Welfare and benefit systems

Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.

This book introduces the concept of new social risks in welfare state studies and explains their relevance to the comparative understanding of social policy in Europe.

How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice?

Drawing on in-depth interviews with social workers and their managers, and families and young people themselves, the authors of this important book show how the principles embodied in the Assessment Framework have been applied to social work practice.

Im Umfeld von Menschen mit Demenz stellen ihre Angehörigen einen Bestandteil der sogenannten Sorgenden Gemeinschaft dar.

Although Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) has been a recognized autistic profile in the UK for some time, awareness is still growing in America.

The 20th century, declared at its start to be the Century of the Child by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic.

In this honest, poignant depiction of autistic regression, Sophie Gaston explores the unexpected joys and challenges of having a child that regresses and surveys the historic and latest professional perspectives on the causes of this little-understood occurrence.

This collection of original essays explores the myriad expressions of austerity since the 2008 financial crisis.

This book is about power in welfare encounters.

Children and teenagers text, network and twitter online as second nature, but when emails or texts are used to threaten, harass, intimidate or embarrass someone, they can turn from being a source of enjoyment to a source of crippling anxiety and fear.

Professionals in child welfare and protection are often required to make decisions--fraught with many difficulties and shortcomings--that have crucial implications for children and families.

Supporting Families of Children with Developmental Disabilities: Evidence-based and Emerging Practices provides a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence on interventions for families of individuals - ranging from post-preschool age to adulthood - with developmental disabilities.

Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios.

Parenting an autistic child as a neurotypical adult can be challenging but it doesn't need to feel impossible!

Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation.

* What is collective trauma?

This is a lucid, readable discussion of ethical questions in health care as they arise on the business or organizational level: an effort to spell out an ethical perspective for healthcare organizations.

This book seeks to counter the recent trend of speculation about the impact of globalization upon welfare states.

For centuries, societies have relied upon residential care settings to provide homes for children, and for much of that period a debate has raged over whether such settings are appropriate places for children to be raised.

The scale of the Rotherham child protection scandal has led professionals responsible for safeguarding children in other regions to recognise the extent of child abuse in their area and consider how to respond efficiently.

The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces.

Containing concise but detailed summaries on a comprehensive range of clinical scenarios and conditions likely to be encountered by trainees, paediatricians, therapists, nurses, and allied professionals in their day-to-day practice, Community Paediatrics is the ideal companion for anyone working with children in the community.

Essential ammunition against the theft of our golden years by pundits, "e;free"e; marketeers, and bureaucrats.

Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.

This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies.

Die Demokratie gerät nicht nur in Deutschland zunehmend unter Druck.

'The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bringing together material written over the past two decades, this book traces a history of political and intellectual debates around central issues of education, labour and the youth question.

* What is trauma?

Um Kinder und Jugendliche nachhaltig gegen (sexualisierte) Gewalt in Institutionen zu schützen, müssen Schwächen und Fehler der Vergangenheit analysiert und eine intensive Präventions- und Aufklärungsarbeit mit systematisierten Handlungsempfehlungen durchgeführt werden.

For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements.

Dreams of pregnancy include the expectation that nine months of waiting will end with a joyous event.

How to weigh genetic factors while choosing the best psychosocial interventions Psychosocial Interventions for Genetically Influenced Problems in Childhood and Adolescence explores empirically supported psychosocial interventions in light of our current understanding of the genome.

This book evidences the cyclical failures of online safety policy and challenge conventional policy and educational approaches to tackling online harms, and provide a robust argument for a critical, evidence-based approaches which align with the needs of those we claim to wish to protect.

Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too.

'We don't just come out once.

Transracial adoption is a controversial area of research and practice in child welfare.

Successful social policies for children are critical to America's future.

A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health's new training courses.

Who are the new families that are appearing on city streets, in suburban malls, and at Fourth of July celebrations?

This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective.

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.

The information age is upon us and, with it, a new era of human services has emerged.