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  • Digital Empowerment of Education for Older Adults

    An Exploration in China

    by Siwei Wang, Sheying Chen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book demonstrates how digital empowerment of education for older adults is a timely and globally significant subject. Achieving inclusive, high-quality, and balanced development of elderly education is particularly urgent in China, a nation currently experiencing an unprecedented "gray tide." The topic is important to the enhancement of well-being of older adults, so that every senior citizen ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Society Work of the Post-Economic State and Chinese-Style Social Work

    Aging, Children, Health, and Social Services

    Edited by Sheying Chen ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    Social work is inherently an international subject. Each nation has a story of professionalization in the evolution of public welfare within its particular settings. A study of various (especially non-Western) cases is essential to an adequate understanding of the undertaking.China is undoubtedly an important case with the second largest population on earth. It’s unique in view of so-called ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Social Work Profession, Education, and Research

    US-China and Asian Pacific Island Perspectives 

    Edited by Qi Wu, Sheying Chen ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book brings together a group of active researchers and leading scholars of international social work with a special interest in contemporary issues and developments in Asian & Pacific Islander nations. The original works stem from peer-reviewed paper presentations and invited keynote speeches at the Asian & Pacific Islander Social Work Educators Association (APISWEA) International Conference, ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Social Work Practice and Research with Diverse Populations

    US-China and Asian Pacific Island Experiences

    Edited by Sheying Chen, Qi Wu ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book brings together a group of active researchers and leading scholars of international social work with a special interest in contemporary issues and developments in Asian & Pacific Islander regions. The original works stem from peer-reviewed paper presentations and invited keynote speeches at the Asian & Pacific Islander Social Work Educators Association (APISWEA) International Conference ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Interdisciplinary Research on Healthcare and Social Service

    Chinese and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Sheying Chen, Leidong Wei ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Research on healthcare and social service including professional social work is inherently an international subject. Each nation has a story of coping with the recent pandemic in the context of its political economy and cultural-historical settings. A study of various (especially non-Western) cases is essential to an adequate understanding of the undertaking.China is undoubtedly an important case ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Social Work, Mental Health, and Public Policy in Diverse Contexts

    Chinese and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Sheying Chen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West. Unlike social policy that started with the post-war idea of a welfare state in the mid-20th century, social work traces its roots to individual casework pioneered by the Charity Organization Society (COS), early social administration including state-wide poverty relief (an advocacy ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Social Issues in China

    Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment

    Edited by Zhidong Hao, Sheying Chen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought tremendous economic and social changes. While China’s economic progress has been commendable, the social problems that go with economic changes have raised serious concerns. Some of those concerns are related to gender, ethnic, labor, and environmental issues. This book is about what has happened in these arenas in China since the opening ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Aging in China

    Implications to Social Policy of a Changing Economic State

    Edited by Sheying Chen, Jason L. Powell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the country previously recognized as having the fastest rate) and much faster than nations in western Europe. (2) An early arrival of an aging ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Aging Welfare and Social Policy

    China and the Nordic Countries in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Tian-kui Jing, Stein Kuhnle, Yi Pan, Sheying Chen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This perceptive volume presents conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches to social policy analysis comparing China and Nordic countries in their treatment of the elderly. An international panel of experts offers valuable policy insights into issues of housing, community care, family care, pensions and social security, and mental health as China translates and adapts Western examples, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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    Cultural Beliefs, Social Networks, and Mental Health Experiences

    by Anson Au ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Mental Health
    This pioneering monograph examines how culture informs popular understandings and experiences of mental health in East Asia, as well as providing resolutions for the future.Questions about mental health problems have gained new urgency as their consequences are growing more visible in East Asia. Yet, our understanding, funding, and evidence has not kept pace. Anson Au explores the social and ... Read more

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  • Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by François Champagne, Louise Lemieux-Charles ...
    At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge and exploring some of the challenges and limits of evidence in different ... Read more

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  • Health Communication

    Theoretical and Critical Perspectives

    by Ruth Cross, Sam Davis, Ivy O'Neil ...
    Health communication is key to promoting good population and individual health outcomes. As the field has developed, there is a growing need for a critical appraisal of the ideologies and theories underpinning health communication in order to ensure effective practice.This book clearly situates health communication within its social context. It provides a critical overview of three key ... Read more

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