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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and...
Child Abuse and Neglect
Biosocial Dimensions - Foundations of Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Child Abuse and Neglect is the third volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. The goals of these volumes include the development of a biosocial perspective and its application to the interface between biological and social phenomena in order to advance the understanding of human behavior.Child...
by Lai Ching Leung
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine...
El impacto de la crisis en las familias y en la infancia
Observatorio social de España
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Este estudio analiza el impacto de la crisis financiera y económica sobre la situación de la infancia y las familias en España, y de aquellos sectores más vulnerables a la exclusión social.
De ahí que cada componente del estudio realice un análisis de la situación en un contexto determinado...
Fostering Friendship
Pair Therapy for Treatment and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A great number of children and adolescents face a world of violence and isolation. In this book, the members of the Group for the Study of Interpersonal Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston describe in detail an innovative intervention...
Social experiences of breastfeeding
Building bridges between research, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding. It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level,...
Inclusión social: enfoques, políticas y gestión pública en el Perú
VII Seminario de Reforma del Estado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Libro dedicado al tema de la inclusión social como base para la política y la gestión pública en el Perú. Recoge las ponencias del VII Seminario de la Reforma del Estado que organiza anualmente la Escuela de Gobierno y Políticas Públicas de la PUCP. En este volumen se presentan y discuten distintas...
Cuestiones éticas en la educación social
Del compromiso político a la responsabilidad en la práctica profesional
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
El objetivo de este libro es estudiar qué forma ha adoptado la ética en la educación social, cómo se ha llegado hasta este punto y cuáles son los principales retos de futuro. Para ello, después de una presentación teórica sobre ética profesional, se analiza el proceso de construcción de...
Ciudad y educación social
De la calle al medio abierto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Huyendo del localismo y del comunitarismo, este libro impulsa la necesidad de conocimiento del territorio y del tejido urbano por parte de todo profesional que desee fomentar, promover e incitar nuevos recorridos culturales, sociales y educativos de los ciudadanos. Una mirada, por lo tanto, centrada...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Comment les acteurs publics, professionnels et citoyens contribuent-ils à reconfigurer l'état social en France ? À partir de nombreuses études de cas, cet ouvrage a pour ambition de mettre à jour les tendances à l'œuvre dans le champ de l'intervention sociale mais aussi les contradictions qui...
Yes We Can?
White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency....
by Jackie Pountney, Lesley Barcham
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book an invaluable resource in helping you to achieve the units on the role of the learning disability worker. You will find the book easy to navigate,...
Money for everyone
Why we need a citizen's income
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Due to government cuts, the benefits system is currently a hot topic. In this timely book, a Citizen’s Income (sometimes called a Basic Income) is defined as an unconditional, non-withdrawable income for every individual as a right of citizenship. This much-needed book, written by an experienced...
by Simon Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book invaluable in helping you to achieve the unit on Principles of Safeguarding and Protection. You will learn how to recognise and respond to signs of abuse and how...