ilość książek w kategorii: 7818
The Voice Of The Child: A Handbook For Professionals
ISBN: 9780750704601 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection provides a guide to the legal requirements surrounding children's rights. The book discusses the practicalities and problems of listening to the child in educational, social and health settings.
This collection provides a guide to the legal requirements surrounding children's rights. The book discusses the practicalities and problems of listen...
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237,17 zł |
Mapping Social Relations: A Primer in Doing Institutional Ethnography
ISBN: 9780759107526 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about a distinctive methodological approach inspired by one of Canada's most respected scholars, Dorothy Smith. Institutional ethnography aims to answer questions about how everyday life is organized. What is conventionally understood as "the relationship of micro to macro processes" is, in institutional ethnography, conceptualized and explored in terms of ruling relations.The authors suggest that institutional ethnographers must adopt a particular research stance, one that recognizes that people's own knowledge and ways of knowing are crucial elements of social action and thus...
This is a book about a distinctive methodological approach inspired by one of Canada's most respected scholars, Dorothy Smith. Institutional ethnograp...
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305,45 zł |
Our World: Our Future
ISBN: 9780759669819 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excellence in science and technology, industrial revolution, overpopulation, pollution of the environment, and ethnic and religious conflicts are about to explode because man has not learned to tame and civilize the brute caveman in him. To save the human race from self-annihilation, the author appeals to the conscience of the people who care for our fellow human beings.
Excellence in science and technology, industrial revolution, overpopulation, pollution of the environment, and ethnic and religious conflicts are abou...
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165,03 zł |
Handbook for Personal Caregivers of the Elderly
ISBN: 9780759678323 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,82 zł |
Goal Focused Interviewing
ISBN: 9780761901815 / Angielski / Miękka / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents Frank F Maple's straightforward model for categorizing information elicited from clients, which he has adapted for social work practice with individuals, families and groups, reflecting the movement in social work toward the current need for solution-based and brief therapy. Techniques for focusing on the competencies rather than the deficiencies of those who seek help and those who give it are emphasized, and readers are given the opportunity to decide upon appropriate interventions at key points of the interview.
This book presents Frank F Maple's straightforward model for categorizing information elicited from clients, which he has adapted for social work prac...
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519,88 zł |
Feminist Counselling in Action
ISBN: 9780761963103 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For counsellors, therapists, trainees and others who want a deeper understanding of how society affects them psychologically, the revised and updated edition of Feminist Counselling in Action is the ideal resource. Drawing on feminist theory, Jocelyn Chaplin points to the deeply entrenched, hierarchical ways of thinking which permeate every level of our lives.
The author presents an alternative rhythm model that when applied in counselling increases self-confidence, wholeness' and improved relationships. In this model, the counsellor is not seen as the expert or the doctor, and the client... For counsellors, therapists, trainees and others who want a deeper understanding of how society affects them psychologically, the revised and updated ...
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787,38 zł |
Counselling Older Clients
ISBN: 9780761964063 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a warm, compassionate, wise book, the crystallization of Anne Orbach's many years experience of psychotherapy and counselling with the elderly people. It opens up many vistas, questions and creative possibilities for work in this field' - British Journal of Psychotherapy
Counselling Older Clients is a handbook for practitioners, trainers and student counsellors who are interested in the experience of ageing and old age. The book offers a good beginning and a functional training tool for practitioners new to the field' - Ageing and Society ...This is a warm, compassionate, wise book, the crystallization of Anne Orbach's many years experience of psychotherapy and counselling with the elderly...
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227,08 zł |
Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management
ISBN: 9780762305087 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series presents selected research papers dealing with important methodological and theoretical issues in the policy sciences, with research in policy-related disciplines, and applied research on issues in public policy analysis and public management. There is particular emphasis on research related to operations and design issues for governmental organizations.
This series presents selected research papers dealing with important methodological and theoretical issues in the policy sciences, with research in po...
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446,24 zł |
Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence
ISBN: 9780762311828 / Angielski / Twarda / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "problem of the 21st century" is rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent status and power inequities by race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, citizenship and region. Extensive technological, economic, political and social changes, along with immigration, combine to produce a global community of great diversity and interpenetration. Unfortunately, this global community continues to be fractured by extreme disparities in wealth and power, divided into "haves" and "have-nots." Universities around the globe can play critical roles in economic development and...
The "problem of the 21st century" is rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent status and power inequities by race, ethnicity, gende...
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880,93 zł |
Pensions, Politics and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society
ISBN: 9780765605184 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an historical exploration of the US pensioner movements of the late 1920s through to the early 1950s, and the insights they offer policy analysts and researchers on how the forthcoming retirement of the Baby-Boom generation could proceed.
This is an historical exploration of the US pensioner movements of the late 1920s through to the early 1950s, and the insights they offer policy analy...
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858,05 zł |
Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America
ISBN: 9780765607263 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others. The range of contributors is wide, and includes Julian Bond, Herbert Gans, James Loewen, Jonathan Kozol, Manning Marable, Howard Zinn, Benjamin DeMott, Frances Fox Piven, and Marian Wright Edelman.
Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; educati...
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393,65 zł |
Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America
ISBN: 9780765607270 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others. The range of contributors is wide, and includes Julian Bond, Herbert Gans, James Loewen, Jonathan Kozol, Manning Marable, Howard Zinn, Benjamin DeMott, Frances Fox Piven, and Marian Wright Edelman.
Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; educati...
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91,27 zł |
From Charity to Social Justice: The Emergence of Communal Institutions for the Support of the Poor in Ancient Judaism
ISBN: 9780765800527 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every society has had to cope with poverty and the poor. Traditionally, most scholars have located the origins of modern philanthropies in the free-grain-distribution schemes common in ancient Greece and Rome, while most social workers see the history of philanthropic or welfare institutions as beginning with the Elizabethan Poor Laws. A few students know that the early Christian church made provisions for the poor, but few are aware of what occurred prior to the beginning of Christianity. This volume provides evidence that contemporary philanthropic and welfare institutions owe a greater...
Every society has had to cope with poverty and the poor. Traditionally, most scholars have located the origins of modern philanthropies in the free-gr...
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504,68 zł |
From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers : Transformation of the Social Question
ISBN: 9780765801494 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two constants bearing directly on the question of who is entitled to relief and who can be excluded: the degree of embeddedness in any given community and the ability to work. Along this dual axis the author locates virtually the entire history of social welfare in early-modern and contemporary... In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor... |
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656,16 zł |
Targeting Social Benefits: International Perspectives and Trends
ISBN: 9780765806253 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection. Faced with fiscal and demographic changes, many countries have been struggling to develop innovative policy responses. Some involve targeting benefits in order to shrink existing program commitments, to focus welfare expenditures on those most in need, and to give social welfare systems more flexibility in redirecting available resources to meet emerging demands.
Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider ...
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216,98 zł |
Building Social Security: The Challenge of Privatization
ISBN: 9780765808783 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, in both the specialist press and the tabloids, the idea of privatization of social security has become a shimmering catch phrase. Politicians base election campaigns on promises of more or less privatization in social security. Many governments introduce private business management methods into their social security systems. Representatives of social security institutions and academics prepare theory papers on the possible outcomes of privatization. And international financial organizations describe doomsday scenarios based on the premise of failure to privatize. ... In recent years, in both the specialist press and the tabloids, the idea of privatization of social security has become a shimmering catch phrase.... |
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216,98 zł |
Welfare Medicine in America : A Case Study of Medicaid
ISBN: 9780765809575 / Angielski / Miękka / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present study was undertaken for three reasons: Medicaid is a vital program-in the early 1970s it provided care for over one tenth of the American population. It is a huge program-in the same period it consumed over nine billion dollars of public funds. And Medicaid is, in many ways, the most direct involvement with the provision of medical care undertaken by either the federal government or the states. But until the publication of this book, Medicaid had not been studied in depth or in a systematic way. Welfare Medicine in America is the complete history of Medicaid. The... The present study was undertaken for three reasons: Medicaid is a vital program-in the early 1970s it provided care for over one tenth of the Ameri... |
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216,98 zł |
Houser: The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer, 1905-64
ISBN: 9780774807203 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Catherine Bauer (1905?64) changed forever the concept of public housing in the United States?and inspired a generation of urban activists to include housing in welfare planning in the mid-20th century. She was one of a small group of idealists who called themselves Housers because of their commitment to raising the quality of urban life through improving shelter for low-income families. In the late 1920s, Bauer spent time in Paris, where she befriended Ferdinand Leger, Man Ray, and Sylvia Beach, publisher of Ulysses. Back in New York she fell under the spell of urban critic... Catherine Bauer (1905?64) changed forever the concept of public housing in the United States?and inspired a generation of urban activists to includ... |
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474,45 zł |
Promoting Resilience in Child Welfare
ISBN: 9780776635538 / Angielski / Miękka / 449 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Looking After Children has had a profound influence on child welfare in Canada and some fifteen other countries, including the UK, Australia, Sweden, and Hungary. It has sharpened the developmental focus and improved the quality of services for children and adolescents who, because of abuse, neglect, extreme poverty, or other circumstances, live in out-of-home care. With its emphasis on high expectations, positive substitute parenting, and good...
Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Lookin...
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127,46 zł |
Matters of Interpretation: Reciprocal Transformation in Therapeutic and Developmental Relationships with Youth
ISBN: 9780787909574 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An effective new therapeutic model that integrates the client's and therapist's values
This groundbreaking book offers therapists and counselors an effective new therapeutic model based on hermeneutics--the art and science of interpretation. It recognizes that the clinician is not a neutral observer in the therapeutic process but brings to the interaction his or her own values, judgments, and prejudices. Grounded in theory yet deeply inspirational, the book is filled with rich personal reflections from real-world clinicians who have used this model and found the... An effective new therapeutic model that integrates the client's and therapist's values
This groundbreaking book offers therapists and co... |
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225,80 zł |