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Quality Counts: Managing for Better Standards in Social and Community Care
ISBN: 9781871177206 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of articles on the key principles of quality assurance and inspection in health and social care. Contributors were all leading experts in their fields, either as academics or senioir practitioners. Originally published in the early 1990s, this book is re-issued in response to continuing demand.
A collection of articles on the key principles of quality assurance and inspection in health and social care. Contributors were all leading experts in...
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464,75 zł |
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Openness in Adoption: New Practices, New Issues
ISBN: 9780275929336 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years there has been a growing trend towards increased communication among members of the adoption triad. Although many adoption agencies are moving towards increased information sharing, there is little research evidence available concerning the consequences of this practice. This unique study investigates the consequences of openness in adoption, as practiced by several adoption agencies. Seventeen adoptive families and their corresponding birthparents were interviewed. The effects of the open adoption procedures on family life and attitudes were assessed. Included are a review... In recent years there has been a growing trend towards increased communication among members of the adoption triad. Although many adoption agencies... |
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302,03 zł |
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Organization Practice: A Guide to Understanding Human Services
ISBN: 9780470252857 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, practical model for understanding cultural identities within organizations. Also, it is significantly revised to include numerous real-world cases, critical thinking questions, empirical support, and engaging exercises. Social workers, as well as public health and nonprofit administrators will benefit...
Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps student...
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351,18 zł |
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An American Social Worker in Italy
ISBN: 9780816657230 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An American Social Worker in Italy was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Mrs. Charnley, an American social worker, spent six months in Italy on a Fulbright grant as a consultant to Italian child welfare agencies and schools of social work. Here, in diary form, she tells of her experiences during those months when she struggled to teach American social work principles to her Italian colleagues. The... An American Social Worker in Italy was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable... |
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260,85 zł |
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Children in State Care
ISBN: 9780754625872 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a selection of the most influential and informative English language refereed journal articles on children in out-of-home care, their birth relatives and carers. The articles, which include empirical research and critiques of policy and practice, are mainly from the UK and USA, but include some coverage of child placement policy and practice in Australia and mainland Europe. The volume starts with a joint introductory chapter by the two distinguished authors (one American, one British) reviewing the state of knowledge on children in care and drawing attention to...
This volume brings together a selection of the most influential and informative English language refereed journal articles on children in out-of-home ...
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443,38 zł |
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Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415449267 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives brings together Nordic academics working in the field of peace support operations broadly defined. It contains a collection of articles that present different theoretical approaches to the study of peace support operations and contribute to enhance the knowledge of the Nordic countries' participation in such operations. Its case studies describe the development of peacekeeping forces from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland in the face of evolving threats to world security over the past sixty years, and how each country's reaction has differed.... Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives brings together Nordic academics working in the field of peace support operations broadly defined. It... |
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782,54 zł |
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In Search of the Nonprofit Sector
ISBN: 9780765805188 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas and frameworks for understanding the terrain that lies between the state and the market. The chapters span a broad range of emerging issues including nonprofit commercialism, sector-bending hybrid organizational forms, increasingly sophisticated nonprofit advocacy activities, newly hatched forms of volunteerism and philanthropy, tensions in public-nonprofit contracting, and new roles for...
At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading e...
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229,49 zł |
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Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care
ISBN: 9780300149838 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies. The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought together a group of distinguished scholars to explore the ambitions and realities of health care regulation, financing, and delivery across countries. These wide ranging essays cover policy debates and reforms in Canada, Germany, Holland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as separate treatments of some of the most prominent issues confronting policy makers. These include primary care, hospital care, long term care, pharmaceutical...
This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies. The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought togethe...
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446,60 zł |
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Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children
ISBN: 9781452260945 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children (by Amy Conley Wright and Kenneth J. Jaffe) offers an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, nurturing key skills through a proven six-step process that has be
Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children (by Amy Conley Wright and Kenneth J. Jaffe) offers an interdi...
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422,57 zł |
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Essentials of Clinical Social Work
ISBN: 9781452291536 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback, this book compiles the most vital topics for courses on clinical social work/advanced practice, including systems theory, behavioral and cognitive theories, psychoanalytic theory, neurobiology, and specific applications on working with children, adolescents, adults, and in groups.
Now available in paperback, this book compiles the most vital topics for courses on clinical social work/advanced practice, including systems theory, ...
