Catálogo de libros: Bienestar social y servicios sociales

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  • Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement
    Steven K Kapp
    This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the a...
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    73,24 €

  • Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement
    Steven K Kapp
    This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the a...
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    87,60 €

  • A History of Force Feeding
    Ian Miller
    It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It also explores the fraught role of prison doctors called upon to p...
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    67,20 €

  • Child Protection in England, 1960-2000
    Jennifer Crane
    History; Social history; Great Britain-History; Europe-History-1492-; Social policy; Childhood; AdolescenceThis work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work’s license are retained by the author or authors. ...
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    62,99 €

  • Men’s Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships
    Jørgen Lorentzen / Marianne Inéz Lien
    This open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men’s experiences and backgrounds, including in their perceptions of their own victimisation. Marianne Inez Lien and Jørgen Lorentzen argue that the traditional gender power ...
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    58,25 €

  • Child Protection in England, 1960-2000
    Jennifer Crane
    History; Social history; Great Britain-History; Europe-History-1492-; Social policy; Childhood; AdolescenceThis work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work’s license are retained by the author or authors. ...
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    77,36 €

  • Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology
    Georgios Leventakis / M R Haberfeld
    This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. 'Community-oriented policing' is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police ...
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    67,50 €

  • Call Me Auntie
    Anne Harrison
    A truly original story of life in and after care. The author’s own account of being left behind by her mother as a one year old and her life in foster homes and institutions. When eventually traced, ’Call Me Auntie’ was the best her mother could offer, but this was just the start of a bizarre sequence of events.Call Me Auntie is a telling account of abandonment, ’Heartbreak Hou...
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    27,68 €

  • Call Me Auntie
    Anne Harrison
    A truly original story of life in and after care. The author’s own account of being left behind by her mother as a one year old and her life in foster homes and institutions. When eventually traced, ’Call Me Auntie’ was the best her mother could offer, but this was just the start of a bizarre sequence of events.Call Me Auntie is a telling account of abandonment, ’Heartbreak Hou...
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    47,29 €

  • Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
    Dalia Abdelhady
    This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state. The contributions look into the meaning of the welfare state, as represented in legal and discursive practices, and the imagination of those seeking to build new lives in it. ...
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    42,99 €

  • An American Hobo In Europe
    Windy Bill (Ben Goodkind)
    An American Hobo In Europe: A True Narrative Of The Adventures Of A Poor American At Home And In The Old CountryThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The c...
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    10,58 €

  • MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK IN SINGAPORE
    GEOK LING LEE & SOON NOI GOH
    Medical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war period. This textbook documents the historical development and evolution of the medical social work profession in Singapore, as well as the specialist work done in the profession.The first part of the book gives an overview to the field in Singapore. It provides information which is considered as fundamental and ...
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    93,53 €

  • 10 Costly Medicare Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make
    Danielle Kunkle Roberts
    Don’t make decisions about your Medicare coverage without reading this book!Updated for 2024 - Over 40,000 copies sold! #1 Best-Selling Book in Less than 48-HoursAfter Reading This Book, You Will:Know what Medicare pitfalls exist and how to expertly avoid themBe ready to make the major Medicare decisionsBe knowledgeable about the costly penalties and how to steer clearWho This ...
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    15,49 €

  • Reinventing the Welfare State
    Ursula Huws
    The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today’s welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public sector workers, from under-resourced hospitals to a shortage of housing and affordable social care, the pandemic has shown how decades of neglect has caused hundreds to die. In this bold new book, leading policy analyst Ursula Huws s...
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    127,07 €

  • Soul’s Time to be Born, an adoption story
    Carmen Martinez Jover
    The soul is with its soul group, then goes and visits the Elders who give the soul advice on how to be happy when it’s born.  The soul is then shown glimpse of possible lives and choses the parents it wants.  Understanding that it cannot be born in a conventional way and is born in another woman’s womb and with the help of adoption lives happily with its chosen parents.This sto...
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    22,02 €

  • The 12 Disciples of Great Men
    J. U. Passion / JUPassion
    Pastor J. U. Passion lays out a blueprint for men and women to follow if they are to fulfill their God given assignment upon the earth. This book is a combination of common sense and divine revelation. The author uses imagery to help the reader understand powerful concepts like the benefit of being persistent. As you read the 12 Disciples of Great Men, the handwriting on the wa...
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    30,71 €

