Another Mother: Co-Parenting with the Foster Care System
ISBN: 9780826515490 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One night after midnight social workers brought a baby girl to the author's home, and her life as a foster mother began. A social worker herself, Gerstenzang discovered that raising Cecilia, deespite all the personal joys, would be a complex and frustrating process of -co-parenting- with the foster care system in New York City. Foster parents are in great demand, but they are not necessarily treated well. We follow the author through the home visits, the Early Intervention evaluation, the WIC program that (with much bureaucratic hassle) provides free formula and cereal, and the mandatory... One night after midnight social workers brought a baby girl to the author's home, and her life as a foster mother began. A social worker herself, G... |
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Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services
ISBN: 9781412921336 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political, popular and academic debates have swirled around the notion of citizen as a consumer of public services, with public service reform increasingly geared towards a consumer society. This innovative book draws on original research with those people in the front-line of the reforms -staff, managers and users of public services - to explore their responses to this turn to consumerism. Focusing on health, policing and social care, it vividly brings to life the contentious and troubled relationships between government, services and users.
Creating Citizen Consumers... Political, popular and academic debates have swirled around the notion of citizen as a consumer of public services, with public service reform increas...
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Leading Work with Young People
ISBN: 9781412946032 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading Work with Young People provides a selection of writing from a complex and dynamic field of work. The editors bring together key readings and newly commissioned material to present a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on leading and managing work with young people. The book will equip students with the knowledge, skills, values, and principles required for successful qualification as a worker in the field. Key topics include understanding leadership; supervision; multi-agency work; and managing change.
Leading Work with Young People provides a selection of writing from a complex and dynamic field of work. The editors bring together key readings and n...
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590,54 zł |
Costs and Outcomes of Community Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities
ISBN: 9781557667182 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With many state agencies under budgetary pressure, solid information on costs and outcomes of services for people with disabilities has never been more important. Now, for the first time ever, that hard-to-find information is collected in a single volume for policy makers, advocates, providers, and researchers. Blending original research with policy analysis, critical reviews of existing knowledge, and examples of cutting-edge programs and policies, this book shows you what works and helps you make sound decisions about how to allocate resources. You'll examine
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The Job Developer's Handbook: Practical Tactics for Customized Employment
ISBN: 9781557668639 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most practical employment books available, this forward-thinking guide walks employment specialists step by step through customized job development for people with disabilities, revealing the best ways to build a satisfying, meaningful job around a person's preferences, skills, and goals. Internationally known for their innovative, proactive job development strategies, the authors motivate readers to expand the way they think about employment opportunities and develop creative solutions. Readers will get fresh, proven tips and ideas for every aspect of job development for... One of the most practical employment books available, this forward-thinking guide walks employment specialists step by step through customized job ... |
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238,82 zł |
Negotiating Positive Identity in a Group Care Community: Reclaiming Uprooted Youth
ISBN: 9781560245148 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this readable book, Zvi Levy, Hadassim s Director, provides a careful account of how, over time, he and others have shaped a community to foster health, identity, and competence in distressed young people. Canadian WIZO (Women s International Zionist Organization) Hadassim is a thriving youth village in Israel that is home for 500 young people and a day educational program for an additional 1,000. Negotiating Positive Identity in a Residential Group Care Community illustrates the organizational expression of a developmental idea, in this case Erik Erikson s identity development theory, to...
In this readable book, Zvi Levy, Hadassim s Director, provides a careful account of how, over time, he and others have shaped a community to foster he...
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136,23 zł |
Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement
ISBN: 9781563247255 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women.
An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women.
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656,16 zł |
Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Human Service Practice
ISBN: 9781570032622 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although health and human service professionals traditionally receive extensive training in the emotional and physical aspects of caring for a person, they rarely receive adequate instruction in an area often as essential -- spirituality and religious belief. Recognizing the importance of religion to a large share of the population, Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Human Service Practice fills this gap in human services literature. James W. Ellor, F. Ellen Netting, and Jane M. Thibault address the challenge of understanding the client's perspective -- even when it involves a religious...
Although health and human service professionals traditionally receive extensive training in the emotional and physical aspects of caring for a person,...
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125,90 zł |
Race, Poverty, and Social Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning
ISBN: 9781579222208 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores multiple examples of how to connect classrooms to communities through service learning and participatory research to teach issues of social justice. The various chapters provide examples of how collaborations between students, faculty, and community partners are creating models of democratic spaces (on campus and off campus) where the students are teachers and the teachers are students. The purpose of this volume is to provide examples of how service learning can be integrated into courses addressing social justice issues. At the same time, it is about demonstrating the...
This volume explores multiple examples of how to connect classrooms to communities through service learning and participatory research to teach issues...
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151,37 zł |
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-Making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9781843104865 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this book offers advice for the practitioner on how to translate abstract rights theory into their everyday practice. The book outlines the theory that underpins human rights and outlines the ethical debates and dilemmas that frequently surround them. It also provides a practical model that outlines how to embed human rights theory within practice and the professional decision-making process. Drawing extensively on real-life case examples, the book includes chapters on rights-based work with different...
Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this book offers advice for the practitioner on how to transla...
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132,77 zł |
Engineering in Emergencies: A Practical Guide for Relief Workers
ISBN: 9781853395215 / Angielski / Miękka / 738 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a hugely successful practical handbook for all relief workers involved in giving humanitarian assistance. It provides the information needed to implement an effective engineering response in the aftermath of an emergency.
This second edition maintains the practical content of the first but has been revised and updated to reflect developments in humanitarian relief in recent years. The combination of -hard- topics, such as water and sanitation, and -soft- topics, such as managerial skills and personal effectiveness, has been retained from the original edition and the book... This is a hugely successful practical handbook for all relief workers involved in giving humanitarian assistance. It provides the information needed t...
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256,20 zł |
City of Enterprise: Perspectives on Auckland Business History
ISBN: 9781869403515 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its earliest days, the city of Auckland thrived on business; it quickly became, and still remains, the commercial and financial capital of the country. This important book, "City of Enterprise", sets Auckland's business history in the wider context of national economic growth, and includes cutting-edge studies on aspects of that history. Written by leading scholars, chapters cover the stock and station agent industry, Maori enterprise, maritime history, leading companies, the timber trade, newspapers and accounting. This handsome book is part of a larger project to reinvigorate the...
From its earliest days, the city of Auckland thrived on business; it quickly became, and still remains, the commercial and financial capital of the co...
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Self-Directed Groupwork: Users Take Action for Empowerment
ISBN: 9781871177091 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No Text This standard text has stood the test of time, and is still in demand, 15 years after its first publication. It shows what works to help people identify what is wrong in their lives and how they can bring about change. Social and community workers, teachers, youth workers, community nurses, and workers in faith-related settings helped develop the approach and will be keenly interested in the ideas contained here. .".. a most important book which should become required reading for intended and experienced groupworkers alike. ... it describes an approach to groupwork developed and...
No Text This standard text has stood the test of time, and is still in demand, 15 years after its first publication. It shows what works to help peopl...
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454,70 zł |
Risk Assessment: A Practitioner's Guide to Predicting Harmful Behaviour
ISBN: 9781871177831 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. his Handbook is aimed at any professional whose work involves predicting the behaviour of others-eg probation, social work, residential care and health and nursing staff. Contents include: basic principles . bias in decision-making . individual risk and external factors (applied risk) . definition of target behaviour, probability v. cost of recurrence, motivation to repeat behaviour, controls and disinhibitors, insights into past offending
his Handbook is aimed at any professional whose work involves predicting the behaviour of others-eg probation, social work, residential care and healt...
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311,12 zł |
Risk Assessment: A Practitioner's Guide to Predicting Harmful Behaviour
ISBN: 9781871177848 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook is aimed at any professional whose work involves predicting the behaviour of others-eg probation, social work, residential care and health and nursing staff. Contents include: basic principles . bias in decision-making . individual risk and external factors (applied risk) . definition of target behaviour, probability v. cost of recurrence, motivation to repeat behaviour, controls and disinhibitors, insights into past offending
This Handbook is aimed at any professional whose work involves predicting the behaviour of others-eg probation, social work, residential care and heal...
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133,78 zł |
Holding Fast: The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations
ISBN: 9781583919378 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work? How can caregiving organizations effectively improve their management and practice? Increasing pressure on caregiving organizations to serve more people with fewer resources means that epidemics of burnout, high staff turnover, dissatisfaction and internal conflict often appear inevitable. Holding Fast focuses on the particular stress of caregiving work, its influences on the people and organizations who do that work, and what they can do about it. Illustrated by case studies based on extensive...
How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work? How can caregiving organizations effectively improve th...
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201,84 zł |
The Social World of Alcoholics Anonymous: How It Works
ISBN: 9780595476923 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Effects of Religious Preference and the Frequency of Spirituality on the Retention and Attrition Rates Among Injured Soldiers
ISBN: 9781581123920 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a quantitative causal-comparative approach, the researcher conducted a relational study that compared injured and rehabilitated soldiers with no religious foundation to similar soldiers possessing religious preferences and spirituality. The two primary research questions were (a) Does religious preference and spirituality have a positive impact on the retention and attrition rates of injured soldiers? (b) Does an injured soldier's frequency of spirituality increase the likelihood of being returned to initial-entry training? The study addressed several possible variables; among these...
Using a quantitative causal-comparative approach, the researcher conducted a relational study that compared injured and rehabilitated soldiers with no...
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Art of Counselling
ISBN: 9780285650992 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Already a standard work for professional councellors, this revised edition is now accessible to the layman and others working in the caring professions.
Already a standard work for professional councellors, this revised edition is now accessible to the layman and others working in the caring profession...
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World Hunger
ISBN: 9781853834936 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world; and the shifting focus of forei
The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus populati...
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146,32 zł |