Social welfare and social services

This book offers a comparative examination of Islamic welfare activities across urban areas in both Switzerland and Italy, in order to address general issues relating to the welfare engagement of Islamic organisations in Europe.

This book explains the psychological assessment process and reviews the origins of psychological testing, referral and testing processes, and prominent psychological assessment instruments.

This book provides fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive.

This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse.

This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis.

This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI).

This work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration and public policy.

This ambitious reference work focuses on social inclusion in health and social care and offers a good understanding of matters that include or exclude people in society.

This Brief discusses research about gifted education in Lebanese schools.

"e;The fourth sector"e; consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances inthe field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potentialof emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with thelatest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians,computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex datasets.

This book is focused on relational processes in supervision for counselling and psychotherapy.

This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state.

This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts.

This edited volume presents unique insights on sibling relationships in adulthood in the early 21st century, focusing on three themes: relations beyond childhood and school years; factors shaping social support provision between siblings; and changes in family life and how these impact sibling relations.

The book addresses the issue of disease diffusion across the geographical span of India during the colonial period.

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.

This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the role of local governments around the world in the management of the migration, integration and development nexus.

Drawing on data from 340 municipalities in the Netherlands as well as ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents original research on neighbourhood watch groups to illustrate how their actions contribute to collective efficacy and lower crime levels.

This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present.

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical cases.

This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust.

This book describes how "e;makers"e; with no medical experience became and remain clinically important because they utilized 3D printing to produce supplies for healthcare, including medical and non-medical devices, and to improve the quality of life for patients with COVID-19 and those who care for them.

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people.

This accessible guide introduces systemic mirroring, an innovative approach to understanding and managing the disruptive presence of shame in family therapy.

This book argues that the way to ensure that American Jewish life flourishes is to create vibrant local communities and that the ability to thrive will be won or lost in the trenches of each locality.

This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change.

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date.

This books examines the increased prominence of children's rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system.

This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds.

This volume presents a broad sweep of modern economic history underpinning aid, trade, development and globalization in the last half century and the salient challenges facing the global community today.

This volume aims to critically engage with constructs and experiences of disabled sexualities through Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This innovative collection draws on original research to explore the dynamic interactions between parents, governments and their representatives across a range of European contexts; from democratic Britain and Finland, to Stalinist Russia and Fascist Italy.

This book addresses the endangerment of children's bodies in affluent societies.

"e;If a child falls victim to a crime, or becomes witness to it, they may well be questioned by the police.

This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change.

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement.

This collection explores how pioneering gender equality policies have shaped women's economic presence in Europe since 2000.

This collection presents strategies for trauma-informed teaching and learning in higher education during crisis.

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism.

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This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the numerous factors associated with treatments for children, youth, and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).