Social Services category: 2206 books
Inclusive Growth, Development and Welfare Policy
A Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The recent global financial crisis has increased the scope of poverty and inequality. The gap between the richest and poorest nations has become wider. National income inequality has also been on the rise. The prospect of a shift in designing and implementing development and welfare policies is strong...
Quality of Life and Disability
An Approach for Community Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
A refreshing book that can hold the reader's interest throughout. Quality of Life and Disability should be a compulsory text for all students in the disability field and would make a useful one for experienced practitioners including social workers.'
- Australian Social Work
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts addresses the context of poverty in the United States and focuses on poverty issues that family members must confront as they move through the life course.
This edited collection provides a unique perspective that draws together macro and micro research about...
Tackling Inequalities in Brazil, China, India and South Africa 2010
The Role of Labour Market and Social Policies
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Greater integration into the world economy and important policy reforms have resulted in Brazil, China, India and South Africa becoming major actors in the globalisation process, with impressive results in terms of economic growth, social development and poverty reduction. But the benefits of stronger...
The Child's Own Story
Life Story Work with Traumatized Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
Helping traumatized children develop the story of their life and the lives of people closest to them is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help...
The Least Among Us
Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The outspoken Connecticut congresswoman provides “a powerful case for protecting and expanding America’s safety net” (Elizabeth Warren).
Cynical politicians like Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump argue that the people of the United States would be better off without food stamps, Obamacare,...
Beyond the Welfare State
Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia?
In...
Welfare States in Transition
National Adaptations in Global Economies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.
Leading experts...
The Vertical Mosaic
An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational...
by Professor Malcolm Golightley
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This new edition provides a thorough grounding in the key issues in mental health. It highlights the key issues in this complex and sensitive area of practice and helps students to understand the latest policy and practice issues. The book looks at various aspects of Mental Health Law including the Mental...
Extending coverage
Social protection and the informal economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
This book was drafted during the Regional Workshop held in Kenya last February as a collective effort of academics, public officers, regional experts, and civil society organisations to answer the question: “How can we use social protection mechanisms as a tool for promoting social inclusion of...
Pension Politics
Consensus and Social Conflict in Ageing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Population ageing and slower economic growth have raised serious questions about the willingness and ability of governments to maintain current social policies. Within this new reality, discussions on the future of public pensions have been predominant in political debates across Europe.
This...
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1996
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing...
Legal aid in crisis
Assessing the impact of reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Originally introduced as a form of social welfare with near-universal eligibility, legal aid in the UK is now framed as a benefit external to the legal system and understood in primarily economic terms. This book is the first to evaluate the recent reforms of UK legal aid from a social policy perspective...