Social Services category: 2206 books
Children in Trouble
The Role of Families, Schools and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Carol Hayden reviews evidence about children in trouble across a range of circumstances, demonstrating the tensions between welfare and justice, care and control in the treatment of these vulnerable young people and evaluating the implications of the current 'what works' debate within social policy....
by Lisa Merkel-Holguin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
As we approach the year 2000, infant mortality rates, child placement dilemmas, and appropriate socialization of children continue to challenge the field of child welfare. It is thus especially significant to reflect on the history of child welfare. The carefully selected topics explored in this volume...
Taking Charge
A School-Based Life Skills Program for Adolescent Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Taking Charge is the first empirically tested program of its kind, designed specifically to improve academic achievement and self-sufficiency for adolescent and teenage mothers, who face increased risk of dropping out and experiencing poverty. This eight-session, in-school group intervention uses...
International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment
Global Governance, Politics and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.
Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book presents new and previously unpublished...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of case-study examples - internet pornography; internet radicalisation; ‘chavs’; the Tottenham riots; patient...
by Guillermo Fernández, Lucía Martínez, Jesús Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2014
¿Qué hacemos para construir una sociedad más igualitaria y contra el aumento de la exclusión social y la pobreza? La crisis y las políticas de la crisis están aumentando las desigualdades y extendiendo la pobreza y las situaciones de exclusión social. La población en riesgo crece y se hace...
Working with Substance Users
A Guide to Effective Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Social care and health professionals encounter people with drug and alcohol problems on a daily basis, but many feel ill-equipped to respond. Although people working across various professions will approach substance users from different perspectives, the knowledge and skills needed to intervene effectively...
The Poverty Industry
The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net
Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected...
The Inclusive Economy
How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor energetically challenges the conventional wisdom of both the right and the left that underlies much of the contemporary debate over poverty and welfare policy. Author and national public policy expert Michael Tanner takes to task conservative...
by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Theda Skocpol
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable...
The People's Home?
Social Rented Housing in Europe and America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
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.
by Bent Greve
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Definitions of the welfare state often focus on how and why a state intervenes in the economy and welfare of the individual citizen. A welfare state does not, however, have to mean state intervention; it may merely reflect the state’s restrictions and the demands of the labor market, families, and...
by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,” thus collecting in one...
Evidence-Based Policymaking
Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite...