Welfare and benefit systems

Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels.

This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender developments, and the evolution of social inequality structures.

With its unique human-rights perspective on the study of childhood victimization and an innovative, child-inclusive restorative justice model, this book promises to be a touchstone for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers concerned with children's well-being in the aftermath of crime and violence.

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties.

Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare.

Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers.

Aspalter asserts that the belief that the development of high standard welfare states is primarily based on the ideology that pro-welfare, mostly leftwing, parties dominate welfare state literature and common thought in the Western world.

Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability provides a comprehensive guide to family-centred practice for social workers.

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.

Das SGB VIII feiert Geburtstag - 1990 wurde die Kritik an der Eingriffsorientierung des ehemaligen Jugendhilferechts aufgenommen und ein Angebots- und Leistungsgesetz für Kinder, Jugendliche und ihre Eltern geschaffen, das auf Unterstützung und Hilfsangebote setzt.

Safeguarding Children Across Services brings together the latest evidence on safeguarding children from abuse and neglect.

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This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions.

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events.

Das Erkenntnisinteresse der qualitativen Forschungsarbeit liegt im Praxisfeld der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe und fokussiert sich dort auf den Bereich der Hilfen zur Erziehung.

Die inklusive Ausgestaltung der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe stellt alle Akteure im Feld vor unterschiedlichste Herausforderungen – fachlich, strukturell und organisational.

This important book by an experienced authority on social security discusses a subject of vital interest to governments and peoples everywhere.

Comprehensive in its coverage, the text examines the core areas of childcare practice, considering the various strengths and weaknesses of both policy and practice.

Der Band enthält alle Ergebnisse des gleichnamigen Projekts zur Ganztagesbetreuung für Kinder im Grundschalter gebündelt, um sie für die Adressat*innen nutzbar zu machen.

To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the boundaries of national welfare states?

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements.

Unique in its use of a human rights framework, Social Work and Social Welfare goes beyond American borders to examine U.

Informed by a wealth of research, this accessible book focuses on a strengths-based approach to promoting children's wellbeing and giving them the best opportunities to succeed.

The potential for early intervention to prevent social problems later in life has become the focus of much debate in recent years and finds itself at the centre of contemporary social policy.

The diverse challenges that clinicians and children's workers tasked with safeguarding babies and young children face are complex, and this unique book looks at effective, practice-based and evidence-informed approaches to working across a wide range of issues.

Despite the pivotal role played by parents in the child protection process, little attention has been paid to how social workers perceive them.

When domestic abuse and children are involved, divorce and custody can be the epitome of high-stakes conflict and frustration and all too frequently protective parents lose custody of their child to a named abuser.

Viel wurde über Kinder aus suchtbelasteten Familien als Risikogruppe mit eigener Abhängigkeitsgefährdung publiziert.

Mit der jüngsten Reform des Kinder- und Jugendhilferechts wird die längst überfällige Forderung nach einer inklusiven Hilfeplanung durch gesetzliche Weichenstellungen gestärkt.

For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.

The question of economic justice for Black Americans continues to be the subject of contentious political debate.

For human resource professionals, labor law specialists, and others involved in the practice of labor-management relations, Lencsis provides a concise, easily-accessed description of the workers compensation system in the United States, its governing laws and also its insurance aspects.

Mehr Beteiligung von jungen Menschen, Eltern und Familien – mit diesem Ziel stärkt das im Jahr 2021 verabschiedete Kinder- und Jugendstärkungsgesetz (KJSG) die Beratungs-, Beschwerde- und Beteiligungsrechte von Adressat*innen in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe.

Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books.

Mit der Einführung des Sozialpasses soll Menschen in Armutslagen die Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Leben ermöglicht werden.

Western welfare states are in a period of significant transition.

Aiming to provide purpose and direction in a complex field of work, this book offers direct and straightforward guidance on how to improve child protection on the frontline.

Mit der Implementierung des BTHG wurden neue Anforderungen an die Berichterstattung und Dokumentation in der Eingliederungshilfe eingeführt.

This wide-ranging and accessible survey of poverty in America examines every important facet of the issue, from historical and socioeconomic contributors to poverty to programs, policies, and ideas crafted to reduce income inequality and poverty across the USA.

Ein tiefgreifender Wandel kennzeichnet unsere Gesellschaft.

In these pages you will find inspiring, true stories of people who didn't have hope?

Durch das Kinder- und Jugendstärkungsgesetz (KJSG) wurde der Weg in eine inklusive Leistungserbringung für alle jungen Menschen geebnet.

Child well-being, which covers everything from family relationships to their material well-being, is now increasingly being talked about in policy and practice nationally and internationally.

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.

This book empowers parents of autistic young people aged 11 to 20 to help them promote resilience in their child.

This book considers the responses of states to migrant girls who are separated from family and enter state care systems as unaccompanied or trafficked young people.