Quality Matters in Children's Services brings together authoritative research to explore critical concerns for those working with vulnerable children, young people and their families. Subjects covered include reunification, stability and wellbeing, kinship care, educating vulnerable young people, child protection, domestic violence and parental ......
Improving Outcomes for Babies in the Child Welfare System
Explores the needs of children in the child welfare system and offers ways to get them back on track. This book includes topics such as the history of child welfare advocacy, research and laws, legal advocacy, health care advocacy, early intervention advocacy, early childhood education advocacy, and future directions.
Dementia is a devastating disorder which may dramatically interfere with decision-making abilities. Considerable effort has been placed on trying to determine when a person is no longer capable of making particular decisions or is globally incompetent. However, much less focus has been placed on understanding how the capacity to make decisions ......
ased Assessment, Analysis and Planning Interventions
Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the child, make specialist assessments where there are continuing safeguarding concerns (using the Assessment Framework) and plan effective child-centred and ......
A spiritual life, one focused on personal growth and deep human experience, is a major focus and motivator for people over the age of forty. Yet gerontology as a field of knowledge and practice has lagged behind this population in understanding spirituality's importance in the lives of aging people. Noted gerontologist Robert C Atchly remedies ......
Draws a portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition. This title chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy.
Draws a portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition. This title chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy.
Emphasizes cultural factors that affect the adolescent coping with death. This book explores many conceptual frameworks, models, and ideas that have appeared on the scene such as: dual process model for understanding loss; ideas about assumptive worlds; and, debates about the benefit and harm of grief counseling with the normally bereaved.
