6th edition. — Brooks Cole, 2007. — 607 p. — ISBN: 0495095125. This popular text is designed to give you a broad understanding about the social work profession and the role that the profession plays in the social welfare system. The authors demonstrate that there are many reasons why social problems occur. You'll explore the history, values, economic, political and cultural...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 528 p. — ISBN: 978-0190932428. New ways of thinking and approaching complex problems through a conceptual and practical leadership approach founded on innovation and diversity. The authors introduce the I.D.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Diversity, Execution, and Assessment) Leadership Framework through which health and human service practitioners...
Rock Out Books, 2006. — 116 p. Homeless and low-income youth have a high risk of failure at school and involvement in substance abuse, crime, violence, and unemployment. First Exposures has helped youth achieve real changes in their lives. During their participation in the program, all First Exposures students have remained in school without dropping out. All participants...
Arcadia Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. — (Images of Modern America). This collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to listen to their stories...
USA: N.Y.; Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 192 p. This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Bleses and Seeleib-Kaiser argue that we are witnessing a dual transformation of the welfare state, which is caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Increasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards...
Springer, 2014. — 848 p. This interdisciplinary clinical reference encompasses more than 310 current entries on a broad range of topics related to geriatrics and geriatric care across multiple health care disciplines. The third edition reflects the many advances in geriatrics that have occurred since the publication of the second edition in 2006. It contains the updated,...
4th Ed. — Springer Publishing Company, 2018. — 831 p. — ISBN10: 0826140521, 13 978-0826140524. This expanded, one-of-a-kind reference of more than 250 entries provides a comprehensive guide to all of the essential elements of elder care across a breadth of health and social service disciplines. Responding to the needs of providers, directcare workers, family, and other...
N.Y.: Oxford University Press Inc., 2005. — 251 p. The book investigates the processes of welfare state reform in the UK and Germany between the late 1970s and 2003. Adopting a programme-level perspective, it systematically compares processes of retrenchment, expansion and restructuring in three core social policy domains. The book suggests that unemployment support and public...
School of Social Work, Carleton University Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de politique sociale Spring/Summer 2003, No. 51, p. 126-131 Since it began investing Canadian workers’ public pension money on the stock market in March 1999, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) had lost $3.1 billion dollars by the end of 2002 (CPPIB, 2003b). Despite this...
2nd ed. — Routledge, 2016. — 250 p. — (Student Social Work). — ISBN10: 0415454123. — ISBN13: 978-0415454124. An understanding of social policy is vital for engaging practically with social work values, dealing with political and ethical questions about responsibility, rights, our understanding of ‘the good society’. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to social...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 217 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-93823-3, 978-3-319-93824-0. There have long been doubts within social work about the viability of reconciling participatory practice with the statutory power that comes hand-in-hand with child protection work. This book explores this issue by proposing an original theory of children’s participation within...
Gabriel Eidelman Ph.D. Candidate Department of Political Science University of Toronto DRAFT 2011-05-02 Scholars of urban governance in North America often discount the role and influence of multiple levels of government in local affairs. Many of the field’s canonical works, largely derived from the US experience, centre on the dominance of private development interests or...
2nd ed. — Praeger Publishers, 2003. — 424 p. — ISBN-13 978-0275950583. The authors analyze the political, economic, and social challenges facing industrial democracies in Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Updated and expanded from its successful predecessor, this edition emphasizes how global and European developments have affected democratic...
UK: University of Essex, Routledge, 1998. - 268 p. ISBN10: 0415157773. The book offers an analytical overview of schools of thought on European integration which offer useful insights into EU social politics. Building on this framework, the chapters then examine in detail pre-Maastricht social policy and the 'social partners', the innovations of the Treaty itself, and where EU...
A PPF and PRI Joint Roundtable OUTCOMES REPORT, May 2008 Public Policy Forum Forum des politiques publiques 1405-130 Albert Street Ottawa, ON KIP 5G4 The Public Policy Forum is an independent, not-for-profit organization aimed at improving the quality of government in Canada through better dialogue between the public, private and voluntary sectors. The Forum’s members, drawn...
School of Social Work, McGill University Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de politique sociale Spring/Summer 2003, No. 51, p. 28-48 In recent years, use of the term independence has proliferated in the field of health and long-term care. Originally associated with the normalization and de-institutionalization movements, use of this term has extended into...
Paperback. N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2001. - 256 p. ISBN: 0-333-79314-5 The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart of...
Paperback: USA: New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997. - 250 p. ISBN: 9781400822416. Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to...
School of Social Work, University of Manitoba Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue Canadienne de politique sociale Spring/Summer 2003, No. 51, p. 49-66 Among the recommendations of the 1991 Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba were two that called for the expansion of authority for First Nations Child and Family Service (CFS) agencies to enable them to provide child welfare...
USA: N.Y.; Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 246 p. This book shows how responsiveness in European welfare programs is institutionalized through nationally distinct legal foundations, professional traditions, and resource networks, while revealing how resource scarcities threaten to erode these capabilities. The book is not about the usual grand 'worlds of welfare capitalism' but...
USA: N.Y., Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2005. — 326 p. — ISBN: 1-4039-4296-X. This volume examines the relationship between Nordic social policy and economic development from a comparative perspective. It identifies the driving forces behind the development of the Nordic welfare model and the problems and dilemmas the model is facing at present. The book also traces the link...
2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press. — 745 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0199336954. — ISBN13: 978-0199336951 This Second Edition of the Handbook addresses the evolving interdisciplinary health care context and the broader social work practice environment, as well as advances in the knowledge base which guides social work service delivery in health and aging. This includes...
Loving Healing Press, 2018. — 282 p. Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New Insights. This groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another. Authors focus on understanding and applying...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 237 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-93347-4, 978-3-319-93348-1. This volume provides a wide spectrum description analysis of the contemporary and well established child protection systems in a range of countries, such as Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Spain and the United States. It presents a brief orientation about the public and private...
School of Health Policy and Management, York University Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue Canadienne de politique sociale Spring/Summer 2003, No. 51, p. 9-28 Concerns about increasing numbers of Canadians living in poverty and on low incomes have primarily been raised by the social development and social welfare sectors. The health-related consequences of these increases...
Canada West Foundation A Core Challenges Initiative Discussion Paper, June 2008 ISBN: 1-897423-25-7 Drawing Lines is the fourth publication of the Core Challenge Initiative, a three-year public policy research and communications endeavor and a major component of the Canada West Foundation’s Western Cities Project. Funding for the Western Cities Project has been provided by the...
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