wyszukanych pozycji: 46
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Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services
ISBN: 9780789003928 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services, you will learn how to design and improve services for Latinos with substance abuse problems by understanding that the cultures and personal backgrounds of your clients are crucial to the counseling process. This text will also show you how these service skills apply to the individual, family, or an entire community. Studies show that, according to patients, culturally sensitive and responsive practitioners are generally more credible, trusted, and effective. Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos...
In Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services, you will learn how to design and improve services for Latino...
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285,18 |
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Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence
ISBN: 9783031670213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research. It builds on our existing knowledge base by viewing a "slice" of this problem through celebratory and solemn occasions and how violence at these events and spaces reflects on the state of urban gun violence. Understanding this context serves to inform us on how best to address this social phenomenon. Gun violence in the United States is a salient national problem with virtually no day that goes by without it occurring, particularly in urban public spaces,... This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research. It builds on our existing... |
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323,53 |
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Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services
ISBN: 9780789005007 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos gives organizations and service providers the necessary skills, knowledge, and therefore, attitudes to deliver services within the cultural context of the Latino client--individual, family, or community. Contributors explore how the field of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse (ATOD) has attempted to operationalize culturally competent services for Latinos in the United States. You'll see how the achievement of cultural competence is greatly influenced by the interplay of numerous factors. Among these factors, culture-specific issues and needs are identified...
Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos gives organizations and service providers the necessary skills, knowledge, and therefore, attitudes to deliver service...
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196,65 |
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Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence
ISBN: 9781538119020 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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467,18 |
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Older Adult-Led Health Promotion in Urban Communities: Models and Interventions
ISBN: 9780742563353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade.
The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is on...
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540,95 |
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Youth-Led Community Organizing: Theory and Action
ISBN: 9780195182767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Melvin Delgado and Lee Staples, recognized leaders in social work macro practice and community organization, have produced the first comprehensive study of this dynamic field. Their well-organized book takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area. The authors social justice-rooted...
Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their c...
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187,95 |
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Urban Gun Violence: Self-Help Organizations as Healing Sites, Catalysts for Change, and Collaborative Partners
ISBN: 9780197515518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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276,52 |
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New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First Century: Revitalizing and Broadening Youth Development
ISBN: 9780231122818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth development programs today and in the future. In response to an unprecedented array of challenges, policy makers and care providers in the field of youth dvevelopment have begun to expand the field both practically and conceptually. This expansion has thus far outstripped comprehensive analysis of the issues it raises, among them the important matter of establishing common standards of legitimacy and competence for practitioners. New Frontiers...
Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth develo...
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219,74 |
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The Silent Epidemic of Gun Injuries: Challenges and Opportunities for Treating and Preventing Gun Injuries
ISBN: 9780197609767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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141,36 |
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Urban Youth and Photovoice: Visual Ethnography in Action
ISBN: 9780199381326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions. But, effective community practice is predicated on the availability and use of assessment methods that not only capture and report on conditions, but also simultaneously set the stage for social change efforts. This research, therefore, serves the dual purpose of generating knowledge and also being an integral part of social intervention. Research done in this way,...
The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based...
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299,81 |
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Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited: Advances and Challenges for Prevention and Treatment Programs
ISBN: 9780789029256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The one-of-a-kind exploration of effective alcohol prevention and treatment for Latinos-now and for the future
By the year 2020, the Latino population in the United States will increase to 60 million, making up 18 percent of all residents. Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited: Advances and Challenges for Prevention and Treatment Programs brings into sharp focus how present and future demographic shifts in Latino population are being felt in alcohol programs across the United States. Case studies and in-depth research clearly illustrate the practical steps various culturally... The one-of-a-kind exploration of effective alcohol prevention and treatment for Latinos-now and for the future
By the year 2020, the Latin... |
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Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence: Block Parties, Funerals, Mother's Day, and Other Community Events
ISBN: 9783031670183 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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444,86 |
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Celebrating Urban Community Life: Fairs, Festivals, Parades, and Community Practice
ISBN: 9781442627482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Communal celebrations bring out the best in us, offering a place for people to come together and take a break from the routines of daily life. They are a vital aspect of city life and are increasingly popular as an urban development strategy. Celebrating Urban Community Life is a comprehensive guide to understanding and enhancing communal celebrations as a source of community capital. Drawing on case studies from New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, Melvin Delgado discusses the many ways in which fairs, festivals, and parades can enhance communal life. Providing a framework... Communal celebrations bring out the best in us, offering a place for people to come together and take a break from the routines of daily life. They... |
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147,48 |
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Youth-Led Health Promotion in Urban Communities: A Community Capacity-Enrichment Perspective
ISBN: 9780742561137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The introduction of innovative social paradigms that stress community-participation, community-focused empowerment, assets, social and economic justice themes, and in the case of youth, civic participation, represents one of the outcomes of this questioning and bodes well for current and future generations. The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of this country's urban marginalized comunities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade. A variety of models have been put forth to achieve the...
The introduction of innovative social paradigms that stress community-participation, community-focused empowerment, assets, social and economic justic...
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540,95 |
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Social Work with Latinos: Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780190684792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, but may ultimately hold an important key to how well this group does in the immediate and distant future in the country. The approximate ten-year period since this text's initial publication has witnessed an increase in scholarship and new social-political-economic developments regarding this population group. Social Work with Latinos, Second Edition captures these advances and adds to the existing body of work in this area. In...
The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, b...
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327,76 |
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Community Health Workers in Action: The Efforts of Promotores de Salud in Bringing Health Care to Marginalized Communities
ISBN: 9780190691028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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220,56 |
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Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons: Issues, Challenges, and Policies
ISBN: 9780742563001 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in correctional facilities increases, prisons struggle to adequately address health care needs in a financially feasible way. Many prisoners enter the system with medical problems that have gone unmet, and the toxic environments inside the prisons further compromise their health, causing serious problems both within the prisons themselves and in society as a whole when the prisoners are released. Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons...
The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in co...
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467,18 |
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Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context: The Potential of a Capacity-Enhancement Perspective
ISBN: 9780195125474 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The future of social work rests on how well it can address urban issues, particularly the needs of urban communities of color. Yet too many texts either focus exclusively on the problems these communities face or simply ignore their unique characteristics all together. Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context aims to teach graduate students in social work how to create positive community environments in marginalized urban-based communities. Melvin Delgado's innovative and creative approach to urban social work practice shows students how to focus on the assets...
The future of social work rests on how well it can address urban issues, particularly the needs of urban communities of color. Yet too many texts eith...
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197,26 |
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State-Sanctioned Violence: Advancing a Social Work Social Justice Agenda
ISBN: 9780190058463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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285,83 |
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Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream: Community Social Work Practice & Economic and Social Development
ISBN: 9780231150897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They are also excellent facilitators of community capacity--a major component of effective social work practice. Social work practitioners have a vested interest in seeing such businesses grow, not only among Latinos but all communities of color. Reviewing the latest research on formal and informal economies within urban communities of color, Melvin Delgado lays out the demographic foundations for a richer collaboration between theory and practice. Delgado deploys numerous case studies to cement...
Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They are also excellent facilitators of community capacit...
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