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Child Welfare : Policies and Best Practices (2ND 07 Edition)
by Jannah Mather  Publisher Comments Understand human behavior with HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT! Three key tools are provided for theory-by-theory comprehension-models, metaphors and maps-that help you to easily compare and contrast theories as well as understand their...
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Study of Social Problems : Seven Perspectives (6TH 03 Edition)
by Earl Rubington Publisher Comments This critically acclaimed volume delineates seven sociological perspectives used to examine social problems--social pathology, social disorganization, value conflict, deviant behavior, labeling, the critical perspective, and social constructionism...
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American Childhood: Risks and Realities
by Dona Schneider Publisher Comments Schneider's lucid analysis of how American children are newly at risk represents a rare integration of the medical evidence with societal trends. An extremely significant book.--Sylvia A. Hewlett, author of When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting...
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Sex, Lies & P.I.'s
by Ali Wirsche Publisher Comments The ultimate guide to find out if your lover, husband, or wife is having an affair. Follow Ali and Marnie, two seasoned private investigators, as they spy on brazen cheaters and find out what sweet revenge awaits. Laced with startling stories, Sex, Lies &...
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Active Labour Market Policies and Welfare Reform: Europe and the Us in Comparative Perspective
by Anne Daguerre Publisher Comments This volume examines the source of ideas in active labor market policies in the US, France, Denmark, UK and at European Union level. What are the most likely trajectories of active labour market policies in different national settings? Will welfare...
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Unexpected Death in Childhood
by Peter Sidebotham Publisher Comments For families who have experienced the death of a child, their private tragedy is all too often exacerbated by an inappropriate or incompetent professional response. For the professional charged with the responsibility of having to deal with unexpected...
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Fragmented Families: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation
by Ellen Sucov Publisher Comments The purpose of the book Fragmented Families is to clarify the phenomenon of estrangement between family members. The book focuses on the meanings and process of alienation, its outcomes and possible paths toward resolution. The reader is encouraged to...
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When Drug Addicts Have Children: Reorienting Child Welfare's Response
by Douglas Besharov Publisher Comments When Drug Addicts Have Children brings together 28 program administrators, direct service providers, government officials, and scholars -- all specialists in child welfare and drug abuse -- in a collaborative effort to define new approaches to the...
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Preventing Child Maltreatment Through Social Support: A Critical Analysis
by Ross A Thompson Publisher Comments An important characteristic of abuse-prone families has been found to be isolation from supportive ties. This volume encourages programmes and policies to incorporate social support into abuse prevention.</p> <p></p> <p>The author...
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Malay Kinship and Marriage in Singapore
by J. Djamour Publisher Comments Dr. Djamour spent two years in Singapore, both in the city and in a Malay fishing village, and her first-hand account draws a lively and sympathetic picture of behaviour within the family and between kinsmen. It is nonetheless an important contribution...
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Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America, Updated Edition (Twayne's Social Movements Past & Present)
by Rober Fisher Publisher Comments Social Movements Past and Present offers thorough analyses of the ideas and actions that have changed the way Americans think and live. Each volume is written by a specialist drawing on the insights and methodologies of history, sociology and political...
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A Revolution in Family Values: Tradition Vs. Technology (Expanded Edition)
by John E. Lamuth Publisher Comments In this breakthrough in relationship dynamics, each of the traditional groupings of virtues, values, and ideals is further contrasted with the corresponding realm of the vices, offering radically new insights into the field of ethical inquiry, including...
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Social Theory, Social Change & Social Work
by Nigel Parton Publisher Comments Social work is currently experiencing an important period of change--in its priorities, organization and day-to-day practices. Increasingly, notions of care management, monitoring and evaluation and inter-agency coordination have become more dominant...
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Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color
by Michael J. Camasso Publisher Comments Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or eliminates cash benefits for unmarried women on public assistance who become pregnant. The caps have lowered extra...
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Special Stories for Disability Awareness: Stories and Activities for Teachers, Parents and Professionals
by Mal Leicester Publisher Comments Stories both educate and entertain. We learn from them and the learning is fun. They also stimulate our imagination and creativity. In this collection of short stories, the heroes and heroines are disabled children who defy the stereotypes associated...
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Social Problems (08 Edition)
by Joel Best Publisher Comments In his new textbook, Joel Best gives readers a complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem. Best helps readers think carefully about how activists, experts, and their opponents frame social problems through the logic that they use, the...
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The Privatization of Social Policy
by Michael Shalev Publisher Comments Occupational welfare is a distinctive solution to contemporary social policy dilemmas. Though it plays a substantial role in many countries, especially in pension provision, occupational welfare and its subtle links to the welfare state have been largely...
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Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice
by Loek Groot Publisher Comments Basic income is a regularly debated topic in various scholarly disciplines (political philosophy, political theory, welfare economics, labour market economics and social policy) and in circles of policy makers, administrators and activists. Since the...
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A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960
by Elizabeth Rose Publisher Comments Americans today live with conflicting ideas about day care. We criticize mothers who choose not to stay at home, but we pressure women on welfare to leave their children behind. We recognize the benefits of early childhood education, but do not provide...
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Childbirth in the Global Village
by Dawn Hillier Publisher Comments In this new book, Dawn Hillier compares the experiences of mothers and midwives in America and England with those in Africa and Malaysia. Through vivid descriptions of actual births and careful examination of the local, national and international...
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