Social Services category: 2206 books
Intoccabili
Un medico italiano nella più grande epidemia di Ebola nella storia
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Il 26 dicembre 2013 un bambino di due anni si ammala a Meliandou, un remoto villaggio della Guinea. Inizia così la più grave epidemia di Ebola mai affrontata dall’umanità. Roberto, un medico italiano, decide di partire per una missione con Medici Senza Frontiere che lo metterà di fronte a orrori...
Soigner les enfants violents
Traitement, prévention, enjeux
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2012
L’actualité très récente fait écho au nombre croissant, constaté dans les services de pédopsychiatrie et de protection de l’enfance, d’enfants toujours plus jeunes exerçant une violence qui va en s’aggravant, à caractère sadique et perverse, apparemment inaccessible au sentiment de...
by Brigitte Camdessus, Michel Christophe Kiener, Jean-Pierre Rosenczveig
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1992
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1992
Dans la France d’aujourd’hui, des enfants sont encore victimes de violences par des membres de leur famille. Cela paraît difficile à admettre dans un pays civilisé, démocratique et économiquement développé, où, depuis plus de cent ans, les lois se sont succédé pour interdire le travail...
Promouvoir les pratiques professionnelles
Établissements, dispositifs et réseaux sociaux et médico-sociaux
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2011
La réforme de l'action sociale engagée depuis plusieurs années a conduit à l'émergence de nouvelles pratiques professionnelles dans les établissements et services. Les professionnels ne sont plus soit des cliniciens soit des gestionnaires. Il leur faut assumer leurs compétences dans des environnements...
Social Work, Social Justice, and Human Rights
A Structural Approach to Practice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Social workers take pride in their commitment to social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, and in their responses to related inequalities and social problems. At a time when economic globalization, armed conflict, and ecological devastation continue to undermine human rights and the possibilities...
One Hundred Years of Social Work: A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900–2000
A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900–2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investigates...
European Social Policy and Social Work
Citizenship-Based Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice.
The book discusses international and national social work strategies and practice and investigates the responsibilities...
by Abe Vinik, Morris Levin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
One of the most effective ways of dealing with social problems is getting rid of the cause of the problem, not just finding a remedy for the result. Social Action in Group Work provides a useful overview of the history, philosophy, theory, and practice of social group work and action in the promotion...
by Daniel Lee, Robert O'Gorman, Frederick L Ahearn Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The milestone text integrating the disciplines of social work and divinity!
In everyday life, spirituality and the practice of effective social work are inseparable. As a result, professionals and social service administrators have in recent years felt a stronger obligation to attend to the...
Introduction to Social Work
An Advocacy-Based Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
The best-selling Introduction to Social Work by Lisa E. Cox, Carolyn J. Tice, and Dennis D. Long takes students to the root of the social work profession by covering its history, practice settings, and career paths within a unique advocacy framework. This advocacy practice and policy model comprised...
by Roger Lohmann, Nancy Lohmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
By making explicit linkages both to social work practice and to the history of management thought, covering the rapidly expanding field of nonprofit studies, and incorporating management approaches from Henri Fayol's principles to Total Quality Management, this pioneering work grounds the practice...
by Hobart A Burch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices gives you a thorough introduction to social welfare policy analysis. The knowledge you’ll gain from its pages will enable you to understand and evaluate individual policy issues and choices by exploring the possible choices, the effects and implications...
by Carlton Munson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Take social work supervision into the new millennium!
This newly revised edition of the classic text is a thorough, comprehensive guidebook to every aspect of supervision, including learning styles, teaching techniques, emotional support for supervisors, and supervision in different settings....
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
This timely textbook, reflecting the trends and developments in the nonprofit sector over the past decade, encompasses the core competencies required to lead nonprofit organizations through social innovation and impact during the 21st century. It fills a knowledge gap for leaders, managers, practitioners,...