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Child Protection: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781412920919 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for the First Edition
All readers will be drawn to the style of the book as well as its content. The structure will make sure that it is not just a "one-off," being read as part of a course of study, but a book which is used frequently as a source of reference' - Child Abuse Review The Second Edition of this best-selling textbook provides students and practitioners with a broad introduction to, and critical analysis of, the complex issues involved in child protection work. Chris Beckett's approachable style presents these... Praise for the First Edition
All readers will be drawn to the style of the book as well as its content. The structure will make... |
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724,87 |
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Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self-Interest
ISBN: 9781412926591 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first new form of community organizing since Saul Alinsky, this book connects the poor to the rest of society. Written in a logical, teachable, and pragmatic style, Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest is a model of social change for the 21st century. Through real examples, author Mike Eichler illustrates how anyone can practice consensus organizing and help the poor, forgotten, and disempowered.
The first new form of community organizing since Saul Alinsky, this book connects the poor to the rest of society. Written in a logical, teachable, an...
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558,34 |
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Human Services?...That Must Be So Rewarding.: A Practical Guide for Professional Development, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781557663320 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this ultra-practical resource helps both students and professionals in the human services fields be more focused and fulfilled in the work they do. By working through self-analysis exercises on issues such as work-related values and conflicts, personal goals and limits, respect for consumers, collaboration among colleagues, and stress management, readers can learn to avoid burnout and approach their work more realistically and optimistically. The author offers practical examples and essential survival tips to help professionals keep up with changes in the human... The second edition of this ultra-practical resource helps both students and professionals in the human services fields be more focused and fulfille... |
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96,15 |
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Transition Assessment: Wise Practices for Quality Lives
ISBN: 9781557665706 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When planning transition supports for young adults with severe developmental disabilities, professionals may overlook a crucial step--thoughtful, creative transition assessments. This groundbreaking book from top researchers in the field places assessment at the heart of transition planning, showing readers just how important it is to understand the needs and goals of young people with disabilities before planning supports to guide them into adult life. Educators, administrators, counselors, service providers, and families will examine diverse assessment methods like student self-evaluation,...
When planning transition supports for young adults with severe developmental disabilities, professionals may overlook a crucial step--thoughtful, crea...
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115,42 |
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Make the Day Matter!: Promoting Typical Lifestyles for Adults with Significant Disabilities
ISBN: 9781557667137 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adults with disabilities enjoying active, rewarding, and meaningful daytimes in their communities that's the reality when service providers and programs tap into innovative support strategies that really work. That's just what they'll do with this invaluable book, the first to compile all the best, most current knowledge on helping adults "make the day matter." A call to action and an in-depth guide to the most effective strategies, this illuminating resource gives service providers proven ideas for supporting adults with significant disabilities as they
Adults with disabilities enjoying active, rewarding, and meaningful daytimes in their communities that's the reality when service providers and pro... |
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122,40 |
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Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services
ISBN: 9781560230724 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services helps you understand the ways in which lesbians of color perceive important issues related to their oppression and discrimination by the dominant social service community. The authors'personalized accounts graphically depict the deep-seated impacts of society s racism, sexism, and homophobia. This insightful book suggests effective ways of changing detrimental practices and agency policies that perpetuate oppression and...
Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social an...
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239,94 |
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God's Foreign Policy: Practical Ways to Help the World's Poor
ISBN: 9781573830225 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,17 |
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A Dream Deferred, a Joy Achieved: Stories of Struggle and Triumph
ISBN: 9781593091255 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Dream Deferred, a Joy Achieved is a positive look at the foster care system through stories of its survivors who show there is hope for the future, even in a system often identified by abuse and neglect. With a unique perspective, this collection of inspiring stories is a testament to the fighting spirit of former foster children, and an inspiration to others currently in the same situation to emerge from the system as successful productive members of society. The stories are true to life, sometimes painful, yet full of hope, revealing those who have graduated and gone on to...
A Dream Deferred, a Joy Achieved is a positive look at the foster care system through stories of its survivors who show there is hope for the f...
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69,32 |
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Improving Children's Services Networks : Lessons from Family Centres
ISBN: 9781843104612 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to meet a range of day care needs for individuals, families or wider communities, Family Centres are central to the government's provision of effective child care services. The study of family centres - monitoring their objectives, examining key challenges faced and evaluating approaches to practice - is fundamental to the delivery of effective, evidence-based services. This book details and evaluates expert research into the developing role of family centres in the light of current political and social trends including, the Every Child Matters legislation. It outlines the different...
