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Understanding community (second edition)
Politics, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society. The book takes a more critical look at the literature on community, community development and the politics of community, and applies...
Investing in Children
Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Climate and disaster risk is increasing in the Asia and Pacific region, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and creating new ones. The adverse effects are felt most by the poor and the vulnerable. Social protection programs, when designed with climate and disaster risk considerations in mind, provide...
by Morag Owen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Can justice be achieved in voluntary cases - or is it purely a matter for courts to determine? Using a multi-disciplinary framework, which has at its centre a philosophical/anthropological view of social work as a moral practice, the author explores the notion of justice in public child care. The...
The Common-Sense Guide to Improving the Safeguarding of Children
Three Steps to Make A Real Difference
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Aiming to provide purpose and direction in a complex field of work, this book offers direct and straightforward guidance on how to improve child protection on the frontline.
Terry McCarthy draws directly from his own extensive practice experience to outline three steps to achieve improved outcomes.
First,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what...
Asia’s Fiscal Challenge
Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs. One of the key challenges is creating sustainable financing---considered the bedrock for success of the social protection agendas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda and Strategy 2030 of the...
New philanthropy and social justice
Debating the conceptual and policy discourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is a broad consensus that traditional philanthropy has the potential to be transformative and address inequalities and injustices, as well as provide relief to the poor. Over the last two decades individual capitalists and private corporations have become increasingly involved in philanthropy,...
Putting Analysis Into Child and Family Assessment, Third Edition
Undertaking Assessments of Need
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Putting Analysis into Child and Family Assessment bridges theory and practice, and provides clear guidance to improve assessments in child and family social work.
It addresses the issues of central concern to child and family social workers, including analytical assessment, outlines how to...
Displaced by Development
Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This compilation is a rare attempt to apply gender analysis to development-induced-displacement and resettlement in the Indian context. It brings together leading scholar-activists, researchers and contributors from people’s movements to critique and draw attention to the injustices perpetrated...
by Mildred A. Schwartz, Raymond Tatalovich
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A. Schwartz and political scientist Raymond Tatalovich bring their disciplinary insights to the study of moral issues. Beginning with prohibition, Schwartz and Tatalovich trace the phases of its evolution...
by William Roth, Susan Peters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2002
American social policy today largely serves global corporate interests rather than the general public, according to William Roth. Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, The Assault on Social Policy argues that the perfection of the free market is a...
by Professor Malcolm Golightley, Robert Goemans
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
With 1 in 4 people experiencing a mental health problem in any given year, mental health is a more important part of social work training than ever before, and all successful social workers need to understand the core values, skills and knowledge that underpin excellent practice in a modern mental...
by Carpenter, John, Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The idea that professionals in health and social care should ‘learn together to work together’ in ‘interprofessional education’ (IPE) is not new. Nevertheless, interest in this concept has grown dramatically. By learning together, professions will better understand each other and value what...