This introductory text provides an incisive, thorough primer to current theories of the family that balances the diversity and richness of a broad scope of scholarly work in a concise manner.
Attitudes about Work: How They are Formed and Why They Matter
Work and work experiences rank highly among human values. Work provides structure, supplies financial opportunities, and shapes both career aspirations and personal satisfaction. This volume of The ANNALS investigates what socialization processes and qualities of parents, schools, and work places are important in the development of work attitudes, paying particular attention to intergenerational transmission of work attitudes and values.
This engaging book presents a broad array of case examples that will be helpful to group workers at all levels of social work education. The book integrates social justice perspectives throughout and comprehensively covers all of the aspects of group practice in a social work setting. This text is founded on principles of social justice, including a more equal distribution of power and resources among groups in society as well as the elimination of oppression of some individuals and groups. These principles are emphasized, expanded and reflected upon throughout the book. While group work practice explicitly focuses on creating change towards social justice goals or on learning about differences and barriers to justice, in this book, this focus is integrated with an understanding of common elements of small groups, how these elements are necessary and useful for achieving the members as well as the group's goals, as well as ways in which such elements may contribute to furthering justice or injustice.
This book focuses on the critical theory of human behavior by providing an in-depth presentation of each theory as well as a framework for critiquing and applying it. Differing from the traditional lifespan approach, this text dives into presenting each theory but then applies it to cases that represent different stages across the human life span. It is an ideal offering for programs that are looking for a deeper examination of theory at the micro and macro level.
Give your students a user-friendly, award-winning and accessible text that provides coverage of the complex issues of human resource management in the public sector from both employee and managerial viewpoints. Grounded in real public service experience, Human Resource Management in Public Service challenges readers to confront and resolve realistic dilemmas and develop problem-solving techniques.
Providing comprehensive coverage of spatial regression methods, this text explains what each method is and when and how to apply it, connecting concepts to social science research topics. Avoiding mathematical formulas and symbols as much as possible, the book introduces the methods in an easy-to-follow manner, providing comprehensive coverage and using the same social science example throughout to demonstrate the applications of each method and what the results can tell us.
Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care: A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach explores the best practices and applications for producing, synthesizing, visualizing, using, and disseminating health care evaluation research and reports.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology will be a modern, interdisciplinary resource aimed at students and professionals interested in the intersection of psychology (e.g., social, forensic, clinical), criminal justice, sociology, and criminology. The interdisciplinary study of human behavior in legal contexts includes numerous topics on criminal behavior, criminal justice policies and legal process, crime detection and prevention, eyewitness identification, prison life, offender assessment and rehabilitation, risk assessment and management, offender mental health, community reintegration, and juvenile offending. The study of these topics has been increasing continually since the late 1800s, with people trained in many legal professions such as policing, social work, law, academia, mental health, and corrections. This will be a comprehensive work that will provide the most current empirical information on those topics of greatest concern to students who desire to work in these fields. This encyclopedia is a unique reference work that looks at criminal behavior primarily through a scientific lens. With over 500 entries the book brings together top empirically driven researchers and clinicians across multiple fields-psychology, criminology, social work, and sociology-to explore the field.
A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences
The authors use their depth of experience designing and updating Dedoose (R), as well as their published research, to give readers practical strategies for using the program from a wide range of research studies. Case study contributions by outside researchers provide readers with rich examples of how to use Dedoose (R) in practical, applied social science, and health settings.
