An Interdisciplinary and Intersectionality Approach
Delivers knowledge critical to understanding the multidimensional aspects of working with varied populations with disabilities. This is the only introduction to disability book with an interdisciplinary perspective that offers cross-disability and intersectionality coverage, as well as a special emphasis on many unique populations.
A Practical Guide to Building Relationships & Enabling Change
Relationships and communication are the foundation of good social work practice. This book offers a new model, drawn from research and practical experience, which describes how to carry out effective relationship-based social work.
Doing Relationship-Based Social Work provides a refreshing ......
This book provides early intervention service providers with strategies for working with families at highest risk. It is one of the few books to focus on the treatment of families at psychosocial risk, outlining an integrative approach to early intervention, and providing both
Sheds light on social security issues by examining evidence from economic studies about how the system affects saving, labour supply, and income distribution. It shows that these studies provide little evidence to support or refute assertions that social security has reduced saving, but they do indicate that it has contributed to the trend toward ......
The Guide for Health Science and Professional Education
A vital resource for ensuring students with disabilities have access to appropriate, legal, and necessary accommodations. Now in its second edition, this book on disability inclusion in the health sciences remains the most comprehensive, critically and legally informed guidance available to health science programs.
The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton
“This is one of the world’s most notorious—and remarkable—heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. Despite still being on the run, McMillan has written a book, Escape, about … his amazing breakout in Bangkok” The Australian.
Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force. It should be no surprise that child care is one of the most serious and widespread concerns of parents today.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is one of the federal government's most important and powerful agencies - but it's also one of the least-known among the general public. This book describes why the office is so important and why both scholars and citizens should know more about what it does.
Innovations in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals - in such areas as education and health car - is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organisations are working hard on them. This book offers a positive agenda for ......
