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“ruth dalzell”

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  • Putting Analysis Into Child and Family Assessment, Third Edition

    Undertaking Assessments of Need

    by Ruth Dalzell, Emma Sawyer ...
    Putting Analysis into Child and Family Assessment bridges theory and practice, and provides clear guidance to improve assessments in child and family social work.It addresses the issues of central concern to child and family social workers, including analytical assessment, outlines how to avoid common pitfalls, provides strong theoretical foundations, and demonstrates how the theory can be ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

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    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    by Richard Baer ...
    In 1989, a woman walked into Dr. Richard Baer’s office asking for help with memory loss. Thus begins the first and only complete account of Dissociative Identity Disorder treatment told from inside the consulting room.“An absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case—from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery. Vivid, loaded with fascinating ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

    $90.39 CAD

  • Flat Broke with Children

    Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

    by Sharon Hays ...
    Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2 million in 2003. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Faces of Combat, PTSD & TBI: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans

    by Eric Newhouse ...
    Soldiers tell their heartbreaking stories, what happened to them in battle and what happened when they came home. They explain their uncontrollable rage, alcoholism, nightmares, flashbacks, divorce, joblessness, and homelessness. They talk about the battlefield reactions to civilian provocations that are landing too many of them in jail. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transforming Technology

    A Critical Theory Revisited

    by Andrew Feenberg ...
    Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials on political theory, but the emphasis has ... Read more

    $69.59 CAD

  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
    While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from the study of disorder to the study of well-being.This collection assembles qualitative and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Family Support: Prevention, Early Intervention and Early Help

    by Nick Frost, Shaheen Abbott, Tracey Race ...
    Series series Social Work in Theory and Practice
    Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in need.Underpinning the book is an analysis of how family support is changing, having moved from ‘prevention’ through to contemporary ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Invisible Safety Net

    Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families

    by Janet Currie ...
    In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and shrinking share of federal expenditures on poor families with children, but on the staples of today's American ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Adopting

    Real Life Stories

    by Ann Morris ...
    "Who makes adoption a success? We do: the kids and parents in the new family as we change shape to accommodate each other."With more than 70 real life stories, revealing moments of vulnerability and moments of joy, this book provides an authentic insight into adoption.These stories take the reader on a journey through every stage of the adoption process, from making the initial decision to adopt ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Social Vulnerability in European Cities

    The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis

    Edited by C. Ranci, T. Brandsen, S. Sabatinelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis? Focussing on 20 European urban contexts, this book provides an empirical analysis of the socio-economic transformations driving the emergence of new social risks and of the capacity of welfare policies. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers

    Social Work-Social Development Volume III

    by Sven Hessle ...
    Global social transformation calls for global social action. 2010 saw the launch of The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, which detailed how social workers can strive to bring about increased social justice. The time is right to start to address and demonstrate the actions that might be required to develop and accomplish the Agenda - with regard to methods in practice and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD