Supporting Adult Care-Leavers: International Good Practice
ISBN: 9781447313649 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in care is not just a part of childhood, but can have ongoing impacts across a person s life. Various inquiries have revealed accounts of abuse and neglect, and a fracturing of family relationships. Organized thematically to allow comparison of different initiatives, this book considers the range of responses to adult care-leavers in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Initiatives examined include public inquiries, symbolic acknowledgements, redress schemes, specialist support services, access to personal records, and family reunification programs....
Growing up in care is not just a part of childhood, but can have ongoing impacts across a person s life. Various inquiries have revealed accounts of a...
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142,67 zł |
Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second
ISBN: 9781447321712 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Positive Youth Justice" offers a powerful new way of approaching youth justice issues: Children First, Offenders Second (CFOS). Aiming to reorient the way that the justice system thinks about and handles young offenders, CFOS argues that the primary focus should be on the fact that these offenders are children, addressing the nature and consequences of their criminal actions in light of that fundamental fact. Already in use in Wales, CFOS is a promising blueprint for building a child-friendly and inclusive approach to criminal justice issues relating to youth.
"Positive Youth Justice" offers a powerful new way of approaching youth justice issues: Children First, Offenders Second (CFOS). Aiming to reorient th...
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122,28 zł |
Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India: I Can Change
ISBN: 9781498511629 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study that looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes who work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower women from all classes of society. Unlike many studies that focus on grassroots women who are the beneficiaries of NGO and developmental projects, this book looks at those women who, as volunteers and activists, help carry out these projects to the best of their abilities. These women are often overlooked from mainstream studies on...
This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study that looks closely...
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225,35 zł |
Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation, and Treatment
ISBN: 9780415508292 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as a consequence, sometimes endanger their children either through maltreatment or through the effects of parental psychiatric disorder. " Raising Parents" explains how that happens and clusters parents in terms of the psychological processes that result in maladaptive childrearing. The book then delineates DMM Integrative Treatment in terms of assessment, formulation, and treatment. New... Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed p... |
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688,13 zł |
Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation, and Treatment
ISBN: 9780415508308 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as a consequence, sometimes endanger their children either through maltreatment or through the effects of parental psychiatric disorder. " Raising Parents" explains how that happens and clusters parents in terms of the psychological processes that result in maladaptive childrearing. The book then delineates DMM Integrative Treatment in terms of assessment, formulation, and treatment. New... Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed p... |
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239,52 zł |
Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work: Autoimmunity and the Contemporary Disease Experience
ISBN: 9780415643535 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the specific lens of autoimmunity, engaging in wider debates around vulnerability, resistance and the lived experience of ongoing ill-health. Moving beyond existing conceptualisations of vulnerability as an issue of mental distress, ageing, child protection and poverty, Price and Walker demonstrate... Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily... |
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739,10 zł |
Northern Communities Working Together: The Social Economy of Canada's North
ISBN: 9781442614185 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unique historical, economic, and social features of the Canadian North pose special challenges for the social economy - a sector that includes nonprofits, co-operatives, social enterprises, and community economic development organizations. Northern Communities Working Together highlights the innovative ways in which Northerners are using the social economy to meet their economic, social, and cultural challenges while increasing local control and capabilities. The contributors focus on the special challenges of the North and their impact on the scope of the social economy,... The unique historical, economic, and social features of the Canadian North pose special challenges for the social economy - a sector that includes ... |
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139,45 zł |
Northern Communities Working Together: The Social Economy of Canada's North
ISBN: 9781442646063 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unique historical, economic, and social features of the Canadian North pose special challenges for the social economy - a sector that includes nonprofits, co-operatives, social enterprises, and community economic development organizations. Northern Communities Working Together highlights the innovative ways in which Northerners are using the social economy to meet their economic, social, and cultural challenges while increasing local control and capabilities. The contributors focus on the special challenges of the North and their impact on the scope of the social economy,... The unique historical, economic, and social features of the Canadian North pose special challenges for the social economy - a sector that includes ... |
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259,96 zł |
Assessment for Intervention: A Problem-Solving Approach
ISBN: 9781462520947 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). This authoritative work provides a complete guide to implementing a wide range of problem-solving assessment methods: functional behavioral assessment, interviews, classroom observations, curriculum-based measurement, rating scales, and cognitive instruments. Prominent experts demonstrate the key role of assessment throughout the process of supporting at-risk students, from identifying academic and behavioral...
Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral...
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168,16 zł |
Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Coping with Katrina, Rita, and Other Storms
ISBN: 9781489983657 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some of our most disturbing images of Hurricane Katrina involve the very old, trapped in flooded nursing homes, and the very young, sick in toxic trailers. Using the Katrina-Rita nexus as its reference point, Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters takes the developmental long view on human strengths and vulnerabilities during large-scale devastation and crisis. An expert panel of behavioral scientists and first responders analyzes the psychological impact of natural disasters on--and coping faculties associated with--children, adolescents, and young, middle-aged, older,... Some of our most disturbing images of Hurricane Katrina involve the very old, trapped in flooded nursing homes, and the very young, sick in toxic t... |
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194,97 zł |
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems
ISBN: 9781462521036 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This authoritative guide, now significantly revised and expanded, has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change. Leading experts describe ways to combine motivational interviewing (MI) with other treatments for a wide range of psychological problems, including depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, and others. Chapters illustrate the nuts and bolts of intervention, using vivid clinical examples, and review the empirical evidence...
This authoritative guide, now significantly revised and expanded, has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve a...
