Human Services category: 778 books
Social Capital and Welfare Reform
Organizations, Congregations, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
In this groundbreaking study, Jo Anne Schneider considers the reasons behind the limited success of most welfare reform initiatives and offers evidence-based recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of welfare policy.
Schneider draws on her rich and nuanced ethnographic studies of Philadelphia,...
Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation
A UK Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This ground-breaking handbook details the present situation with regard to female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain, referring also to other Western nations where FGM occurs. It scrutinises current pathways to eradicating this dangerous, sometimes lethal, form of child abuse and gender-related violence....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Details the safety, mental health, and wellness issues in schools today and focuses on the interactions and collaborations needed among students, teachers, families, community members, and other professionals to foster the safety, learning, and well-being of all students.
• Brings together...
by Prof. Dr. Christopher Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1948 is the corner stone on which all Human Rights are built and strengthened. It is generally referred to as the Magna Carta of the modern world for all humanity for civil, political, economic, social and cultural...
Proposal Writing
Effective Grantsmanship for Funding
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The updated Fifth Edition of the best-selling Proposal Writing: Effective Grantsmanship for Funding offers a fresh, robust presentation of the basics of program design and proposal writing for community services funding. Authors Soraya M. Coley and Cynthia A. Scheinberg help readers develop the knowledge...
Community
A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.
What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments,...
Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food
Toward an Inclusive Framework
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights...
Treating Concurrent Disorders
A Guide for Counsellors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Understanding how co-occurring substance use and mental health problems relate to and affect each other can be challenging — how do they interact, and how can you help?
Treating Concurrent Disorders: A Guide for Counsellors gives you the information you need to offer effective, comprehensive...
by Dr. Joji Valli
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Society gets contaminated with viruses of selfishness, self-interest, egoism, greed etc. It eventually hinders the perpetual growth and progress that affect everyone in the society. Such sick society gradually denies the basic human needs that are present in our core nature. The fatal illusion that...
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...
Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future
The U.S. in Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Unique in its use of a sustainability framework, Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future by Katherine S. van Wormer and Rosemary J. Link goes beyond U.S. borders to examine U.S. government policies—including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice—within a global...
A Most Human Enterprise
Controversies in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A Most Human Enterprise looks at controversial social science research methods and their effects on subjects and researchers. In detailing case studies in which plagiarism was alleged, subjects were mislead or seriously abused, and research denigrated certain demographics, Donald O. Granberg and John...
Improving Our Response to Older Adults with Substance Use, Mental Health and Gambling Problems
A Guide for Supervisors, Managers and Clinical Staff
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Part of the CAMH Healthy Aging Project, Improving Our Response provides the information, tools and guidance that service providers need to work more effectively with older adults who may have substance use, mental health or gambling problems.
This comprehensive resource includes:
an...
Essentials of Human Behavior
Integrating Person, Environment, and the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Essentials of Human Behavior combines Elizabeth D. Hutchison’s two-volume Dimensions of Human Behavior to present a multidimensional framework for understanding human behavior. Integrating person, environment, and the life course, this best-selling text leverages its hallmark case studies and balanced...