Catálogo de libros: Bienestar social y servicios sociales

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  • Ten Things Every Foster Child Wishes You Knew
    Rowan Aderyn
    Ten Things Every Foster Child Wishes You Knew is an insightful and deeply personal exploration of the foster care system, offering a unique perspective on the challenges and emotional needs of foster children. Drawing from both personal experiences and the stories of others, the author provides a heartfelt guide for foster carers, social workers, and anyone involved in child we...
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    13,88 €

  • Interdisciplinary Research on Healthcare and Social Service
    Research on healthcare and social service including professional social work is inherently an international subject. Each nation has a story of coping with the recent pandemic in the context of its political economy and cultural-historical settings. A study of various (especially non-Western) cases is essential to an adequate understanding of the undertaking.China is undoubtedl...
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    234,68 €

  • Social Inclusion Tactics for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
    Harish Chandra Chandan
    An intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) is a lifelong condition that limits intelligence, learning, and daily life skills. People with IDDs are often not integrated in mainstream society. They have fewer opportunities to participate in recreational activities, hindering their social inclusion, which has the potential to diminish quality of life. As a compassionate so...
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    308,81 €

  • Social Inclusion Tactics for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
    Harish Chandra Chandan
    An intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) is a lifelong condition that limits intelligence, learning, and daily life skills. People with IDDs are often not integrated in mainstream society. They have fewer opportunities to participate in recreational activities, hindering their social inclusion, which has the potential to diminish quality of life. As a compassionate so...
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    236,42 €

  • Gendered Violence in Families
    Featuring contributed chapters written by experts in the discipline, Gendered Violence in Families: New Directions employs a feminist intersectional lens to investigate experiences of family violence. The text sheds light on various forms of family violence, always with consideration of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, class, and other critical dimensions of i...
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    115,44 €

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in Health and Social Care
    Gianpaolo Tomaselli
    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a crucial component in many industries, driving companies to adopt sustainable practices and prioritize the well-being of stakeholders. While CSR is widely discussed in sectors such as manufacturing and retail, its role in the health and social care sectors remains underexplored. In an era where resilience, environmental sustaina...
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    334,74 €

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in Health and Social Care
    Gianpaolo Tomaselli
    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a crucial component in many industries, driving companies to adopt sustainable practices and prioritize the well-being of stakeholders. While CSR is widely discussed in sectors such as manufacturing and retail, its role in the health and social care sectors remains underexplored. In an era where resilience, environmental sustaina...
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    255,83 €

  • Reimagining Trauma Informed Spaces of Liberation
    Laura Quiros
    Reimagining Trauma Informed Spaces of Liberation is a groundbreaking book that interrogates the field of social work from the places of trauma, joy, and liberation. It unpacks, deconstructs, and positions trauma as something normative that impacts our social and collective consciousness, as well as an opportunity for liberation.The book provides readers with an invaluable traum...
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    23,22 €

  • Building a Greater Society
    Connor O’Hanlon
    As a young leader in one of the most vital swing counties in Pennsylvania, Connor O’Hanlon is constantly asked this one question... 'Where are the young people?'The short answer: They have been told to 'wait their turn.'However, Connor never waited for his turn. He makes things happen even when others don’t see his vision or don’t believe he can pull it off. And he knows he is ...
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    19,82 €

  • Getting a Job in Social Work
    Dona J. Young
    Getting a Job in Social Work aids readers in identifying their unique skillsets and experiences to construct a comprehensive career profile for a successful job search in social work. The book offers guidance in creating essential documents such as résumés, cover letters, electronic profiles, and business cards.Getting a Job in Social Work follows a chronological path of job se...
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    23,28 €

  • Hidden Chains
    Natashia Roberts
    In the shadows of our global society, a sinister network thrives, preying on the most vulnerable among us-our children. Hidden Chains delves into the harrowing realities of human trafficking, organ harvesting, illegal adoptions, and the fabrication of false identities and passport documents. This book exposes the dark underbelly of a system that repeatedly fails to protect thos...
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    12,01 €

  • FUTURE-READY GOVERNANCE
    W L TERENCE HO
    How can governments prepare for the future as economies and societies transform?In this collection of essays written for Singapore’s leading news organisations, policymaker turned academic Terence Ho examines how Singapore is grappling with technological disruption, climate change, social stresses, leadership transition and fiscal sustainability, among other key issues. Tacklin...
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    68,68 €

  • Hotlines
    Mary Frances Seeley
    The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 was of international importance, threatening the world with the potential suicide of at least three nations: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. As disastrous as this could be, it gave birth to an actual service of preventing the suicide of military service veterans and extended to the general population of the United States and beyon...
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    92,73 €

