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Human Growth & Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Human Growth & Development

Updated edition of this popular book introducing human growth and development from conception to old age, with reference to an Irish context. New to this edition: Updated for the Human Growth and Development award (5N1279) New chapter emphasises the application of knowledge to practical, work-based problems and scenarios Greater prominence given to the older stage of lifespan development with reference to the Creating Excellence in Dementia Care report 2012 Irish and international facts, research, cases and statistics are used to: explain normal patterns of lifespan development; introduce variations within the normal range; highlight the factors that can affect development throughout the lif...

Psychology, Human Growth and Development for Social Work
  • Language: en

Psychology, Human Growth and Development for Social Work

Introduction -- The brain and behaviour -- Communication and relationships in social work -- Approaches to psychology -- Human growth and development -- Disabilities -- Mental health -- Well-being and environmental stressors -- Abuse and trauma -- Social psychology.

Five Irish Writers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Five Irish Writers

Liam O'Flaherty, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O'Faolain, and Frank O'Connor--as Hildebidle demonstrates, all five authors saw in the Ireland that grew out of the events of 1916-1923 a nation that stifled the creative energies and bright hopes of its youth, and their fiction can be seen as responding in diverse ways to that reality.

Psychology for Social Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Psychology for Social Care

This title considers the relationship between research and theory, and its effect on and application to practice within the social care arena. It demonstrates the relevance of psychology in day-to-day practice within the field of social care.

The Urban Commons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The Urban Commons

The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. O’Brien explains the transformative insights gleaned from years researching Boston’s 311 reporting system, a sophisticated city management tool that has revolutionized how ordinary Bostonians use and maintain public spaces. Through its phone service, mobile app, website, and Twitter account, 311 catalogues complaints about potholes, broken street lights, graffiti, litter, vandalism, and other issues that are no one citizen’s responsibility but affect everyone’s quality of life. The Urban Commons offers a pioneering model of what modern digital data and technology can do for cities li...

After Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 555

After Ireland

Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people’s faith in their institutions and thrown the nation’s struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak to worrisome trends in Irish life and yet also imagine a renewed, more plural and open nation. After Dublin burned in 1916, Samuel Beckett feared “the birth of a nation might also seal its doom.” In Waiting for Godot and a range of powe...

Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown

In this book, Sean Safford compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Allentown has seen a noticeable rebound over the course of the past twenty years. Facing a collapse of its steel-making firms, its economy has reinvented itself by transforming existing companies, building an entrepreneurial sector, and attracting inward investment. Youngstown was similar to Allentown in its industrial history, the composition of its labor force, and other important variables, and yet instead of adapting in the face of acute economic crisis, it fell into a mean race to the bottom. Challenging various theoretical perspectives on regional socioeconomic change, Why ...

Gaff Goddess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Gaff Goddess

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02-06
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  • Publisher: Random House

'(Gaff Goddess) should be taught in schools. It's genuinely, hands-on empowering! After four paragraphs I am fully convinced I could build my own house and go on Grand Designs!' - Marian Keyes Laura de Barra is quite simply a Gaff Goddess. Expanding on her popular online home hacks, Laura will teach you how to handle the problems we all encounter in our homes. Straight-talking and hilarious and packed with Laura’s stunning illustrations, her step-by-step guides will prepare you to handle the most common household emergencies with style. From dripping taps to hanging a frame, how best to look after your white goods, how to treat moths, mould and everything in between, and with invaluable design ideas to improve the living spaces in your home, this book is for everyone who has ever wanted to tackle a bit of She-IY without really knowing how. Ingenious and sure to be an instant household must-have, Gaff Goddess will empower you to make those repairs and rediscover your space saving you time, money and stress in the process.

Off the Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Off the Books

In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.

How to Use Social Work Theory in Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

How to Use Social Work Theory in Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-01-08
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Social work theory is full of ideas about how to practise. It guides you in what to do as well as how to approach and think about social work goals. In this clear and systematic book covering both general practice concepts and theoretical insights, best-selling author Malcolm Payne shows you how to work with the main theories and practice techniques and pinpoint their strengths and limitations. This book: • Explores the social work process from first to last contact; • Covers all the theories and methods you need to know as a practitioner; • Examines practice techniques and the ideas that inform them; • Includes helpful chapter-by-chapter infographics. This practical guide condenses the practical features of social work theory but doesn’t oversimplify them. Students and practitioners can confidently put their knowledge into action and see how everyday practice implements theoretical ideas. It will be an invaluable resource to students and newly qualified practitioners in social work and in related fields of practice, making connections with both classic and contemporary movements in social work.