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  • While I Have Pedro

    by John Chesterman ...
    This is a crime fiction story with a difference. Red Coltrane would love nothing more than to be a champion relay runner. But that dream disappeared when motor neurone disease took hold of his body. Red also has an intellectual disability, and he lives in supported accommodation with three other variously disabled men, including Johnny, whose prime means of communication is to hum. But today Red's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poverty Law and Social Change

    The Story of the Fitzroy Legal Service

    by John Chesterman ...
    'Law for the Poor' and 'Lawyers for the People' declared the headlines that announced the opening of the Fitzroy Legal Service in December 1972. In a dingy town-hall basement in one of the poorest suburbs of Melbourne, this new legal service set out to do the unthinkable: to provide free legal advice to all comers.Almost a quarter of a century later, under an equally radical Liberal government, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Care Management in Social and Primary Health Care

    The Gateshead Community Care Scheme

    by David Challis, John Chesterman, Rosemary Luckett, Karen Stewart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003: This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure limits to ensure ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Caring for Older People

    An Assessment of Community Care in the 1990s

    by Linda Bauld, John Chesterman, Bleddyn Davies, Ken Judge ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Caring for Older People provides a unique insight into the world of community care in the 1990’s. It presents findings from a national study of social care from the perspectives of older service users, their carers and care managers. Descriptive findings from this longitudinal study - conducted by the PSSRU from 1994 and funded by the Department of Health - ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Defining Australian Citizenship

    Selected Documents

    by Brian Galligan, John Chesterman ...
    During our first century as a nation, citizenship—for a majority of Australians—has meant the enjoyment of progressive political, social, economic and legal rights. Yet many groups in our society have been denied the usual benefits of citizenship, including; the vote; equality before the law; freedom of speech, religion and movement; health care; education and a minimum wage.Unlike that of the ... Read more

    $14.44 USD

  • Supporting People with Dementia at Home

    Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century

    by David Challis, Caroline Sutcliffe, Jane Hughes, Richard von Abendorff, Pamela Brown, John Chesterman ...
    Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to compare how the individuals on the mental health team in one community were matched to a similar community without the service. They analyze the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Politics of Human Rights in Australia

    by Louise Chappell, John Chesterman, Lisa Hill ...
    Australia has traditionally lacked a strong 'rights' culture. While fairness and equality have been proudly exalted as trademarks of the national mindset, the authors of The Politics of Human Rights in Australia argue that these same characteristics may equate to a form of cultural complacency. The book offers the first comprehensive account of Australia's protection of human rights from a ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    by Polglase, Tracey Treseder, Rachel ...
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  • Self-Harm and Violence

    Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services

    Edited by Richard Whittington, Caroline Logan ...
    Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services presents the first exploration of the most effective clinical practice techniques relating to the management of risk in mental health care settings.Based on the Department of Health’s Best Practice in Managing Risk guidance document, which was developed over a 12-month period in consultation with a national ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings

    Edited by Judith Moore, R.M. Roberts ...
    Series series Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice Series
    This book introduces some of the specific contexts in which today′s counsellors and psychotherapists find themselves working. It draws upon the experience of counsellors active in their field and uses relevant examples of the potential pitfalls and rewards of counselling in diverse institutional settings. Counsellors are introduced to the regulatory, legislative, economic, social and cultural ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation

    Policies, Practices and Skills

    by Clive Langman ...
    This text provides an overview of vocational rehabilitation (VR) practice, making it the perfect companion for students and practitioners with an interest in supporting people back to work and improving their sense of health and well-being.The book is divided into three parts: the first covers the policy context of VR in the UK, defining VR, outlining the development of national standards in the ... Read more

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  • 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