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The Politics of Welfare Reform
ISBN: 9780803957015 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of welfare reform has been predominant on the United States public agenda for almost three decades. Major initiatives undertaken in welfare reform since 1992 are examined in this book, with specific case studies on California, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio and Wisconsin. Each study focuses on: factors that motivated reform; the political process that led to its adoption; the objectives sought by the reform; and an assessment of the probability that each would achieve its objective. Introductory and concluding chapters analyze national trends in welfare reform.
The issue of welfare reform has been predominant on the United States public agenda for almost three decades. Major initiatives undertaken in welfare ...
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411,41 |
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Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths and Adults: Knowledge for Human Services Practice
ISBN: 9780803958869 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research-based, sensitively and accessibly written, this book provides the caring practitioner with a greater understanding of these often oppressed communities, and thereby a greater capacity to support individuals from them.
After an overview of the controversies regarding causation, the authors explore: heterosexism; development of gay//lesbian//bisexual communities; identity development and coming out'; the family; life course development from adolescence to older adulthood; and guidelines for practice. Research-based, sensitively and accessibly written, this book provides the caring practitioner with a greater understanding of these often oppressed c...
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651,40 |
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Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths and Adults: Knowledge for Human Services Practice
ISBN: 9780803958876 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research-based, sensitively and accessibly written, this book provides the caring practitioner with a greater understanding of these often oppressed communities, and thereby a greater capacity to support individuals from them.
After an overview of the controversies regarding causation, the authors explore: heterosexism; development of gay//lesbian//bisexual communities; identity development and coming out'; the family; life course development from adolescence to older adulthood; and guidelines for practice. Research-based, sensitively and accessibly written, this book provides the caring practitioner with a greater understanding of these often oppressed c...
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411,41 |
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Impact Analysis for Program Evaluation
ISBN: 9780803959354 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First Edition of this useful book was popular for its integration of multiple regression with evaluation design and for offering systematic ways to select the proper goals for single- and multiple-outcome evaluations. This revised edition covers new issues and to clarify further the concepts used in impact analysis.
The First Edition of this useful book was popular for its integration of multiple regression with evaluation design and for offering systematic ways t...
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940,36 |
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Impact Analysis for Program Evaluation
ISBN: 9780803959361 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First Edition of this useful book was popular for its integration of multiple regression with evaluation design and for offering systematic ways to select the proper goals for single- and multiple-outcome evaluations. This revised edition covers new issues and to clarify further the concepts used in impact analysis.
The First Edition of this useful book was popular for its integration of multiple regression with evaluation design and for offering systematic ways t...
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651,40 |
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Self-Help and Support Groups: A Handbook for Practitioners
ISBN: 9780803970991 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first volume to address both self-help and support groups, and to provide a clear distinction between the two, Self-Help and Support Groups dispels misunderstandings and inaccurate assumptions about how they function, whom they attract and how they help participants achieve goals.
Linda Farris Kurtz informs practitioners and students in the human services about the concepts, theories and research relevant to self-help and support groups. She provides practical advice and direction for working with these groups while analyzing self-help//support organizations on three different levels... The first volume to address both self-help and support groups, and to provide a clear distinction between the two, Self-Help and Support Groups dispel...
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411,41 |
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Primary Prevention Practices
ISBN: 9780803971523 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the most effective ways of preventing predictable behavioural problems, protecting current states of health and promoting desired behaviours? This volume offers step-by-step procedures on how to conduct over 50 prevention practices, including: problem-solving; anticipatory instructions; social skills training; life-long exercises; perceived self-efficacy; assertiveness training; cognitive reframing; and peer tutoring. So that readers can more easily select which preventive measure to apply, the author identifies the classes of factors that should be considered in any thorough...
What are the most effective ways of preventing predictable behavioural problems, protecting current states of health and promoting desired behaviours?...
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558,34 |
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Intimate Betrayal: Understanding and Responding to the Trauma of Acquaintance Rape
ISBN: 9780803973619 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acquaintance rape is a serious social problem, yet it remains widely misunderstood by the general public and by practitioners working with both survivors and perpetrators. This title impacts upon what survivors do after the assault, on the services survivors receive, on the prosecution of perpetrators and on efforts to prevent the problem.
Acquaintance rape is a serious social problem, yet it remains widely misunderstood by the general public and by practitioners working with both surviv...
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Postmodern Welfare: Reconstructing an Emancipatory Project
ISBN: 9780803976108 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Leonard provides an accessible analysis of debates about the crisis of the welfare state under the contemporary conditions of postmodern scepticism and the triumphs of global market capitalism.
Peter Leonard provides an accessible analysis of debates about the crisis of the welfare state under the contemporary conditions of postmodern sceptic...
