Social Work category: 3462 books
Intellectual Disability and the Right to a Sexual Life
A Continuation of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult’s freedom to ensure their own, or society’s, best interests are protected. Wherever one stands on this debate it remains the case that, unlike...
by Ray H Macnair
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In Research Strategies for Community Practice, you’ll discover how you can more effectively work together with other practitioners and researchers in the interests of knowledge development and practice assessment. You’ll also gain access to the conceptual rationale, research design process, and...
Never Enough
Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
It is said that greed fuels capitalism and socialism feeds on envy. But what happens in a stable society when a successful economy generates material progress for one population sector, while simultaneously creating income inequality and poverty for another sector? While this has long been a classic...
Understanding Child Abuse
The Partners of Child Sex Offenders Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Understanding Child Abuse is the first book to look at women whose partners are child sex offenders. Much of the book is devoted to the voices of the women themselves, telling their stories and how they feel about the situations in which they found themselves, how they coped, and how they remade their...
by Roger Burrows, Brian D Loader
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the...
Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care
A Model for Integrated Therapeutic Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
How can professionals work together with foster carers to create stable and therapeutic foster placements?
Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care describes a unique model of supporting children in care which involves foster carers and professionals working together in the best interests...
Cross-Cultural Responsiveness & Systemic Therapy
Personal & Clinical Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This progressive volume takes a nuanced approach to understanding systemic therapies with diverse client populations, leading to culturally responsive therapy. Synthesizing diverse streams of psychology, philosophy, and social theory, chapters focus on cutting-edge issues in couple and family therapy...
School-Linked Services
Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The evidence-based strategies in this volume close the achievement gap among students from all sociological backgrounds. Designed according to local needs assessments, they provide the services, programs, initiatives, and relationships that are crucial for children's success in school and life.
These...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
This second part of a two-volume set continues to describe economists' efforts to quantify the social decisions people necessarily make and the philosophies that those choices define. Contributors draw on lessons from philosophy, history, and other disciplines, but they ultimately use editor Kenneth...
by HRI
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Until now, we have only focused on leaders. If, however, the followers do not properly play their roles, the leadership becomes meaningless. Leaders were once followers and most of the leaders possess both aspects of a leader and a follower, playing both roles at the same time. How can one become...
Creating Social Change Through Creativity
Anti-Oppressive Arts-Based Research Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book examines research using anti-oppressive, arts-based methods to promote social change in oppressed and marginalized communities. The contributors discuss literary techniques, performance, visual art, and new media in relation to the co-construction of knowledge and positionality, reflexivity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Your Foundation in Health & Social Care provides readers with all the knowledge and skills necessary for effective learning at Foundation level, both in study and the workplace.
It explores all the key areas of the Foundation Degree, including:
- critical analysis and practice
-...
Adolescent Neglect
Research, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Adolescent neglect is a significant problem within child protection, but focus on child neglect and other forms of maltreatment means that it can often be overlooked.
This book outlines how adolescent neglect differs from child neglect, the context of why it is overlooked, how it is defined,...
What Works with Teens
A Professional's Guide to Engaging Authentically with Adolescents to Achieve Lasting Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
**Two clinical social workers offer clinicians, educators, coaches, and other youth counselors the first professional book that focuses on engaging authentically with teens in order to create lasting change. Anyone who works with teens should read this book. **
If you work with teens,...