Social Services category: 2206 books
by Bernard Neugeboren, Simon Slavin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Here is a timely, insightful book that greatly increases the effectiveness of human service professionals and the organizations in which they function. Organization, Policy, and Practice in the Human Services is the first such text to bring together in a systematic fashion the concepts of organizational...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing professional...
Learning in Later Life
Challenges for Social Work and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Within the UK and Europe, government legislation and policies concerned with demography have asserted a paradigmatic shift towards the increased engagement of older people with public services. The philosophy of user involvement and co-production within these contexts has become integral to finding...
Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults
Aging in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCBS span platforms and approaches, from home health care to assisted living to community-based hospice to adult day services. These models are, for most,...
by Frederic G. Reamer
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Should a therapist disclose personal information to a client, accept a client's gift, or provide a former client with a job? Is it appropriate to exchange email or text messages with clients or correspond with them on social networking websites? Some acts, such as initiating a sexual relationship...
The Aging Networks
A Guide to Programs and Services, 7th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Drs. Niles-Yokum and Wagner have written a comprehensive and accessible overview of aging services in the United States, from the evolution of a formal aging network through the older Americans Act to innovative new programs aimed at disaster preparedness, lifelong learning, and spiritual growth....
The Aging Networks, Ninth Edition
A Guide to Policy, Programs, and Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Praise for the Eighth Edition:
“This small volume is not only an excellent learning tool, but also a "must-have" handbook for aging professionals in many fields.”
-Noreen A. Shugrue
Research Associate, University of Connecticut Center on Aging
Farmington, CT
Educational...
by Judith Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Examine recently developed concepts and strategies to help social workers and caregivers improve the quality of care for senior citizens!
Older People and Their Caregivers Across the Spectrum of Care focuses on two major aspects of elderly care: assessment and caregiving. This book examines...
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children
For Better or for Worse?
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Improve services for children and youth with new concepts, different perspectives, and up-to-date information!
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children: For Better or for Worse? explores the positive and negative impacts of social institutions on child and adolescent well-being....
The Aging Networks, 8th Edition
A Guide to Programs and Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
"The eighth edition of Aging Networks is particularly well-suited for use in the classroom, and can be used or adapted for a wide variety of disciplines including gerontology, social work, public health, public administration, nursing and other health professions... This small volume is not only...
Being There When It Counts
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Will You Be There When it Counts?
"Being There When It Counts" is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) teams try hardest to achieve before, during and following disasters, critical incidents, crises, and terrorist activities. Although a relatively new field, these teams have quickly...
School-Linked Services
Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The evidence-based strategies in this volume close the achievement gap among students from all sociological backgrounds. Designed according to local needs assessments, they provide the services, programs, initiatives, and relationships that are crucial for children's success in school and life.
These...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
The future of the fire service is being, and will continue to be, driven by changes in society. These changes include new expectations of the citizens served by the fire service—such as greater accountability for the use of public resources and improving the overall efficiency of programs and services....
by Carlton Munson, James G Daley
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Social Work Practice in the Military provides military social workers, military scholars, and civilian social workers with an overview of diverse practice settings as well as the history and future of military social work practice to give you an understanding of the military persona as an ethnic identity....