Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
Child Neglect
Planning and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment in developed countries and it comes in many forms. From evaluating the effects of neglect on the child to looking at root causes, this wide-ranging book offers evidence-based, practical guidance to support all practitioners in their work with...
Il futuro che (non) c'è
Costruire un domani migliore con la demografia
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Welfare, lavoro, cultura, mercato, democrazia, innovazione, sviluppo sostenibile: questi temi evocano sempre più spesso apprensione e timori, come se ogni questione di ampio respiro fosse all'origine di nuovi problemi e ulteriori insicurezze. Eppure è in queste parole che si nasconde il futuro....
Health Care at Risk
A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting the American health care system. The idea behind...
Profit Is Not the Cure
A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.
More than thirty years later, the same battle is...
Child-Centred Foster Care
A Rights-Based Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Fostering is vitally important: the majority of looked after children are fostered, yet these children are often left out of the agenda and their voices are not heard.
This book sets out a child-centred approach to foster care which argues against thinking about children purely from a psychological...
Working with Children and Families
Knowledge and Contexts for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Across 30 chapters, a team of experienced teachers and practitioners introduce the fundamental professional issues concerning children, young people and their families in the 21st century. 'Working with Children and Families' explores the diverse contexts in which children develop, and the policies...
Child Neglect
Practice Issues for Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
Neglect is now recognized as leading to significantly poor outcomes for children in the short and long term. It is a matter of concern for all professionals who work with children. Children who are neglected are not likely to seek help in their own right and are highly dependent on professionals such...
Safeguarding Children from Abroad
Refugee, Asylum Seeking and Trafficked Children in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Children from abroad who are alone in the UK are vulnerable and at increased risk of harm without the care and protection of their parents or caregivers. They may be unaccompanied asylum seekers, refugees, or victims of trafficking.
This book examines the issues and problems faced by these...
The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development
Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development provides educators, researchers, and policy makers with information on evidence-based programs and activities. Chapters describe ways that current research can be used to promote the design of more effective career development programs and services...
Reaching High-Risk Families
Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services - Modern Applications of Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Focusing on a program (""Homebuilders"") that has attracted national attention, this book develops implications for family-centered curricula in such areas as social policy, direct practice, program design/management, practice research, theory and prevention.
by Elizabeth Kath
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
For Cuba's supporters, health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's success. Even critics often concede that this is the country's saving grace. Cuba's health statistics are indeed extraordinary. This small island outperforms virtually all of its neighboring countries and all...
Finger Foods
A Three-week Menu & Recipes (Imperial Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Nutrition Consultants Australia provides a diverse range of Services and Products hopefully some of them will appeal to you the visitor to this site. Whilst our Consultancy services are provided solely within the residential Aged Care sector, our Products have broader appeal. Any Health Professional...
Something for Nothing
The All-Consuming Desire that Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
America's greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams. But today that greatness is being undermined by people using the government to steal other people's dreams (and money). Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit society,...
Death of a Nation
Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Now a major motion picture!
Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? In a major new work of historical revisionism, Dinesh D’Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into a massive nanny state...