Designed to meet a range of day care needs for individuals, families or wider communities, Family Centres are central to the government's provision of...
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144,30 |
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Disability Politics and Community Care
ISBN: 9781853026522 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark Priestley addresses the relationship between the politics of disability and community care policies. Guided by his direct work with representatives of the disabled people's movement, he argues that although the ideas behind social policy and practice have started to reflect values such as participation, integration and equality, the current policy and its implementation often undermine those goals. Community care' still contributes to the view of disabled people as dependent and different, thus reinforcing their social exclusion and marginalisation. Disability Politics and Community Care...
Mark Priestley addresses the relationship between the politics of disability and community care policies. Guided by his direct work with representativ...
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206,22 |
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Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities
ISBN: 9781853026904 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional perceptions and needs. In this book, Barry Gray and Geoff Ridden have collected fourteen biographies written by people of all ages who have a learning disability. The authors discuss how these stories might be representative of other people with learning disabilities and what key themes may be identified from the stories. Such material has not been well documented in the past and is particularly appropriate for analysis which is not narrowly...
The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional percept...
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144,30 |
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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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195,86 |
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Public Inquiries Into Abuse of Children in Residential Care
ISBN: 9781853028953 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increase in public concern about the abuse of children in residential homes has led to a proliferation of inquiries and large-scale criminal investigations throughout the 1990s and into the new millennium. The authors examine the background and context to these developmentals in detail. A focal point of the book is an in-depth analysis of the North Wales Tribunal (to which the authors were given extended access) - the events that led up to it, the process it followed and the recommendations that it made. The authors set out their own recommendations for future public inquiries into...
Increase in public concern about the abuse of children in residential homes has led to a proliferation of inquiries and large-scale criminal investiga...
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144,30 |
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Coping with Aggressive Behaviour
ISBN: 9781854332059 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes a summary of the psychological theories which have been produced to explain aggression. Offering practical advice on methods for assessing dangerous situations and on developing personal and organizational strategies for coping with aggression, this book will be an invaluable tool towards controlling or constraining the aggression of others.
This book includes a summary of the psychological theories which have been produced to explain aggression. Offering practical advice on methods for as...
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180,18 |
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Breakthroughs in Practice: Theorising Critical Moments in Social Work
ISBN: 9781861770325 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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366,85 |
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Groupwork Volume One
ISBN: 9781861770554 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today's groupworkers, and there is a steady stream of requests for reprints. We are therefore making back volumes of "Groupwork" available in volume form. Authors in this volume include leading academic figures in the field as well as practitioners working in the field. Any groupworker will find this material of enduring interest.
Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today...
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453,17 |
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Groupwork Volume Two
ISBN: 9781861770561 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today's groupworkers, and there is a steady stream of requests for reprints. We are therefore making back volumes of "Groupwork" available in volume form. Authors in this volume include leading academic figures in the field as well as practitioners working in the field. Any groupworker will find this material of enduring interest.
Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today...
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410,01 |
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Groupwork Volume Three
ISBN: 9781861770578 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today's groupworkers, and there is a steady stream of requests for reprints. We are therefore making back volumes of "Groupwork" available in volume form. Authors in this volume include leading academic figures in the field as well as practitioners working in the field. Any groupworker will find this material of enduring interest.
Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today...
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410,01 |
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Groupwork Volume Four
ISBN: 9781861770585 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in Groupwork. Most of this still says much of use to today's groupworkers, and there is a steady stream of requests for reprints. We are therefore making back volumes of Groupwork available in volume form. Authors in this volume include leading academic figures in the field as well as practitioners working in the field. Any groupworker will find this material of enduring interest.
Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in Groupwork. Most of this still says much of use to today's...
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410,01 |
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Groupwork Volume Seven
ISBN: 9781861770615 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today's groupworkers, and there is a steady stream of requests for reprints. We are therefore making back volumes of "Groupwork" available in volume form. Authors in this volume include leading academic figures in the field as well as practitioners working in the field. Any groupworker will find this material of enduring interest.
Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork." Most of this still says much of use to today...
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410,01 |