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Gazing Into the Oracle
ISBN: 9781853021046 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Delphi Method is an exercise in group communication. It is intended to enhance informed decision-making by enabling decision makers to plan based on a wide reservoir of knowledge, experience and expertise in a systematic manner. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 contains chapters on theoretical, methodological and practical issues - inclusing computerisation - which are raised by the Delphi Method while Part 2 consists of a series of case studies which illustrate the application fo the Delphi Method to a range of problems in social policy and public health. The case studies show...
The Delphi Method is an exercise in group communication. It is intended to enhance informed decision-making by enabling decision makers to plan based ...
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Group Work with Children and Adolescents : A Handbook
ISBN: 9781853021572 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'It is a particular and very personal pleasure to contribute a foreword to this important book... I congratulate the authors and editor on their achievement, and warmly recommend Group Work with Children and Adolescents as vital reading for all those involved in the treatment of children's emotional problems.' - From the Foreword by Robin Skynner A comprehensive resource manual, this book looks at the theory and development of group work as a form of family therapy, the settings in which group work may be used, and effective therapeutic methods. The book also discusses how to deal with themes...
'It is a particular and very personal pleasure to contribute a foreword to this important book... I congratulate the authors and editor on their achie...
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180,08 |
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Working with Elder Abuse: A Training Manual for Home Care, Residential and Day Care Staff
ISBN: 9781853024184 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The author has specialised in working with adult abuse and the manual is set out in the way she recommends that training be presented. There are chapters on older people, black and minority ethnic people and younger adults, as well as on investigations and case conferences.' - Nursing Standard 'Working with Elder Abuse is a forthright and detailed training manual - the manual is a blend of theory, exercises, and further readings and it is anticipated that it will be used by staff trainers providing formal training as well as by supervisors who will work through it with their staff teams. The...
'The author has specialised in working with adult abuse and the manual is set out in the way she recommends that training be presented. There are chap...
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180,02 |
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Negotiation for Health and Social Service Professionals
ISBN: 9781853025495 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all negotiate every day, professionally and socially, yet few of us have had any training in how to do so more effectively. For professionals in health, social care and children's services, an ability to negotiate successfully is vital. Commissioning, contracting and negotiating new partnerships for delivering better services are now part of everyday life. Arguing that in the health and social services a different, less aggressive approach is required to that advocated by negotiators in the commercial sectors, Keith Fletcher explains how to prepare for and deal with negotiation situations...
We all negotiate every day, professionally and socially, yet few of us have had any training in how to do so more effectively. For professionals in he...
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205,80 |
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Children's Homes Revisited
ISBN: 9781853025655 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who lives in children's homes and why? Who works there? How are the homes run? How effective are they? In this book, based on a three-year national research study, David Berridge and Isabelle Brodie examine the changes in structure and use of residential child care services over the last ten years. Beginning with a critique of the series of crises to have hit children's homes over the past decade (such as Pindown), the authors analyse the changing patterns of service use, developments in policy and the law, and general social factors affecting families. They consider findings from key...
Who lives in children's homes and why? Who works there? How are the homes run? How effective are they? In this book, based on a three-year national re...
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144,01 |
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Effective Ways of Working with Children and their Families
ISBN: 9781853026195 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective Ways of Working with Children and their Families examines the latest evidence about the most successful forms of intervention when working with children and their families. The book covers a wide range of approaches and services, with particular emphasis on those methods seeking to help children with identified problems. Certain approaches focus on individual children, others on their families, whilst some aim to influence children's lives at school, neighbourhood and community levels. After discussing the principles, designs and debates associated with ideas of effectiveness and...
Effective Ways of Working with Children and their Families examines the latest evidence about the most successful forms of intervention when working w...
