This important text will provide a critical analysis of contemporary developments in child care policy under New Labour and the resulting policy and practice implications.
In the 1980s and 1990s, a mind-boggling social panic over child sex abuse swept through the country, landing childcare workers in prison and leading hundreds of women to begin recalling episodes of satanic ritual abuse and childhood abuse by family members.
Recent government initiatives and developments in professional practice have been designed to help families in difficulty effectively, in order to prevent child harm.
Childhood in the Promised Land is the first history of France's colonies de vacances, a vast network of summer camps created for working-class children.
258 pages, 606 images, 28 contributorsOf the injuries inflicted on physically abused children, head injuries are, in many cases, among the most damaging and potentially lethal.
Das gesellschaftliche Phänomen politische Gewalt und mit ihm verbunden die Fragen von Sicherheit und Prävention beanspruchen in den letzten Jahren wachsende Aufmerksamkeit.
Es esencial dotar al veterinario clínico de los elementos necesarios para el reconocimiento de estas situaciones a través de la formación en el área de las ciencias forenses, aplicadas al ámbito del maltrato animal, con el objeto de poder luchar eficazmente.
300 pages, 646 images, 11 contributorsThis new pocket atlas, part 5 of an ongoing series on child abuse, is designed specifically for professionals involved in the investigation of child death, both intentional and unintentional.
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.
In this volume, Professor Clark shows that for two hundred years Canadian society was subject to the same kind of disturbing and disruptive forces that revealed themselves in the United States in the Revolutionary period.
Ein Experte klärt darüber auf, wie Eltern ihre Kinder vor sexualisierter Gewalt im Internet schützen könnenKaum ein Thema erschüttert Menschen so sehr wie sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Kinder – und kaum ein Thema wird so häufig verdrängt.
This book argues that a sense of affinity for land and space constitutes the foundation of human agency and underlies all social activity of human beings from a personal level to family, nation, region, and the world.
After growing up in abject poverty in a dysfunctional alcoholic environment and being terrorized by a boarder who lived in the root cellar, Athena Demetrios repressed her traumatic memories—thrusting her into a downward spiral of melancholy and despair.
In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes.
Marital violence in post-independence Ireland, 1922-96 represents the first comprehensive history of marital violence in modern Ireland, from the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the passage of the Domestic Violence Act and the legalisation of divorce in 1996.
Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states.
Psychosis and the Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
Psychosis and the Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
Since the fall of Bagdad, women's voices have been largely erased, but four months after Saddam Hussein's statue fell, a 24 year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging.
The Social Worker's Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health provides a comprehensive guide to working with children and young people who are experiencing mental health problems, and equips the reader with the knowledge and skills to provide the best service to these vulnerable young people.
Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men's own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live.
A Clinician's Guide to Gender Actualization provides an essential guide for mental health professionals working with gender diverse clients, delivering material that challenges clinicians to provide affirming specialized care for their clients.
United Airlines Flight 93, which took off fromNewarkAirportthe morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but theres so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax.
The Mischief Festival returns this spring with a double bill of new plays exploring global questions of truth, freedom and corruption; and a very personal one-woman show.
Based on personal experience and academic research, Tom Barker shines a light on the dark side of American policing by examining misconduct and corruption as occupational and workplace forms of deviance.
This Treasure Box book is packed full of valuable resources from bestselling and award-winning author, trainer, organizational consultant, and Clinical Psychologist Dr.
