Social Services Welfare category: 1103 books
The Traffic in Babies
Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces....
Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability
Towards a Paradigm Change in Hearing Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The purpose of this book is to challenge people (service providers, people with a hearing disability and those who advocate for them) to reconsider the way western society thinks about hearing disability and the way it seeks to 'include them’. It highlights the concern that the design of hearing...
Assessing Outcomes in Child and Family Services
Comparative Design and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In this collective portrait, editors and authors do not attempt to draw systematic, country-by-country comparisons. Given the magnitude of the issues, they believed that it would be inappropriate to paint with too broad a stroke. What they have accomplished, however, is to codify and identify what...
Administrative Burden
Policymaking by Other Means
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Bureaucracy, confusing paperwork, and complex regulations—or what public policy scholars Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan call administrative burdens—often introduce delay and frustration into our experiences with government agencies. Administrative burdens diminish the effectiveness of public...
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Why We Fail at Helping Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief...
Social policies and social control
New perspectives on the 'not-so-big society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions...
Social Work and Human Rights
A Foundation for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Social Work and Human Rights has become a standard text highlighting the role of social work in protecting the rights of vulnerable populations. Through rigorous analysis, classroom exercises, and a frank discussion of the implications for practice both within and outside of the United States, the...
Social Policy for Social Work
Placing Social Work in its Wider Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways...
by Bob Deacon
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
`This primer on the global politics of social policy … is essential reading for students as well as others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon's book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supra-national debates over rights, regulation...
by Dr Anthony Hall, James O. Midgley
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
'Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development' -Ian Johnson, Vice President for Sustainable Development, The World...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations...
by Frances Ruane, Dr Pete Lunn
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Using Evidence to Inform Policy is a unique examination of how evidence can be used to improve policymaking, especially in challenging economic times.
There is a need for transparency in government and policy decisions. Research and evidence can help to provide this transparency, and Using...
Dementia Studies
A Social Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
What is dementia? How should we organize dementia care? This comprehensive book critically examines the main approaches to understanding dementia (bio-medical, social-psychological and socio-gerontological) and the main principles and ideologies of care.
The book:
• provides clarity...
by Robert R. Geyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important. This exciting new textbook provides a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of this contested area and examines...