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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,...
by Craig W. LeCroy, Elizabeth K. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
A detailed look at how to apply clinical theories to social work practice
Thinking through real-life cases to make connections between theory and practice is a crucial element of social work education. Now in its Second Edition, Case Studies in Child, Adolescent, and Family Treatment contains...
by Cliff Alcock
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The completely revised second edition of this highly respected textbook provides a comprehensive yet digestible and accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations, development and crucial areas of contemporary concern in social policy and welfare. Fully up to date, it provides a concise but...
Understanding social security 3e
Issues for policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare. The contributors survey the many contested meanings of universality in relation to specific social programs, the field of social policy, and the...
Ageing and the Transition to Retirement
A Comparative Analysis of European Welfare States
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
There are two conflicting trends in Europe: a demographic shift towards population ageing, and a massive decrease in the labour force participation of older workers (aged 50 years and over). This captivating book offers a refined and authoritative understanding of these trends and the two socio-economic...
Remaking America
Welcome to the Dark Side of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Despite the American left's admiration of the Swedish welfare no one has told its true story yet. Until now. Sven R Larson reveals the dark side of the welfare state: how government-run health care turns patients into budget items and corpses, how government defaults on promise after promise, crime...
Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy
Changing the World for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children (by Amy Conley Wright and Kenneth J. Jaffe) offers an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, nurturing key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around...
Partnerships in Social Care
A Handbook for Developing Effective Services
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Partnerships in Social Care is a practical handbook for professionals engaged in planning strategic partnerships in health, social care and education services.
The author proposes that service providers consider five key questions when setting up new partnerships:
* Is this partnership...
by Mike Titterton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
How can a social worker assess the risk that an older person with dementia faces? How would a nurse or housing support worker decide on the balance between danger and safety? In cases of potentially serious harm, as in the examples of abused children or sex offenders, can risk taking work? In this...
Broken benefits
What's gone wrong with welfare reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn’t working, and without a change in direction, it will be even less fair in the future. Drawing on original...
Reinventing Human Services
Community- and Family-Centered Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to reinvent human services, showing the urgency and the...
Critical Supervision for the Human Services
A Social Model to Promote Learning and Value-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and success are too often defined primarily by key performance indicators and strategic outcomes. Tensions arise when such pressures conflict with helping professionals'...