ilość książek w kategorii: 7764
New Immigrants, Changing Communities: Best Practices for a Better America
ISBN: 9780739106372 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. The project studied immigration integration in areas that had no recent experience with foreign-born newcomers and the information presented within this book builds upon this by identifying and reviewing promising practices and strategies that facilitated immigrant integration. Gozdziak and Bump include descriptions of the most effective approaches as well as an analysis of challenges...
This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Stu...
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212,94 zł |
AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed
ISBN: 9781932690613 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every 14 seconds a child-headed household is formed when parents die from AIDS. "AIDS Orphans Rising" examines the daily lives of these children and what can be done to help them. By 2010, there will be 25,000,000 AIDS orphans--uneducated, disenfranchised, and unwanted.
Every 14 seconds a child-headed household is formed when parents die from AIDS. "AIDS Orphans Rising" examines the daily lives of these children and w...
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117,98 zł |
Understanding Meth: The Epidemic
ISBN: 9781934925089 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author describes his first use of methamphetamine and the hell that is addiction onward to recovery, relapse, denial, and final victory.
The author describes his first use of methamphetamine and the hell that is addiction onward to recovery, relapse, denial, and final victory.
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58,88 zł |
Ageing with a Lifelong Disability: A Guide to Practice, Program and Policy Issues for Human Services Professionals
ISBN: 9781843100775 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A comprehensive text addressing this issue is welcome and this book addresses service provision for older people with disabilities from a UK, USA and Australian perspective. The book would serve as a useful reference book for Health and Social Service personnel, particularly students, from a variety of disciplines working with older adults, in the learning disability field or with older people who have lifelong physical disabilities. A particular strength is the inclusion of case vignettes that describe individual older clients with lifelong disabilities; interesting questions are posed for...
'A comprehensive text addressing this issue is welcome and this book addresses service provision for older people with disabilities from a UK, USA and...
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269,19 zł |
Social Work, Immigration and Asylum : Debates, Dilemmas and Ethical Issues for Social Work and Social Care Practice
ISBN: 9781843101949 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The practical and ethical challenges facing human service professionals working with refugees, asylum seekers and other people subject to immigration controls are discussed in this much-needed book. The contributors explore the tensions that exist between traditional anti-oppressive values and the role professionals increasingly play as 'gate keepers' to services. Drawing from the experience of practitioners working in child protection and family support, disability, the criminal justice system, asylum teams and immigration tribunals, Social Work, Immigration and Asylum will prepare...
The practical and ethical challenges facing human service professionals working with refugees, asylum seekers and other people subject to immigration ...
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149,01 zł |
Working with Offenders
ISBN: 9781853022494 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Significant changes have occurred in recent years in the nature and delivery of social work services to offenders and their families. Working with Offenders considers the implications for policy and practice of research which has focused upon a range of social work activities including * assessment * intensive probation programmes * community service * reparation and mediation * social work with prisoners * work with sex offenders. It also considers more general issues of effectiveness, race and gender and locates recent developments in practice in the context of the broader policy changes in...
Significant changes have occurred in recent years in the nature and delivery of social work services to offenders and their families. Working with Off...
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149,01 zł |
Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes : Shifting Policy Logics
ISBN: 9781853024610 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a long-term study of the policies of seven European nations towards lone mothers, Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes reveals the contrasting attitudes in Europe today towards lone motherhood. The contributors examine the specific categorisation and treatment of lone mothers as well as the problems created, in terms of government policy, by the obvious conflict in the parent-worker role. Other topics, such as possible marginalisation and the queston of whether the problems that face lone mothers are unique or simply a by-product of wider social problems, are also discussed.
Based on a long-term study of the policies of seven European nations towards lone mothers, Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes reveals the contra...
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149,01 zł |
Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
ISBN: 9780300120356 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Today, for every dollar spent on cash welfare payments, some twenty dollars are spent on service programs targeted at the working poor--job training, adult education, child care, emergency assistance, mental health care, and other social services. This important book examines our current system and the crucial role that geography plays in the system's ability to offer help. Drawing on unique survey data from almost 1,500 faith-based and secular service organizations in three cities,...
Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Today, for every dollar spent on cash welfare pay...
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354,95 zł |
Unstoppable Attitude: Facing the Challenge of Cancer
ISBN: 9780595492244 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Unstoppable Attitude"" is a book that will be appreciated by people from all walks of life. This book is able to put our feelings and fears about cancer into words and helps us to understand and overcome them. You will find yourself absorbed by this book whether you are an elite athlete, a person facing or having beaten cancer, or a loved one of that cancer patient. You will find this book inspirational if you are someone who is looking for the motivation to allow you to attain the next level of whatever you are trying to accomplish.
His analogy of going through treatment for cancer and... ""Unstoppable Attitude"" is a book that will be appreciated by people from all walks of life. This book is able to put our feelings and fears about ca...
