Social Services category: 2206 books
by Mark Erdelyan, Colleen Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Methadone Maintenance Treatment: A Community Planning Guide is a manual offering guidance to communities on how to raise awareness of the benefits of methadone maintenance treatment and how to develop and integrate effective treatment services in their community. The manual reviews the stages of establishing...
by Linda S Katz
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Experts present proven methods and techniques for studying about or in Africa!
Research, Reference Services, and Resources for the Study of Africa helps you steer clear of washouts, cave-ins, and dead ends on the road to successful research on-or in-Africa. This one-of-a-kind research guide...
by Dr. Jeffrey A. Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
A Brief Primer of Helping Skills is a highly readable, accessible, and practical introduction to the skills of helping and making a difference in people's lives. In an engaging and concise style, author Jeffrey A. Kottler gives students in various professions an overview of the theory, process, and...
Modernizing Legal Services in Common Law Countries
Will the US Be Left Behind?
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Most people understand that regulations have a direct bearing on their access to things such as clean air and water and safe working environments. However, in the United States, few people make the connection between how legal services are regulated and how difficult it is for them to access legal...
Crisis in the American Heartland -- Coming Home
Challenges of Returning Veterans (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Veterans in rural communities face unique challenges, who will step up to help?
Beginning with a brief scenario of a more gentle view of rural life, the book moves through learned information about families, children, and our returning National Guard and Reserve civilian military members. Return experiences...
Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Preserving Our Language, Memory, and Lifeways
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Hundreds of tribal libraries, archives, and other information centers offer the services patrons would expect from any library: circulation of materials, collection of singular items (such as oral histories), and public services (such as summer reading programs). What is unique in these settings is...
by Lester Parrott
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years, in particular the extensive legislative changes to childrens and community care services. A new chapter examines the relevance of social exclusion...
Diversity Now
People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries!
Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides...
Collaboration and the Academic Library
Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Collaboration and the Academic Library: Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International exploresthe considerable change that has affected universities and academic libraries in recent years. Given this complex and important context, it is clear that the academic library increasingly...
Who Pays the Ferryman?
The Great Scottish Ferries Swindle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Who Pays the Ferryman is an informative and critical analysis of Scotland's ferry services. It describes the 'glory days' of how, from modest beginnings, Scotland once led the world in maritime development. It contrasts the achievements of the past with the failures, waste and inadequacy of much of...
Transforming School Mental Health Services
Population-Based Approaches to Promoting the Competency and Wellness of Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Provides a comprehensive ten-step sequence for implementing population-based services that improve wellness and academic success for individual students and entire schools, and offers suggestions for engaging parents.
by Dave Boulter, MBE
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Whether your interest is police, fire, ambulance, or associated emergency and rescue services, this fully illustrated book of nearly 200 images captures central London’s many 999 services going about their daily business. Photographed live from the streets of central London, many of the images vividly...
Clinical Work and Social Action
An Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Clinical Work and Social Action: An Integrative Approach develops a paradigm for social work and human services practice that integrates clinical work and social action.
Social workers, clinicians, activists, and educators will explore ways to create harmony in the divisions that currently...
by Howard Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Written in an interesting, accessible and informative manner, with 1600 entries this book is an ideal reference for human service professionals and students preparing for exams. Special features include: extensive cross-referencing, a directory of human service organizations, short biographies of...