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422,57 zł |
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Recent Developments in Criminological Theory: Toward Disciplinary Diversity and Theoretical Integration
ISBN: 9780754624691 / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains recent and cutting-edge articles from leading criminological theorists. The book is organized into ten sections, each representing the latest in the multi-disciplinary orientations representing a cross-section of contemporary criminological theory. These sections include: 1: Classical and Rational Choice; 2: Biological and Biosocial; 3: Psychological; 4: Social Learning and Neutralization; 5: Social Control; 6: Social Ecology, Sub-cultural and Cultural; 7: Anomie and Strain; 8: Conflict and Radical; 9: Feminist and Gender; 10: Critical Criminologies: Anarchist,...
This volume contains recent and cutting-edge articles from leading criminological theorists. The book is organized into ten sections, each representin...
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1565,08 zł |
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Mental Illness and Your Town: 37 Ways for Communities to Help and Heal
ISBN: 9781932690767 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Blueprint for Community Action From Award-Winning Journalist Larry Hayes
Written with authority and compassion, this is the book that rescues mental illness from the shadows and takes the disability into the community. Learn how each person can play a role to help those who so often suffer alone. Hear the stories of the people who ve found how to triumph over this disability. Discover how everyone can work together to create a treatment revolution that enriches and saves lives. Let this guide open your heart and mind to be inspired and challenged to do the work ahead. A Book... A Blueprint for Community Action From Award-Winning Journalist Larry Hayes
Written with authority and compassion, this is the book that rescues m... |
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82,77 zł |
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Community Programs to Promote Youth Development
ISBN: 9780309105903 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and... After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thou... |
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271,01 zł |
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Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes: Emotional Rhythms in Social Movement Groups
ISBN: 9780226188669 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout?
To explore these questions, Erika Summers Effler undertook three years of ethnographic fieldwork with two groups: anti death penalty activists STOP and the Catholic Workers, who strive to alleviate poverty. In both communities, members must contend with problems that range from the broad to the intimately personal. Adverse political conditions, internal... Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on b...
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142,78 zł |
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Through Our Eyes: A Foster Family Shares Their Secret World
ISBN: 9780761850670 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the story of the children Hunter fostered, who suffered horrific abuse from their birth parents as well as during their journey through foster care. Hunter describes his struggle to salvage the lives of these children and advocate against the bureaucracy of state welfare and mental health systems.
This book reveals the story of the children Hunter fostered, who suffered horrific abuse from their birth parents as well as during their journey thro...
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379,27 zł |
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Quality Victim Advocacy: A Field Guide
ISBN: 9780984212217 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive manual for measuring and improving quality and outcomes in crime victim service programs. Written to help providers and administrators design and implement services that are victim-centered and victim-driven.
The definitive manual for measuring and improving quality and outcomes in crime victim service programs. Written to help providers and administrators ...
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97,60 zł |
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Social Measurement Through Social Surveys: An Applied Approach
ISBN: 9780754674887 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do academic social scientists and survey professionals use social measurement techniques? How are these techniques applied to specific concepts in empirical research? This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate "hot" social science topics with a way of learning how key measurement techniques can be utilised in that topic in a practical way. Emerging from the editors' widely used work on an...
How do academic social scientists and survey professionals use social measurement techniques? How are these techniques applied to specific concepts in...
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229,49 zł |
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Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations
ISBN: 9781412976459 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations is and continues to be a highly used core textbook for courses on human service/social work administration. The book is highly practical and takes students through the nuts and bolts of managing a human service agency (from strategic planning, to problem solving, increasing productivity, supervising staff, and seeking funding). Its value and distinction among competing texts is that it offers a practical, skill-building approach, which is well received by students and faculty. The new edition is expanded to included much more content on...
Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations is and continues to be a highly used core textbook for courses on human service/social work administr...
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792,97 zł |
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Citizens of the World : Pluralism, Migration and Practices of Citizenship
ISBN: 9789042032552 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken as a whole, this book argues that the very idea of what it means to be a "citizen" in our global, cosmopolitan world is no longer as clear as it may have been for an Athenian democrat of the fifth century BC, a Roman Republican of the first century BC, a British coloniser of the eighteenth century, or an American patriot of the nineteenth century. Given the now undeniable fact of pluralism highlighted by globalisation and the massive movement of peoples across borders (alongside the legal expansion of rights to minority groups in Western democracies throughout the twentieth century),...
Taken as a whole, this book argues that the very idea of what it means to be a "citizen" in our global, cosmopolitan world is no longer as clear as it...
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296,42 zł |
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Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire
ISBN: 9781594519529 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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187,76 zł |
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