`This lively book critiques New Labour assumptions and implementation of policies related to citizenship, communities and welfare reform and the implications of current developments for social work. Focusing explicitly on the UK, the book nevertheless draws on examples and comparisions from other countries (including notably Australia and the US, ......
Emerging Horizons in Early Home Visitation Services
Early prevention of child maltreatment is most commonly delivered through home visitation services, with the goal of promoting a positive start in parenting to avert potential child abuse and neglect. Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts introduces best practice principles for early home visiting, examining the contexts out of which these ......
The Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research & Practice is intended to take the reader from program development theory through program activity analysis and selection, to immediate impact studies, and intermediate and long-term program outcome measurement.
Emerging Horizons in Early Home Visitation Services
Early prevention of child maltreatment is most commonly delivered through home visitation services, with the goal of promoting a positive start in parenting to avert potential child abuse and neglect. Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts introduces best practice principles for early home visiting, examining the contexts out of which these ......
Saville Kushner shows how evaluation should document individual and group experience. This can then be used to measure the significance of social programs in people''s lives.'
Provides an introduction to law and legal processes and their relation to social work practice. Using Clinton's Welfare Reform Act of 1996, this title offers a conceptual framework to illustrate how sociolegal problems emerge in the welfare state. It also presents the skills base necessary for effective social work response.
A comprehensive research/clinical accounting of insomnia treatment in older adults is provided by this book. Topics covered include: typical normal and disturbed sleep patterns, methods of evaluation and diagnosis; the major treatments for late-life insomnia; and research and methods of clinical management for topics in late-life insomnia that ......
`Karen Healy has written a very interesting and worthwhile book that explores the relevance and significance of postmodern theory to social work. It provides a well-argued account of recent developments in social work theory... However, it is not simply an account of theory, as considerable effort goes into making links between the theory and its ......
`A particular strength of the book is its orientation to the views of service users, carers and user movements... the chapers are all well written, well referenced and consistent in style. As an academic text, it is easy to read. It will undoubtedly be of value as a reference for students of the health and social care professions' - British ......