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298,76 |
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Social Development: The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare
ISBN: 9780803977730 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an excellent and exciting book which makes a compelling case for social development. It more than succeeds in its objective of providing a comprehensive overview of the field of social development -" International Social Work
This is an excellent and exciting book which makes a compelling case for social development. It more than succeeds in its objective of providing a com...
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288,97 |
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Researching Social Gerontology: Concepts, Methods and Issues
ISBN: 9780803982857 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors discuss concepts in gerontology, presenting the subject both theoretically and practically. They provide information on a number of methodological approaches to research which have proved useful. The text assesses whether old people require special ethical consideration.
The contributors discuss concepts in gerontology, presenting the subject both theoretically and practically. They provide information on a number of m...
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298,76 |
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Critical Victimology: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780803985124 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the risks of crime and do they vary from country to country? What is the impact of crime on the victim? How are victims treated by police, welfare agencies and courts? Why have governments become interested in victims? Can we learn from the experiences of policies in other nations? This book provides a critique of victimology.
What are the risks of crime and do they vary from country to country? What is the impact of crime on the victim? How are victims treated by police, we...
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The Welfare Experiments: Politics and Policy Evaluation
ISBN: 9780804747301 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical--and unexpected--role in the broader policymaking process. Through these experiments, previously unpopular reform ideas, such as welfare time limits, gained wide and enthusiastic support. Ultimately, the institutional legacy of the old welfare system was broken, new ideas took hold, and the welfare experiments generated a new institutional channel in policymaking. In this book, Rogers-Dillon argues that these welfare experiments were not simply...
Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical--and un...
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528,96 |
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The Welfare Experiments: Politics and Policy Evaluation
ISBN: 9780804747462 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical--and unexpected--role in the broader policymaking process. Through these experiments, previously unpopular reform ideas, such as welfare time limits, gained wide and enthusiastic support. Ultimately, the institutional legacy of the old welfare system was broken, new ideas took hold, and the welfare experiments generated a new institutional channel in policymaking. In this book, Rogers-Dillon argues that these welfare experiments were not simply...
Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical--and un...
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122,40 |
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Contesting Communities: The Transforming of Workplace Charity
ISBN: 9780804754484 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and original work, Emily Barman offers new insights into this important issue. Analyzing workplace charity in different cities across the United States, Contesting Communities shows that while traditional notions of community might be in decline, new types and visions of community have emerged. Barman traces how these different "communities" take the form of organizational competition between the United Way and new alternative fundraisers over...
Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and ori...
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Contesting Communities: The Transforming of Workplace Charity
ISBN: 9780804754491 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and original work, Emily Barman offers new insights into this important issue. Analyzing workplace charity in different cities across the United States, Contesting Communities shows that while traditional notions of community might be in decline, new types and visions of community have emerged. Barman traces how these different "communities" take the form of organizational competition between the United Way and new alternative fundraisers over...
Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and ori...
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92,48 |
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Aging, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes
ISBN: 9780805807806 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult development. As such, it contains a compilation of papers presented at an annual conference held at the Pennsylvania State University. These essays by sociologists and epidemiologists deal with the impact of disease and health outcomes with advancing age and are critiqued by members of related disciplines. In addition, there are overviews as well as specific discussions about the impact of cancer,...
This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with the description of soc...
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181,17 |
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Psychological Perspectives on Deafness: Volume II
ISBN: 9780805810547 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge views from well-known international researchers within the field, this book surveys issues within the field of deafness, such as cognition, learning disabilities, social development, language development, and psychopathology. It also highlights the many new and exciting findings currently emerging from researchers across a variety of disciplines--psychology, education, linguistics, and child development. The chapters will engage, challenge, and...
This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge...
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710,17 |
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Caregiving Systems: Formal and Informal Helpers
ISBN: 9780805810943 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people needing care and assistance. The responsibility for care typically falls on families at a time when they have limited resources to meet these needs. At a societal level, the need for care for growing numbers of disabled elders poses a major challenge for how to organize supportive services in an efficient and responsive system.
Bringing together multiple perspectives on caregiving, the authors' explore... Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic inc...
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710,17 |
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Early Adolescence: Perspectives on Research, Policy, and Intervention
ISBN: 9780805811643 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a broad group of scholars from a diverse array of disciplines to write integratively about cutting-edge research issues pertinent to various facets of the study of early adolescence. All contributors speak to the idea of interdisciplinary integration as a means of advancing knowledge in particular focus areas of early adolescence; all approach their topic with an orientation to integrating levels of organization. In so doing, they testify to the importance of two interrelated integrations -- multidisciplinary and multiprofessional -- for furthering understanding of...
This volume brings together a broad group of scholars from a diverse array of disciplines to write integratively about cutting-edge research issues pe...
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710,17 |
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