D - Social Services & Welfare 1

Gli Enti territoriali e il Nuovo Modello di Sviluppo basato sul Ciclo di trasmissione delle logiche interne alla Vita. Nei programmi tradizionali per l'amministrazione di enti territoriali si trovan……続きを見る

As communities worldwide grapple with wicked problems ranging from environmental challenges to economic crises to public safety, some believe that only private business holds the solutions with new ……続きを見る

This fully updated third edition of Substance Abuse and the Family demonstrates what it means to view addiction through a systems lens by considering biology and genetics, family relationships, and ……続きを見る

The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the ……続きを見る

In Schoolishness**, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator.** The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimagina……続きを見る

In Better Must Come**, Matthew D. Marr reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous……続きを見る

In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Ange……続きを見る

India's Constitution provides for a federal framework encompassing the central, state, and local governments. The system of fiscal transfers has been guided by India's Finance Commissions to bring r……続きを見る

The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care. Without adequate training in relationship science clinicians inadvertently ……続きを見る

In the first edition of A Country Called Prison, Mary Looman and John Carl presented persuasive data calling for downsizing of America's prisons. Their novel approach continues in their second editi……続きを見る

Redefining School Safety and Policing identifies and works to eliminate systemic issues in school policing that negatively impact students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and other marginalized populat……続きを見る

First published in 1986, Militarization, Internal Repression and Social Welfare in the Third World argues that there is a relationship between the level of a regime’s military spending and the degre……続きを見る

Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and ……続きを見る

This book offers the first full examination of the legal role of public guardianship in 25 years, comparing current conditions to those when the last study was published in 1981. Public Guardianship……続きを見る

Dieses Lehrbuch führt systematisch in das breite Spektrum von Geschichte, Strukturen, Problemlagen und Lösungswegen der Sozialpolitik ein. Es zeigt die europäischen sowie die darüberhinausgehenden i……続きを見る

Le fatiche dei “buoni” nel paese che declina D’Alessandro è in relazione con gli attivisti del “sociale” perché condivide con loro fatiche e speranze, entusiasmi e delusioni; e ha ben presente il va……続きを見る

Gerontology professionals offer suggestions to enrich the quality of rehabilitation services offered to the institutionalized elderly. This exciting volume examines up-to-the-minute ideas--some that……続きを見る

Institutional racism may be described as a self-perpetuating and opaque process where, either intentionally or unintentionally, barriers and procedures which disadvantage ethnic minority groups are ……続きを見る

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is central in influencing redistribution and behaviour. This ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2018 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence, Why We Revolt peels back the curtain to expose the corruption and negligence present in the modern American healthcare systemーand how, wit……続きを見る

Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties serves to provide an explanation of the complex workings of inner family life. The text primarily focuses on family processes and dyna……続きを見る

Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships describes the magnitude, risk factors, and consequences of intimate violence. The text offers a multidisciplinary focus that examines traditional ……続きを見る

This book investigates for the first time the parallels between two island appendages of much larger governments - Okinawa, Japan's southernmost island prefecture, in ferment over historic US bases;……続きを見る

This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East. It highlights the unobtainability of this cultural myth and its multilevel destructive influences on ……続きを見る

Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and produces new insights into the depth of climate change impact on social lif……続きを見る

The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments have regulated t……続きを見る

Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnatio……続きを見る

An international team of academics and experienced practitioners here bring together scholarship on academic migrants to the United States - the world's top recipient of academic talent. They examin……続きを見る

Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to fight poverty” in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-c……続きを見る

This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited hu……続きを見る