Social welfare and social services Books

This book provides effective strategies that can be used to improve academic achievement and well-being of minority students. It examines, collectively, three cultural groups on themes related to diverse families, immigration...

The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe and after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two...

Do people starve in democratic politics? It is often claimed that since government must respond to public needs during times of crisis, democracy has reduced famine in India since independence. This book seeks to identify the processes which generate...

An investigation of how cultures outside the Western tradition understand philanthropy and how people in these cultures attempt to realize "the good" through giving and serving. These essays study philanthropy in Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and...

Although American corporations give away several billion dollars a year to a range of philanthropic causes, this practice has come under fire recently, especially from the Right, because of grants to Planned Parenthood and other "liberal" public policy...

Malawi has received significant financial aid from external donors over the past fours decades, but for one reason or another, this has not translated into meaningful development. This author argues that unless the Malawian people begin to address the...

It may not happen so often but when it does, it is magical. There is just something story book like about crunchy white footprints and snow covered rooftops everywhere. Of course, snow brings its own problems too ... but for a few special days during the...

Uganda¿s decentralization policy is one of the most ambitious and radical in sub-Saharan Africa. A long tradition of local government already existed in Uganda in 1986 when the National Resistance Movement came to power, so when the Presidential Policy...

At the height of the Korean War, with anti-American hostility at a fevered pitch, Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins' adoptive parents fled China, encouraging their daughter to serve her country and aid her people in whatever ways she could. Determined to fulfill...

Nestled in the heart of Appalachia, the rugged terrains of Harlan County, Kentucky, birthed a story of resilience, honor, and unwavering spirit. Harlan County Son reveals this narrative, taking readers on an evocative journey that transcends...

This road map will guide the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in strengthening its approach to disability-inclusive development.The publication sets out a practical route to greater disability inclusion in ADB projects, research, and organizational systems,...

"Reminiscing 1940s America" Memory Picture Book looks at the world during and after the World War II. Touching various aspects of life and the American dream. It is a unique gift for your dear ones enduring cognitive loss.They are very popular as picture...

Domestic Violence is the shame borne in silence by thousands of womenaround the globe. Studies show that American women stay in abusiverelationships an average of seven years, while Jewish American women stayfor fourteen years - twice as long! No...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Pflegewissenschaft - Pflegemanagement, Note: 2,0, Freie Universität Berlin, Veranstaltung: Forschungsseminar Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aufgrund der hohen Arbeitsbelastung, sowie des steigenden...

Membership in the European Union (EU) provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic access to grants for development projects from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). But, applicant SMEs receive the ERDF funding only...

Public street surveillance - a domain of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) - has grown enormously and become common place in our society as an all-purpose security tool. Previous authors have raised concerns over social, civil and privacy issues; however,...

Sozialräume stehen im Mittelpunkt sozialpolitischer, stadtplanerischer, stadtsoziologischer,sozialgeographischer und sozialpädagogischer Debatten. Das Handbuch Sozialraum durchquert diese unterschiedlichen disziplinären Diskursstränge und arbeitet die...

This handbook provides a guide for individualized, responsive, and meaningful care to patients with severe mental illness. It begins with an overview of the foundational aspects of recovery - definitions and assessment, recovery principles, recovery...

This comprehensive reference offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems. Organized around concepts of safety, permanency, and well-being, chapters describe innovations in child...

This groundbreaking volume introduces the theoretical base and clinical methods of Neurocognitive Learning Therapy, an integrative framework for client-centered intervention. The model unifies psychology and neuroscience in revisiting the connections...

This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field. To do so, it presents an extensive...

This accessible guide introduces systemic mirroring, an innovative approach to understanding and managing the disruptive presence of shame in family therapy. Shame is analyzed in individual and interpersonal contexts, and in two basic problematic...

This theory-to-practice guide offers mental health practitioners a powerful narrative-based approach to working with clients in clinical practice. It opens with a primer on contemporary narrative theory and offers a robust framework based on the art and...

This book explores the social conditions that promote pediatric resilience. It presents resilience as a set of complex interpersonal, institutional, and political relationships that affect young patients' ability to "do well" in the face of medical...

This book presents proceedings from the joint conference, Evidence and Rationales for Comprehensive Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder Treatment: Divergence and Convergence, sponsored by the Council on Autism Services and the Autism Partnership. It...

Sea Trial brings the reader along on a very detailed odyssey ranging from the authors days as a merchant marine cadet at a state maritime academy in the early sixties to his more-than-a-quarter century of service with the US Coast Guard both on board the...

Dan McSkimming was a Deputy for 18 years and on the SWAT team (SET - Special Enforcement Team) for 13 years— all with the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office. A normal adjustment of his rifle led to a visit to a chiropractor which would change his life...

The existence of love at first sight is doubtful  — until it happens to you.As a lifeguard and law student, Jeff Whitaker grasps life head-on after putting his dreams on hold due to a family crisis. But his legendary focus changes when a woman...

There is so much more to a police officer’s badge, to any badge that all first responders wear. But that’s what the world sees—a badge. What’s behind and beyond that badge is what people need to know—the person.In BEHIND AND...

This case study book serves as a companion to the text The Business of Human Services: A Guide to Running a Successful Human Services Company. A more complete understanding of the human services industry requires not only studying the text chapters, but...

Eli and Ella the Little Elephants are sure to be useful resource for foster parents, children's homes, orphanages, case workers, grandparents, extended family, teachers, pastors, mentors, and anyone else that desires to help and encourage orphans or...

If you are thinking about fostering or adoption, this is a good book to start with. It doesn't offer beautiful pictures of waiting infants or angelic toddlers. Those, you can get from any agency. Instead, in fifty-two short chapters on different...