Social Services category: 2206 books
Welfare in an Idle Society?
Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness, it aimed to providing a minimum standard of living, with all people of working age paying...
The Social Origins of the Welfare State
Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the connections between political initiatives...
by Vivienne Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model. Drawing on contemporary knowledge about childhood and...
Child-Centred Practice
A Handbook for Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Since the Munro report (2011), a greater emphasis has been placed on the value of child-centred practice in social work with children, young people and families. It has come to be recognised that social workers cannot make an assessment or intervene to safeguard children and promote positive outcomes...
by Christine Cocker, Lucille Allain
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This practical book looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. This is a popular guide to this complex and demanding area of practice. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and...
Child Abuse and Neglect
Biosocial Dimensions - Foundations of Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Child Abuse and Neglect is the third volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. The goals of these volumes include the development of a biosocial perspective and its application to the interface between biological and social phenomena in order to advance the understanding of human behavior.Child...
by Lai Ching Leung
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine...
by Beng-huat Chua, Chyong-Fan Ko, Kyeung-Mi Oh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia adopts a unique and critical perspective on contemporary social welfare policies in East Asia. This edited volume reflects on current welfare theories and challenges the dominant productivist ideology that overemphasizes the influence of work and family. James Lee...
Social experiences of breastfeeding
Building bridges between research, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding. It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level,...
Inclusión social: enfoques, políticas y gestión pública en el Perú
VII Seminario de Reforma del Estado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Libro dedicado al tema de la inclusión social como base para la política y la gestión pública en el Perú. Recoge las ponencias del VII Seminario de la Reforma del Estado que organiza anualmente la Escuela de Gobierno y Políticas Públicas de la PUCP. En este volumen se presentan y discuten distintas...
Cuestiones éticas en la educación social
Del compromiso político a la responsabilidad en la práctica profesional
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
El objetivo de este libro es estudiar qué forma ha adoptado la ética en la educación social, cómo se ha llegado hasta este punto y cuáles son los principales retos de futuro. Para ello, después de una presentación teórica sobre ética profesional, se analiza el proceso de construcción de...
Ciudad y educación social
De la calle al medio abierto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Huyendo del localismo y del comunitarismo, este libro impulsa la necesidad de conocimiento del territorio y del tejido urbano por parte de todo profesional que desee fomentar, promover e incitar nuevos recorridos culturales, sociales y educativos de los ciudadanos. Una mirada, por lo tanto, centrada...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Comment les acteurs publics, professionnels et citoyens contribuent-ils à reconfigurer l'état social en France ? À partir de nombreuses études de cas, cet ouvrage a pour ambition de mettre à jour les tendances à l'œuvre dans le champ de l'intervention sociale mais aussi les contradictions qui...