Social Services category: 2206 books
Castles of our Conscience
Social Control and the American State 1800 - 1985
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and capacity. This framework supports an interpretation of...
by Rodger White, Mr Graeme Broadbent, Keith Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
This book explores the main areas of social work law, including children, mental health and community care. By investigating the meaning of law and some of its underlying value assumptions, it encourages practitioners to reflect on their actions and beliefs, helping them to avoid being a mere 'technician',...
by Ms Liz Davies, Nora Duckett
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children's voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition of a highly-regarded book,...
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship
The Continuing Evolution of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. In Health Care as a Right of Citizenship, Gunnar Almgren argues that the ACA's primary significance...
by Eva Bretones Peregrina, Neus Alberich González, Pep Ros Nicolau
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
La idea de escribir un libro sobre cómo podemos utilizar y aplicar las historias de vida en la educación social se sustenta en la visión que los autores tenemos de esta técnica. Una visión que hunde sus raíces en nuestra formación antropológica y en nuestra experiencia práctica en contextos...
The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States
Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.
It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however,...
Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families
Evidence-Informed Assessments and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
A lifespan approach presenting evidence-informed interventions for working with individuals and families
Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families covers assessment of and intervention with children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and families. It offers an array of pedagogical...
Consumer Choice
Social Welfare and Health Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The United States health care system is unique among those of other developed economies--most significantly because health care is not a legal right in the United States. Instead, it is considered an employee benefit and a privilege, unless one is over age 65 or of low income. The United States...
Voices of Pineland
Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of “Feeblemindedness” in Maine by Stephen Murphy tells the story of the Maine School for the Feebleminded, later known as Pineland Hospital and Training Center. Based on an in depth analysis of annual institutional reports, newspaper clippings,...
Developing Reflective Practice
A Guide for Students and Practitioners of Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
From Reviews:
"...In this book the clinical psychologist Natius Oelofsen describes the processes of learning and the three-step reflective cycle, explaining how keeping a reflective journal offers insights into self and behaviour, and using critical analysis to reflect on even ordinary,...
by Eileen Munro
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
`Although primarily aimed at social workers, the content of this work is very relevant for other professionals who work with and for children, including trainee lawyers as an introduction to social work practice and the principles of child care law and practice upon which it is based. The book also...
by Glasby, Jon
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This is the concise, accessible guide for students and practitioners who want a comprehensive introduction to health and social care. Engaging practical features, such as user-focused case studies and reflective exercises, promote understanding of theoretical and conceptual knowledge. In turn, clear...
All our welfare
Towards participatory social policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help. This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory...
The Possibility of Politics
A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if limited to cautious and piecemeal interventions that avoid radicalism and revolution? Can it also avoid unwanted consequences? Will the welfare state survive...