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Handbook of World Families
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 666

Handbook of World Families

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Praise for the Handbook of World Families:"At a time when we are moving more and more toward a global village, this ambitious book provides evidence of world-wide trends in families and family relations. It also illustrates the resilience of local cultures, seen in variations among nations in trends and responses to them. This is a very useful resource for obtaining the kind of baseline information that is essential to comparative work. As well, a number of chapters contribute to our understanding of the complexities and politics of family life, starting with what is meant by family. This book will educate many about other parts of the world and the central place of families in them." --Ingr...

Tackling Men's Violence in Families
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Tackling Men's Violence in Families

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-06-22
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Nordic countries are generally regarded as global welfare role models in terms of their image of being gender equal, child-friendly and culturally tolerant. By focusing on the vital welfare issue of violence by men to female partners and/or their children, this book seeks to reconsider this over-simplistic image.

The Origins of Social Care and Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Origins of Social Care and Social Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-26
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Offers an integrated history of social work, which has previously been explored in ways segregated by disciplines.

Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory

This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category. Furthermore, the theoretical and practical implications of recognition theory are reflected through the case of migration. Migration movements, refugees and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migrants, in particular refugees, face many injustices and are especially vulnerable, but the right-wing political discourse presents them as threats to so...

When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-13
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Rather than being seen simply as social policy implementors, in recent decades there has been recognition of the unique insights that social workers can bring to policy formulation. This book offers a theoretical framework for understanding why social workers engage in policy, and the implications for research, education and practice.

Critical Gerontology for Social Workers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Critical Gerontology for Social Workers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-17
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform and improve social work research, policy and practice and empower older people. With examples of practice-facing research, this book engages with key debates on age-related human rights and social justice issues. The critical and conceptual focus will expand the horizons of those who work with older people, addressing the current challenges, issues and opportunities that they face.

Social Work Research Using Arts-Based Methods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Social Work Research Using Arts-Based Methods

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-12
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

In the first dedicated analysis of its kind, international experts review the rationale and results of arts-based approaches to research, teaching, and practice in social work. The book presents examples of their use and methods to evaluate and theorise results and shows how arts can form outputs from research too.

Living on the Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Living on the Edge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-17
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Young people transitioning out of care towards independence, work and adulthood are on the edge of these phases of life. Considering previously neglected groups of care leavers such as unaccompanied migrants, street youth, those leaving residential care, young parents and those with a disability, this book presents cutting-edge research from emerging global scholars. The collection addresses the precarity experienced by many care leavers, who often lack the social capital and resources to transition into stable education, employment and family life. Including the voices of care leavers throughout, it makes research relevant to practitioners and policymakers aiming to enable, rather than label, vulnerable groups.

Family Troubles?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Family Troubles?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-15
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the contested terrain between “normal” family troubles and troubled and troubling families. In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how “troubles” feature in “normal” families, and how the “normal” features in “troubled” families. Drawing on research on a wide range of substantive topics - including infant care, sibling conflict, divorce, disability, illness, migration and asylum-seeking, substance misuse, violence, kinship ...

Social Change and Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Social Change and Social Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together, the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community.