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Perspectives on Later Life: The Application of Research and Theory in Social Care
ISBN: 9781871177534 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Perspectives on Later Life" looks at interdependency, social living, family conflict, social isolation and social networks, and loss and grieving. Issues of staff training, support and morale are covered in some depth. .".. exposes the inadequacy of training and support to staff based on outdated material reflecting out-dated attitudes ... The emphasis on the primacy of individual experience gives the book a particular relevance in the customer-oriented world of community care with its focus on individual user need, choice and advocacy rights.Community Care Contents: New Understandings of...
"Perspectives on Later Life" looks at interdependency, social living, family conflict, social isolation and social networks, and loss and grieving. Is...
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440,82 |
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Understanding and Using Groups
ISBN: 9781871177602 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work, by an experienced groupwork practitioner and lecturer, offers a sound general introduction to working with groups. The author covers: group dynamics and the group processthe various groupwork methodologies such as transactional analysis, assertion and social skills training and Gestalt.The use of groups in different kinds of health and social services agencies and in other settingsCommon problems in group relationships A list of organisations and full reading list are included. The work has become a standard text for groupwork courses in all settings - nursing, education, mental...
This work, by an experienced groupwork practitioner and lecturer, offers a sound general introduction to working with groups. The author covers: group...
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356,85 |
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Children Living with Domestic Violence
ISBN: 9781871177725 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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188,93 |
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Welfare and the Well-Being of Children
ISBN: 9783718656240 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of eight of the largest US welfare programmes affecting children. These programmes include Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the Food Stamp Program. Medicaid, housing assistance, supplemental feeding programmes such as WIC and School Lunch, Head Start and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Despite the fact that these programmes were designed to serve children, most discussion of welfare reforms focuses on the incentives that the welfare system creates for parents. This analysis represents an evaluation of the evidence regarding the effects of welfare programmes on the children...
An analysis of eight of the largest US welfare programmes affecting children. These programmes include Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the Fo...
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131,11 |
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Can Planning Replace Politics?: The Israeli Experience
ISBN: 9789024723249 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much hope has been placed in the potential of planning to solve social and economic problems. In the East nd the West, in devel- oped and less-developed countries, planning has become widespread. It has been praised and ridiculed, used and misused, both as a catch- word for a better future and as a scapegoat for bitter failure. Plan- ning has been interpreted differently by every society, giving rise to a wide range of styles and approaches. Fascination with the phenom- enon has yielded a variety of definitions of planning, each of them influenced by the actual problems facing the planners on...
Much hope has been placed in the potential of planning to solve social and economic problems. In the East nd the West, in devel- oped and less-develop...
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401,58 |
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Policy Implementation in Federal and Unitary Systems: Questions of Analysis and Design
ISBN: 9789024731374 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Analytical Models and Institutional Design in Federal and Unitary States, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 26-30, 1983
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Analytical Models and Institutional Design in Federal and Unitary States, Erasmus University, Ro...
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803,21 |
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Social Support: Theory, Research and Applications
ISBN: 9789024731626 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor." Traditional Danish Proverb This bit of Danish folk wisdom expresses an idea underlying much of the current thinking about social support. While the clinical literature has for a long time recognized the deleterious effects of unwholesome social relationships, only more recently has the focus broadened to include the positive side of social interaction, those interpersonal ties that are desired, rewarding, and protective. This book contains theoretical and research contributions by a group of scholars who are charting this side of the social...
"No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor." Traditional Danish Proverb This bit of Danish folk wisdom expresses an idea underlying much of the c...
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1204,83 |
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Politics as Rational Action: Essays in Public Choice and Policy Analysis
ISBN: 9789027710406 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most promising trends in modem political science is the develop ment of a theory of politics as rational action. Focussing on choice as the central topic of study, rational choice theorists set out to specify what alter native an actor should prefer if he has some given knowledge of the conse quences of each alternative and wants to see his preference system as fully realized as possible. But rational choice theory is not confmed to the norma tive sphere of science. It can also be used for explanatory purposes. Then, the alternatives actually chosen are specified and the task is to...
One of the most promising trends in modem political science is the develop ment of a theory of politics as rational action. Focussing on choice as the...
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Children on the Move: How to Implement Their Right to Family Life
ISBN: 9789041101563 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasing numbers of children are on the move throughout the world: moving or migrating, alone or accompanied. This gives rise to many new problems with legal, economic, social and cultural aspects, calling for new approaches based on a world-wide perspective. The international mobility of children poses a special challenge for the protection of their family environment, as guaranteed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international instruments. Children on the Move contains the texts and speeches given and the papers presented at the international...
