Social Services category: 2206 books
by Suzanna Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Prisoners are in a grey area regarding library services. Prison libraries violate many tenets of librarianship, with the justification of maintaining order. The field is de-professionalized—many positions are filled by persons without degrees in library science, and corrections administrators often...
by Jean-René Loubat
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2007
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2007
Les services d'action sociale et médico-sociale doivent désormais offrir une meilleure lisibilité et traçabilité, ainsi qu'un engagement contractualisé et personnalisé aux côtés des personnes en situation de handicap. Ces dernières sont à la recherche de leur promotion sociale et de leur...
by Élisabeth Zucman
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Deux pour cent des enfants hospitalisés en pédiatrie ne rentrent pas chez leurs parents au sortir de l’hôpital. Alors que tous, pédiatres, travailleurs sociaux, psychologues, pédagogues, sont conscients des risques qu’entraînent les séparations parentales pour le jeune enfant, il faut s’interroger...
by Marian Harris, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The number of children of color entering the child welfare system in the United States is disproportionately high. Not only are children of color removed from parental custody and placed in care more often than their white counterparts, but they also remain in care longer, receive fewer services,...
Normalisation
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has moved into the public arena, it has attracted a certain...
Working with Women and AIDS
Medical, Social and Counselling Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
Women now account for one third of the ten million people with HIV infection worldwide. Yet until very recently most services were geared towards men, and doctors and other professionals were often unprepared for the particular issues that women would raise. Working with Women and AIDS provides a...
Engaging Communities and Service Users
Context, Themes and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with. This book offers a timely and practical guide to the methods and skills related to forming and developing such...
Baby Boomers of Color
Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers...
School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap
A Social Justice Framework for Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
Be a major player in improving student development and performance!
Rooted in the principles of social justice, this much-needed resource offers school counselors a road map for promoting equity and increasing student achievement. The author shows counselors how they can improve both the delivery...
by James Barber, Paul Delfabbro, Robyn Gilbertson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book...
Program Development in the 21st Century
An Evidence-Based Approach to Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Offering practical strategies and tools readers can use on the job, this comprehensive book covers the practices, conditions, and legislative issues that affect program development. Using a unique 14-step model, the author guides readers through every stage of the process, from identifying a need,...
Critical Suicidology
Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
This book is a must-read for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers working in mental health services, psychology, counselling, social work, psychiatry, medicine, philosophy, sociology, suicidology, feminism, anthropology, critical disability studies, and cultural studies.
Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow
Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers...
by Robert J. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This comprehensive graduate-level text prepares readers to handle the problems and responsibilities they'll face as professional school counselors, preschool through high school. It covers a wide range of topics in-depth, including: effective interventions for racism and bullying, the continuing score...