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Health Care as a Right of Citizenship
The Continuing Evolution of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. In Health Care as a Right of Citizenship, Gunnar Almgren argues that the ACA's primary significance...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Joe Conason in his book “The Raw Deal, How Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time....
Inclusion and Resilience
The Way Forward for Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges to the poor and vulnerable in the region by bringing together new evidence, data, and country-specific...
by Eva Bretones Peregrina, Neus Alberich González, Pep Ros Nicolau
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
La idea de escribir un libro sobre cómo podemos utilizar y aplicar las historias de vida en la educación social se sustenta en la visión que los autores tenemos de esta técnica. Una visión que hunde sus raíces en nuestra formación antropológica y en nuestra experiencia práctica en contextos...
Familias y educación social
Un encuentro necesario
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Quizás sea cierto, como justifican algunos discursos y anuncian algunas políticas, que las familias no necesitan más apoyos que aquellos que les son ¿propios? (redes familiares, vecinales,?). La realidad muestra, sin embargo, que los itinerarios vitales de todas las familias son siempre complejos...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last sixty years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law. This book provides global perspectives on the policy challenges facing family law and policy round the world.
The...
by Per-Olof H. Wikström
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families
Evidence-Informed Assessments and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
A lifespan approach presenting evidence-informed interventions for working with individuals and families
Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families covers assessment of and intervention with children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and families. It offers an array of pedagogical...
Voices of Pineland
Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of “Feeblemindedness” in Maine by Stephen Murphy tells the story of the Maine School for the Feebleminded, later known as Pineland Hospital and Training Center. Based on an in depth analysis of annual institutional reports, newspaper clippings,...
Developing Reflective Practice
A Guide for Students and Practitioners of Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
From Reviews:
"...In this book the clinical psychologist Natius Oelofsen describes the processes of learning and the three-step reflective cycle, explaining how keeping a reflective journal offers insights into self and behaviour, and using critical analysis to reflect on even ordinary,...
by Eileen Munro
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
`Although primarily aimed at social workers, the content of this work is very relevant for other professionals who work with and for children, including trainee lawyers as an introduction to social work practice and the principles of child care law and practice upon which it is based. The book also...
Quality of Life and Disability
An Approach for Community Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
A refreshing book that can hold the reader's interest throughout. Quality of Life and Disability should be a compulsory text for all students in the disability field and would make a useful one for experienced practitioners including social workers.'
- Australian Social Work
'Among the...
by Glasby, Jon
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This is the concise, accessible guide for students and practitioners who want a comprehensive introduction to health and social care. Engaging practical features, such as user-focused case studies and reflective exercises, promote understanding of theoretical and conceptual knowledge. In turn, clear...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts addresses the context of poverty in the United States and focuses on poverty issues that family members must confront as they move through the life course.
This edited collection provides a unique perspective that draws together macro and micro research about...