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The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart

by Stanley Wilder

The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart discusses the current demographics of librarianship in North America and examines how a huge retiree rate will affect the profession. With the...


Social Services in the Workplace: Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the New Millennium

by David Bargal & Michal E. Mor Barak

Discover the challenges and pitfalls awaiting occupational social workers in the coming years!Social Services in the Workplace: Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the New Millennium will help you meet...


Intergenerational Programs: Understanding What We Have Created

by Valerie Kuehne

Intergenerational Programs: Understanding What We Have Created focuses on research efforts to design, improve, and evaluate activities among younger and older individuals while examining how intergenerational...


Interprofessional Collaboration: From Policy to Practice in Health and Social Care

by Audrey Leathard

Interprofessional collaboration in the health and social care services has become a commanding force, spear-headed by the Government's modernisation programme to improve partnership.

Interprofessional Collaboration...


Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

by Sandra Stith

Stop intimate partner violence before it starts

Intimate partner violence touches everyone. With more than 1 million cases reported each year, this pervasive social problem has devastating effects on victims,...


Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision

by Kevin Fischer & Dr John Collins

Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision is the first known publication in which service providers examine the particular difficulties encountered by homeless people in gaining access to healthcare, both...


Regulating Womanhood

by Carol Smart

This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the resistance...


Rethinking Prostitution: Purchasing Sex in the 1990s

by Graham Scambler

The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed by other...


Social Action with Children and Families: A Community Development Approach to Child and Family Welfare

by Crescy Cannan & Chris Warren

Meeting the needs of children at the same time as promoting family life is more than a question of resources: it needs a culture change in social services: a rediscovery and a modernization of the social action...


Evidence-Based Patient Handling: Techniques and Equipment

by Pat Alexander, Emma Crumpton & Brian Fletcher

Providing care and treatment for patients usually requires moving and handling activities associated with high rates of back injuries. The personal and financial cost of back pain and injuries to health staff...


Social Work and Social Care

by Lester Parrott

Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years, in particular the extensive legislative changes to...


Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice

by Marion Bower

Written by practicing social workers and social work educators, this text analyzes modern psychoanalytic and psychosocial approaches to social work and relates them to current practices and values. Focusing...


Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts from the Animals of Africa

by Melissa Haynes

Melissa visits Africa for animal conservation, but a cast of unlikely characters teaches her about grief, fear, and ultimately life.


Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547-1600

by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

At the cutting edge of new social and demographic history, this book provides a detailed picture of the most comprehensive system of poor relief operated by any Elizabethan town. Well before the Poor Laws of...


The Way of the Dog

by Sam Savage

A disillusioned artist looks for meaning in the wreckage of his life, and finds it in unexpected places.


Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 32, 2012: Emerging Perspectives on Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life

by Jr. PhD Bert Hayslip & Gregory, PhD Smith

This state-of-the science, multidisciplinary Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics provides a comprehensive examination of critical issues on resilience in a variety of life domains central to the well-being...


Gerontology, Fourth Edition: Perspectives and Issues

by Kenneth, PhD Ferraro & Janet, PhD Wilmoth

This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the "gerontological imagination," and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging. Academically...


Facing Danger In The Helping Professions: A Skilled Approach

by Iain Bourne

This book, based on Iain Bourne's dangerous behaviour training courses, will help both students and practitions in various disciplines deal with stressful and dangerous situations. It will help the reader to...


Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita

by Barry Jean Ancelet & Marcia Gaudet

Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina...


Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

by Mary C. Burke

The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the past 60 years have changed how...