Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. This is a seminal collection. For the first time, leading scholars and practitioners from Taiwan join with counterparts from Britain to offer comparable commentary on key social policy and social service issues affecting their respective countries. The result...
by Violeta Núñez Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El propósito más general, que nos ha impulsado a redactar y presentar este material, es el de contribuir a formular preguntas que, siendo aparentemente simples, sirven de guía en la acción social educativa: ¿qué es un modelo de acción socioeducativa?; ¿por qué es importante reflexionar acerca...
by Segundo Moyano Mangas, Jordi Planella Ribera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Es el fruto de un trabajo propuesto a treinta y cinco profesionales vinculados a la educación social, la mayoría educadores sociales en activo, con el doble propósito de, por un lado, promover un ejercicio de análisis y reflexión alrededor de conceptos, ideas y palabras vinculadas al campo social...
Anarchists in the Boardroom
How social media and social movements can help your organisation to be more like people
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Change how we organise. Change the world.
There are lessons emerging all around us, in the new social movements that have swept the globe, and in the organising patterns found on social media.
Could Twitter and Occupy help our NGOs, charities, trade unions and voluntary organisations...
The Witch-Hunt Narrative
Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America....
by Dr. Richard K. Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Policy Analysis for Social Workers offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to understanding the process of policy development and analysis for effective advocacy. This user-friendly model helps students get excited about understanding policy as a product, a process, and as performance—a unique...
The Social Protection Index
Assessing Results for Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Investments in social protection help to reduce poverty and vulnerability, and promote inclusive growth. This report analyzes comprehensive data on government social protection programs in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Social Protection Index---developed by the Asian Development Bank---helps...
Human Behavior
A Cell to Society Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
A unique approach to human behavior
that integrates and interprets the latest research from cell to society
Incorporating principles and findings from molecular biology, neuroscience, and psychological and sociocultural sciences, Human Behavior employs a decidedly integrative biosocial,...
Castles of our Conscience
Social Control and the American State 1800 - 1985
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and capacity. This framework supports an interpretation of...
Women, Policy and Politics
The Construction of Policy Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What's the Problem?'...
by Michael Mandelstam
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.
The book covers, for example,...
by Rodger White, Mr Graeme Broadbent, Keith Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
This book explores the main areas of social work law, including children, mental health and community care. By investigating the meaning of law and some of its underlying value assumptions, it encourages practitioners to reflect on their actions and beliefs, helping them to avoid being a mere 'technician',...
by Ms Liz Davies, Nora Duckett
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children's voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition of a highly-regarded book,...
Democracy under attack
How the media distort policy and politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper’s longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. Drawing on four decades of top-level Whitehall briefings, topped up by interviews with 150 policy-makers,...