Social Services category: 2206 books
Welfare Reform in East Asia
Towards Workfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with...
Thinking about the Lifecourse
A Psychosocial Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
How we change over time - who we love, what work we do, how we die - is shaped both by internal, and external influences. This book explores the important subject of human growth and development by combining the social context of how people live with their personal ways of thinking and being. The result...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This operational plan provides strategic directions for Asian Development Bank (ADB) support to its developing member countries to strengthen social protection systems. It aligns ADB's 2001 Social Protection Strategy with the inclusive growth agenda of Strategy 2020. The operational plan supports...
Community Organization and Development
from its history towards a model for the future
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book traces the development of community development/organization as it evolved separately in Britain and the United States, and how the social and political situations in each country determined the various shapes and directions it took. In presenting a comprehensive history of the subject,...
by Nigel Horner
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
It is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolutions of social work practice. Now in its fourth edition, Horner's classic introductory text looks at how issues such as the Personalisation Agenda, the work of the Reform Board, and how the notion of a Big Society...
Narcissistic parenting in an insecure world
A history of parenting culture 1920s to present
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
In this provocative history of parenting, Harry Hendrick analyses the social and economic reasons behind parenting trends. He shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious...
European Welfare States
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Bringing together a discussion of the theories and techniques of comparative policy analysis and a description of current developments in selected welfare state regimes, European Welfare States provides an accessible overview of issues concerning European welfare states.
In particular, it provides:
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Challenging Social Work
The Institutional Context of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2006
Taking account of the political, economic and cultural changes that have impacted on social work over recent years, this book explores the challenges and presents the realities of practice. Using an international range of examples, McDonald makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the character and purpose of social work.
Making Democracy Work Better
Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details...
The coalition government and social policy
Restructuring the welfare state
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
How did the UK Coalition Government’s policies differ from previous Conservative (or Labour) Government policies? How did the Liberal Democrats influence them? And what can this tell us about the likely policy direction of the Conservative government elected in May 2015? Responding to the political...
Soul, Community and Social Change
Theorising a Soul Perspective on Community Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
At a time when inequalities are growing globally, when the pace of socio-economic transitions is rapid, and when traditional ties of community are under threat of dissolving, 'soul' offers a new way of thinking imaginatively about how people might respond both individually and collectively in social...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The need has never been more crucial for community health providers, programs, and organizations to have access to training in addressing the unique behavioral health challenges facing our veterans, active duty military, and their families.
Handbook of Military Social Work is edited by renowned...
Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition
Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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Back to the Present: Rethinking Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift
The question of “risk” and “risk assessment” in child welfare are explored in chapter 10. Callahan and Swift explain the managerial, medical, and legal influences that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
What is meant by community? Is there a balance between equality, integration and diversity? Does the idea of identity undermine community cohesion?
Identity, Ethnic Diversity and Community Cohesion considers these questions and explores the concept of identity and how its different meanings...