Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
China's Automobile Industry: Policies, Problems and Prospects
Policies, Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income. The book reviews public assistance programmes, and evaluates other plans that have been proposed.
Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech
When Worlds Collide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty....
Combating Poverty in Europe
The German Welfare Regime in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Title first published in 2003. This informative volume addresses the impact of the EU on national policies to combat poverty in European member states. The editors bring together leading academics to discuss the issue of and fight against poverty in Germany in particular, within the context of ongoing trends and debates across other European states.
Child Abuse and Neglect
Attachment, Development and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This exciting new book offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. The book opens with an account of the theory and describes the ways in which attachment difficulties manifest themselves in children's behaviour. The following...
Consuming Health
The Commodification of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In our post-welfare society, health is increasingly viewed as a commodity and individuals are defined as 'health care consumers'. At the same time, the notion that the state should care for the health of its citizens is being replaced by an expectation that citizens should play a more active role...
The Modern State Subverted
Risk and the Deconstruction of Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Until recently, liberalism was, according to Karl Polanyi, embedded within civil society, working closely with a democratic state intent on addressing, in solidarity, the social risks associated with modern capitalism. Modern relations between society and the state. Today’s neoliberalism is, to...
Working with Risk
Skills for Contemporary Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Assessing and managing risk is a daily challenge for social workers. Working with risk can be anxiety provoking and demanding, requiring great skill and high levels of confidence. In these complex situations, social workers have to work hard to get the balance right.
This innovative book focuses...
Issues for Debate in Social Policy
Selections From CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This collection of non-partisan reports focuses on 18 hot-button social policy issues written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists. As an annual that comes together just months before publication, the volume is as current as possible. And because it’s CQ Researcher, the social policy reports...
by Dickinson, Helen, O'Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
In recent years collaborative working has moved from being an optional extra of public service practice to being a core competency for individuals and teams. Has this led to better outcomes for those who use services? How to understand and to measure these outcomes and demonstrate these to a variety...
by Asian Development Bank, The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Asia and the Pacific has a significant rise in migration: about one in three migrants comes from Asia according to the United Nations. Currently, over 80 million people from Asia and the Pacific live and work outside of their countries of origin. Migration and remittances have both positive and negative...
by F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O'Connor, David P. Fauri
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
"As a practitioner in the field for over thirty years, I have been exposed to endless 'planning' sessions that are prescriptive to the point of being oppressive. Thistext 'gives permission' to the practitioner to allow for emergence, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the planning process. Comparative...
by Lucille Allain, Christine Cocker
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This revised edition details organisational systems and structures that are part of the assessment and planning process for looked after children. This is closely interwoven with discussions about their emotional development, educational, health and cultural needs and how these needs can be met through...
Child Abuse and Neglect
Attachment, Development and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
This clear and compelling textbook provides a complete survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. It starts by describing the ways in which attachment difficulties manifest themselves in children's behaviour, and goes on looking at...
The cruelty man
Child welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889–1956
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The first comprehensive account of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Ireland