  • The Broken Years
    Alexandre Sumpf
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    47,69 €

  • The Unseen Evil
    Natashia Roberts
    In the shadows of our society lies a system designed to protect the most vulnerable among us-our children. Yet, within this system, an unseen evil festers, causing irreparable harm to the very lives it aims to safeguard. 'The Unseen Evil' delves into the harrowing reality of social services and the judicial system, where well-intentioned policies and procedures often go awry, l...
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    10,80 €

  • Relational Theory in Social Work
    Fabio Folgheraiter
    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 work-the Relational Method. It provides readers with guidelines at policy, management, and fieldwork levels, which can be applied...
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    93,53 €

  • Care Justice
    Nancy R. Hooyman
    This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults. In doing so, Hooyman invites readers to envision a society that values the essential work of care. ...
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    227,42 €

  • Care Justice
    Nancy R. Hooyman
    This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults. In doing so, Hooyman invites readers to envision a society that values the essential work of care. ...
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    69,21 €

  • Revitalising Critical Reflection in Contemporary Social Work Research, Practice and Education
    Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions. ...
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    73,35 €

  • Research and Social Work in Time and Place
    Ian Shaw
    This volume, which brings together chapters and journal articles published by renowned academic Ian Shaw, focusses on the practice/research relationship within social work - a theme that has preoccupied much of his writing over the last forty or more years. ...
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    71,84 €

  • Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century
    This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in the twentieth century and highlights the need to address the topic beyond regional boundaries. ...
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    73,26 €

  • Preventing Crime and Disorder in Public Places
    Tim Prenzler
    This accessible, short book provides scientifically informed guidance on effective wholistic place management strategies for preventing crime. It integrates theoretical perspectives and practical examples of crime prevention methods that can be readily implemented by responsible stakeholders. It covers locations including town centers, shopping malls, parks, beaches, transit hu...
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    52,82 €

  • Advancing Older Adults’ Well-being
    Yang Wang
    This book introduces part of the advances of the aging research conducted by Dr. Yang Wang and his collaborators since 2022. It covers several topics related to older adults, including their psychological and social well-being, their role as caregivers and care receivers, the impact of the maltreatment experience in early life, and how witnessing elder abuse could influence chi...
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    159,26 €

  • Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
    Karen Morgaine / Moshoula Capous-Desyllas
    Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice: Putting Theory into Action applies anti-oppressive theories and concepts to a generalist social work practice model to provide students with tools to develop a critically evaluative and self-reflective social work practice. The text combines social welfare history, theory, skills and concrete examples of anti-oppressive practice in real-wor...
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    152,09 €

  • Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapeutic Practice
    Florie St. Aime
    This book supports mental health practitioners in showing how they personally intersect with oppression, helping them explore how it shows up in their practice and providing them with tools to offer anti-oppressive care. ...
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    227,78 €

  • Burnout in Social Work Field Education
    Linda Riggs Mayfield / Mary Powell
    This book informs social work students about the context and potential for burnout in their field experience, their first work with clients, and equips them to recognize, prevent, and address it. With its emphasis on role ambiguity and self-care based on current research, the volume uniquely fills the gap in available texts and prepares them for successful professional practice...
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    60,99 €

  • Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapeutic Practice
    Florie St. Aime
    This book supports mental health practitioners in showing how they personally intersect with oppression, helping them explore how it shows up in their practice and providing them with tools to offer anti-oppressive care. ...
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    46,52 €

  • Nonprofit Social Enterprises
    Zamumtima Chijere
    The practice and the concept of social enterprise has been studied extensively across the globe; however, the flourishing of nonprofit social enterprises has received little attention over the years, especially in Africa. This book provides a framework to help indigenous nonprofit social enterprises flourish. A flourishing organization is one that can sustain organizational ope...
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    206,98 €

  • The American Enterprise Party Vol. 3
    Jerry Rhoads
    **In Volume Three of the American Enterprise Party Books**, I write about who will represent the USA patriotically and ethically in the worldwide marketplace... to do so we must restore worker patriotism and work ethic that has been destroyed by apathy, and how to . . . 'Restore the American Work Ethic' . . . 'Where oh Where has it Gone.' It focuses on improving the USA’s outpu...
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    23,10 €

  • The American Enterprise Party Vol. 2
    Jerry Rhoads
    In Volume Two of the American Enterprise Party Trilogy, I write about how to elect an effective third-party candidate and why this is imperative to save our great American Enterprise. After being told that an effective third party will never happen, because money-tics blinds voters to the loss of their liberties, I present compelling reasons for why our current fiscal condition...
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    43,40 €