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  • Annual Report of the State Commission of Prisons.; 28th Annual Report of the State Commission of Prisons.; 28th
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    Annual Report of the State Commission of Prisons.; 28th

    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,...
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  • Welfare and Families in Europe Welfare and Families in Europe
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    Welfare and Families in Europe

    Originally published in 2005. The primary focus of this work is the relationship between family, work and the welfare system. Focusing on Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the study draws comparisons between societies which...
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  • Policymaking for Critical Infrastructure Policymaking for Critical Infrastructure
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    Policymaking for Critical Infrastructure

    Originally published in 2005. By weaving together three distinct fields - public policy, technology studies and management of critical infrastructure - this volume shows how public policy can help to improve the management of large technical systems. A...
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  • Cancer and Elders of Color Cancer and Elders of Color
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    Cancer and Elders of Color

    Originally published in 2005. The prevention, detection and treatment of cancer has received enormous scientific and clinical attention in the US and in other developed countries. However, there has been no comprehensive review of the racial/ethnic...
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  • Coping and Pulling Through Coping and Pulling Through
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    Coping and Pulling Through

    Originally published in 2004. Exclusion is a popular area of sociological research, with much analysis pointing towards survival practices and inclusion mechanisms as ways to cope with and confront exclusion. However, the question of what it means to act...
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  • The International Development of Social Work Education The International Development of Social Work Education
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    The International Development of Social Work Education

    A robust infrastructure for education and training is vital for the development of an emerging social work education in developing countries. This book fills a gap in the existing literature by providing analysis of international practice methods which...
    $373.00

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  • The Unconscious at Work The Unconscious at Work
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    The Unconscious at Work

    Why do our organizations so often seem to be less than the sum of their parts? What undermines effectiveness and morale, and gets in the way of achieving what we set out to do?The Unconscious at Work, Second Edition draws on a body of thinking and...
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  • Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice
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    Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice

    Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice (MEBP) is a new and comprehensive approach to determining best practices in social services. MEBP improves upon traditional evidence-based approaches by incorporating the views of consumers and professionals,...
    $513.00

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  • Relational Theory for Social Work Practice Relational Theory for Social Work Practice
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    Relational Theory for Social Work Practice

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! Relational Theory for Social Work Practice introduces social workers to the burgeoning feminist scholarship on relational theories and the practical application of these theories with diverse populations. It...
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  • The Silent Crisis in U.S. Child Care The Silent Crisis in U.S. Child Care
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    The Silent Crisis in U.S. Child Care

    In the 20th century we have witnessed the massive movement of women and young mothers into paid employment in the U.S. and other industrialized countries. By 1995 64% of married mothers with a preschool-aged child were in the labor force compared to 35%...
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  • Evidence-based Social Work Evidence-based Social Work
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    Evidence-based Social Work

    Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many governments' approaches to policy-making and social intervention. It has become a powerful movement that promises to change the content and structure of social work and its allied professions. Its...
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  • Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers
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    Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers

    How does a social work student make the connection between sociological knowledge and day-to-day social work? Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers provides an introduction to sociological ideas and research and places them firmly into...
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  • Dissenting Social Work Dissenting Social Work
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    Dissenting Social Work

    This book, from one of international social work's leading radical educators, provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become more critical and dissenting. Addressing the troubled times in which we find ourselves, Garrett's book...
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  • Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine
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    Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine

    Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical monitoring...
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  • Person-centred Health Care Person-centred Health Care
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    Person-centred Health Care

    Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in...
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  • Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries
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    Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries

    To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplinary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health. However, the compulsion to do and understand global health emerges largely from contexts that geography has long engaged with:...
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  • The Intimate Lives of Disabled People The Intimate Lives of Disabled People
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    The Intimate Lives of Disabled People

    Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and capacities to embody and experience sexuality and desire, as well as the agency to love and be loved by others, and build their own families, if they so choose. Centring on the sexual,...
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  • International Sports Volunteering International Sports Volunteering
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    International Sports Volunteering

    Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel. Many tourism organisations now advertise sport volunteering projects, with colleges and universities also offering students the opportunity to participate in similar...
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  • Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific
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    Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific

    Across the Asia Pacific, there are a vast range of experiences of homelessness and an equally diverse range of responses from state systems. Since understandings of homelessness are also heavily dependent on geographical, cultural, and historical...
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  • Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work
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    Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work

    This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to...
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  • Social Work and Research in Advanced Welfare States Social Work and Research in Advanced Welfare States
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    Social Work and Research in Advanced Welfare States

    The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in 'advanced' welfare states - countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP. While such countries have traditionally been associated with...
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  • Disability and Rurality Disability and Rurality
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    Disability and Rurality

    This is the first book to explore how far disability challenges dominant understandings of rurality, identity, gender and belonging within the rural literature. The book focuses particularly on the ways disabled people give, and are given, meaning and...
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  • Pedagogy, Disability and Communication Pedagogy, Disability and Communication
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    Pedagogy, Disability and Communication

    Research has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity negotiation, the practice of communication, and the development of interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, individuals without...
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  • Advocacy and Social Work Practice Advocacy and Social Work Practice
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    Advocacy and Social Work Practice

    This books fills the gap in the market for an accessible, general introduction to advocacy, specifically aimed at social workers. The book looks at the value base of advocacy as well as emphasising practice and skills such as assertiveness and...
    $82.00

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  • Relational Theory in Social Work Relational Theory in Social Work
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    Relational Theory in Social Work

    The Relational Theory of Social Work: Phenomenological Foundations presents readers with a clear theoretical and methodological conceptualization of helping practices through the lens of one of the most prominent paradigmatical developments in social...
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  • Pferde in der Erlebnispädagogik mit Kindern Pferde in der Erlebnispädagogik mit Kindern
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    Pferde in der Erlebnispädagogik mit Kindern

    Die Arbeit mit Pferden erfüllt Menschen mit dem Gefühl von Freiheit, Losgelassenheit, Glück und Grenzenlosigkeit. Pferde haben ein ausgeprägtes Sozialverhalten und sind in der Lage, die Stimmungen von Menschen wahrzunehmen und auf kleinste Zeichen zu...
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  • Diskriminierungsrisiken in der sozialen Arbeit Diskriminierungsrisiken in der sozialen Arbeit
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    Diskriminierungsrisiken in der sozialen Arbeit

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 1,0, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, ehem. Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um sich genauer mit Diskriminierung auseinander setzen...
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  • Soziale Arbeit im Bereich der Drogenhilfe Soziale Arbeit im Bereich der Drogenhilfe
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    Soziale Arbeit im Bereich der Drogenhilfe

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,3, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, ehem. Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frage, welche Konzepte und therapeutische Ansätze...
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  • Jugendgerichtshilfe und die Soziale Arbeit Jugendgerichtshilfe und die Soziale Arbeit
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    Jugendgerichtshilfe und die Soziale Arbeit

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,3, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Jugendhilfe, Jugendbeistand, Jugendkontakthilfe und Jugendstraffälligenhilfe, die Liste der Bezeichnungen für...
    $72.00

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  • Professionelle Beratung in der sozialen Arbeit Professionelle Beratung in der sozialen Arbeit
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    Professionelle Beratung in der sozialen Arbeit

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit wirft einen Blick auf die professionelle Beratung in der sozialen Arbeit. Dem...
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  • Soziale Arbeit und Beratung in Zwangskontexten Soziale Arbeit und Beratung in Zwangskontexten
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    Soziale Arbeit und Beratung in Zwangskontexten

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,7, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Veranstaltung: Professionelles Handeln in der Sozialen Arbeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Begriff „Zwangskontext" wird verwendet, wenn...
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  • Rechtsextremismus. Ist die Jugend bedroht? Rechtsextremismus. Ist die Jugend bedroht?
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    Rechtsextremismus. Ist die Jugend bedroht?

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1.0, Fliedner Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern Jugendliche vom Rechtsextremismus bedroht sind...
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