Welfare and benefit systems

Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.

This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects.

Aimed at social scientists, this book discusses family policy in general and the New Federalism in particular, and experimental implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWOA) in the United States.

Although in Europe there continues to be a large degree of consensus that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that nobody who is poor, sick, disabled, unemployed, or old is left deprived, there are mounting calls to roll back spending on the welfare state.

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's rights terminology into various public and private arenas.

Challenging Child Protection offers a ground-breaking new perspective which will illuminate and improve the professional understanding and practice of social workers and child protection workers.

In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A.

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die internationalen Beziehungen der ersten bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung und deren Einfluss auf die Verberuflichung Sozialer Arbeit in Deutschland.

Die Studie untersucht Aufenthaltssicherungspraktiken von unbegleiteten minderjährigen Geflüchteten.

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

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.

Contemporary struggles over the ordering of sexual and parental relationships take place in the context of mass unemployment, ethnic antagonism, population ageing, a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of violence and sexual abuse in intimate relationships and the eruption of AIDS as a major health crisis.

As events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty.

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

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

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This text introduces the reader to the comparative study of housing policy.

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK.

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

Helping vulnerable children and young people to build protective behaviours is the key to keeping them safe.

Wenn das Undenkbare passiert: Suizid bei Kindern und JugendlichenSuizid ist eines der letzten großen Tabuthemen unserer Gesellschaft.

Images of disabled children are found throughout well-known works of literature, film, and even opera.

With standardized testing and predetermined subgroups garnering the attention of educational leaders, abused and neglected children have fallen deeper into the crevice of the system.

The sexual abuse of children is an area of increasing concern to social services agencies, lawmakers, and the general public.

Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical.

Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution.

Gefährdungen in der Kindheit Eltern sind nicht immer in der Lage, ein gesundes Aufwachsen ihrer Kinder sicherzustellen.

The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.

An in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan.

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 explores the connection between family structure and circumstances, parental engagement, and adolescent sexual behavior.

Putting Analysis into Child and Family Assessment bridges theory and practice, and provides clear guidance to improve assessments in child and family social work.

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

This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection.

Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs explores how to effectively assess children in families where one or more parent has a learning disability.

In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success.

With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model.

The three protagonists in this memoir are dead: a mother, a father, and a sister.

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

This book offers a methodological framework for developing research-based Theatre and Dance for the Very Young (TDVY) performances in which artists collaborate with children ages 0-6 and their caregivers and/or educators as creative partners in the process.

This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today.

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

Without some form of outside assistance, physical disability is very likely to create economic hardship for victims of accident or illness.

Social pediatrics complements the traditional practice of pediatrics by creating a network within the community that acts to empower children and their families.

Neglect is the most common form of child abuse, but recognizing the signs, assessing the family's and the child's needs, and undertaking intervention can be difficult and complicated.