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144,01 |
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Welfare and Culture in Europe : Towards a New Paradigm in Social Policy
ISBN: 9781853027000 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative volume describes how an awareness of culture must be applied to the study and provision of welfare in Europe. It shows how the cultures underpinning social welfare systems are starting to be exposed and explored. The assumption that the values and beliefs which constitute welfare systems are universal and absolute has been overturned for two reasons. First, the post-war period has seen huge changes in traditional structures in Europe, such as class, race and gender, which have prompted people and systems to re-assess and assert their identity and role. Second, the move towards...
This innovative volume describes how an awareness of culture must be applied to the study and provision of welfare in Europe. It shows how the culture...
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Child Welfare Policy and Practice: Issues and Lessons Emerging from Current Research
ISBN: 9781853028120 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Child Welfare Policy and Practice - Issues and Lessons Emerging from Current Research explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare and social work. It addresses the present concerns as expressed by Government bodies and central Government enquiries regarding the services and policies relating to children in need of care and attention. The book deals with social care issues that are common within the UK as well as covering specific aspects of Scottish and Irish child welfare. The current areas of concern covered by the contributors include: the...
Child Welfare Policy and Practice - Issues and Lessons Emerging from Current Research explores the implications of recent research for all those conce...
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Groupwork in Social Care : Planning and Setting Up Groups
ISBN: 9781853028298 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this extremely practical guide, Julie Phillips argues that preparation is the most important element in running successful groups, and explores the issues that practitioners should address. She demonstrates how to prepare effectively, drawing on eight extended case studies with a variety of groups ranging from a positive parenting group to an anger management group. She examines the initial decisions that must be made such as determining the size, purpose and goals of a group, and finding an appropriate meeting place. Anti-discriminatory practice, with an emphasis on power, race and gender...
In this extremely practical guide, Julie Phillips argues that preparation is the most important element in running successful groups, and explores the...
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Children's Homes and School Exclusion: Redefining the Problem
ISBN: 9781853029431 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on new, original research, this book highlights the significance of school exclusion as a pivotal process that has long-term negative effects not just on the individuals themselves but also for society as a whole. Drawing on individual accounts, the author demonstrates how aspects of the care system contribute to looked-after children being out of school. Her book explores the reasons for the difficulties they experience, and argues that they need to be differently conceptualised. By drawing on both the personal accounts of the young people and on evidence gained by interviewing...
Based on new, original research, this book highlights the significance of school exclusion as a pivotal process that has long-term negative effects no...
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Integrative Approaches to Supervision
ISBN: 9781853029660 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As new techniques and approaches to supervision attract interest within therapy-related professions, the contributors to this informative book consider the nature of a supervision and examine the ways in which it can be further defined and developed. Drawing together practical and theoretical perspectives, Integrative Approaches to Supervision examines the contribution that supervision can make within both organisational and individual settings. The book covers frameworks and models for supervision, supervision in clinical practice and issues within integrative supervision. Topics include:...
As new techniques and approaches to supervision attract interest within therapy-related professions, the contributors to this informative book conside...
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Imprisoned Fathers and their Children
ISBN: 9781853029721 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are 'sentenced' to separation from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Gwyneth Boswell and Peter Wedge draw on extensive research and experience to examine the effect this kind of separation can have on the emotional development of a child and on family relationships. They make suggestions for work with prisoners and families in the light of current policy and practice and consider how best to support: * children coming to terms with conflicting emotions arising from fathers' imprisonment * fathers who may be teenagers themselves * mothers or...
More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are 'sentenced' to separation from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Gwyneth Boswell and Peter Wedg...
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Double Standards, Single Purpose: Reforming housing regulations to reduce poverty
ISBN: 9781853395253 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. European standards for housing and infrastructure are inappropriate and unaffordable for the majority of the urban poor in developing countries. But what is the alternative? This was the issue addressed by an international research project within ITDG's Shelter Program, of which this book is the major output. Since the majority of urban residents in developing countries currently live in unplanned and illegal settlements, there is obviously a need for a new paradigm, abandoning the colonial inheritance and using a much more flexible approach. Standards need to be revised continuously to...
