Social welfare and social services

In this groundbreaking study, Linda Cusworth explores the impact of parental employment or unemployment on the educational and emotional well-being of their children.

Esta obra constituye un hito histórico en la visión académica y científica del trabajo del cuidado.

Learning Critical Reflection documents the actual learning experiences of social work students and practitioners.

Written for staff in schools and colleges, this book offers the challenge and support necessary to understand, analyze and adopt coaching, mentoring and peer-networking mechanisms as an essential part of the development of professional learning within an organisation.

Child Abuse and Neglect examines the latest research on this important topic, discussing what it entails, how to recognize it, and how to report it.

Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide is a collection of essays from survivors, scholars, activists, spiritual leaders, and social justice practitioners that offers numerous intersectional and culturally competent options for women, men, and non-binary conforming adults to create their own safe healing conditions and establish pathways for recovery.

While racism continues to be a persistent and pervasive issue in our schools nationwide, the professionals charged with creating safe and nurturing educational environments have few resources available to address racism directly.

The second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation.

This book highlights the current epidemiology of suicide among children and adolescents, as well as identifying important risk factors and evidence-based treatment options.

Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice argues for placing trauma-informed practice and thinking at the heart of forensic services.

Written by a veteran police officer turned college professor, this modern-day study of American policing covers hot-button issues including police use of deadly force against and bias toward minorities.

Written by community workers from diverse contexts, this highly accessible guide equips practitioners and students working in a range of community settings to make the best use of theory in their work.

This unique text uses one common case to demonstrate the applications of a wide range of family therapy models.

Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline for the last 25 years.

In this new volume, Michael A.

"e;Arranged alphabetically, core ideas about 'Agency' and 'Development' through to 'Socialisation' and 'Youth' are explained in straightforward language, with a concise introduction to key theoretical debates, as well as up to date references.

Vermissen Sie in Ihrer Seniorengruppe gelegentlich das Lachen und die Fröhlichkeit?

'This book offers an excellent guide for all those committed to the provision of high quality field teaching and assessment in the human services.

This documents the holes in the health care safety net for poor and minority Americans.

The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.

This stimulating book explores the many ways in which social group workers approach diversity.

Informed by a wealth of research, this accessible book focuses on a strengths-based approach to promoting children's wellbeing and giving them the best opportunities to succeed.

If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you!

Das Lehrbuch bietet das relevante Grundlagenwissen für politische Einmischung in der Sozialen Arbeit.

Gain a fuller understanding of substance addiction and treatment options!

Scotland has changed, politically and culturally, in recent years, with persistent demands for independence culminating in a referendum in 2014.

The second edition of Creative Activities for Group Therapy focuses on evidence-based alternatives for verbal expression in group therapy, which provides group leaders with innovative inspirational tools, techniques, and intervention strategies to address dilemmas and difficult situations and help encourage members' self-exploration and self-disclosure.

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

This is the first-ever book to provide a comprehensive analysis of Chinese social security reforms with a variety of views.

Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

Lehrbuch der Statistik, das sich an einen Leser- und Nutzerkreis aus dem Bereich der Sozialpädagogik oder Sozialarbeit wendet.

Sprachbarrieren erschweren die Psychotherapie mit Geflüchteten und Migranten erheblich.

This third edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and health care quality across 27 Asia/Pacific countries and economies.

Those who work with children and young people have a responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare.

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

Sexuality remains a neglected and largely taboo area within practice, but it can be a demanding aspect of social work.

The growing use and appreciation of the Common Lectionary (Revised) has stimulated renewed attention to the Christian calendar in its fullness and an enrichment of liturgical worship.

This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.

This book helps adults to understand firesetting behaviour in children and teens and provides strategies to work with them to address the behaviour.

Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist.

Those who are pursuing social justice too often fail to incorporate the insights of sociology, and when they do make use of sociology, they often draw heavily from claims that are highly contested, unsupported by the evidence, or outright false.

An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.

Career Counseling aims to link the past and the present, and to look to the future for significant developments in this critical field.

A valuable reference to help practising researchers not only to understand but also to apply innovative approaches to social work research.

Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal.

Human Rights and Social Justice: Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations is a comprehensive text that focuses on central issues of human rights and justice and links them directly with social work competencies and practice.