Increasing numbers of children are on the move throughout the world: moving or migrating, alone or accompanied. This gives rise to many new problems w...
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873,32 |
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Placement of job-seekers with disabilities. Elements of an effective service - Asian and Pacific edition
ISBN: 9789221151142 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a useful resource for policy-makers and managers in mainstream and dedicated employment services, operated by governmental and non-governmental organizations. It examines the strategies which an effective placement service can adopt and the key components which it should include, as well as the alliances which it needs to develop with other agencies to ensure that it can work effectively.
This book is a useful resource for policy-makers and managers in mainstream and dedicated employment services, operated by governmental and non-govern...
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84,50 |
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Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond
ISBN: 9781138718210 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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752,97 |
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Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow--Social Change and International Development
ISBN: 9789766401016 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dame Nita Barrow was a strong force and a life-long champion of justice, community service and human rights. A former Governor General of Barbados, her illustrious career included presidencies in several international organizations and numerous honors and awards for her lifelong commitment.
This book examines how this extraordinary Caribbean woman developed her leadership strategies to contribute to social change and shape development policy on national, regional, and international levels. More than a celebration of her achievements, it analyzes Barrow's career as a case study of leadership... Dame Nita Barrow was a strong force and a life-long champion of justice, community service and human rights. A former Governor General of Barbados, he...
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131,11 |
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Helping Ourselves: Local Responses to Global Problems
ISBN: 9780393000542 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,18 |
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Pension Reform in Europe: Politics, Policies and Outcomes
ISBN: 9780415407229 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfare models and pathways, population reactions, and observed and expected outcomes. Pension reform has been a top policy priority for European governments in the last decade. Ageing populations, changing labour market patterns and the process of European integration are the 'irresistible forces' pushing for reform throughout the region. The Political Economy of Pension Reform evaluates the political forces that make pension... This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfar... |
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801,54 |
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Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare
ISBN: 9780745635217 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Third edition of an established key text on the welfare state. * Offers comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to classic and contemporary debates, as well as the future of welfare. * Draws on an international range of examples and literature, including US, continental and northern Europe.
* Third edition of an established key text on the welfare state. * Offers comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to classic and cont...
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97,10 |
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The New Politics of Welfare: Social Justice in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780761960225 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a critical introduction to the debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the UK, Europe and the US. The author demonstrates how values derived from the family and voluntary associations are in danger of running counter to the principles of liberal democracy.
This text provides a critical introduction to the debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the UK, Europe and the US. The author demonstrate...
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325,48 |
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Social Work with Multicultural Youth
ISBN: 9780789021892 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents accurate conceptual frameworks for understanding the experiences of ethnic youth to help you create culturally relevant interventions to promote their well-being.
Presents accurate conceptual frameworks for understanding the experiences of ethnic youth to help you create culturally relevant interventions to prom...
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1068,72 |
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The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy Past, Present and Future
ISBN: 9780803984394 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessible textbook offers a comparative analysis of social policy in the new Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union. It assesses past developments, the problems of the present transitional period and prospects for the future.
Bringing together leading specialists on the social policy of the former Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Poland, this book systematically outlines the shortcomings of the old bureaucratic collectivist system of welfare, as well as explaining why the emerging system is, initially at least, often inadequate. Focusing on this unique... This accessible textbook offers a comparative analysis of social policy in the new Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union. It assesses past...
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267,18 |
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Disability, Liberation and Development
ISBN: 9780855981952 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The situation of disabled people provides a microcosm of the whole development debate and process. Disabled people are oppressed and marginalised in every country of the world, both North and South. Their lives are constrained by social attitudes which stem from fear and prejudice. By probing these prejudices and studying cases where they have been overcome, we gain an insight into the processes of liberation and empowerment that lie at the heart of any development message.
The situation of disabled people provides a microcosm of the whole development debate and process. Disabled people are oppressed and marginalised in e...
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112,27 |
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Good Practice in Counselling People Who Have Been Abused
ISBN: 9781853024245 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incorporating the voices of professionals counselling survivors of abuse, and those of the survivors themselves, this book provides the reader with a theoretical understanding of people who have endured abuse situations, as well as practical approaches to counselling them. Focusing on the emotional needs of survivors, the contributors discuss, from the viewpoint of their own experiences, effective and useful practice and the provision of appropriate and accessible services in this field. The effects of different types of abuse and abusive environments, and a variety of methods for dealing...
Incorporating the voices of professionals counselling survivors of abuse, and those of the survivors themselves, this book provides the reader with a ...
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