Welfare and benefit systems

This book provides an account of parenting support initiatives in children and family services from a number of jurisdictions, paying particular attention to their impact on both 'hard' and 'soft' outcomes for participants and to the inclusion of parents in the design and delivery of these supports.

This book provides an account of parenting support initiatives in children and family services from a number of jurisdictions, paying particular attention to their impact on both 'hard' and 'soft' outcomes for participants and to the inclusion of parents in the design and delivery of these supports.

This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the USA, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.

This book explores how the increasing need for specific kinds of parental engagement impacts care-experienced young peoples' trajectories.

This book explores how the increasing need for specific kinds of parental engagement impacts care-experienced young peoples' trajectories.

Der Weg zu einer inklusiven Kinder- und Jugendhilfe erfordert tiefgreifende strukturelle, organisationale und kulturelle Anpassungen.

Taking a rights-based approach to the interdependence of play and health in childhood, this text argues that the child's right to health and development cannot be satisfied without also the fulfillment of their right to play.

This reference offers a comprehensive overview of public policies and programs related to child care in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, Europe, and North America.

Useful for newcomers to the children's library staff as well as longtime children's librarians, the second edition of this popular handbook provides easy-to-follow instructions to make innovations in children's library materials work for you.

This thought-provoking work raises important questions about sex offender laws, drawing from personal stories, research, and data to prove the policies promote fear, destroy lives, and fail to protect children.

This book provides a review of how child maltreatment has been socially constructed, ignored, and formally responded to as it tells the story of how America's system of child protection has evolved.

Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions.

Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions.

Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way .

Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way .

"Schattenhaftes Seelenleben" wirft einen Blick auf die komplexe Natur psychischer Störungen und beleuchtet die vielfältigen Auslöser, die zu ihrer Entstehung beitragen können.

Originally published in 1967, this book examines the health services, social insurance, social assistance, family allowances and housing in the Irish Republic during the late 20th Century.

This edited volume covers issues related to educational research and practices for early childhood education and care (ECEC), highlighting interprofessional and family-professional collaboration within inclusive education in different cultural contexts.

This edited volume covers issues related to educational research and practices for early childhood education and care (ECEC), highlighting interprofessional and family-professional collaboration within inclusive education in different cultural contexts.

Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way .

Originally published in 1967, this book examines the health services, social insurance, social assistance, family allowances and housing in the Irish Republic during the late 20th Century.

Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens.

Das Arbeitsfeld der Erziehungshilfe ist komplex, vielfältig und zunehmend ausdifferenziert.

Die Frage nach der Wirtschaftlichkeit der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe ist komplex.

Vom Allgemeinen zum Spezifischen und vom Spezifischen zum Allgemeinen – so lassen sich die meisten Grundsätze zwischen unterschiedlichen Settings transferieren und innerhalb dieser adaptieren.

Die Anwendung der Vorschriften über die örtliche Zuständigkeit und Kostenerstattung im SGB VIII und der sie ergänzenden Regelungen im SGB X bereitet in der Praxis erhebliche Schwierigkeiten.

Partant de points de vue théoriques et disciplinaires variés, l'ouvrage mobilise la notion de prudence ou de " sagesse pratique " pour penser le travail social contemporain.

Was Demenzkranke wirklich brauchen und was wir ihnen schulden.

Hinter jedem Verein stecken Gesichter, Köpfe, Strukturen und Visionen.

Eine Frage der Klasse: wie Klassismus unsere Gesellschaft spaltet.

Bei der Gestaltung von Übergangsprozessen kommt der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe einerseits die Aufgabe zu, bedarfsgerechte Leistungsangebote zur Verfügung zu stellen, junge Menschen und Familien zu begleiten und in ihren Ressourcen zu stärken.

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration.

Blahous contends that Social Security is ill-equipped to withstand the effects of an aging population and will impose excessive tax burdens upon future Americans unless its course is changed.

First published in 1998, the aims of this book are: the comparison of community care service and financing systems, the comparison of reform arguments and history over the last decade, the comparison of who uses how much of what services, and with what impact on their needs and the probability of having to enter institutions for long-term care.

Junge Erwachsene sind heute hohen gesellschaftlichen Anforderungen ausgesetzt.

This book explains the history and principles of the social security system.

Expert essays bring together material from many developed and developing countries to determine how defense spending can affect welfare provision and economic growth.

The very notions of childhood and youth are intimately connected to contemporary norms, practices and spaces of care, caring and care-giving.

When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.

As many as 20 to 25 percent of American adultsor one in every four peoplehave been victimized by, witnesses of, or perpetrators of family violence in their lifetimes.

Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss.

In recent years, the U.

In the early 1970s 'baby battering' accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain, while a further 4-5,000 children were seriously injured - all this in spite of the knowledge gained from the research done both in Britain and in the United States.

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice.

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice.

Unrivaled in its current coverage, Siegel's best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW, 14E presents the historical development of the concept of childhood and delinquency as well as the latest research on when, where and why juvenile crime occurs.

Desde el análisis sociológico hasta la interpretación psicoanalítica, pasando por los estudios literarios y la explicación biológica, el suicidio es un fenómeno que ha provocado un enorme interés y que genera múltiples interrogantes.