Social Issues
"Art Therapy and Social Action"
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Explores how human service professionals can incorporate the techniques and approaches of art therapy in their work to address social problems, and examines the expanding role of art practitioner as social activist. This book provides techniques and successful models for art therapists, counsellors, and mental health practitioners. With 49 illustrations. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Kaplan, Frances F., ed.)
ISBN: 1843107988
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Collaborative Care"Interprofessional, Interagency and Interpersonal
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Practitioners of all professions recognize the need of collaboration, yet many find it hard to achieve. In this updated edition, the focus of the original text has been retained but also enlarged to address collaborative relationships within organizational hierarchies of health and social care. With 2 illustrations. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 460g.
Author: (Hornby, Sally, ed.)
ISBN: 063205669X
Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Combating Terrorism in Northern Ireland"
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"Cass Series on Political Violence" series; Analyses the lessons which can be drawn from Northern Ireland's experiences of combating terrorism. This book features a theoretical analysis of the underlying causes of terrorism, and explore how this interacts with the development of effective operations and policy responses. It emphasises the dimensions underlying the problem of terrorism. With 4 black & white tables, 2 black & white line drawings. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: (Dingley, James, ed.)
ISBN: 0415367336
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Exclusion and Engagement"Social Policy in Latin America
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"Ilas History" series; This collection offers a reappraisal of social policy in response to the scale of the challenges confronting Latin America. Divided into four sections it explores the functions of social policy and the prospects of its performing a new and more dynamic role. With illustrations. Paperback, 350 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 650g.
Author: (Abel, Christopher, ed.)
ISBN: 1900039508
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Date: 2002 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Faith Communities and Local Government in Glasgow. 0950 2254"
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Paperback, 140 pages. Weight: 422g.
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ISBN: 0755927737
Publisher: Scottish Executive
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Social Issues
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"Festivals, Tourism and Social Change"Remaking Worlds
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"Tourism and Cultural Change" series; Explores the linkages between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, this book examines the festivals as ways of responding to various forms of crisis. With illustrations. Paperback, 296 pages. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Picard, David, ed.)
ISBN: 1845410475
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Social Issues
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"The Future of Welfare"
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Paperback, 150 pages. Weight: 218g.
Author: (Nye, Roderick, ed.)
ISBN: 1874097127
Publisher: The Social Market Foundation
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Social Issues
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"Global Crises, Global Solutions"
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Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges. With 80 tables. Paperback, 670 pages. Size: 247 x 175 mm. Weight: 1300g.
Author: (Lomborg, Bjorn, ed.)
ISBN: 0521606144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Good Practice in Counselling People Who Have Been Abused"
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"Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice Series" series; By addressing the issues of physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse and neglect experienced in childhood or adulthood, this book aims to provide the reader with a theoretical understanding of people who have been abused, and a range of practical approaches to counselling them. With illustrations. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 230 x 165 mm. Weight: 320g.
Author: (Bear, Zetta, ed.)
ISBN: 1853024244
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Good Practice in Risk Assessment Key Themes for Protection, Rights and Responsibilities"
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"Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice Series" series; This collection of essays on risk assessment explores the arguments and means of assessment in an accessible manner, and with a practice-based emphasis. The contributors consider subjects as varied as child adoption, violence, mental health, alcohol and suicide in a range of social care settings. With forms. Paperback, 327 pages. Size: 230 x 160 mm. Weight: 488g.
Author: (Kemshall, Hazel, ed.)
ISBN: 1853024414
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues (V. 2)
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"Hatred, Bigotry and Prejudice"Definitions, Causes and Solutions
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Many hate crimes such as an armed assault on a Jewish community centre in Los Angeles, have been linked to white supremacists and are painful reminders that violent bigotry remains stubbornly entrenched in American culture. This work features a collection of essays which explore the definitions, origins, and outcomes of intolerance in America. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 290 pages. Size: 230 x 155 mm. Weight: 402g.
Author: (Baird, Robert M., ed.)
ISBN: 1573927481
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date: 1999 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"International Social Policy"Welfare Regimes in the Developed World
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This title is a contribution to the growing literature on the study of comparative social policy. It is international with each chapter written by a social policy expert, or experts, from 12 developed countries. An overview of themes and issues is provided by the editors. With index. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 404g.
Author: (Alcock, Pete, ed.)
ISBN: 0333748662
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Introduction to Social Problems"Issues in Social Policy
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This textbook introduces students to social policy perspectives on social problems. It is written for beginning students and chapter outlines, questions to aid learning and guides to further reading and internet resources. With 29. Paperback, 344 pages. Size: 244 x 172 mm. Weight: 712g.
Author: (May, Margaret, ed.)
ISBN: 0631220305
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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"Learning to Teach Using Ict in the Secondary School"A Companion to School Experience
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"Learning to Teach in the Secondary School Series" series; This book provides a starting point for exploring the possibilities that ICT offers to schools, teachers and pupils. With 12 b/w tab., 36 b/w line drawings. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 304 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 439g.
Author: (Leask, Marilyn, ed.)
ISBN: 0415351049
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Social Issues
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"Managing Social Policy"
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Offers a comprehensive assessment of the role of management in the restructuring of social welfare in contemporary Britain. The text examines the significance of managerialism both as part of the general structuring of welfare and in context of particular areas of public service delivery. With figures, bibliography, index. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 408g.
Author: (Clarke, John, ed.)
ISBN: 0803977697
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1994 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Social Issues
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