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Neglected Children: Research, Practice, and Policy
ISBN: 9780761918424 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although child neglect is the most common form of abuse, the extant research literature has mostly ignored this form of child maltreatment. Now editor Howard Dubowitz and an outstanding group of leaders in the field of child abuse and neglect offer perspectives on a range of important issues pertaining to the neglect of children. Neglected Children is the first book to focus on this most-common type of child maltreatment, presenting a comprehensive and critical portrait of the phenomenon of neglect, based on theory, research, and clinical practice experience.
Although child neglect is the most common form of abuse, the extant research literature has mostly ignored this form of child maltreatment. Now editor...
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Complex Issues in Child Custody Evaluations
ISBN: 9780761919094 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past five to 10 years, there has been a significant increase in the use of child custody evaluations by the courts. At the same time, the issues have become more complex and difficult. In this book, the author provides a theoretical and practical understanding of many of the issues. A key component is the integration of disparate research findings into a comprehensive resource that will enable the evaluator and the court to understand these complex issues. A second component is to provide a thorough understanding of the fact that divorce brings with it a set of complex needs, and...
Over the past five to 10 years, there has been a significant increase in the use of child custody evaluations by the courts. At the same time, the iss...
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Home Visiting: Procedures for Helping Families
ISBN: 9780761920533 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Second Edition is a good source for those training to be home visitors, in-service home visitors, supervisors and directors of home visiting programs serving a wide range of families. Recent evaluations of home visiting are summarized and practical suggestions for evaluating local programs are also included. This is an easy to read and essential resource for both beginning and experienced home visitors, trainers, supervisors of home visitors, and directors of home visiting programs. This Second Edition is a good source for those training to be home visitors, in-service home visitors, supervisors and directors of home visiting p... |
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Home Visiting: Procedures for Helping Families
ISBN: 9780761920540 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Second Edition is a good source for those training to be home visitors, in-service home visitors, supervisors and directors of home visiting programs serving a wide range of families. This book provides updated information on the current theories and assessment instruments and the personal safety of the home visitor.
This Second Edition is a good source for those training to be home visitors, in-service home visitors, supervisors and directors of home visiting prog...
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Therapeutic Family Mediation: Helping Families Resolve Conflict
ISBN: 9780761923138 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Therapeutic Family Mediation is a practice-based book grounded in a therapeutic family mediation (TFM) model created by the authors. TFM, unlike other practice models for family mediation, devotes special attention to family and emotional dynamics, and therefore can be used in a wider variety of cases. This comprehensive guide not only focuses on TFM, but also surveys the contemporary practice field to make readers aware of other models. In addition to the TFM model, the text includes topics such as creating parenting plans, working with patterns of conflict and money, drafting a contract,...
Therapeutic Family Mediation is a practice-based book grounded in a therapeutic family mediation (TFM) model created by the authors. TFM, unlike other...
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Evaluating Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
ISBN: 9780761923527 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an easily accessible overview of the process and problems in the evaluation of programs serving abused women.
This book provides an easily accessible overview of the process and problems in the evaluation of programs serving abused women.
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Evaluating Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
ISBN: 9780761923534 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLEASE UPDATE SAGE INDIA AND SAGE U.K. ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
PLEASE UPDATE SAGE INDIA AND SAGE U.K. ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
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Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America
ISBN: 9780761925842 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America is a unique reference book that provides readers with basic information about the history of social welfare in North America, including Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Since many themes and issues are similar in the three nations, entries provide comparative information about common as well as distinctive concerns and developments. Significant events, influential people, legislation, social problems, and societal responses are described in detail. Editors include specialists in the social welfare history of each nation, and...
The Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America is a unique reference book that provides readers with basic information about the history ...
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Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse
ISBN: 9780761925965 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing primarily for those who may be facing intervention decisions about family violence in the United States, Malley-Morrison (Boston U.) and Hines (U. of New Hampshire) place the causes of family violence in a cognitive-affective-ecological framework that sees wider cultural mores and social for
Writing primarily for those who may be facing intervention decisions about family violence in the United States, Malley-Morrison (Boston U.) and Hines...
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The Welfare State and Social Work: Pursuing Social Justice
ISBN: 9780761930242 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Welfare State and Social Work: Pursuing Social Justice critically assesses the historical, sociopolitical, and economic factors that have influenced social work policy and practice in the United States. By viewing social welfare and social work in light of principles of social justice, author Josefina Figueira-McDonough offers a fresh perspective of their interplay and how this interaction affects policy practice.