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392,44 zł |
Familie Und Belastete Generationenbeziehungen: Ein Beitrag Zu Einer Soziologie Des Familialen Feldes
ISBN: 9783658068776 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Familiare Beziehungen sind doppelgesichtig: Es sind Liebes- und Machtbeziehungen, Beziehungen ohne Berechnung und doch wird aufgerechnet, personliche Beziehungen, die einer starken Moralisierung unterliegen. Wie aussert sich der Eigensinn des Familialen, wenn die Generationenbeziehungen in einer Krise unter Druck geraten: Wenn erwachsene Sohne und Tochter (wieder) bei den Eltern leben und von ihnen unterstutzt werden mussen, weil sie erwerbslos sind und nicht in der Lage, auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen. Oder wenn Eltern pflegebedurftig werden und die Kinder, die ihr eigenes Leben haben, mit... Familiare Beziehungen sind doppelgesichtig: Es sind Liebes- und Machtbeziehungen, Beziehungen ohne Berechnung und doch wird aufgerechnet, personlic... |
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138,45 zł |
Ageing Through Austerity: Critical Perspectives from Ireland
ISBN: 9781447316237 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demographic aging is a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for aging societies in the context of austerity.
"Ageing through Austerity" presents a carefully crafted study of aging in Ireland, a nation that transitioned from Celtic Tiger to bail-out state as one of the countries hardest hit by the Eurozone financial crisis. Providing a close, critical analysis of aging and social policy that draws directly on the perspectives of older people, this book makes significant... Demographic aging is a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on...
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489,28 zł |
Communication Case Studies for Health Care Professionals: An Applied Approach
ISBN: 9780826125170 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: √nallows students and faculty to explore real-life health communication behaviors through role-playing, interactive exercises, and examples√neasily adapted for use in many situations, sensitivity and diversity training√nvery worthwhile book for every medical faculty member working to instill professionalism√nin students. √>=Vincent Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences The importance of good communication between health professionals and patients... PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: √nallows students and faculty to explore real-life health communication behaviors through rol... |
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295,05 zł |
Child Development and the Brain: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781447307044 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessibly written book explores how increasing knowledge of neuroscience and advances in methods of investigation are changing our understanding of child development. Examining key aspects of development such as emotion, memory, learning, perception, and language, as well as brain structure and neurodevelopmental disorders, "Child Development and the Brain" offers insight into the connections between brain development and how children think and feel. Packed with illustrations, case studies, reflection points, suggestions for further reading, and complete with a full glossary of...
This accessibly written book explores how increasing knowledge of neuroscience and advances in methods of investigation are changing our understanding...
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180,16 zł |
Child Development and the Brain: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781447307051 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessibly written book explores how increasing knowledge of neuroscience and advances in methods of investigation are changing our understanding of child development. Examining key aspects of development such as emotion, memory, learning, perception, and language, as well as brain structure and neurodevelopmental disorders, Child Development and the Brain offers insight into the connections between brain development and how children think and feel. Packed with illustrations, case studies, reflection points, suggestions for further reading, and complete with a full glossary of...
This accessibly written book explores how increasing knowledge of neuroscience and advances in methods of investigation are changing our understanding...
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375,53 zł |
A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect
ISBN: 9781489982940 / Angielski / Miękka / 513 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we near the 50th anniversary of the landmark article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues entitled "The Battered Child Syndrome," which ushered in the modern era of professional attention by pediatricians and other child health professionals, we have reason for both celebration and concern. We can take heart that over the recent ve decades, a great deal of professional attention focused on the problem of child abuse and neglect. In every state of the country, there are mandatory repo- ing laws that require nurses, physicians, and social workers to report suspicions of maltreatment to the...
As we near the 50th anniversary of the landmark article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues entitled "The Battered Child Syndrome," which ushered in ...
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545,99 zł |
Comprehensive Guide to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
ISBN: 9783319083582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an all-embracing reference that offers analyses and discussions of contemporary issues in the field of PTSD. The book brings together scientific material from leading experts in the field relating to a wide range of important current topics across disciplines. These include the early identification of PTSD and subsequent treatment, to social and behavioral studies, to biochemical, molecular and genetic research. With more than 125 chapters organized in 12 major sections, this is the most complete single resource on PTSD.
This is an all-embracing reference that offers analyses and discussions of contemporary issues in the field of PTSD. The book brings together scientif...
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Video Enhanced Reflective Practice: Professional Development Through Attuned Interactions
ISBN: 9781849054102 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP), an application of Video Interaction Guidance, supports individuals or groups to reflect on and develop their professional communication, teaching or therapeutic skills with their clients through shared review of moments of attuned interaction in video clips of their day-to-day practice. This book brings together international researchers and practitioners from a range of professions to define VERP, present its theoretical basis and review the current research evidence. Increasing in popularity, VERP is used as a reflective professional development...
Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP), an application of Video Interaction Guidance, supports individuals or groups to reflect on and develop thei...
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160,91 zł |
The Power of Peers in the Classroom: Enhancing Learning and Social Skills
ISBN: 9781462521067 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peer support and social relationships have a tremendous influence on development, motivation, and achievement for all students, including struggling learners and those with disabilities. This highly practical book is one of the few resources available to guide classroom teachers and special educators in the application of peer-assisted instructional strategies in grades K-12. Expert contributors describe evidence-based approaches for building students' skills in reading, writing, math, and other content areas, as well as social competence and executive functioning. Sample lessons and 18...
Peer support and social relationships have a tremendous influence on development, motivation, and achievement for all students, including struggling l...
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168,16 zł |