Catálogo de libros: Bienestar social y servicios sociales

3346 Catálogo de libros: Bienestar social y servicios sociales

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  • Strengthening the DSM
    John-Paul Legerski / Randy Nedegaard
    This essential companion to the DSM uniquely integrates intersectionality and resilience to helpmental health practitioners assess clients from a strength-based perspective. The third editionexpands the section on neurocognitive disorders to include traumatic brain injury, includes moreinformation on assessment and treatment of common childhood disorders, and brings a newfocus ...
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    117,45 €

  • The Trampoline Effect
    Gord Tulloch / Sarah Schulman
    'Needy,' 'high-risk,' 'vulnerable,' 'slow.'  When the words people use to describe themselves are the same as the labels in their case files, what does that say about how our social welfare systems shape the identity and possibilities of those who use them? In 2014, three disability organizations asked an international team of designers and social scientists to help them unders...
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    16,50 €

  • Safeguarding Across the Life Span
    David Goosey / June Keeling
    A grounding to the key issues in safeguarding today, highlighting the key skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice ...
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    52,92 €

  • Safeguarding Across the Life Span
    David Goosey / June Keeling
    A grounding to the key issues in safeguarding today, highlighting the key skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice ...
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    147,35 €

  • Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
    Prospera Tedam
    Provides students with the tools and knowledge to address the concepts of diversity, oppression, power and powerless, and empower them to practice in ethically appropriate ways for contemporary social work practice. ...
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    126,62 €

  • Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
    Prospera Tedam
    Provides students with the tools and knowledge to address the concepts of diversity, oppression, power and powerless, and empower them to practice in ethically appropriate ways for contemporary social work practice. ...
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    38,06 €

  • Bringing Human Rights Back
    Corinne Tagliarina / Daniel Tagliarina
    This book examines well-documented policy failures in the United States and argues that a human rights approach to these issues can lead to meaningful change regarding online harassment of women, child poverty, and access to water. The authors articulate a practical way forward rooted in human rights scholarship and practice. ...
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    122,62 €

  • Human Rights in Child Protection
    Asgeir Falch-Eriksen / Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
    This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research - one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in part...
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    67,28 €

  • Human Rights in Child Protection
    Asgeir Falch-Eriksen / Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
    This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research - one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in part...
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    82,79 €

  • Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough
    Anne-Greet Keizer / Mark Bovens / Will Tiemeijer
    This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between 'knowing' and 'doing' in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and per...
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    57,41 €

  • Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough
    Anne-Greet Keizer / Mark Bovens / Will Tiemeijer
    This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between 'knowing' and 'doing' in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and per...
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    72,92 €

  • Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
    Claire Hilton
    This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards that she set out to make improvements. Barbara’s book Sans Everything: A case to ...
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    54,51 €

  • Collaborating Against Child Abuse
    Anna Kaldal / Kari Stefansen / Susanna Johansson
    This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or ’Children’s House’) model - recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children who are the victims of crime in the Nordic region. This book discusses both its potential to affect change and the challenges facing it. The model was introduced as a response to a growing re...
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    82,12 €

  • The End of Welfare as We Know It?
    Philipp Sandermann
    During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a ...
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    39,36 €

  • Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
    Claire Hilton
    This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards that she set out to make improvements. Barbara’s book Sans Everything: A case to ...
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    68,87 €

  • Security Sector Reform and Citizen Security
    John de Boer / Robert Muggah
    While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform (SSR) is coming under fire. SSR theory and practice are criticized for being overly focused on traditional conflict and post-conflict settings and for being unable to adjust to unconventional settings marked by chronic crime and terrorism. SSR tends to be disproportionately focu...
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    48,30 €

  • Promoting Active Citizenship
    Jo Saglie / Karl Henrik Sivesind
    This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries.The chapters compare countries, service areas, and the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix of welfare providers, national laws and regulations, govern...
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    58,18 €

  • Promoting Active Citizenship
    Jo Saglie / Karl Henrik Sivesind
    This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries.The chapters compare countries, service areas, and the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix of welfare providers, national laws and regulations, govern...
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    73,69 €

  • Collaborating Against Child Abuse
    Anna Kaldal / Kari Stefansen / Susanna Johansson
    This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or ’Children’s House’) model - recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children who are the victims of crime in the Nordic region. This book discusses both its potential to affect change and the challenges facing it. The model was introduced as a response to a growing re...
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    66,60 €

  • The Infrastructure Finance Challenge
    Ingo Walter
    'Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and complex implications for social progress. At the same time, infrastructure finance i...
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    54,57 €

  • The End of Welfare as We Know It?
    Philipp Sandermann
    During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a ...
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    54,87 €

  • The Infrastructure Finance Challenge
    Ingo Walter
    'Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and complex implications for social progress. At the same time, infrastructure finance i...
    Disponible

    39,05 €

  • Security Sector Reform and Citizen Security
    John de Boer / Robert Muggah
    While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform (SSR) is coming under fire. SSR theory and practice are criticized for being overly focused on traditional conflict and post-conflict settings and for being unable to adjust to unconventional settings marked by chronic crime and terrorism. SSR tends to be disproportionately focu...
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    33,95 €

  • 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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    73,76 €

  • Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking
    Christiana Gregoriou
    This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of...
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    57,41 €

  • Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking
    Christiana Gregoriou
    This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of...
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    72,92 €

  • 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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    82,71 €

  • 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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    53,13 €

  • Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations
    George Leventakis / MR 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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    54,35 €

  • Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations
    George Leventakis / MR 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 ...
    Disponible

    68,71 €


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