Welfare and benefit systems

This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment.

The transition to adulthood is a longer and more complex process than it was just a few decades ago, and a growing number of youth and young adults experience significant challenges in the establishment of an autonomous and independent lifestyle when compared to previous generations.

Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children.

Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children.

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

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

Supporting Bereaved Students at School provides educational professionals with essential information to support bereaved students.

Supporting Families of Children with Developmental Disabilities: Evidence-based and Emerging Practices provides a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence on interventions for families of individuals - ranging from post-preschool age to adulthood - with developmental disabilities.

Supporting Families of Children with Developmental Disabilities: Evidence-based and Emerging Practices provides a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence on interventions for families of individuals - ranging from post-preschool age to adulthood - with developmental disabilities.

Today there are nearly six million children under the age of five living in poverty in the world's richest country.

Today there are nearly six million children under the age of five living in poverty in the world's richest country.

Currently enrolling approximately 900,000 poor children each year, Head Start has served 25 million children and their families since it was established 44 years ago.

Each year more than 25,000 youth age out of the American foster care system to face uncertain futures as young adults.

Challenging behavior, while common, can have a significant negative impact on the lives of children and their families.

Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change.

For centuries, societies have relied upon residential care settings to provide homes for children, and for much of that period a debate has raged over whether such settings are appropriate places for children to be raised.

In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "e;end welfare as we know it"e; by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped by over three million.

Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media.

An extensively revised version of the first edition, this text focuses on the practical foundational knowledge required to practice social work effectively in the complex and fast-changing world of services to children and their families.

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment.

Today, one in every three Americans will be affected by trauma, and the most vulnerable among these victims are children.

Child abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society.

The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job.

This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators.

With the advance of evidence-based practice has come the publication of numerous dense volumes reviewing the theoretical and empirical components of child and adolescent treatment.

Families today often face a range of urgent problems, and practitioners need to intervene with the most effective methods possible, methods which have been tested and that have proven clinical utility.

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

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.

Human beings have the most immature newborn and longest maturational schedule of any animal.

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The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the law.

The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the law.

Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in different countries.

Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in different countries.

Broken Three Times is a story about child abuse in America.

Broken Three Times is a story about child abuse in America.

Professionals in child welfare and protection are often required to make decisions--fraught with many difficulties and shortcomings--that have crucial implications for children and families.

Professionals in child welfare and protection are often required to make decisions--fraught with many difficulties and shortcomings--that have crucial implications for children and families.

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably.

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably.

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically?

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it.

Four extraordinary true stories .

Five heart-stopping true stories of terror and triumph, told by the man who tried to make life better for these troubled children .

Three heart-stopping stories of children trapped by their parents' pasts .

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 52, includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology.

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.