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  • Child Protection and Child Welfare

    A Global Appraisal of Cultures, Policy and Practice

    by Selwyn Stanley, Sven Hessle, Dennis Kimberley, Anuarbek Kakabayev, Teresa Bertotti, Otrude Nontobeko Moyo, Alean Al-Krenawi, PhD, Annamaria Campanini, Kathryn Goldfarb, Marie Connolly, Contiu Soitu, Nazgul Assylbekova, Clare Colton, Menka Tsantefski, Marie-Antoinette Sossou, Daniela-Tatiana Soitu ...
    Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.Devoting particular attention to the role played by culture in determining child welfare issues and child protection responses, this book illustrates the impact of both long-term influences, ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

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  • The Welfare of Nations

    by James Bartholomew ...
    What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models, searching for the best education, health care, and support services in 11 vastly different ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Age of Dignity

    Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America

    by Ai-jen Poo, Ariane Conrad ...
    One of Time's 100 most influential people "shines a new light on the need for a holistic approach to caregiving in America . . . Timely and hopeful" (Maria Shriver).In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the statistical reality that will affect us all: Fourteen percent of our population is now over sixty-five; by 2030 that ratio will be one in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Shattered Lives

    Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity

    by Camila Batmanghelidjh ...
    *Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2006*Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their life experiences, hugely impacted by sexual abuse, parental substance misuse and loss, leading to feelings of shame, rejection and ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

    Edited by Sherry Glied, Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

    One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System

    by Susan Sheehan ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Is There No Place on Earth for Me? comes a poignant account exposing the harsh realities of the foster care system."No reader with a conscience, no reader with a heart, will come away from this complicated, infuriating and unforgettable book untouched or unmotivated to instill long-overdue change."--Michael Dorris, author of The Broken ChordOn October 7, ... Read more

    $6.99 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

  • Faith Based

    Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States

    by Jason Hackworth ...
    Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat for Humanity, and religious charities in post-Katrina New Orleans, Jason Hackworth describes both the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It

    by P. Taylor-Gooby ...
    This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Supervising Child Protection Practice: What Works?

    An Evidence Informed Approach

    by Lynne McPherson, Noel Macnamara ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work. It draws directly from analysis of in-depth interviews with experienced and post graduate qualified supervisors and supervisees about ‘what works’ in supervision. These findings bring ‘news of difference’ in relation to social work ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    The protection of vulnerable adults is a fast emerging area of work for local authorities, the NHS and other agencies. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law, sets this within a comprehensive legal framework. The relevant law and guidance is extensive. It includes Department of Health guidance (No Secrets), human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the barring of carers ... Read more

    $40.99 USD