Human Services

Social Workers and Compassion is designed to assist social work students, social workers, social work managers, social care workers, and lecturers in developing knowledge, understanding, skills, and values related to various aspects of compassion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198088Author Curtis WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Showing how people experience state public administration,...

How do academic social scientists and survey professionals use social measurement techniques? How are these techniques applied to specific concepts in empirical research? This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional...

Issues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This...

Governments, international organizations, and international laws and courts increasingly pay attention to conflict-related sexual violence. The core of the UN Women Peace and Security Agenda is stopping conflict-related sexual violence against women...

Management of EMS offers a solid resource to help readers learn how to fearlessly take on the unique challenges of EMS Management, including the strategic planning needed to create comprehensive and successful EMS Management programs. Teaching and...

Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into the fabric of American society and reflect how our nation values human beings, particularly mothers. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning...

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English. The political writings in this volume are primarily concerned with the origins of the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126072Author Beau RiffenburghFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture...

The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever...

First published in 1964, The Last Refuge originated from the author's visit to a Victorian workhouse which had become an Institution for old people. A visit that was to show frightful overcrowding in sparsely furnished dormitories. Day-rooms bleak and...

At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are: * disadvantageous home backgrounds * problems with settling in socially at school *...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family's own small plots and some is forced and/or...

Communities and Caring explores the theoretical background of social policy debates around the mixed economy of welfare in relation to community participation and community development. Whilst providing a critical analysis of New Right Theories, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989778749Author Sarri GilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Healthy Gen Media and Island Bound PublishingPublisher Healthy Gen Media and Island...

This book offers a practical approach to conducting practice research in the field of human services. This evolving form of applied research seeks to understand practice in the context of the relationships between service providers and service users,...

This book brings together contributions from a range of social welfare settings, including child welfare, unemployment, mental health and substance abuse treatment, to examine how interprofessional collaboration and service user participation are...

Health and illness underpin our everyday existence. Health allows us to live full lives and to function as social beings; illness disrupts our lives, sometimes seriously. But health not only affects individuals, it also impacts upon society as a whole...

"Finally, a text that thoroughly covers the topic of classroom guidance - an effective tool for every school counselor at every school level." -Tiffany Bates, Louisiana Tech University Intended for school counselors to aid in the learning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800749740Author James HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993457005Author Toni ClosePage Count 90Imprint Therapy Professional PressPublisher Therapy Professional Press

"Sexuality Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice is an important resource for mental health practitioners. Sexuality is complex and rather than attempting to simplify, this book works within that complexity in a well-organized and comprehensive...

This exciting new monograph aims to establish the historical and cultural reasons why there was only a participation rate of 7-8% by the Catholic population in policing Northern Ireland when the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) came into being...

The fundamental aim of youth work is to build trusting and mutually respectful relationships with young people, creating transformative experiences for young people in formal and informal spaces outside of homes and schools. These complex and...

This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county, including Ashwell, Cheshunt, Hertford, Pirton, and Royston,...

Policing in Canada is in the process of change: similar to other nations in the western world, many of the policing services that were provided by public forces in the past are being gradually handed over to private security agencies.Complex networks of...

The twentieth-century “Mexican Miracle,” which solidified the dominant position of the PRI, has been well documented. A part of the PRI’s success story that has not hitherto been told is that of the creation of the welfare state, its impact (particularly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264388574Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399956338Author Natalie CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Own My Life PublishingPublisher Own My Life Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576582633Author Jeanette LukasseFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint YWAM Publishing,U.S.Publisher YWAM Publishing,U.S.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264378049Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264390188Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...