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Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants
ISBN: 9780231181389 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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784,35 |
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Youth in Foster Care: The Shortcomings of Child Protection Services
ISBN: 9780815330202 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the plight of minority children taken from inner cities and placed in foster care in rural areas. Based on case studies, interviews, observation, and secondary sources, shows how they become confused and afraid, are subject to traumatic emotional states, and are often diagnosed with emotio
Examines the plight of minority children taken from inner cities and placed in foster care in rural areas. Based on case studies, interviews, observat...
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794,81 |
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Globalization and International Social Work : Postmodern Change and Challenge
ISBN: 9780754649465 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and uncertain. Post-modern thinking suggests that social workers must learn to cope with complexity in ways that are in tension with the increasingly managerialist organization of the social services. The authors explore and question the concepts of 'postmodern', 'international' and 'global' in light of growing interest in international social work in the early 21st century. Emphasizing the importance of critical reflection, they argue that...
Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and ...
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794,81 |
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The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies
ISBN: 9780895038210 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies offers an unprecedented anthology of never-before-published, first-person life histories by ex-spouses whose grief has endured as disenfranchised: socially unacknowledged, untold, and unrecognised. Each story of disenfranchised grief is fiercely honest and courageously made public. This anthology has no parallels in current texts, academic literature or mainstream publications. Contributors present personal histories, revealing that the dimensions of disenfranchised grief are as individual as the writers who have endured...
The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies offers an unprecedented anthology of never-before-published, first-person life h...
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794,81 |
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Liberal Child Welfare Policy and Its Destruction of Black Lives
ISBN: 9780815363262 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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794,81 |
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Working with Traumatized Police-Officer Patients: A Clinician's Guide to Complex Ptsd Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals
ISBN: 9780895033659 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job, ' this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly treats what Dan Rudofossi terms Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD. In reading this book, you are led through an understanding of how to work with police officers who experience cumulative loss in trauma. "Doc Dan" initiates you into an original cultural competence of how and why his theory works in practice. You will leave the journey with a practical sense of how the ecological context and...
An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job, ' this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clin...
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819,65 |
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Strengthening School Counselor Advocacy and Practice for Important Populations and Difficult Topics
ISBN: 9781799873204 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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820,95 |
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Resiliency Enhancement: Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9780231118002 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths persp...
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828,77 |
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Social Work Practice with Men at Risk
ISBN: 9780231143806 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men. Focusing on veterans, displaced workers, substance abusers, mental health consumers, and other groups that might be unlikely to seek help, Furman deftly explores the psychosocial development of men, along with the globalization of men's lives, alternative conceptions of masculinity, and special dynamics within male relationships. Furman bolsters his conclusions with case studies and evidence-based interventions. His cutting-edge...
Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with...
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828,77 |
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Spaces of Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9780415280884 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In all developed countries - though to widely varying extents - a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. The Labour Government in Britain in particular has sought to conceptualize and deal with this through the notion of 'Social Exclusion': similar ideas have been found in other countries. Spaces of Social Exclusion explores the forms of this contemporary economic and social disadvantage and in particular, its social and spatial causes, and the role of space in policies to address disadvantage. ideologies surrounding social exclusion and poverty.
In all developed countries - though to widely varying extents - a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. The Labour Government in Britai...
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844,48 |
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The McDonaldization of Social Work
ISBN: 9780754646396 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based upon George Ritzer's McDonaldization of Society thesis and incorporating aspects of social theory, this book examines the introduction of care management to social work practice. Donna Dustin analyzes care management as an example of the managerial application of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control to social work practice. These principles, put to good use in organizations that produce tangible outputs at a profit, are being increasingly applied in non-profit public sector organizations where the outcomes require intangibles such as professional relationships. The...
Based upon George Ritzer's McDonaldization of Society thesis and incorporating aspects of social theory, this book examines the introduction of care m...
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844,48 |
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Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food: Toward an Inclusive Framework
ISBN: 9780415714457 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women's rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. Three conditions arising from these disconnects are discussed: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women's human rights, as well as... This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food in... |
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844,48 |
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Transnational Social Policy: Social Support in a World on the Move
ISBN: 9781138956872 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalisation of economies, labour markets, education, and care within an increasingly asymmetrical global context.
This edited volume highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalisation of econom...
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844,48 |
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Politics, Values, and Public Policy: The Problem of Methodology
ISBN: 9780367283803 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of public policy. It is designed to move policy evaluation beyond its current emphasis on efficient achievement of goals, focusing instead on the assessment of the acceptability of the goals themselves.
Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of publi...
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844,48 |
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Practical and Political Approaches to Recontextualizing Social Work
ISBN: 9781799867852 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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857,56 |
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Becoming a Skilled Counselor
ISBN: 9781452203966 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book covers the knowledge and skills essential for anyone in the helping professions and covers the critical skills of the helping relationship and current models of helping.
The book covers the knowledge and skills essential for anyone in the helping professions and covers the critical skills of the helping relationship an...
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864,35 |
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Educational Supervision in Social Work: A Task-Centered Model for Field Instruction and Staff Development
ISBN: 9780231108522 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive examination of instructional supervision and introduces the Task-Centered Model for Educational Supervision (TCS). It begins by reviewing the history of educational supervision in social work and principles of effective teaching practices in the field. While theories about the principles and purposes of educational supervision abound, it has proven difficult to translate these ideas into a coherent model of supervisory practice. Educational Supervision in Social Work answers that need, presenting in detail TCS, an ordered series of discrete activities...
This book provides a comprehensive examination of instructional supervision and introduces the Task-Centered Model for Educational Supervision (TCS). ...
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883,60 |
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Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire
ISBN: 9781594519512 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the American news media. Although Western managed-care corporations previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many countries are considering new approaches to health care for their citizens.The untold story of how corporations have influenced global health care and the impacts now in America as the system rapidly shifts is Dr. Waitzkin s subject in his provocative new book. We now live in a new era in which the prospects for more humane approaches to...
The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the American news medi...
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919,00 |
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Sexual Misconduct in the Education and Human Services Sector
ISBN: 9781522506577 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the latest scholarly research on effective guidelines and frameworks for ensuring appropriate professional conduct, and presents innovative methods for the proper training of employees. Focusing on imperative concepts and applicable real-world examples, this book is designed for managers, researchers, and professionals.
Presents the latest scholarly research on effective guidelines and frameworks for ensuring appropriate professional conduct, and presents innovative m...
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983,05 |
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The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780415250351 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines and practices. It covers:
* the debate concerning children's rights and developments in rights provision over the last twenty years * the impact of recent British legislation on children's rights in key areas such as education, social and welfare services and criminal justice * the key provisions of the UN Convention and Human Rights Act * recent policy proposals and initiatives in the British setting intended to establish and promote... The new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines an...
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993,51 |