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Social Policy and Social Work
by David Denney  Publisher Comments In this book, David Denney introduces some of the fundamental debates which link social work to social policy. Relevant to undergraduate students and researchers of social policy and social work , as well as professionals in related areas, this book...
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Moving on Without Parents: Planning, Transitions and Sources of Support for Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Intellectual Disability
by Christine Bigby Book News Annotation This book documents the results of a qualitative study that exposes the nature and success of parental planning and the intersection of informal and formal sources of support. It looks retrospectively at the lives of a group of adults and examines...
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Family and Personal Relationships (Taking Sides: Family & Personal Relationships)
by Elizabeth Schroeder Publisher Comments This Seventh Edition of TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS IN FAMILY AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is...
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Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy #1: Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems
by Claude Martin Publisher Comments Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes....
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Conservative Social Welfare Policy: A Description and Analysis
by Leon H. Ginsberg Publisher Comments This is the first social work text exclusively devoted to explaining and analyzing the new conservative approaches to social work and social welfare, which will dominate social services for years to come. An historical analysis of the development of...
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Social Work Research Methods with Research Navigator
by Larry W Kreuger Publisher Comments This comprehensive text contains introductory and intermediate coverage of qualitative and quantitative social work research and evaluation applications for undergraduate and graduate social work students. <BR> <P>Features Integrates...
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Understanding Marriage: Making It Work or Knowing When to Leave
by Richard Taylor Publisher Comments Based on numerous interviews with people from both good and failed marriages, his own experience, and years of thinking about the subject, philosopher/marriage counselor Richard Taylor has developed a set of compelling proposals for reforming marriage...
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Family Life in 20th-Century America (Family Life Through History)
by Marilyn Coleman Publisher Comments No other century promoted such rapid change in American families than the twentieth century did. Through most of the first half of the century families were two-parent plus children units, but by the 1980s and 1990s divorce was common in half of the...
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Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships
by Ellyn Kaschak Publisher Comments Help ease the secret suffering of lesbians in abusive relationships Why is woman-on-woman violence so often ignored or discounted? Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships uncovers the hidden problem of lesbians who hurt the women...
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Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (05 Edition)
by Kathryn Edin Publisher Comments Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her...
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Baby Wars: The Dynamics of Family Conflict
by Robin Baker Publisher Comments Even the happiest families endure periods of intense conflict and emotional strife. Read this eye-opening book and find out why.What does evolution have to do with morning sickness? With the stressful sound of a baby's cry? With sibling rivalry and...
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Working With Older People and Their Families: Key Issues in Policy and Practice (UK Edition)
by Publisher Comments Addressing the needs of older people and their carers is an essential element of both policy and practice in the fields of health and social care. Recent developments promote a partnership and empowerment model, in which the notion of 'person-centred...
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American Social Welfare Policy : a Pluralist Approach With Research Navigator Edition (5TH 08 Edition)
by Howard Jacob Karger Publisher Comments Now featuring a full color design, the best-selling text for policy analysis provides students with a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining cutting-edge issues. Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the...
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Untying the Knot: A Short History of Divorce
by Roderick Phillips Publisher Comments A fascinating study of the rapid spread of divorce and its affect on family life in Western society....
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Starter Marriage and Future of Matrimony (02 Edition)
by Pamela Paul Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-285) and index....
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Feuds about Families: Conservative, Centrist, Liberal, and Feminist Perspectives
by Nijole Benokraitis Publisher Comments This unique anthology contains readings that represent three major perspectives--conservative, centrist, liberal/feminist--on 16 important and controversial marriage and family-related topics. Section introductions put the articles in context and...
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Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments
by Jonathan Zeitlin Publisher Comments Europe and the United States confront common challenges in responding to the transformations of work and welfare in the 'new economy', and there are signs of far-reaching changes in the role of government as a direct result. This volume presents the...
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Diversity in Family Formation: The 2nd Demographic Transition in Belgium and the Netherlands
by Joop De Beer Publisher Comments The aim of Diversity in Family Formation is to examine changes in the start of the family formation process. Rather than giving a rough overview of demographic changes in many countries, a comparison of differences in changes in family formation and...
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Beyond the Godfather : Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience (97 Edition)
by A. Kenneth (ed.) Ciongoli Publisher Comments A long overdue collection of memoirs and scholarlyreflections on growing up Italian and American....
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Teens at Risk: Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints)
by Greenhaven Press Publisher Comments In this anthology, authors discuss the various factors that put teens at risk, including teen sex and pregnancy, juvenile crime and violence, and drug and alcohol use. Authors also debate ways to prevent teens from becoming at risk....
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