The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect and the public programs that protect them.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the latest in more than two decades of federal efforts to raise educational standards and an even longer stream of initiatives to improve education for poor children.
Bringing change to our public school system is hard, and the current system of education governance creates barriers that can make that reform even harder.
A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationA nation of great resources, the United States is confronted all too often with headlines about shootings in schools and with the unsettling reality that homicide rates for juveniles far exceed that of other industrialized nations.
Over the years immersing myself into the topic of Social Security, I began noticing that other authors focused on the past, or the history of our country's largest (and oldest) Entitlement program.
How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions gives clinicians and researchers an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses.
In this book, Cooper brings together psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by offering a comprehensive and integrated model, described as "e;The Realizational Model"e;, that is consistent with the core concepts of Soto Zen Buddhism and psychoanalytic practice.
This book underscores the importance of moving beyond lip service or hollow platitudes to mobilize and expand the capacity of social justice movements to foster policy change and incubate new programs at the local, state, and federal levels.
How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions gives clinicians and researchers an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses.
In this book, Cooper brings together psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by offering a comprehensive and integrated model, described as "e;The Realizational Model"e;, that is consistent with the core concepts of Soto Zen Buddhism and psychoanalytic practice.
This book underscores the importance of moving beyond lip service or hollow platitudes to mobilize and expand the capacity of social justice movements to foster policy change and incubate new programs at the local, state, and federal levels.
Disability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families.
This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice.
According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies.
Disability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families.
Der Band arbeitet theoretische Hintergründe, Merkmale und Leitlinien einer Caring Community (CC), also einer Gemeinschaft in einem Quartier, einer Gemeinde oder einer Region, in der Menschen füreinander sorgen und sich gegenseitig unterstützen, auf.
Criminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists' contributions to news and social media discourse.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment.
In its new edition, The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides in-depth understanding of the knowledge, skills, values, and affective and cognitive processes needed for social work practice in the present moment.
School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.
Police Administration, 11th Edition, is a best-selling textbook that examines police administration from multiple perspectives: a systems perspective (emphasizing the interrelatedness among units and organizations); a traditional, structural perspective (administrative principles, management functions, and the importance of written guidelines); a human behavioral perspective (the human element in organizations); and a strategic management perspective (communications and information systems, performance evaluation, strategies and tactics, and prevailing and promising approaches to increasing effectiveness of police agencies).
This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago.
School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.
Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.
Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.
In its new edition, The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides in-depth understanding of the knowledge, skills, values, and affective and cognitive processes needed for social work practice in the present moment.
1946 als Tochter des ehemaligen Gemeindeschreibers von Kilchberg geboren, scheint Ursula Hausers Lebensweg in geordneten Bahnen vorgezeichnet, als sie mit neunzehn ungewollt schwanger wird.
Lotti Latrous lebte zusammen mit ihrer Familie in der Elfenbeinküste, als das Aids-Virus in aller Welt, vor allem aber in Schwarzafrika Millionen von Toten forderte.
Lotti Latrous lebte zusammen mit ihrer Familie in der Elfenbeinküste, als das Aids-Virus in aller Welt, vor allem aber in Schwarzafrika Millionen von Toten forderte.
1946 als Tochter des ehemaligen Gemeindeschreibers von Kilchberg geboren, scheint Ursula Hausers Lebensweg in geordneten Bahnen vorgezeichnet, als sie mit neunzehn ungewollt schwanger wird.
