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  • The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States

    Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks

    Edited by Klaus Armingeon, Giuliano Bonoli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however, massive social change, in particular the shift from industrial to post-industrial societies and economies, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Social Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sally Holland, Jonathan Scourfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the State and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled teenage boy who cannot settle in a foster home; ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in School

    A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties in Children Aged 5-11

    by Helen Worrall, Sian Templeton, Netty Roberts, Ann Frost, Eleanor Durrant, Jane Fain, Cathy Mills, Kim S. Golding ...
    Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.This easy-to-use tool provides an observation checklist which enables staff to identify behavioural patterns in children with social and emotional difficulties, analyse the ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • International Social Work

    Issues, Strategies, and Programs

    by Manohar Pawar, David R. Cox ...
    International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Programs, Second Edition draws together the practice wisdom emerging within the broad scope of international social work practice and its role in contributing to the international community′s efforts in combating the major global social problems of poverty, conflict and postconflict reconstruction, the development of countries and disadvantaged ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Foster Parent Handbook

    by Mary R. Rapshaw ...
    BECOME A FOSTER PARENT A mom, dad, house and dog do not make a home. Everyday, there are children who experience this sad fact when they are removed from their home due to neglect or abuse. Not every foster child has a foster family. In some regions, foster children must wait for long periods of time in shelter care. More than one-half million children in the United States rely on foster families ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Take Care, Son

    The Story of My Dad and his Dementia

    by Tony Husband ...
    'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.This is the touching, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Long-Term Recovery

    by Emma Bacon, Nicola Davies ...
    This empathetic handbook has been created for people affected by any form of disordered eating. Thoughtfully compiled by experienced authors, it will be a comprehensive guide through every stage of your recovery, from recognising and understanding your disorder and learning fully about treatment, to self-help tools and practical advice for maintaining recovery and looking to the future.Each ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • All Our Welfare

    Towards Participatory Social Policy

    by Peter Beresford ...
    The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help.This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory perspective. Peter Beresford, champion of user involvement, draws on pioneering theories ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Challenges to the Human Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities

    by Krystine Donato, Maurice Feldman, Beverley Fedoroff, Voula Marinos, Jocelin Lecomte, Diane Cox-Lindenbaum, Paul Fedoroff, William R Lindsay, J Gregory Olley, Barbara Vyrostko, Shelley L. Watson, Marjorie Aunos, Donato Tarulli, Kajsa Klassen, Jennifer Robinson, Tricia Vause, Marion Trent-Kratz, Karen Stoner, Christine Tardiff-Williams, Jacqueline Murphy, Nancy Miodrag, Deborah Richards, Kaleigh Regehr, Yona Lunsky, Carol Sales, Celine Mercier, Susan Havercamp, Carolyn Gracey, Leanne Gosse ...
    A book such as this both demonstrates the progress that has been made over recent years, and will also serve to enhance respect for the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities in the years to come.'- From the Foreword by Orville EndicottThis wide-ranging volume provides a multidisciplinary examination of human rights and the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.The book ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Adopting

    Real Life Stories

    by Ann Morris ...
    "Who makes adoption a success? We do: the kids and parents in the new family as we change shape to accommodate each other."With more than 70 real life stories, revealing moments of vulnerability and moments of joy, this book provides an authentic insight into adoption.These stories take the reader on a journey through every stage of the adoption process, from making the initial decision to adopt ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The People's Home?

    Social Rented Housing in Europe and America

    by Michael Harloe ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA. ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Children’s Understandings of Well-being

    Towards a Child Standpoint

    by Tobia Fattore, Jan Mason, Elizabeth Watson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children’s views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it. The authors do this by placing the concept of children’s well-being within the existing discourses on the topic and by developing their unique theoretical approach to the concept. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD