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  • Family Dynamics over the Life Course

    Foundations, Turning Points and Outcomes

    Edited by Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee, Stephen R. Zubrick ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriage, ... Read more

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  • Negotiating the Life Course

    Stability and Change in Life Pathways

    Edited by Ann Evans, Janeen Baxter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Pathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades. Many of our assumptions about leaving home, starting new relationships and having children have been turned upside down. It is now almost as common to have children prior to marriage as afterwards, and certainly much more common to live together before marrying than to marry without first living together. Women are more ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Working with Vulnerable Families

    A Partnership Approach

    Edited by Fiona Arney, Dorothy Scott ...
    Poverty, domestic violence, marginalisation, drug and alcohol dependence are just some of the issues faced by many Australian families. Now in its second edition, Working with Vulnerable Families provides a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to family-centred practice in Australia. It explores the ways in which health, education and social welfare professionals can support and protect ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • Occupational Therapy in Australia

    Professional and Practice Issues

    Edited by Ted Brown, Stephen Isbel, Louise Gustafsson, Helen Bourke-Taylor ...
    This ground-breaking text provides a comprehensive guide to the occupational therapy profession in Australia, from the profession’s role in the health care system to the broad scope and nature of its practice.The book is organised into three sections: the Australian context; professional issues and practice issues. Contributions from 80 Australian occupational therapists working in education, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Social Work and Domestic Violence

    Developing Critical and Reflective Practice

    by Lesley Laing, Cathy Humphreys, Kate Cavanagh ...
    Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. It provides students with knowledge of theory, research and policy to put directly in practice across a variety of legal and service-user contexts.Topics covered include:Child protectionInterprofessional ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • A Good Childhood

    Searching for Values in a Competitive Age

    by Judy Dunn, Richard Layard ...
    Every day the newspapers lament the problems facing our children - broken homes, pressures to eat and drink, the stress of exams. The same issues are discussed in every pub and at every dinner party. But is life really more difficult for children than it was, and if so why? And how can we make it better?This book, which is a result of a two year investigation by the Children's Society and draws ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Blackwell Companion to Social Work

    Edited by Martin Davies ...
    Fully revised and restructured, this fresh edition offers students and trainee social workers an incisive and authoritative introduction to the subject. As well as entirely new sections on theory and practice, the expert contributions which have shaped the companion’s leading reputation have been updated and now include innovative standalone essays on social work theory.Comprehensively reworked ... Read more

    $75.00 USD

  • Child Welfare

    Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice

    Edited by Kathleen Kufeldt, Brad McKenzie ...
    Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice has a special focus on Canadian child welfare and contains entirely new material on these ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Social Perspectives in Mental Health

    Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress

    by Sarah Carr, Peter Beresford, Martin Webber ...
    Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users. The contributors explore the impact of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Social Work and Disability

    by Peter Simcock, Rhoda Castle ...
    Series series Social Work in Theory and Practice
    Social Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. It explores how social work practice can, and indeed does, contribute to the promotion of disabled people’s rights and the securing of positive outcomes in ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Older People, Ageing and Social Work

    Knowledge for practice

    by Mark Hughes ...
    'Essential reading for practitioners, educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older people.' - From the foreword by Mark Lymbery, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of NottinghamThe reality of our ageing population means all social workers need to be confident in working with older people. Social workers are engaged in ongoing practice with older people ... Read more

    $54.99 USD