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“larry dewitt”

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  • The Other Welfare

    Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy

    by Edward D. Berkowitz, Larry DeWitt ...
    The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • A Wolf at the Table

    A Memoir of My Father

    by Augusten Burroughs ...
    "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?"When Augusten ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Switching Time

    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    by Richard Baer ...
    "[A]n absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case of multiple personality disorder--from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery."-- Colin Ross, author of Multiple Personality Order and The Osiris ComplexIn 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer’s office seeking help for her depression and a persistent memory problem: she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Unmaking of Man

    Disability and the Holocaust

    by Simon Duffy ...
    The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction at a very early stage. Doctors argued that people with disabilities lived lives not worth ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Solitary Courage

    Mona Winberg and the Triumph over Disability

    by Mona Winberg ...
    Solitary Courage is the story of a mother’s tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter’s astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens with disabilities face and fight every day of their lives.Mona Winberg became a pioneer of independent living, and emerged a leading advocate for citizens with ... Read more

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  • Active Support

    Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities

    by Jim Mansell, Julie Beadle-Brown ...
    Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more severe disabilities, and is of growing interest to those responsible for providing support and services. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

    Edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, Bob Sapey ...
    This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability.Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice

    Cases and Practical Applications

    by Susan W. Gray ...
    "Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice should be required reading for all clinical practitioners and students. Author Susan W. Gray provides a competency-based assessment model that moves away from looking at mental illness as a 'disease' to capturing people's strengths and the uniqueness of their experience with mental illness."—Alex GittermaZachs Professor and Director of PhD ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Human Behavior

    A Cell to Society Approach

    by Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, Holly C. Matto ...
    A unique approach to human behaviorthat integrates and interprets the latest research from cell to societyIncorporating principles and findings from molecular biology, neuroscience, and psychological and sociocultural sciences, Human Behavior employs a decidedly integrative biosocial, multiple-levels-of-influence approach. This approach allows students to appreciate the transactional forces ... Read more

    $89.00 USD

  • Whistleblowing and Ethics in Health and Social Care

    by Angie Ash ...
    Those who speak up about poor, corrupt or unethical practice often do so at a great personal cost. This timely book explores our understanding of the ethics of whistleblowing and shows how managers and organisations can support individuals speaking out.While some professional guidelines formalize duties to speak out where there are concerns about poor or harmful practice, workplace cultures often ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Personalisation in Practice

    Supporting Young People with Disabilities through the Transition to Adulthood

    by Helen Sanderson, Suzie Franklin ...
    This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning difficulties, was supported through the transition from school to living independently using simple, evidence-based person-centred planning tools. Jennie's story illustrates the importance of quality person-centred reviews, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Lost The Plot

    by Kirby Gate ...
    A satirical piece about the process and rules of creative writing in today's climate. It not only breaks the rules on novel-writing but breaks the rules of the benefits system as was, as well as the taboo of ergophobia and agoraphobia – fear of the market place.The narrative sets out to examine some of those rules in relation to novels eg plot, length, characters, tense, climax, endings etc in an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD