Social welfare and social services Books

Throughout LeRoy Green’s childhood and adulthood, he would endure pain, suffering, disrespect, and abuse. He would spend his early adulthood pursuing the world and giving himself over to alcohol, partying, clubbing, and drugs. Had he not turned his...

Self-care is an imperative for the ethical practice of social work and other helping professions. From A (awareness) to Z (ZZZZ--Sleep), the editors and contributors use a simple A-to-Z framework to outline strategies to help you build a self-care plan...

Simulation and game-based learning are essential applications in a learning environment as they provide learners an opportunity to apply the course material in real-life scenarios. Introducing real-life learning allows the learner to make critical...

An award-winning authority on the healthcare system in the United States, and a daughter who managed her mother's care for years, Stephanie A. Kennan is uniquely positioned to present this book. Combining anecdotes from her own experiences with the...

A Family's Strong Spiritual Connection with the Place Where They Grew Up. This book is a true account about my parents, brothers, sisters, relatives, and friends growing up on Big Plum Creek Road surrounded by the rural farming areas of Kentucky.As a...

The adoption agency made a mistake. A mother welcomed in a child who brought fear and destruction into the home. She wrestles with God, doctors, and social workers over what to do next. Quick-thinking, leaps of faith, and some dark humor challenges...

A lifetime of knowing. Decades of praying. Years of paperwork, research, and planning. Lots of tears. And the growing of faith in the waiting.One look into a pair of sparkling brown eyes, and Lori and Bryan Schumaker fell head-over-heels in love with a...

What so many people around the world easily recognise as child abuse, many Jamaicans continue to refer to as ‘discipline’. TOO NORMAL focuses on the inhumane endangerment of Jamaican children by adults; both parents and guardians. Ten, real...

Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and military members all see the innermost of our dark and fallen world. Jonathan Hickory gives us a veteran police officer’s intimate perspective into the struggle that many of our heroes battle in their...

Non-accidental injuries to children usually are caused by parents who are addicted or neglectful of their child's basic needs for nurturance. The road to recovery and optimum health draws from an integrative process of self-awareness along with tools for...

Presenting a collection of classic and recent papers reprinted from the Journal of Individual Psychology and Individual Psychology that represent the purpose, methods and spirit of techniques in Adlerian psychology. The editors have prefaced the text...

Pop Pop's House is a bright and lyrical book that captures the essence of childhood memories made at Grandpa's house. Whether it's a trip to the hardware store, boat rides on the lake, or just hugs at home, families of all ages will enjoy the many...

Book Two, “The Trees Shall Clap Their Hands,” takes Verna through the rigors of Nursing School, the ordeals of a single mother on Welfare, and the unbelievable, heartbreaking loss of her girls. Through it all, Verna’s steadfast...

Thank you Mom and Dad for raising me, and you did more to make me who I am today than anyone. Never underestimate the power of friendship, being around others, and a small act of kindness. You never know what a person is going through, and how you can...

Presented in this book are criminal justice word pairs where the second word would be identical to the first word if only one of its characters had not been seized and removed.The book is also available in hardcover format through www.xlibris.com .

Designed to serve as a comprehensive guide, Introduction to Traffic Law, Investigation, and Enforcement equips law enforcement officials with the vital knowledge they need to confidently and successfully investigate and enforce traffic laws...

Cops at Risk: Health, Homicide, and Litigation introduces students to the countless challenges law enforcement officers encounter on a daily basis. The book suggests that these challenges directly impact the physical and mental wellbeing of officers...

When Baggins, a champion racing dog, is injured during a race, his owner callously abandons him in a wooded area and drives away, leaving him to fend for himself. There, Baggins meets Evader, a black cat, and the two become fast friends. When Baggins...

THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS MAY HIDE YOU BUT THE COPS WILL FIND YOU!... Fifty-seven of 80 'Pieces of the Puzzle' stories written over nine years by retired Sgt Billy Anders of the Otero County NM Sheriff's Office for the Cloudcroft, New Mexico, Mountain...

This book, with the intriguing title, A Right to be Wrong, by Celestine Omehia, a lawyer/politician, is about the Supreme Court decision in Amaechi v. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) [2007] 18 NWLR (Pt 1065) 105. The decision must go...

This book uses critical race theory to examine key social policies. Chapters give primacy to addressing the experiences of African Americans in navigating systems that are flawed by structural racism and yet too often attribute individual pathology...

This handbook provides an authoritative account of social work field education in the Global South. It presents an overview of various aspects of theory and practice modules in the social work curriculum and advances in research in social work field...

As China has undergone rapid urbanization and population aging in the past few decades, improving the welfare of older people in rural areas has become an ever more pressing issue. This title is the first book-length work to examine the influence of...

This core textbook for Introduction to Communication courses gives students an overview of the subfields of Communication Studies and how they benefit students pursuing a wide variety of career paths, as well as practical instruction in public speaking.

This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...