Social Services category: 2206 books
Evaluation of Quality of Care in Psychiatry
Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Queen Street Mental Health Centre, Toronto, Canada, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Evaluation of Quality of Care in Psychiatry covers the proceedings of the symposium on Quality of Care in Psychiatry. The book discusses topics relevant to the evaluation of the quality of psychiatric care.
Comprised of nine chapters, the book first tackles quality assurance in health care, and then...
Caring for Abused and Neglected Children
Making the Right Decisions for Reunification or Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.
This book examines the long-term consequences of this decision for children who entered public care for abuse or neglect....
Put Away
Institutions for the Mentally Retarded
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This classic book allows its readers for the first time to comprehend the size, organization, staffing and operation of a national system of hospitals and residential services for the subnormal. It also allows for the first time, reliable estimates to be given of the scale and severity of certain...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Serving African American Children was initiated to present an African American perspective on child welfare issues affecting African American children. The chapters in this volume challenge the child welfare community to ensure that all African American children receive protection, nurturing, and...
by J. A. Lunn
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The Health of Staff in Hospitals aims to provide some help and guidance to nurses, doctors and hospital administrators who are concerned with improving or creating staff health departments. It is intended to indicate the general nature of the problems which need to be solved, and some ways in which...
Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes
Lessons from India
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. The job of providing water for the household invariably falls on women, often at the expense of their education, income-earning opportunities and social,...
Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy
Redrawing the Patient as Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Although the last two decades have seen the healthcare systems of most developed countries face pressure for major reform, the impact of this reform on the relationship between empowerment, consumerism and citizen’s rights has received limited research attention. Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare...
Evaluating Family Programs
Current Issues in Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The diverse composition of American families and changing ways of raising our children have become subjects of intense scrutiny by researchers and policymakers in recent years. Shifting demographics and work patterns, growing numbers of women in the work force, teenage pregnancy, single-parent families,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Looking After Children has had a profound influence on child welfare in Canada and some fifteen other countries, including the UK, Australia, Sweden, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Since their historic high in 1994, welfare caseloads in the United States have dropped an astounding 59 percent--more than 5 million fewer families receive welfare. Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform, now in paperback, explores how low-income children and their families are faring in...
Teeth
The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A debut in the tradition of Mary Roach by a prize-winning journalist: Mary Otto is the leading U.S. journalist covering oral health and dentistry, has won major industry awards, and is the recipient of national fellowships to support her work.
Opportunities: Dental care access burst onto the...
Inventing the Feeble Mind
A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness,...
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon
The Double Tragedy of Refugees and Impacted Host Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book examines the unfolding of the Syrian refugee crisis in relation to the spillover of the Syrian civil war in Lebanon and against the background of Lebanon–Syria relations and Lebanon’s socio-political, cultural, legal, and economic conditions. It surveys Lebanon’s response plans to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This wide-ranging edited volume provides a state of the art account of theory and research on modern street-level bureaucracy, gathering internationally acclaimed scholars to address the varying roles of public officials who fulfill their tasks while interacting with the public. These roles include...