaftsspielen.

The process of creating and implementing sectoral policy has been described from two perspectives.

With its effective outcomes, relative speed and reduced costs, the group format is becoming increasingly popular for work with children in counselling and educational settings.

Durch das Kinder- und Jugendstärkungsgesetz werden sog.

In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, the welfare state is a well-worn analytical concept.

In Kindertageseinrichtungen arbeiten viele pädagogische Fachkräfte am Rande ihrer Belastungsgrenzen, auch aufgrund des immer weiter wachsenden Personalmangels.

Broken Three Times is a story about child abuse in America.

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably.

In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success.

Obwohl die Zahl an unbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlingen in den letzten Jahren die Einrichtungen und Dienste der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe vor völlig neue Herausforderungen stellte, liegen bisher noch keine systematischen, bundesweiten Aussagen zu den betroffenen jungen Menschen, den Prozessen während der Hilfe und deren Wirksamkeit vor.

Die Zahl der Kindeswohlgefährdungen in Deutschland bleibt konstant hoch.

Challenging behavior, while common, can have a significant negative impact on the lives of children and their families.

Schon in der Weimarer Republik vertraten Funktionseliten der Wohlfahrtspflege klassifizierende, diskriminierende und eugenische Konzepte, die sich als höchst anschlussfähig an die sozialrassistische Bevölkerungspolitik des NS-Regimes erwiesen.

Housing finance is central to people's well-being, to the economy and to society as a whole.