European standards for housing and infrastructure are inappropriate and unaffordable for the majority of the urban poor in developing countries. But w...
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Market Economy and Urban Change: Impacts in the Developing World
ISBN: 9781853837838 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the complex relationship between national development strategies and the urban sector. The text focuses on the role of the state as mediator between international donors and internal domestic interests. It examines how the changing role of the state moves to market-based policies, and new development models have affected the provision of housing and sectoral programmes of poverty alleviation. The results provide analyses for all involved - donors, development agencies, governments and municipal authorities, and community groups.
An exploration of the complex relationship between national development strategies and the urban sector. The text focuses on the role of the state as ...
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Market Economy and Urban Change: Impacts in the Developing World
ISBN: 9781853837845 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the complex relationship between national development strategies and the urban sector. The text focuses on the role of the state as mediator between international donors and internal domestic interests. It examines how the changing role of the state moves to market-based policies, and new development models have affected the provision of housing and sectoral programmes of poverty alleviation. The results provide analyses for all involved - donors, development agencies, governments and municipal authorities, and community groups.
An exploration of the complex relationship between national development strategies and the urban sector. The text focuses on the role of the state as ...
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Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty
ISBN: 9781853838613 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A livelihoods approach views the world from the point of view of the individuals, households and social groups who are trying to make a living in volatile conditions and with limited assets. It provides a framework for understanding the opportunities and assets available to poor people and the sources of their vulnerability, as well as the impact upon them of external organizations, processes and policies. Based on recent and extensive research, this collection assesses the value of the livelihoods approach in analyzing urban poverty and guiding the selection of policy and program components....
A livelihoods approach views the world from the point of view of the individuals, households and social groups who are trying to make a living in vola...
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Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion: A New Europe?
ISBN: 9781857281507 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to be a coherent investigation of social divisions in Europe which provides broad coverage of the issues involved. The book explores options for European integration and the implications for social justice, citizenship, democracy and East European market reform.
Aims to be a coherent investigation of social divisions in Europe which provides broad coverage of the issues involved. The book explores options for ...
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The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War
ISBN: 9781859739273 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes people act against their own national identity? In what ways does the media control our perception of history in the making? This ground-breaking work addresses these important questions through an examination of the Algerian war of 1954-62 and the significant French resistance to their own leaders during the bitter conflict. Through the use of extensive interviews, it provides powerful insights into the clash of values that accompanied the war. In exploring the events and experiences that led a... What makes people act against their own national identity? In what ways does the... |
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Professional Expertise: Practice, Theory and Education for Working in Uncertainty
ISBN: 9781861770295 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. his book provides a framework for professional expertise and practice for our times. Professionals must deal with complex and unpredictable situations and balance competing interests. What specific knowledge and skills should they develop to be able to work flexibly and confidently? How is the often stereotypical knowledge of the novice student transformed into responsive ways of working in uncertainty? This book grounds these issues in a study of contemporary professional practitioners as they developed their expertise over a period of five years beginning with their preliminary training. It...
his book provides a framework for professional expertise and practice for our times. Professionals must deal with complex and unpredictable situations...
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Ripples: Groupwork in Different Settings
ISBN: 9781861770349 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The answer depends to some extent on the work-setting you have in mind. In Ripples, leading groupworkers introduce you to eleven applications. Assuming little prior knowledge, each tells you of the clients'/users' needs, the methods used and the ideas that guide workers in one setting. Further reading is suggested. Initiated by the interdisciplinary journal Groupwork, Ripples invites workers to learn form one another, in the belief that the ripples of shared learning can only strengthen groupwork practice. The settings include: personal growth, palliative care, occupational therapy, criminal...
The answer depends to some extent on the work-setting you have in mind. In Ripples, leading groupworkers introduce you to eleven applications. Assumin...
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