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  • Republican Women

    Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right

    by Catherine E. Rymph ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party. As Catherine Rymph explains, their often conflicting efforts over the subsequent decades would leave a mark on both conservative politics and American feminism.Part of an emerging body of work on women's participation in partisan politics, Republican Women explores the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Raising Government Children

    A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State

    by Catherine E. Rymph ...
    In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • American Dream

    Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

    by Jason DeParle ...
    In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle, author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving welfare, Angie puts her heart in her work. Jewell bets on an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Inspiring and Creative Ideas for Working with Children

    How to Build Relationships and Enable Change

    by Deborah Plummer ...
    Employing a range of innovative and creative ideas, this book is full of tips to engage children and promote their wellbeing.Children are vulnerable to low self-esteem, stress and anxiety because they are still growing and learning. This book looks at what we can do to minimise children's vulnerability to issues such as these, help them to build emotional resilience and teach them effective ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Public Services under Reconstruction

    Client experiences, professional practices, managerial control

    by Marja Gastelaars ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    This book examines the services in and around the public domain. The author analyses a number of socio-cultural changes that are generally considered relevant to these services, including the rationalising efforts of the New Public Management and the introduction of IT. The book particularly addresses the diversity of services. It focuses on the local complexities of their day to day processes of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Courtroom and Report Writing Skills for Social Workers

    by Clare Seymour, Richard B. Seymour ...
    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Guides
    This new text will build on Courtroom Skills for Social Workers, by updating the legal and research content and strengthening the material on recording. There will also be additional contributions from service users and more practice examples, so as to make the book interesting and relevant for qualified social workers. It will assist social workers in meeting their CPD requirements for continuing ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Who Cares?

    Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age

    by Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth S. Jacobs ...
    Why major changes to America's social safety net have always required bold presidential leadershipAmericans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Social Work Reclaimed

    Innovative Frameworks for Child and Family Social Work Practice

    by Karen Schiltroth, Julie Rooke, Karen Gaughan, Stewart McCafferty, Martin Purbrick, Sonya Kalyniak, Nick Pendry, Charlie Clayton, Rick Mason, Timo Dobrowolski ...
    Reclaiming Social Work (RSW) is a radical new system for delivering child and family social work in the UK. The system was first piloted in the London Borough of Hackney and the model has gained national recognition. At the heart of this innovative system is the endeavour to keep children together with their families.This book sets out what the Reclaiming Social Work model is, how it was ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Proactive Child Protection and Social Work

    by Nora Duckett, Liz Davies ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children′s voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition of a highly-regarded book, the authors offer a strengthened children′s rights perspective and explore four main categories of ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Responding to Domestic Violence

    Emerging Challenges for Policy, Practice and Research in Europe

    by Philip McCormack, Ingunn Rangul Askeland, Gemma Carney, Matt Barnard, Elizabeth Martin, Hana Smitkova, Sibel Korkmaz, Zuzana Ocenasova, Claire Houghton, Davina James-Hanman, Marius Råkil, Gene Feder, Nusha Yonkova, Nicola McConnell, Lucy Potter, Dalila Cerejo, Per Moum Hellevik, Julie Taylor, Maria Pentaraki, Els Leye, Gloria Kirwan, Joanna Goodey, Declan Coogan ...
    This book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe.It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Revealing the Inner World of Traumatised Children and Young People

    An Attachment-Informed Model for Assessing Emotional Needs and Treatment

    by Dr Alistair Cooper, Christine Bradley, John Diamond, John Whitwell, Francia Kinchington, Jonathan Stanley ...
    Bringing together the latest research and theory about a child's inner world and the impact of the world around them, this is a guide to understanding and responding to the emotional needs of traumatised children.Founded on the principle that traumatised children do not have a secure sense of self and therefore cannot relate to the outside world without becoming overwhelmed, this book brings ... Read more

    $32.99 USD