No es exagerado decir que en muchos países occidentales las últimas décadas vieron el paso acelerado de "la familia modelo" –papá, mamá y sus hijos– a "los modelos de familia", que abarcan una diversidad creciente de conformaciones: monoparentales, ensambladas, extendidas, encabezadas por dos hombres o por dos mujeres, con tres progenitores, conviviendo o no, unidos en matrimonio o por otras formas de relación social.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich für die neue Generation interessieren und verstehen möchten, wie sie tickt und welche Auswirkungen sie auf die Welt hat.
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.
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives, requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.
In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous.
An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change.
An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers.
In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "e;pioneer in developing concepts and devices"e; for housing segregation.
Providing an authoritative overview of the growing phenomena of child to parent violence - a feature in the daily life of increasing numbers of families - this book outlines what we know about it, what is effective in addressing it, and outlines a proven model for intervention.
A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers' efforts to appeal to working-class voters.
This book examines the complexities of the relationship between policing and mental health - in Australia especially - including the circumstances that lead to police use of force, and the ways in which news media typically report deaths resulting from police contact with people in mental health crisis.
Reinhard Heinetsberger geht in diesem Buch der Frage nach, ob und wie mittels der angewandten Gruppendynamik sozialpädagogische Wohngemeinschaften zu einem funktionalen Lern- und Entwicklungsraum werden können.
This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.
Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice develops a comprehensive presentation that serves as a systematic guide to understanding the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) clinical model, the FFT service delivery system, the theoretical principles that serve as the foundation of FFT, and the mechanism of therapeutic change that gives FFT its potency.
Kohli offers a comprehensive overview of what is known about the resettlement of young asylum-seekers, answering social work practitioners' need for a fuller understanding.
Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Forschungsfrage: In welchen Kontexten und auf welche Art und Weise nutzen Schüler*innen die Schulsozialarbeit, welchen Nutzen ziehen sie aus der sozialen Dienstleistung für sich und welche Empfehlungen lassen sich für die Praxis der Schulsozialarbeit ableiten?
This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.
PART 3 OF 3After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old.
This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life.
This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life.
The Neglected Childprovides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children.
