Social welfare and social services

Explore international trends in health and longevity--with a special focus on older women!

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality.

Residential Care: A Reader in Current Theory and Practice is a collection of papers that tackles the various issues and concerns in residential care.

Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory?

Levels of violence, abuse and neglect in early childhood are reported internationally as having reached epidemic proportions.

This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work.

This handbook takes on one of the most pressing issues of today's society - the question of housing.

* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016*Modern warfare has a new form.

An honest insight into the rollercoaster reality of therapeutically parenting teenagers.

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The classic edition of this groundbreaking book includes a new preface from the authors discussing developments in the field since the handbook's initial publication.

This text outlines for the first time a structured articulation of an emerging Islamic orientation to psychotherapy, a framework presented and known as Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP).

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through actual experiences of terminally ill persons.

Uneven Urbanscape draws on decades of empirical research to examine ethnoracial disparity in urban Los Angeles.

Wichtige Grundkenntnisse für die AusbildungDas Lehrbuch vermittelt umfassend die wesentlichen Inhalte der Wirtschafts- und Sozialkunde.

In this edited volume, scientists from different disciplines discuss modern biotechnological processes and a knowledge-based bioeconomy.

- Was alle im Helfer- und Betreuer-System von »Problemkindern« wissen sollten- Mit vielen anschaulichen Beispielen- Praxisnaher, allgemein verständlicher Schreibstil»Problemkinder« fordern ihre Betreuer und Helfer meist maximal heraus.

Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.

This book uses an occupational therapy way of thinking to guide the reader towards observing, understanding, and communicating the needs of children to foster a supportive environment.

A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening-both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers.

This edited text explores immigration detention through a global and transnational lens.

The Evidence-Based Practitioner Coach gives a descriptive, phenomenological understanding of human development through the lens of the Integrated Experiential Learning Process, and how it can be applied in coaching.

Radicalisation, Extremism and Social Work Practice is the first book to explore cultural identity, acculturation and perceived discrimination of Muslim youth across Western countries in relation to social work, as well as the radicalisation and extremist views and actions of a small number of Muslim youth.

Backs Against the Wall: Battered Women's Resistance Strategies tackles several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV)-namely the approaches many victims use when resisting their oppressors.

What are the concepts and principles that underpin the design and delivery of social policies?

Policing is in a profound period of change, the result of recent government reform, a renewed drive for professionalism as well as the need to adapt to a rapidly changing society.

This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of action learning, one of the most widely used development methods in health, social and community care.

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.

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.

Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape.

This expert guide to working with transgender and gender variant youth offers ways to make positive change to service provision for practitioners working with this group.

Written by therapists experienced in working with nonspeaking clients and their families, this helpful book includes many issues pertinent to the assessment and training of augmented communicators.

This textbook offers the perfect introduction to the complex world of social work theory, giving a concise yet comprehensive overview of how practice is influenced by each theoretical approach described.

Leadership for Sergeants and Inspectors offers an easily accessible and practical guide to leadership in routine and complex situations across all areas of police work.

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this territory in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This title was first published in 2002: Throughout the book reflexive accounts of practice gathered from qualitative research in four different types of bail and probation hostels (women-only, women-only with provision for children, mixed and men-only) are used to argue that the combination of working with a difficult client group in a difficult setting creates a unique blend of professional and personal anxieties.

Problem gambling is a recognised mental disorder and a significant public health issue internationally.

Children of violence need to be heard.

This publication provides readers with an introduction to social and psychosocial development.

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Those Who Say They Can't is a comprehensive aid for people who stifle their personal freedom, creativity, and autonomy by telling themselves they "e;can't"e; do things such as: take risks; make commitments; control their anger or fear; avoid intrusive thoughts; tolerate disappointment; accept challenges, make decisions, and more.

The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality.

This expert compendium surveys the current state of military psychology across the branches of service at the clinical, research, consulting, and organizational levels.

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world.

How does the European Convention on Human Rights apply to people who suffer mental ill-health or are alleged to be affected by such a condition?

This book analyses trends and data relating to issues affecting social policy in mature welfare states in Europe, and uses these elements to further our understanding of, and ability to try to say something about, the future of social policy, its direction and content.

In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number.

Of the estimated 5 million Americans who have Alzheimer's disease, more than 7 in 10 live at home, primarily cared for by family and friends.

Ebenso skandalisiert wie verharmlost ist die Praxis gewerblichen Geschlechtsverkehrs immer wieder Gegenstand kontroverser gesellschaftlicher Debatten.

This book considers the impact of digital media and technology on lived experience for young people in foster care.

This volume brings together multiple diverse perspectives from around the globe on quality of life and community well-being from a place-based perspective.