Social welfare and social services

This book argues that a major potential source of social tension in transition and developing countries is not poverty as such, but vulnerability: that is, the risk of becoming poor.

'This timely report by HelpAge International sets out to establish some of the key social and political issues affecting older people's lives.

Looking for a comprehensive one-stop resource on transitions across the life course?

Social work is being constantly shaped by external forces such as new information technology, managerialism, increased public accountability and programme risk management.

The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China.

Youth work is a means of promoting learning, equality and inclusion with young people.

This book examines the policies, conducts, and performances of organizations tasked with developing medium and high technologies in Iran.

This book provides a unique perspective into the world of supplementary schooling, exploring both the social positioning of these schools and the ethnic minority communities they serve.

The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing.

Informal work - family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work - is a critical form of labor in today's economy, yet remains underanalyzed and examined.

Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations.

This book is essential reading for any clinician or researcher working with teens with autism spectrum disorders.

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary.

This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities.

For years anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice have been embedded in the social work landscape.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life.

Recent Serious Case Reviews into child deaths have concluded that social workers attention is drawn away from the child by demands placed on them by the adults, organisational structures and systems.

Based on rich interview data drawn from a large scale longitudinal study of homeless young people, this book examines the personal, familial and structural factors that impact on homeless young people's long-term outcomes.

This handy book is a one-stop introduction to research and evaluation for social workers.

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.

Most of us find ourselves listening to other people's problems at some time or another - either our friends' or, in the course of our work, patients, pupils, clients, colleagues.

Communication is the basis of so much of what happens in the workplace and indeed in our private lives.

Be proud to be a lazy radical!

Whatever the desires of your heart, Change Your World will guide you through the entire process to take action and start making an impact today right where you are.

A practical guide to advise Baby Boomers how to deal with the daunting task of facing a parents' eventual passing as it relates to residential contents, heirlooms, and the often difficult family interactions and feuds that accompany them.

Uncle Sam's Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poorand what Americans must do to stop it.

Criminal Personality, Volume two.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the previous few decades had been characterised by a 'population explosion' amongst the older age groups.

A young mother suspected of abusing her toddler, a severely behavior-disordered teenager who faces expulsion from his community residence, a depressed and illiterate homeless man who fears psychiatric evaluation.

Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V.

Now in a significantly revised sixth edition with 70% new material, this comprehensive handbook has introduced tens of thousands of practitioners and students to the leading forms of couple therapy practiced today.

This book examines ten key issues-poverty, housing, taxation and the economy, child welfare, education, health, criminal justice, civil rights, and global issues-confronting social work professionals and places them in their larger context.

Community service and learning experiences are booming as we enter the 21st century.

False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities.

System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves.

The Health of Staff in Hospitals aims to provide some help and guidance to nurses, doctors and hospital administrators who are concerned with improving or creating staff health departments.

After directing the organization NGOabroad: International Careers and Volunteering for 20 years, the author wrote this guidebook to help both prospective and active social and humanitarian workers pursue their careers in international development.

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Social Work is a collection of stories to help social workers work with dilemmas, weigh up options and make good decisions.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

Evaluation of Quality of Care in Psychiatry covers the proceedings of the symposium on Quality of Care in Psychiatry.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

As World War II drew to a close, America's premier fire apparatus builder--the American-LaFrance Foamite Corp.

Adult Protective Services (APS) is the social service system charged with aiding older people and disabled adults who are being mistreated by others or cannot meet their own basic needs for health and safety (self-neglect).

This thrilling story memorializes one of the most dangerous--and successful--series of undercover operations conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuses are not magnets for murderers but sanctuaries from them.