The Welfare State and Social Work: Pursuing Social Justice critically assesses the historical, sociopolitical, and economic factors that have influenc...
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Changing Welfare, Changing States: New Directions in Social Policy
ISBN: 9780761942030 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Changing Welfare, Changing States invites us to think differently about the remaking of the relationships between welfare, state and nation. Informed by the 'cultural turn' in the social sciences, the book reflects a commitment to the importance of rethinking social policy at a time when social, political, and intellectual certainties have been profoundly unsettled.
Changing Welfare, Changing States invites us to think differently about the remaking of the relationships between welfare, state and nation. Informed ...
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Rethinking Youth
ISBN: 9780761955221 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overview of the major perspectives in youth studies.
Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overvi...
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Evaluation and Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9780761957928 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors are obviously experts in their respective fields and they conduct competent and readable overviews of their topics.... their work] would make an excellent text for graduate research students seeking an overview of various contemporary philosophies of science and their derivative methodologies.' - "British Journal of Social Work
" Evaluation and Social Work Practice provides a comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work that links theory and method to practical applications.
The authors are obviously experts in their respective fields and they conduct competent and readable overviews of their topics.... their work] would ...
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Evaluation and Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9780761957935 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrates ways in which evaluation can and should be an important dimension of social work practice. The book presents an assessment of both qualitative methodology and of the empirical practice movement, and the contributors have varied perspectives.
Demonstrates ways in which evaluation can and should be an important dimension of social work practice. The book presents an assessment of both qualit...
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Social Work Practices: Contemporary Perspectives on Change
ISBN: 9780761962717 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original and stimulating book provides a critical review of contemporary social work theory and considers its relevance for professional practice. Karen Healy outlines critical theoretical perspectives - including feminist, marxist and radical social work - and indicates their implications for social work practice. She goes on to explain contemporary debates on post-structuralism and postmodernism and shows how their application to everyday social work practice would point to a new pragmatism focused on local, contextual and incremental proposals for change. By referring to actual...
This original and stimulating book provides a critical review of contemporary social work theory and considers its relevance for professional practice...
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Social Work Practices: Contemporary Perspectives on Change
ISBN: 9780761962724 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical review of contemporary social work theory and its relevance for professional practice. The author explains debates on postmodernism and poststructuralism and applies them to social work practice.
A critical review of contemporary social work theory and its relevance for professional practice. The author explains debates on postmodernism and pos...
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Rethinking Welfare: A Critical Perspective
ISBN: 9780761964179 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I would encourage undergraduates students to read it, for it does summarise well a classical Marxist analysis of social policy and welfare' - Social Policy
The anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Rethinking Welfare. The authors highlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare, and use Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy to provide a defence of the welfare state. Divided into three main... I would encourage undergraduates students to read it, for it does summarise well a classical Marxist analysis of social policy and welfare' - So...
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Social Policy for Development
ISBN: 9780761967149 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development'
- Ian Johnson, Vice President for Sustainable Development, The World Bank 'Throughout the world issues of social development have now taken centre stage. There is no more comprehensive and readable guide to the choices and conflicts of this global drama. This book is essential reading for all students and... 'Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyo...
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Social Work and the Third Way: Tough Love as Social Policy
ISBN: 9780761967217 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lively book critiques New Labour assumptions and implementation of policies related to citizenship, communities and welfare reform and the implications of current developments for social work. Focusing explicitly on the UK, the book nevertheless draws on examples and comparisions from other countries (including notably Australia and the US, but also countries in the EU and Central and Eastern Europe), and some of the concerns and arguments will be appreciated by readers elsewhere' - " International Social Work
This lively book critiques New Labour assumptions and implementation of policies related to citizenship, communities and welfare reform and the implic...
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Realist Evaluation in Practice: Health and Social Work
ISBN: 9780761969969 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The strengths of this book are the first two chapters outlining the issues around realist evaluation and the final chapter, as well as the use throughout the book of real-life examples... in conclusion this is a timely introductory text on the methods and methodology of realist evaluation' - Critical Public Health
Realist evaluation is an exciting new way to investigate what works, for whom and in what contexts and here for the first time, Mansoor A F Kazi shows how it applies to today's practice in social work, health and other human services. To... 'The strengths of this book are the first two chapters outlining the issues around realist evaluation and the final chapter, as well as the use throug...
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