Welfare and benefit systems

Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work.

Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

60 bis 100 Prozent aller fremduntergebrachten Jugendlichen erfüllen die Diagnosekriterien für mindestens eine psychische Störung.

On 3 August 2012, as London was gripped by the Olympics, Tia Sharp, a 12-year old schoolgirl, was reported missing from her grandmother's home in New Addington, south London.

A time of great hardship, the Second World War became a consequential episode in the history of Soviet childhood policies.

A time of great hardship, the Second World War became a consequential episode in the history of Soviet childhood policies.

'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.

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Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom.

System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves.

This acclaimed work describes a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss.

This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in posttraumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution.

Is medication the right choice for treating your childs emotional or behavioral problems?

Is medication the right choice for treating your childs emotional or behavioral problems?

This book has been replaced by Social Work Practice with Children, Fourth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3755-6.

This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in posttraumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution.

Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and families' needs.

Melanie Klein gives a detailed account of the analysis of a ten year old boy, Richard.

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

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

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume.

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume.

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America.

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America.

Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is the centre of political and public debate.

Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent - healthcare, education, pensions, benefits - is the centre of political and public debate.

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it.

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it.

This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany.

This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children's services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area.

Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s.

Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s.

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.

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 UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack.

Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom.

Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom.

This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany.

This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children's services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area.

The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children.

The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack.

Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men's own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live.

Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men's own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live.

Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people.

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services.

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