Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Social Work
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Social workers draw on a variety of theoretical perspectives to inform their practice and understand the diverse settings in which they work. Social Work: From Theory to Practice explores practice theories through the discipline's unique interpretive lens and demonstrates how these can be understood...
by Peter Simcock, Rhoda Castle
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Social Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. It explores how social work practice can, and indeed does,...
Violations of Trust
How Social and Welfare Institutions Fail Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. Government enquiries, research studies and media reports have begun to highlight the widespread nature of sexual, physical and emotional...
Quality Assurance for Social Care Agencies
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Quality Assurance for Social Care Agencies is specifically designed to enable you to set up a Quality Assurance system within a social services setting. Including practical checklists, it covers all aspects of Quality Assurance - from what is meant by Quality Assurance and how to implement it to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Engaging with Social Work
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Contemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategies for future change. Engaging with Social Work equips students with a critical perspective and develops their understanding of social work and human services practice,...
Sweet Charity?
Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable...
Making Volunteers
Civic Life after Welfare's End
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous,...
Corporatizing Canada
Making Business out of Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“Corporatizing Canada is an impressive collection by activist scholars focusing on the commercialization by stealth of the public sector. Its accessible style is well integrated around three dimensions of corporatization that prioritize markets over social relations. A must-read for those interested...
Pension Reform in Europe
Politics, Policies and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfare models and pathways, population reactions, and observed and expected outcomes.
Pension reform has been a top policy priority for European governments...
The Path of Labor
Theme: Christianity and The World’s Workers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they...
by Bernardo Zacka
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats—the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield significant discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives.
Rich Democracies, Poor People
How Politics Explain Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities. Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of politics. In Rich Democracies, Poor People, Brady investigates why poverty is so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable...
Proposing Prosperity?
Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
"Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship...