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.
Der Band präsentiert Perspektiven von Wissenschaftler*innen verschiedener Fachgebiete auf die Themen Sexualität und Macht in pädagogischen Handlungsfeldern.
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.
Grandchildhood in Multigenerational Living: Practices, Meanings, Relations is the first book to sociologically analyse grandchild-grandparent relationships from the perspective of grandchildren.
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.
Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with detailed analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.
Mit der fortschreitenden Ökonomisierung aller Lebensbereiche setzen sich auch bei der Ausgestaltung des sozialen Rechtsstaats zunehmend die Prinzipien des Marktes durch.
With contributions from internationally recognized experts, this edited volume presents original thinking on the theory, research and practice surrounding child neglect.
Die Bundesregierung hat sich auf die Fahnen geschrieben, bis 2013 für bundesweit 35 % der Kinder im Alter unter 3 Jahren Betreuungsplätze in Tageseinrichtungen und in Kindertagespflege zu schaffen.
With an emphasis on promoting self-reliance, autonomy and independence, this exciting new book provides a contemporary and holistic analysis of the childhood resilience.
This textbook provides an engaging guide to psychosocial theories of child and adolescents' wellbeing, demonstrating how psychology and sociology can be used to address key contemporary issues for those working with children and adolescents.
This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions.
For families who have experienced the death of a child, their private tragedy is all too often exacerbated by an inappropriate or incompetent professional response.
Identifying the most serious challenges faced in child protection work, this practical guide offers helpful solutions for frontline professionals working with children and adults.
Internationally recognized as the gold standard in providing services to children with special needs and their family members, family-centred practice has developed substantially over the past two decades.
It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children's homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable solution to child neglect.
This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.
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.
Recent debates surrounding children in State care, parental rights, and abuse in Ireland's industrial schools, concern issues that are rooted in the historical record.
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.
It is now widely acknowledged that the most vulnerable and at risk children are children whom the current systems of education, care and health (especially mental health) are failing.
The rate of young unwed couples and teens having children is increasing, and many of these couples choose to "e;co-parent"e; children, rather than to marry and remain in a relationship.
Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist die Frage, welche Geschlechterkonstruktionen Erzieher in Kindertageseinrichtungen (Kitas) haben und inwieweit diese Einfluss auf die pädagogischen Handlungen der Fachkräfte im Alltag nehmen.
Introducing key psychodynamic theory, concepts and techniques, this text examines the challenges and opportunities of counselling adolescents and children.
