This book provides a review of how child maltreatment has been socially constructed, ignored, and formally responded to as it tells the story of how America's system of child protection has evolved.
This practice-oriented text presents evidence-based assessment methods and interventions that have been extensively field-tested in child welfare settings.
In Research Strategies for Community Practice, you'll discover how you can more effectively work together with other practitioners and researchers in the interests of knowledge development and practice assessment.
Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social inequalities and social justice.
Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs.
In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism—the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism.
In vielen Bereichen des Gesundheitswesens besteht nach wie vor ein großer Bedarf an Fach- und Führungskräften im Managementbereich, die über eine interdisziplinäre Ausrichtung verfügen und mit den speziellen Gegebenheiten der unterschiedlichen Bereichen im Gesundheitswesens vertraut sind.
Disaster vulnerability is rapidly increasing on a global scale, particularly for those populations which are the historical clients of the social work profession.
Wie gestalten Hochschulen Lehr-/Lernangebote für Gesundheitsfachberufe, die Studierende zu einem kritisch-konstruktiven Diskurs und zu wissenschaftsbasiertem professionellen Handeln befähigen?
Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the physical and developmental age of their patients.
Das Handbuch beleuchtet das Feld der Sozialen Dienstleistungen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive und geht dabei folgenden Fragen nach: Welche Möglichkeiten und Strategien gibt es in multi-professionellen Teams, um Machtungleichgewichte und Kompetenzstreitigkeiten zu beseitigen?
Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.
Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low.
Economists and political scientists have recently begun to study formally how conftict and the possibility of conftict affects resource allocation and economic performance.
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and community-based courses on African American relationships, marriages, and families.
Online and Distance Social Work Education: Current Practice and Future Trends provides a comprehensive presentation on the evolution, current status and future direction of distance learning and online education in the social work profession.
The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors is a definitive resource about addictive behaviors, emphasizing substance misuse, gambling, and problematic technology use.
A practical, hands-on workbook, Becoming an EffectiveSupervisor neatly fills the gap in supervision resources available to mental health practitioners.
