After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this? Dr. Wendy Bunstons guide is here to help you to meet the emotional needs of children who are experiencing trauma, and to enable them to form healthy attachments, both within their families and ......
An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at
For use with at-risk families of children from birth to 3 years of age, this tool, along with a CD-ROM, provides the critical data home visiting programs need. Generating a portrait of the behaviors and skills of parents and children, it helps establish baseline client profiles, monitor outcomes and others, to show that interventions are working.
An expose of the Australian charities sector, its history, current size, makeup, with case studies revealing the different charitable organisation types, ways of being or becoming fraudulent, and the regulatory approaches.
Sharon Shoesmith examines what can be learnt from the tragic death of Peter Connelly, also known as Baby P. She gives a detailed account of events as they took place, reflects on the psychological, political and social dynamics involved, and considers the implications for child protection professionals, policymakers, politicians and the ......
A Training Pack for Staff Supporting Adults with Intellectual Disabiliti
Personal Development, Relationships and Staying Safe is a training pack designed to teach people with intellectual disabilities with high support and complex needs about developing their identity, forming relationships and staying safe in the context of physical and sexual abuse.
Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the US and more than half ......
The updated 5th edition of this popular reference covers healthcare, disability pay, education benefits, pensions, payments to families, and more for the US veteran, with invaluable information on who's eligible, what's available and how to obtain benefits. Also includes a directory of federal and state-run veterans facilities and offices.
New in Paperback. While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it.
When most people think of policies designed to help the poor, welfare is the first program that comes to mind. Traditionally welfare has served individuals who do not work -hence much of the stigma that some attach to the program.
Presents a story of the postwar experiences of Union and Confederate Civil War veterans. This work gives the reader a perspective on the challenges of readjustment for ex-soldiers and American society.
Presents a story of the postwar experiences of Union and Confederate Civil War veterans. This work gives the reader a perspective on the challenges of readjustment for ex-soldiers and American society.
For person-centred planning to succeed, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities need to live, work, and learn in their own communities. Professionals can make that happen with this book, a complete step-by-step guide to the easiest, most practical person-centred planning method available.
How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market
Examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. This book provides an analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an understanding of the opportunities and discriminatory practices at work from one generation to the next.
The Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act - buttressed by President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative of 2000 - encouraged religious organizations, including congregations, to bid on government contracts to provide social services. This title looks at the evidence for and against faith-based initiatives.
The Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act - buttressed by President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative of 2000 - encouraged religious organizations, including congregations, to bid on government contracts to provide social services. This title looks at the evidence for and against faith-based initiatives.
Examines client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. This title concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.
Examines client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. This title concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.
Offers information on how to develop effective partnerships with parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Topics covered include how to be more sensitive to families' needs, how to make one's assumptions cohere with families' assumptions, and how best to approach controversial topics in treatment and research.
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
This book shows administrators and directors how to develop programs that help families adapt to the experience of having an older family member living in a long-term institutional care setting. It recognizes that families continue to be involved in various ways in the lives of relatives who no longer live at home.
A popular version of history trumpets the United States as a diverse ""nation of immigrants,"" welcome to all. The truth, however, is that local communities have a long history of ambivalence toward new arrivals and minorities.
She investigates the significant role of these workers in the implementation of welfare reform, the role of public management in changing the system of welfare under the reform law, and management's impact on results - in this case ensuring the delivery of welfare benefits and services to eligible clients.
Gated communities are a new ""hot button"" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders.
Drawing on the Pathways to Life Quality longitudinal research study, Krout (director, Gerontology Institute, Ithaca College) and Wethington (co-director, Cornell Gerontology Research Institute) explore the ways in which older adults' residential choices impact their health and well-being, in setting
This Family Report was developed for use in conjunction with the AEPS (R) for children 3 to 6 years to obtain information from parents and other caregivers about their childrens skills and abilities across major areas of development.
This study offers a critique of the origins, the discourses, the general strategic line, the local variations, the policy turnover, tha failures, and the consequences of the workfare offensive in the USA. It also covers attempts to develop workfare states in Canada and Britain.
Drawing on advances in the social sciences, this book shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs - and how better governance can lead to better performance. It shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance.
Illuminates the devastating power of addiction and describes an array of innovative approaches to facilitating clients' recovery. Including many creative techniques formed by interweaving concepts and techniques.
As budgetary concerns have come to dominate Congressional action, the design and implementation of welfare programs have come under greater scrutiny. This book focuses on the food stamp program to examine how the integration of welfare and budgeting has affected both politics and people.
Debates the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused and neglected children. Arguing the merits of keeping families together whenever possible, this title examines the background, theory, and effectiveness of family preservation programs.
