Welfare and benefit systems

The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families.

This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time.

Udo Baer nimmt eine radikale Änderung des pädagogischen Blickwinkels vor: Ihn interessiert nicht, wie Kinder sein oder wie Eltern erziehen sollen.

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.

Wie lässt sich professionelles sozialarbeiterisches Handeln beschreiben?

The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry.

While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former British Commonwealth.

Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help.

A practical tool for the assessment of children and their families, this guide enables professionals to make informed decisions about child protection issues.

This study examines the different approaches of social scientists and historians to the origins of social welfare legislation between 1906 and 1914.

Based on open-ended interviews with adult children and children-in-law, this book documents how plain folk from the working and middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents while simultaneously meeting the obligations of their jobs and their own immediate families.

The process of becoming an adult in contemporary times is fragmented and unequal, shaped by chance, choice and timing.

How Does Foster Care Work?

Die Mutterliebe und das Böse -Sie lassen ihre Kinder hungern, verabreichen ihnen Medikamente, ersticken sie beinahe oder brechen ihre Knochen.

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

Writing is intellectual, solitary work, and mothering too often seen as its antithesis.

Significant shifts in community violence have created a need for greater awareness of character development and violence prevention in schools.

In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.

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Mittlerweile ist einiges darüber bekannt, was es in der Vergangenheit bedeutete, in einem Kinderheim aufzuwachsen oder in einer Erziehungsanstalt untergebracht zu sein.

More than any other challenging behaviour, the sexual abuse of one child by another generates anxiety, puzzlement and confusion.

The Missing Child in Liberal Theory opens public discourse on what it is Canadians hold in common through their provision of civic assurances to children and families at risk.

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This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations.

Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that the nation made in raising the nutrition, hygiene, health and education standards of its children.

This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know.

A comprehensive guide to empirically supported approaches for child protection cases The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Child Maltreatment offers clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals an evidence-based approach to best professional practice when working in the area of child protection proceedings and the provision of assessment and intervention services in order to maximize the well-being of young people.

The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized.

Childcare is one of the most debated issues today.

The "e;living wage"e; is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years.

The first major historical study of social trust in modern Britain, this book offers a fresh perspective on friendly societies.

European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing.

How can we determine success in foster placements?

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families.

With the knowledge and sensitivity of a teacher and counsellor, Ruth M.

This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when there are concerns about the safety and welfare of children.

Many young people on the autism spectrum struggle with anxiety, but did you know there are lots of simple things you can do to tackle it?

When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.

Junge Erwachsene sind heute hohen gesellschaftlichen Anforderungen ausgesetzt.

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware.

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.

All too often child victims of abuse either remain silent or are not listened to when they do decide to speak of their experiences, but The Truth is Longer Than a Lie gives abused children and young people a voice.

Praise for the first edition:'Ann Cattanach writes with enormous empathy and warmth, and with a refreshing lack of sentimentality.

Grandchildhood in Multigenerational Living: Practices, Meanings, Relations is the first book to sociologically analyse grandchild-grandparent relationships from the perspective of grandchildren.

The extraordinary rise of China is one of the greatest global stories of recent times.

While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former British Commonwealth.

Death is never an easy subject for discussion and adults often struggle to find the right words when talking about it with children.