Social Services category: 2206 books
Organization Practice
A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, practical...
Development Asia—Urban Planning Laboratory
January–March 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The rise of Asia's megacities is the upshot of robust economic growth in the region. In turn, the expansion of these centers of industry and commerce is fueling further growth, opening more opportunities for business and employment. With six out of 10 of the world's largest cities in Asia—and eight...
by Dan Banik
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book analyzes India’s impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the ‘silent emergency’ of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths. Building on Amartya Sen’s famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country,...
by Laura Katz Olson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded...
Codes of the Underworld
How Criminals Communicate
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems...
Selling Welfare Reform
Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines...
Making the Poor Free?
India’s Unique Identification Number
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far corner of Maharashtra, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, 'UID will help hundreds of people in India, whose pride was hurt for so many years...
Regent Park Redux
Reinventing Public Housing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto’s Regent Park has experienced common large-scale public housing problems. Instead of simply tearing down old buildings and scattering inhabitants, the...
Meaningful Living across the Lifespan
Occupation-Based Intervention Strategies for Occupational Therapists and Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
In this book, Ikiugu and Pollard explore the notion of meaningfulness, in the light of Viktor Frankl's (1992) assertions that the will to meaning is the primary motivation for behavior in human existence, and that the frustration of the pursuit for meaning in the modern and Western world constituted...
The economics of disability
Insights from Irish research
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour market, living standards and public policy....
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Tackling mental health problems of the working-age population is a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries, not just for health systems. Governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental health conditions in employment or...
by Nick Frost, Shaheen Abbott, Tracey Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in need.
Underpinning the book...
by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
“Single Payer Won’t Save Us” looks at all the evidence about single payer healthcare systems including those here in the U.S. as well as in other countries. Single payer, universal health care, government healthcare, and the “public option” are all the same: the government is in charge of,...
Getting Past 'the Pimp'
Management in the Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The issue of third parties in the sex industry – individuals who are neither the client nor the service provider – has become especially urgent in our current socio-political context. Surprisingly, in spite of an emergence of critical scholarship on the sex industry, as well as recommendations...