Both jobs and the workforce have changed dramatically in recent years. Manufacturing has given way to a technology - driven, information - based workplace. People are working until later in life and the pool of workers is growing more diverse. Flexible hours and telecommuting are increasingly common. This volume addresses the challenges ......
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath
Examines key 'lessons learned' from Hurricane Katrina and offers a blueprint for better meeting the needs of children, families, and communities post-disaster. This title provides community-wide strategies for promoting healthy adaptation in children and families following disasters.
Help young children with autism spectrum disorders build friendships with typically developing peers with this practical and engaging DVD. Professionals and parents will get easy-to-follow, step-by-step strategies for facilitating positive peer play among
When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions.Faith and Fertility is a comprehensive collection of essays by academics and faith leaders from around the world. The ......
Filled with practical pointers and examples, this guide helps professionals conduct productive interviews while building strong working relationships with culturally and linguistically diverse clients.
Safeguarding children from harm has, until recently, been driven primarily by social work practitioners. With current shifts in child care and protection practice and policy, combined with an overwhelming message of 'working together', primary health care professionals have an increasingly central part to play. It has been declared that cases of ......
Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the ......
Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children
Presents an argument for a more complex view of transnational adoption, including stranger adoption, kinship adoption, fostering, and informal circulating children. This book considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other nations which adopt - including sometimes from the US, particularly children of color.
