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  • The Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Social Workers, Second Edition

    Hitting the Ground Running

    by Helen Donnellan, Gordon Jack ...
    So, you've passed your degree and have started your first job. But are you confident about translating the theory into practice? Are you prepared to juggle the workload of a busy social worker? Do you have a plan for your continuing professional development?This practical guide provides a wealth of suggestions to help you to hit the ground running in the early stages of your new career. Fully ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

    by Virginia Eubanks ...
    WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeAstra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year."Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read."A powerful investigati... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Poverty Industry

    The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens

    by Daniel L Hatcher ...
    How funds for the needy are siphoned off for profit: "A distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars." ― Boston ReviewGovernment aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers

    Second Edition

    by Brigid Daniel, Sally Wassell, Robbie Gilligan ...
    Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.The book covers key issues such as resilience and vulnerability and the impact of protective or adverse environments. Different stages of development ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • In Search of a Family: A Story of an International Adoption

    by Ginger Carlisle, Kevin Carlisle ...
    In Search of a Family: A Story of an International Adoption takes the reader inside a personal journey through the unknowns of an international adoption. This true story takes place in the ex-Soviet bloc country of Ukraine. As they travel through this young, independent republic, Kevin and Ginger Carlisle encounter numerous obstacles that could derail their hopes of achieving their dream of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working with Female Offenders

    A Gender-Sensitive Approach

    by Katherine van Wormer ...
    Praise for Working with Female Offenders"Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is a must-read for those working with girl and women offenders." —Meda Chesney-Lind, Professor, Women's Studies University of Hawaii at Manoa"In this timely and thoughtful book, van Wormer provides a gender-sensitive ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • Rich Democracies, Poor People

    How Politics Explain Poverty

    by David Brady ...
    Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities. Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of politics. In Rich Democracies, Poor People, Brady investigates why poverty is so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable problem in others. Drawing on over thirty years of data from eighteen countries, Brady argues that ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Good Practice in Assessing Risk

    Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches

    by Jon Glasby, Martin C. Calder, Kerry Baker, Karen Broadhurst, Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck, Georgia Barnett, Andrew Pithouse, Amanda Robinson, Sue Peckover, Gillian Kelly, Rosemary Littlechild, Tony Maden, Ruth Mann, Chris Hall, Sue White, David Wastell, Jason Wood, Mike Titterton ...
    Series series Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
    Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking.Good Practice in Assessing Risk is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Health Care in Malaysia

    The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access

    Edited by Heng Leng Chee, Simon Barraclough ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of:the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of the global ideological shift against ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Reaching High-Risk Families

    Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services - Modern Applications of Social Work

    by Elizabeth Tracy ...
    Series series Modern Applications of Social Work Series
    Focusing on a program (""Homebuilders"") that has attracted national attention, this book develops implications for family-centered curricula in such areas as social policy, direct practice, program design/management, practice research, theory and prevention. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • After Welfare

    The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy

    by Sanford F. Schram ...
    Do contemporary welfare policies reflect the realities of the economy and the needs of those in need of public assistance, or are they based on outdated and idealized notions of work and family life? Are we are moving from a "war on poverty" to a "war against the poor?" In this critique of American social welfare policy, Sanford F. Schram explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Working Poverty in Europe

    Edited by N. Fraser, R. Gutierrez, R. Pena-Casas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growth in numbers of working poor in Europe is due to the transition from a Keynesian Welfare State to a 'post-fordist' model of production. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD