Catálogo de libros: Bienestar social y servicios sociales

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  • Social Work in General Practice
    E. Matilda Goldberg / June E. Neill
    First published in 1972, this study describes the attachment of a social worker to a group general medical practice in London, indicating why, for all social groups, the general practice is an appropriate point at which psychosocial problems may be identified and treated. ...
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    53,24 €

  • When Social Services are Local
    Morag McGrath / Roger Hadley
    Originally published in 1984, this book based on an 18-month study of the area team at Normanton, which incorporated social workers, ancillaries, and domiciliary staff in neighbourhood sub-teams, offered the first systematic account of the operation of a new approach of community-oriented patterns of organisation in social services. ...
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    52,80 €

  • Charging for Social Care
    James Matthews / Ken Judge
    In the 1970s there remained a range of services for which the consumer had to pay directly at the time of consumption. First published in 1980, this title provided an examination of the use of these charges in the personal social services. It analyses their historical origins, current operation and their social and financial significance. ...
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    53,38 €

  • Professional Education for Social Work in Britain
    Marjorie J. Smith
    First published in 1965, Marjorie Smith’s classic little book traces the story of professional education for social workers in this country, which has been a pioneer and has influenced countries overseas. It traces the origin and gradual acceptance of the main principles on which social work and preparation for social work are now based. ...
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    53,60 €

  • Education for Social Work
    Eileen Younghusband
    Some outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the issues of education for social work have been brought together in this volume, originally published in 1968. Today it can be enjoyed in its historical context. ...
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    53,29 €

  • Adoption Policy and Practice
    Iris Goodacre
    How are adoptions arranged? How far do the present adoption service really meet the needs of the adoptive family? Originally published in 1966, these are the questions examined in this searching investigation - at the time one of the few to be undertaken since legal adoption was introduced in this country in 1926. ...
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    53,18 €

  • Homeless Near a Thousand Homes
    Bryan Glastonbury
    Originally published in 1971, this study of the development of services for the homeless is based on detailed investigation of provisions in South Wales and the West Country and is a study of the lives of over 500 families who, at some stage since 1963, had lost their homes. ...
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    53,04 €

  • Ends and Means in Social Work
    E. Matilda Goldberg / R. William Warburton
    Originally published in 1979, this title was the first book to provide research-based evidence on what social workers actually do, what they were aiming to achieve, and what sense their activities made, both in terms of their own subjective perspectives and those of their clients. ...
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    53,36 €

  • Problems, Tasks and Outcomes
    E. Matilda Goldberg / Ian Sinclair / Jane Gibbons
    First published in 1985, this book brings together 3 British studies that in some respects pioneered, the introduction of task-centred casework into the UK. They describe and evaluate task-centred casework with social services department clients, young people on probation, and men and women referred to hospital after poisoning themselves. ...
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    52,81 €

  • Helping the Aged
    E. Matilda Goldberg
    Originally published in 1970, the field experiment described in this book was the first British attempt to assess the effectiveness of social work. A team led by a social worker assessed the social and medical conditions of 300 aged applicants to a local authority welfare department and determined their needs for help. ...
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    53,11 €

  • The Point of Entry
    Anthony S. Hall
    First published in 1974, this book aims not only to focus attention on the problems faced by those seeking the help of a social service organisation, but also to analyse what happens and why at the point of entry. This study analyses reception practices in four different social work agencies. ...
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    53,44 €

  • Claimant or Client?
    Olive Stevenson
    Originally published in 1973, the aim of this book was to consider the relationship of a vital element in our social security system, the Supplementary Benefits Commission, to the personal social services, in particular to social work. ...
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    53,04 €

  • Social Work and Social Change
    Eileen Younghusband
    First published in 1964, this book studies social work in relation to the evolving role of social workers in the social services and to their training at the time. The author considers past discoveries and setbacks insofar as they bear upon the present position, and studies the present for the light it casts on the future. ...
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    53,36 €

  • Social Work with Families
    Eileen Younghusband
    Originally published in 1965, this book gathers together some outstanding contributions to various aspects of social work with families. The subject was now more than ever of concern to social workers, as fresh knowledge added to their understanding of the dynamics of family life and interaction. ...
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    53,27 €

  • New Developments in Casework
    Eileen Younghusband
    Originally published in 1966, this book gives examples of the most advanced thought about casework by well-known writers in England and the United States at the time. These articles by well-known authorities illustrate the increased range of insight and skill required of modern caseworkers. ...
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    53,29 €

  • Social Work and Social Values
    Eileen Younghusband
    Originally published in 1967, this volume would appeal to those who were becoming increasingly concerned about the whole question of value assumptions in social work at the time. In this volume are gathered together some of the most influential and often quoted articles which had appeared in Britain and the United States in recent years. ...
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    53,20 €

  • Introduction to a Social Worker
    The National Institute for Social Work T
    Originally published in 1964, this was an introduction to social casework, that is social work with individuals and families. It was written for students at the beginning of their training and, while intended for the social worker, it would also prove useful to other students of the social sciences. ...
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    53,62 €

  • Plans and Provisions for the Mentally Handicapped
    Bernie Spain / F. M. Martin / Margaret Bone
    The lack of good statistical information had been a major factor in the poor planning of services for the mentally handicapped in the late 1960s. The principal object of this book, first published in 1972, was to provide an accurate factual basis for the planning of future services. ...
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    53,16 €

  • Staff and Student Supervision
    Dorothy E. Pettes
    Originally published in 1979, this successor volume to Dorothy Pettes’ earlier Supervision in Social Work volume aimed to provide supervisors and team leaders with the information they needed to function more effectively as either staff or student supervisors in both individual and group supervision. ...
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    53,33 €

  • Community Work
    In this title, originally published in 1977, the authors brought together for the National Institute for Social Work experienced teachers and practitioners of community work in an integrated and carefully structured textbook which would further understanding of the means through which community workers develop their knowledge and skills. ...
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    53,24 €

  • The Boundaries of Change in Community Work
    Originally published in 1980, the editors of this NISW collection suggest that if community workers are to remain effective, then they must stay on the boundaries of the agencies that employ them and of the groups with whom they work. This theme of the ’boundary nature’ of community work is examined in this book. ...
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    52,94 €

  • Organising for Social Change
    David N. Thomas
    Originally published in 1976, the aim of this book was to understand the contribution of community work to meeting some of the problems to be found in many of Britain’s inner city neighbourhoods. It describes the community work process and the tasks, roles and skills of the community worker as he interacts with local groups and agencies. ...
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    53,21 €

  • Old Age Homes
    Roger Clough
    Originally published in 1981, the author presents a vivid description of the lives and work of residents and staff in an old people’s home. Many people, including some social work professionals, still felt that the very existence of residential homes illustrated a failure of society. Roger Clough questions this assumption. ...
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    53,05 €

  • Day Services for Adults
    Jan Carter
    First published in 1981, this book describes day services for adults, a relatively recent development in health and social services at the time. It makes clear that a growing number of services exist by day for adults, and in a diversity and variety which have big potential both for those who use them and for those who work in them. ...
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    58,99 €

  • Mental Health Social Work Observed
    Clive Newton / Eric Sainsbury / Mike Fisher
    Despite extensive changes in the organisation of social and psychiatric services, there had been no study of mental health social work in the UK since the early 1960s. First published in 1984, it was to provide some basic information about the practice of social work in this field that the study was conducted on which this title is based. ...
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    52,96 €

  • Child Care Needs and Numbers
    Jean Packman
    First published in 1968, the problem of persistent and puzzling variations in the proportion of children in care in the different local authority children’s departments of England and Wales became apparent. This warranted a larger investigation on a country-wide basis and this book outlines the findings of that project. ...
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    52,97 €

  • Towards Death with Dignity
    Sylvia Poss
    The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by. First published in 1981, it was to fill this important gap that this title was written. ...
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    53,38 €

  • Group Work
    Nano McCaughan
    Group work is central to social work, whether it be work with individuals and families, residential care, community work, management or social work education. Despite, however, the upsurge of interest in this aspect of social work method at the time Group Work: Learning and Practice, originally published in 1978, represented the first attempt at providing an up-to-date and care...
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    53,16 €

  • Mother and Baby Homes
    Jill Nicholson
    First published in 1968, this book gives the facts but, even more, it gives the feelings and ideas of those most concerned - the mothers-to-be and those who care for them. This is a careful and sensitive study. It was unique in putting on record for the first time the views of unmarried mothers themselves about the care they received. ...
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    53,41 €

  • Adoption of Non-White Children
    Lois Raynor
    Originally published in 1970, this book is an account of a four-year project in which International Social Service of Great Britain joined with Bedford College, London University, to provide a first-class adoption service for babies born in Britain of diverse racial origins, and to study the outcome of the adoptions. ...
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    53,14 €