Social Services category: 2206 books
Proposing Prosperity?
Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
"Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship...
by Dickinson, Helen, O'Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
In recent years collaborative working has moved from being an optional extra of public service practice to being a core competency for individuals and teams. Has this led to better outcomes for those who use services? How to understand and to measure these outcomes and demonstrate these to a variety...
The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development
Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development provides educators, researchers, and policy makers with information on evidence-based programs and activities. Chapters describe ways that current research can be used to promote the design of more effective career development programs and services...
by F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O'Connor, David P. Fauri
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
"As a practitioner in the field for over thirty years, I have been exposed to endless 'planning' sessions that are prescriptive to the point of being oppressive. Thistext 'gives permission' to the practitioner to allow for emergence, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the planning process. Comparative...
Finger Foods
A Three-week Menu & Recipes (Imperial Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Nutrition Consultants Australia provides a diverse range of Services and Products hopefully some of them will appeal to you the visitor to this site. Whilst our Consultancy services are provided solely within the residential Aged Care sector, our Products have broader appeal. Any Health Professional...
Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression
A Critical Review of Anti-Discriminatory Policies in Health and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Anti-Racist Practice (ARP), Anti-Discriminatory Practice (ADP) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) form a trinity of concepts, nested into one another, which have evolved in welfare services over the last fifteen years. They tend to have developed as forms of practice panaceas and as a result have...
Child-Centred Foster Care
A Rights-Based Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Fostering is vitally important: the majority of looked after children are fostered, yet these children are often left out of the agenda and their voices are not heard.
This book sets out a child-centred approach to foster care which argues against thinking about children purely from a psychological...
Working with Children and Families
Knowledge and Contexts for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Across 30 chapters, a team of experienced teachers and practitioners introduce the fundamental professional issues concerning children, young people and their families in the 21st century. 'Working with Children and Families' explores the diverse contexts in which children develop, and the policies...
Adult Drug and Alcohol Problems, Children's Needs, Second Edition
An Interdisciplinary Training Resource for Professionals - with Practice and Assessment Tools, Exercises and Pro Formas
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Parental drug use can cause serious harm to children. Adult Drug and Alcohol Problems, Children's Needs supports practitioners in their work with families where parental drug use leads to concerns about children's welfare.
The training resource contains:
· summaries of the key messages...
The Chinese State's Retreat from Health
Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe,...
Understanding Family Support
Policy, Practice and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Understanding Family Support provides a definition of family support and a clear perspective on the role that it has in promoting the welfare of children and their families.
Family support is a concept that has been used in a range of ways to describe various aspects of child welfare policy...
Child Neglect
Practice Issues for Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
Neglect is now recognized as leading to significantly poor outcomes for children in the short and long term. It is a matter of concern for all professionals who work with children. Children who are neglected are not likely to seek help in their own right and are highly dependent on professionals such...
Safeguarding Children from Abroad
Refugee, Asylum Seeking and Trafficked Children in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Children from abroad who are alone in the UK are vulnerable and at increased risk of harm without the care and protection of their parents or caregivers. They may be unaccompanied asylum seekers, refugees, or victims of trafficking.
This book examines the issues and problems faced by these...
Reaching High-Risk Families
Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services - Modern Applications of Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Focusing on a program (""Homebuilders"") that has attracted national attention, this book develops implications for family-centered curricula in such areas as social policy, direct practice, program design/management, practice research, theory and prevention.