  • The 12 Disciples of Great Men
    J. U. Passion / JUPassion
    Mr. Passion lays out a blueprint for men and women to follow if they are to fulfill their God given assignment upon the earth. This book is a combination of common sense and divine revelation. The author uses imagery to help the reader understand powerful concepts like the benefit of being persistent. As you read the 12 Disciples of Great Men, the handwriting on the wall become...
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    19,05 €

  • Crying, Learning, and Laughing
    Tamika M. Murray / Tamika MMurray
    The struggle is real, but the help is sincere for adolescent students in Crying, Learning, and Laughing: Why Students Visit the Teen Center. The author recounts the stressful, but the often fun position as a case manager in a Teen Center. Students’ daily interactions in a School-Based Youth Services Program add color to the murky topics of teen dating violence, child abuse, and...
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    16,72 €

  • Love has no Borders
    Phyllis Yvonne Dodd LCSW
    Love Has No Borders is a nonfiction account of forty years of work with refugees and immigrants who have come to the United States to begin a new life.One can hear the desperation of many as they have crossed the desk of a social worker. Immigrants from Cuba, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, Latin America, and Mexico, have come through the doors looking for sanctuary in a coun...
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    12,08 €

  • The absurdity of bureaucracy
    Nina Holm Vohnsen
    The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them. ...
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    40,83 €

  • Within Prison Walls
    Thomas Mott Osborne
    Thomas Mott Osborne's account of his voluntary stay in Auburn State prison. Osborne, the head of a state commission on "the prison problem," checked into Auburn to personally experience conditions there. It is really engaging and heartfelt, as well as highly political. Osborne encountered tremendous institutional and political resistance to his reform efforts and you get a ...
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    17,54 €

  • Within Prison Walls
    Thomas Mott Osborne
    Thomas Mott Osborne's account of his voluntary stay in Auburn State prison. Osborne, the head of a state commission on "the prison problem," checked into Auburn to personally experience conditions there. It is really engaging and heartfelt, as well as highly political. Osborne encountered tremendous institutional and political resistance to his reform efforts and you get a ...
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    28,16 €

  • COMBATING A CRISIS
    DAVID CHAN
    The COVID-19 pandemic has caused, and will continue to cause, great disruptions to lives, livelihoods, ways of life, and quality of life. We will need to learn to live with the coronavirus for a long time, even as we combat the coronavirus crisis collectively and fight our own daily battles individually. This book examines Singapore's reaction and response to the coronaviru...
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    56,78 €

  • FAITH, IDENTITY, COHESION
    JOLENE JERARD & AMANDA HUAN
    The book aims to promote greater understanding of social cohesion amidst existing complexities of faith and identity, and what this portends for our future. The emphasis is on the importance of engagement across beliefs and cultures, the different generations and segments of population, and the diverse interests of people in a digital and interconnected world. The policy offici...
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    120,21 €

  • In Place of the Parent
    Lance Hillsinger
    Nationwide, every year, over 250,000 children enter foster care. They are placed there by child protective services (cps) and the juvenile court. Do caseworkers go about their job as competent and compassionate professionals or as paper-pushing, uncaring bureaucrats? Are juvenile court judges fair to the child and the parent? In Place of the Parent: Inside Child Protective Serv...
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    12,02 €

  • In Place of the Parent
    Lance Hillsinger
    Nationwide, every year, over 250,000 children enter foster care. They are placed there by child protective services (cps) and the juvenile court. Do caseworkers go about their job as competent and compassionate professionals or as paper-pushing, uncaring bureaucrats? Are juvenile court judges fair to the child and the parent? In Place of the Parent: Inside Child Protective Serv...
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    19,13 €

  • Radical Psychology
    Radical Psychology explores what affects the multicultural and social justice competencies of psychologists in clinical practice, training, and research. The contributors explain how progress in social justice initiatives was hindered and why the development of culturally competent practitioners was not viewed as essential. ...
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    58,19 €

  • Telehealth for Professionals
    Maryellen Evers LCSW CAADC
    Telehealth has finally hit the forefront of treatment. Providing treatment in this day and age is much more than just logging on. As professionals we are taught 'no harm done' and to always work within the scope of practice. Understanding the ethical, legal, and clinical implications of telehealth enhances our skill and commitment to the people we serve. ...
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    8,92 €

  • Social Reproduction and the City
    Simon Black
    The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York's unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of worki...
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    33,64 €

  • Social Reproduction and the City
    Simon Black
    The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York's unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of worki...
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    143,71 €


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