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50,44 zł |
Evidence for Child Welfare Practice
ISBN: 9780789038159 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a "work-in-progress" that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying evidence for practice within the practice domain of public child welfare. It is divided into two categories; namely, evidence for direct practice and evidence for management practice. In Part I, the articles are categorized in the areas of child welfare assessment and child welfare outcomes. Expanded versions of the chapters can be accessed at www.bassc.net. In Part II, the focus is on organizational issues that relate to evidence for... This book provides a "work-in-progress" that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying... |
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182,02 zł |
Extraordinary Circumstances: Based on the True Story of a Landmark Custody Battle and Parental Abduction Survivor
ISBN: 9780595441693 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,65 zł |
Extraordinary Circumstances: Based on the True Story of a Landmark Custody Battle and Parental Abduction Survivor
ISBN: 9780595699094 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the age of nine, Scott Berne's childhood teetered on the edge of a precipice. His parents' nasty divorce and the painful custody battle that followed created an upheaval unlike anything he'd ever known. But when his mother's precarious mental health led the judge to give sole custody of Scott and his younger brother to his father, the unthinkable happened-Harriet Berne kidnapped her two boys.
"Extraordinary Circumstances" shares the tumultuous true story of what became one of the first test cases of parental abduction in the United States under the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act.... At the age of nine, Scott Berne's childhood teetered on the edge of a precipice. His parents' nasty divorce and the painful custody battle that follow...
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134,86 zł |
No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement
ISBN: 9780774814225 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, No Place to Go traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue. Nancy Janovicek focuses on women's groups in small cities and rural communities, examining anti-violence activism in Thunder Bay, Kenora, Nelson, and Moncton. She also pays close attention to Aboriginal women in northwestern Ontario, where the connections between family violence and the devaluation of indigenous culture in Canadian society complicated efforts to end... The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, No Place to Go traces the development of transition houses and service... |
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171,95 zł |
Past and Tense
ISBN: 9781432721718 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young, innocent girl falls into many traps! Life for a young girl is dramatically changed by rape resulting in birth and adoption of her first born child. The promise of seeing her child leads her on to marriage and a second unwanted child who grew up lonely believing she was an "only child." The unwanted daughter struggles through life and finds happiness. A young, innocent girl falls into many traps! Life for a young girl is dramatically changed by rape resulting in birth and adoption of her fir... |
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61,23 zł |
Normalisation: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415061193 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has moved into the public arena, it has attracted a certain amount of criticism, acknowledging the political and philosophical conflicts that surround it. Normalisation: A Reader for the Nineties provides a much needed, informed appraisal of this controversial practice and combines various perspectives on the subject, including applied... Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recentl... |
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161,78 zł |
Health and the National Health Service
ISBN: 9781904385141 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The NHS came into existence in an atmosphere of conflict centred on the strong ideological commitment of the Post-war Labour Government and the opposition of the Conservative Party of that time to the idea of a universally available and centrally planned medical care service. There was also opposition from some sections of the medical establishment who feared the loss of professional autonomy. Setting health policy in both an historical and modern context (post 1997) Carrier and Kendall weigh up the successes and failures of the National Health Service and examine the conflicts... The NHS came into existence in an atmosphere of conflict centred on the strong ideological commitment of the Post-war Labour Government and the opp... |
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657,46 zł |
What Constitutes a Good Society?
ISBN: 9780333775028 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all have an opinion as to what constitutes a good life. This book takes the arguments a step further by discussing what makes a good society from a variety of perspectives. It emphasizes the need for individual involvement and the right economic conditions. Citizenship is also central for the emerging globalized society.
We all have an opinion as to what constitutes a good life. This book takes the arguments a step further by discussing what makes a good society from a...
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388,20 zł |
Social Policy and Welfare: A Clear Guide
ISBN: 9780745309668 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The welfare state is under attack around the globe: in this accessible book, Burden provides an overall examination of social welfare and a comparative study of policies in different societies. He explores alternative ideas on the development of social policy, and offers a wide spread of comparative material. Analyzing the ideologies underlying national and social policies, he classifies each one in terms of 'radical', 'reformist' and the 'right'. Taking an historically informed approach to understanding social policy, this book is an ideal introduction for policy makers, practitioners and...
The welfare state is under attack around the globe: in this accessible book, Burden provides an overall examination of social welfare and a comparativ...
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159,65 zł |
Social Work, Community Work and Psychology
ISBN: 9781854331106 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social workers, community workers and psychologists have a common focus of concern: human experience and distress. This book examines carefully selected psychological theory - aspects of development, social learning theory, humanistic psychology, mental health, counselling and psychotherapy - while placing it firmly in the context of the practice of social work in a multicultural society. The needs and concerns of different members of the community are addressed, particularly those who are vulnerable and those who are discriminated against.
Social workers, community workers and psychologists have a common focus of concern: human experience and distress. This book examines carefully select...
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207,35 zł |
Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
ISBN: 9780199261819 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nobel Prize-winning economist James Mirrlees is one of the world's leading figures in welfare, development, and public sector economics. This volume brings together for the first time published and unpublished seminal work on these key areas, providing an essential overview to much of his life's work.
Nobel Prize-winning economist James Mirrlees is one of the world's leading figures in welfare, development, and public sector economics. This volume b...
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279,39 zł |