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Social Work Practice with Groups, Communities, and Organizations
Evidence-Based Assessments and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
A solid, theory-to-practice guide to contemporary mezzo and macro social work
Written by a renowned team of scholars, Social Work Practice with Groups, Communities, and Organizations focuses on the contemporary theory and practice of social work. Each chapter delves deeply into the key theoretical...
The Social Protection Indicator
Assessing Results for Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to develop and update a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia. The Social Protection Indicator (SPI) report presents data on government social protection programs collected...
New Strategies for Social Innovation
Market-Based Approaches for Assisting the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Market-based development strategies designed to help the world's poor receive significant support from advocates, academics, governments, and the media, yet frequently the perceived success of these programs rests on carefully selected examples and one-sided, enthusiastic accounts. In practice, these...
The Social Protection Indicator
Assessing Results for the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to developing and updating a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia and the Pacific. This 2016 report is the first comprehensive assessment of government social protection programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Few contemporary social problems in the U.S. affect more people daily than those within the American health care system. Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care is the first collection of essays to examine dynamics of change in health care institutions through the lens of contemporary...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Over the last decade, a policy revolution has been underway in the developing and emerging world. Country after country is systematically providing non-contributory transfers to poor and vulnerable people, in order to protect them against economic shocks and to enable them to invest in themselves and...
Road to Rights
Women, Social Security and Protection in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Social security is an investment in human resources, which can provide overall security for a person within the family, workplace, and society. The right to social security is an important human right and an essential precondition for the realization of all human rights. It thus represents an essential...
The Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Child and Family Social Workers
Hitting the Ground Running
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
So, you've passed your degree and have started your first job. But are you confident about translating the theory into practice? Are you prepared to juggle the workload of a busy social worker? Do you have a plan for your continuing professional development? This practical guide provides a wealth...
Social Housing, Disadvantage, and Neighbourhood Liveability
Ten Years of Change in Social Housing Neighbourhoods
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In a groundbreaking longitudinal study, researches studied seven similar social housing neighbourhoods in Ireland to determine what factors affected their liveability. In this collection of essays, the same researchers return to these neighbourhoods ten years later to see what’s changed. Are these...
Gender and Social Security Reform
What's Fair for Women?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Aging populations are creating tremendous pressures on social security systems throughout the world, lifting the need for reform to the top of policy agendas. Proposed reforms often have different implications for men and women. At the same time, traditional family and gender roles are changing with...
Social Security for the Elderly
Experiences from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it also documents existing policies and programs on pensions and social security, and examines their fiscal implications for the economy and society.
Ageing...
Reframing global social policy
Social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together...
by Francisco Gómez Gómez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2016
El autor parte de los conceptos básicos y de los principios fundamentales del Trabajo Social Comunitario para describir unos modelos de redes comunitarias útiles en la práctica profesional, en algunos campos de más relieve social, como la convivencia en la comunidad, la violencia comunitaria,...
See You in Court, Second Edition
A Social Worker's Guide to Presenting Evidence in Care Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Now fully revised and updated, See You in Court is an accessible guide for social workers on being a witness in care proceedings.
This book de-mystifies the court system explaining court structures and procedures, roles and responsibilities and basic rules of evidence. It considers how to present...