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The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities. It...
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For decades, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics as the leading introduction to ethical decision making, dilemmas, and professional conduct in practice. A case-driven, concise, and comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate social work programs, this book surveys the most critical issues for social work practitioners. The fifth edition incorporates significant updates to the National...
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Gay parenting is a topic on which almost everyone has an opinion but almost nobody has any facts. Here at last is a book based on a thorough review of the literature, as well as interviews with a pioneering group of men who in the 1980s chose to become fathers outside the boundaries of a heterosexual union—through foster care, adoption, and other kinship relationships.
This book reveals how very natural and possible gay parenthood can
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Should a therapist disclose personal information to a client, accept a client's gift, or provide a former client with a job? Is it appropriate to exchange email or text messages with clients or correspond with them on social networking websites? Some acts, such as initiating a sexual relationship with a client, are clearly prohibited, yet what about more subtle interactions, such as hugging or accepting invitations to a social event or joining a client's...
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Historically, women and men have been assigned to different spaces in their communities. Although several decades of feminist social action have made significant progress to the social, economic and political condition of many women, change has been uneven and there remains considerable advancements to be made globally. This valuable third edition considers women's changing position in the world today, updating some of the perennial challenges that...
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Comment le travail social est-il modulé par les nouveaux mots d'ordre de la nouvelle gestion publique : responsabilisation, performance et rentabilité ? Cet ouvrage rend compte de la modification des politiques et des cadres de l'intervention sociale, mais aussi des mutations des pratiques des travailleurs sociaux ainsi que des effets sur la formation et sur l'identité professionnelle.
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Le contexte de la réforme de l'État-providence est-il propice à l'innovation? En croisant une grande diversité de regards de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, ce livre vise à comprendre les opportunités d'intervention ouvertes par les mutations en cours au plan des politiques sociales, à quelles pratiques elles correspondent sur le terrain et comment elles s'articulent aux pratiques héritées de l'essor de l'État-providence.
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Au fil des années, les technologies numériques se sont imposées comme un nouvel intermédiaire entre nous et notre environnement.
Malheureusement, certaines personnes n'ont pu suivre le rythme de leur déploiement et se sont trouvées face à une nouvelle forme d'exclusion d'ordre numérique. Les professionnels et les intervenants du secteur des services sociaux comptent parmi les acteurs pouvant jouer un rle de première importance dans le soutien...
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Based on the authors' twenty-five year experience of consultancy in the public services, this book develops an empowering approach to thinking about and doing consultancy with public services. It challenges the traditional view that the consultants are brought in as experts and instead examines ways of using consultancy to empower staff, patients, service users and members of the public, so that they can take part in developing, changing, innovating...
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There is increasing pressure to involve children and young people in the decisions that affect them. Presenting new research on the extent to which parents and children participate in decision making when childcare social workers are involved, particularly in child protection conferences and Child in Care reviews, Diaz argues for a radical shift in existing practices. Including a range of perspectives from children and young people, parents, social...
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This is the concise, accessible guide for students who want a comprehensive introduction to health and social care Engaging case studies, reflective exercises, chapter summaries and overviews and suggestions for further reading link theory, policy and practice. Thematic chapters cover partnership working and integrated care; independent living, disability and long-term conditions; discrimination; user involvement; and support for carers. This new...
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Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New Insights
Edited by Jay S. Levy and Robin Johnson with Contributions from John Conolly, Ray Middleton, Suzanne Quinney, and Joe Finn
This groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.
Authors focus on understanding...
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Social workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meetings, working in and with groups. What meaning does participation in these groups have for members? Some of the events that are most important for members of the various professions, and those whom they serve, take place within these groups. Health and human services depend upon their working groups for their development and allocation...
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Managing community practice offers a comprehensive guide to a range of models and practices essential for the management of community-based practice. Fully updated, this second edition of a bestselling book takes account of the latest developments in community policy and practice. It places the management of community practice in the context of increasing pressures of economic austerity and trends towards community self-help and co-production of policies...
17) Child Protection in Boarding Schools in Ghana: Contemporary Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
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This invaluable book brings together a much needed analysis of the challenges and benefits of providing social work services in Ghanaian boarding schools. It examines contemporary issues affecting children and young people in boarding schools and outlines principles and strategies for addressing these issues in a holistic manner. The book concludes with suggestions about how boarding school leaders, policy makers and educationalists might develop...
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Empathy is a widely used term, but it is also difficult to define. In recent years the field of cognitive neuroscience has made impressive strides in identifying neural networks in the brain related to or triggered by empathy. Still, what exactly do we mean when we say that someone has-or lacks-empathy? How is empathy distinguished from sympathy or pity? And is society truly suffering from an "empathy deficit," as some experts have charged? In Assessing...
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In this unique and passionate book, Doug Nicholls proposes a cultural revolution within youth work. He draws on the best of youth work's past to redesign the youth work map for today. He speaks with wit, wisdom and warmth to youth workers about their craft. Yet he takes no intellectual prisoners in proposing a new role for youth work in the struggle for social justice. No student or practitioner should miss it.
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Practice research partnerships in social work can make a significant difference to social work service delivery. This comprehensive, accessibly written resource, is designed to help students and practitioners to actively engage with research through their frontline work. Through clear practice scenarios, critical questions and examples from research the text guides researchers, students, educators, practice managers, funders and practitioners to creatively...
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