Social Services category: 2206 books

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Risk and Citizenship

Key Issues in Welfare

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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by anxiety and insecurity.Risk and Citizenship explores how new and diffrent forms of citizenship are evolving...
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by Graham Scambler
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005

In examining the social and psychological aspects of epilepsy, the author takes not only the perspectives of individuals and their families, but also popular conceptions of the disorder. The result is an illuminating account of the social reality of epilepsy that demonstrates the distinctive contribution that the social sciences can play in understanding illness.
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Social Sciences Research

Research, Writing, and Presentation Strategies for Students

by Gail M. Staines, Mark Bonacci, Katherine Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008

Social Sciences Research: Research, Writing, and Presentation Strategies for Students is a comprehensive resource manual to help students carry out library research in the social sciences, develop writing strategies for formal papers, and orally present and defend their work. Drawing on their backgrounds...
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by Robert Dingwall
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013

Robert Dingwall's classic and original study of the training of health visitors (public health nurses) in the UK is now available in a convenient ebook edition, featuring linked notes, all tables from the print edition, linked subject index, and active Contents. This book has not been easily available...
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Cultivating Professional Resilience in Direct Practice

A Guide for Human Service Professionals

by Jason M. Newell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

Overwhelming empirical evidence indicates that new social workers, particularly those going into child welfare or other trauma-related care, will discover emotional challenges including the indirect or secondary effects of the trauma work itself, professional burnout, and compassion fatigue. However,...
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by John Helling
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012

Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries. It examines the various models for providing public library services around the world and discusses differences in such areas as funding sources, standards, regulations...
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Diseño de Proyectos Sociales

Aplicaciones prácticas para su planificación, gestión y evaluación

by Gloria Pérez Serrano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 7, 2016

La obra aporta una exhaustiva información y formación al lector sobre la planificación, diseño y desarrollo de Proyectos, dentro del marco de la intervención social y socioeducativa, proporcionando las técnicas y estrategias adecuadas para su implementación, desarrollo y evaluación. Está...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002

Not since the 1940s has there been such comprehensive scope for uncertainty within and about Europe. New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe offers an appraisal of comparative social policy and applies it to current uncertainties concerning European communities and European-North American...
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Notes from Gandhigram

Challenges to Gandhian Praxis

by Sameer Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017

In a critical departure from books that concentrate on Gandhi the person, Gandhian thought and Gandhism, Notes from Gandhigram focuses instead on the institutions and individuals that have adopted the Gandhian approach as a means of social transformation. It looks beyond the conceptual and symbolic into...
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by Judith Bula Wise
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005

For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work with families, but the techniques of today differ significantly from those of the pioneers or even from those of a few years ago. Today's practitioners recognize that empowering others is impossible; social...
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by M. K. Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

'A compelling book' - Observer '...an exceptionally clear and comprehensive synthesis of current research findings made readily comprehensible to both parents and teachers' - Dr M Levy in the Foreword to the French edition Mia Kellmer Pringle was commissioned by the Department of Social Security:...
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by Dr Colin Gibson, Colin Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

The divorce rate has been rising significantly throughout the twentieth century. By interweaving the historical, demographic, sociological, legal, political and policy aspects of this increase, Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and habits. Dissolving Wedlock presents...
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by Chris Rojek
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Community Practice Skills

Local to Global Perspectives

by Dorothy Gamble, MSW, Marie Weil
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009

Dorothy N. Gamble and Marie Weil differentiate among a range of intervention methods to provide a comprehensive and effective guide to working with communities. Presenting eight distinct models grounded in current practice and targeted toward specific goals, Gamble and Weil take an unusually inclusive...
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