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This book examines the serious dysfunction of the nation's family courts--a dysfunction that too often results in the courts' failure to protect the people they were designed to help. Specifically, ……続きを見る

What if happiness wasn't something you chased, but something you created through service? In From Letters to Leaders: The Legacy of Service, Dr. Michael Ayalon and the Greek University team take rea……続きを見る

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes defin……続きを見る

In the 1990s, issues of child protection, child abuse and delinquency had generated public and academic concerns over the ability of adults to underwrite the physical, moral and social welfare of ch……続きを見る

Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the prep……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

Comment la Suisse a-t-elle, en l’espace de quelques décennies, glissé de l’exploration des substances illégales par des individus en quête d’exotisme à la scène ouverte du Platzspitz où sont morts d……続きを見る

Mehr als die Hälfte der deutschen Bevölkerung ist übergewichtig oder krankhaft fettleibig, fast ein Drittel raucht und der deutsche Alkoholkonsum erreicht im internationalen Vergleich Höchstwerte. D……続きを見る

The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international cont……続きを見る

Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. M……続きを見る

This book examines the recovery principle of co-production within mental health services, defining it as the creation of a space where all stakeholders – including service users, family members, car……続きを見る

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical a……続きを見る

This book aims to provoke a change in the approach to Nigeria's challenges, highlighting the untapped potential in the individuals and the nation. The acquired knowledge should be willingly shared f……続きを見る

Unmask Liberal Narratives and Decipher the Absurdities of Political Spin. Are you ready to cut through the fog of political spin and liberal myths? "How to Understand Left-Wing Political Spin" is he……続きを見る

Introduction and Chapter 10 available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshe……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

This book aims to provoke a change in the approach to Nigeria's challenges, highlighting the untapped potential in the individuals and the nation. The acquired knowledge should be willingly shared f……続きを見る

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research has been a foundational guide to the profession for over 40 years. Featuring 30 readings divided into five parts, this best-selling text reflects t……続きを見る

　 Seit das „Ende des Kommunismus" auf 1990 festgeschrieben und der „Unrechtsstaat DDR" der Justiz übergeben wurde, inszenieren neue Institutionen, Stiftungen und Behörden auf Bundesebene den ökonom……続きを見る

This book analyzes policy fights about what counts as good evidence of safety and effectiveness when it comes to new health care technologies in the United States and what political decisions mean f……続きを見る

When disaster strikes, our instinctive response is to make things better, not only as individuals but also as groups, organisations, communities and major institutions within society. With increasin……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is tr……続きを見る

This textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these……続きを見る

Het onbehagen in de democratie is een compleet herziene editie van het invloedrijke boek van Michael J. Sandel. Hij constateerde in de jaren 90 al een diepe ontevredenheid in het democratisch bestel……続きを見る

History and Education is a text that engages the history of the global class war, from the United States to the former Soviet Union, from the People’s Republic of China to the Democratic People’s Re……続きを見る

The book deals with a historically unique case of international transfer of professional knowledge and techniques in social care and social work. Principles of modern social work were introduced to ……続きを見る

The only book to focus on implementing public policy, this state-of-the-art text offers a comprehensive and lively account of the major insights found in implementation theory and research. Its expl……続きを見る

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors o……続きを見る

This volume collects together Michael Freeman's work on the family and society, and the part law plays in defining, structuring and controlling it. He questions the role of family law and its interf……続きを見る

The Care Act 2014 represents a major upheaval in adult social care law: the biggest since 1948. This book sets out and explains the provisions of the Care Act 2014 in simple terms, illustrating its ……続きを見る