Human Services category: 778 books
Therapy with Children
Children's Rights, Confidentiality and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Therapy with Children is a vital resource for any practitioner navigating the legal minefield of working with children and young people. Prioritising the needs of the child as the client, the authors explore the legal and professional dimensions of working therapeutically with children.
This...
Integrated Care in Action
A Practical Guide for Health, Social Care and Housing Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Integration is now a key expectation within the delivery of health and social care services in the UK and internationally. However, it still remains difficult to achieve and sustain in practice. Based on learning from successful, and unsuccessful, integrated care initiatives, this book is an invaluable...
New Immigrants, Changing Communities
Best Practices for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. The project studied immigration integration in areas that had no recent experience with foreign-born...
Advising in austerity
Reflections on challenging times for advice agencies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK, presenting a rare and rich view of the world of advice...
by Dr. Joji Valli
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Society gets contaminated with viruses of selfishness, self-interest, egoism, greed etc. It eventually hinders the perpetual growth and progress that affect everyone in the society. Such sick society gradually denies the basic human needs that are present in our core nature. The fatal illusion that all...
by Marie-Paule Poilpot, Claude Boukobza, Jean-Yves Causer
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Peut-on être parent en situation de grande précarité ? Les travailleurs sociaux, les services de PMI, les magistrats, les services éducatifs sont confrontés chaque jour à la difficulté de soutenir les parents et de protéger les enfants sur fond de chômage, de pauvreté, et d’une détresse...
by Michel Bauer, Jean-Paul Deloge
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Les questions de qualité ne cessent d’alimenter le débat de l’exercice public des mesures de tutelles et curatelles. Lorsque la famille ne peut en assumer la charge, les institutions, notamment les associations, se voient confier par les juges la responsabilité d’un nombre croissant de mesures...
by Jean-René Loubat
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2007
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2007
Les services d'action sociale et médico-sociale doivent désormais offrir une meilleure lisibilité et traçabilité, ainsi qu'un engagement contractualisé et personnalisé aux côtés des personnes en situation de handicap. Ces dernières sont à la recherche de leur promotion sociale et de leur...
by Élisabeth Zucman
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Deux pour cent des enfants hospitalisés en pédiatrie ne rentrent pas chez leurs parents au sortir de l’hôpital. Alors que tous, pédiatres, travailleurs sociaux, psychologues, pédagogues, sont conscients des risques qu’entraînent les séparations parentales pour le jeune enfant, il faut s’interroger...
Speaking Freely
My Life in Publishing and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav...
by Jonny Bell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Sociology: A Practical Understanding of Why We Do What We Do
You may have always wondered what drives us human beings to do certain things and think of certain ideas. What exactly makes us tick? For many people, the question may have only popped up in their heads from time to time, though it’s...
Successful Grant Writing
Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
This fully updated and revised edition of a classic guide to grant writing for health and human service professionals reflects the two major changes in the field: new NIH application processes and an increased emphasis on interprofessional and team approaches to science. New case examples reflect...
Human Resource Management in Construction
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The construction sector is one of the most complex and problematic arenas within which to manage people. As a result, the applicability of much mainstream human resource management (HRM) theory to this industry is limited. Indeed, the operational realities faced by construction organizations mean...
by Tim LeBon
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2001
Independent on Sunday October 2nd
One of the country's leading philosophical counsellers, and chairman of the Society for Philosophy in Practice (SPP), Tim LeBon, said it typically took around six 50 minute sessions for a client to move from confusion to resolution.
Mr LeBon, who...