Social Work category: 3462 books
Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults
Best Practice and Evidential Requirements
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults is the comprehensive guide to keeping accurate, effective and complete records in safeguarding adults work.
This book explains why good record-keeping is essential: it covers crucial skills in recording, including how to write effectively; evidential...
Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals
A Skills-Based Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Critical thinking values, knowledge, and skills are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions. Practitioners must be able to think clearly, on a daily basis, about decisions that may change their clients' lives. Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals, 3rd Edition, is designed...
Contemporary Clinical Practice with Asian Immigrants
A Relational Framework with Culturally Responsive Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Many first and second generation Asian immigrants experience acculturation challenges to varying extents. These challenges, such as language barriers, racial discrimination, underemployment, the loss of support networks and changes in family role and structure, may exacerbate a myriad of mental health...
In the Children's Aid
J.J. Kelso and Child Welfare in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
The present system of child welfare in Canada dates from 1893, the year in which the Ontario Legislature passed 'An Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to, and better Protection of, Children.' The Act provided for the establishment of Children's Aid Societies with extensive legal powers to intervene...
Welfare Transformed
Universalizing Family Policies That Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "end welfare as we know it" by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped by over three million. This hotly contested legislation has fueled countless hyperbolic arguments from both sides of the political...
Care Act 2014
An A-Z of Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The Care Act 2014 represents a major upheaval in adult social care law: the biggest since 1948. This book sets out and explains the provisions of the Care Act 2014 in simple terms, illustrating its practical implications for both social and health care with many legal cases and local ombudsman investigations....
Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services, Third Edition
A Social Justice Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies.
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies. With a focus on the prevalence of disparities in health...
by David Challis
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Improving equity and efficiency in the long-term care of older people is an international concern, with governments attempting to ensure that policies and practice develop so that resources are used to best effect. This requires good quality evidence founded on sound theory. This volume honours the...
Visual Impairment and Work
Experiences of Visually Impaired People
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book traces the development of paid work for visually impaired people in the UK from the 18th century to the present day. It gives a voice to visually impaired people to talk about their working lives and documents the history of employment from their experience, an approach which is severely...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa.
Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example:
* Maternity services
* Children with learning difficulties
* Children's...
by Lela B. Costin, Howard Jacob Karger, David Stoesz
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1997
Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intensified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming...
Training and supporting the care force
- that's nearly all of us
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
‘I expect that’s common sense, isn’t it?' This innocent comment on my job as a social care teacher always makes me smile. 'Training and supporting the care force’ is not common sense – it’s not rocket science either. Social carers generally are undervalued by society, so often undervalue...
Essential Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions
A Social Justice and Wellness Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Essential Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions reaches beyond most other essential skills for clinical interviewing books with its emphasis on social justice, attention to the role of microaggressions in clinical practice, and the upmost importance of practitioner wellness as integral to...
Emotions in Social Life
Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life as they hold the key to our understanding of social processes and sociological investigation.
First published in 1997, Emotions in Social Life consolidates the sociology of emotions as a legitimate and...