Social Services category: 2206 books
by Terrance J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Approved Mental Health Practice
Essential Themes for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The role of the approved mental health professional requires the ability to make sound and ethical decisions based on knowledge of mental health issues, psychiatry and the law. Critical thinking and analysis are integral to the role, and practitioners need to be able to balance technical knowledge...
by Alan Twelvetrees
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Drawing on his own professional experience, Alan Twelvetrees addresses the needs of students, field-level community workers and managers. Both theory and practice are described in a highly readable and honest way and the updated fourth edition of this bestseller includes placing community work at the centre of neighbourhood renewal.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Childhood and youth have often been the targets of moral panic rhetoric. This Byte explores a series of pressing concerns about young people: child abuse, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, child trafficking and the concept of childhood. With an appraisal of the work of the influential...
by Lila Kazemian
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Los Servicios Sociales en la provincia de Valencia
Análisis territorial, estado de la cuestión
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Los Servicios Sociales son un sistema del Bienestar Social amplio, complejo y multinivel. En este libro se analizan los dos niveles del sistema desde una perspectiva territorial. Para el nivel de Servicios Sociales generales se presentan datos sobre su organización y funcionamiento, fruto de una...
The Family and the Handicapped Child
A Study of Cerebral Palsied Children in Their Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book describes an inquiry into the upbringing of young cerebral palsied children. Following the precedent set by John and Elizabeth Newson in their studies of normal children at home; Sheila Hewett visited the mothers of 180 spastic children and obtained their personal accounts of their experiences.There...
by White, Anne
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Based on 115 interviews with Polish mothers in the UK and Poland, as well as a specially-commissioned opinion poll, this topical book discusses recent Polish migration to the UK. In a vivid account of every stage of the migration process, the book explores why so many Poles have migrated since 2004,...
For whose benefit?
The everyday realities of welfare reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from ‘welfare’ and into work the right one? And do mainstream political and media accounts of the ‘problem’ of ‘welfare’ accurately reflect lived realities? For whose benefit?...
Nowhere to Grow
Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, "If you live in or have visited even a medium-sized city recently, you have seen runaway and homeless young people. They congregate in certain downtown areas and hang out in malls during inclement...
The end of the Irish Poor Law?
Welfare and healthcare reform in revolutionary and independent Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book examines Irish Poor Law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State. This work is a significant addition to the growing historiography of the twentieth century which moves beyond political history, and demonstrates that concepts of respectability, social class and...
Reintegrative Justice in Practice
The Informal Management of Crime in an Island Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Recent years have seen the development of a growing international literature on restorative justice, community justice and reintegrative alternatives to formal criminal justice processes. This literature is stronger on theory and advocacy than on detailed evaluative studies. It often relies for its...
by Maria Luisa Raineri
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Il tirocinio è un elemento fondamentale per apprendere in maniera efficace il lavoro sociale. Quindi, limitarsi a immergere il tirocinante nel contesto di lavoro reale, facendogli fare a mano a mano «quello che capita», non è una strategia vincente, né per lui (o lei), né per l’organizzazione...
by Caroline Bradbury-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Participatory approaches are becoming increasingly popular in research involving children. A growing trend is research by children where researchers engage or employ children as co-researchers or primary researchers. Caroline Bradbury-Jones explores the ethical, methodological, practical and protection...