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Book SynopsisIn the environment of inpatient mental health units, a patient's actions are often understood through reference to their illness; if they disagree with staff they lack insight or are aggressive, if they seek independence they are uncooperative and non-compliant, if they wish to be alone they are seen as withdrawn. Imagine being this patient, faced with situations where you are told your reality is not right, that you are a different person to who you think you are and that you have a mental disorder and need treatment, even though you do not think so. Imagine the impact this clash of values could have on you, where your values are routinely undermined, ignored, or subsumed within a medical paradigm.This contemporary and unique guide will be valuable for all staff working with people with a mental illness. Its focus is on inpatient units, however it also applies to staff working in the community. The guide provides a broad understanding of values-based practice and how to work with people's values from a person-centred perspective.Developed by K.W.M. Fulford, values-based practice ensures that the person, as a patient, has their perspective acknowledged and considered in any decisions or actions taken. This book utilises a 10 principle decision-making framework to guide and enable clinicians to reflect on their engagement and clinical decisions. Using exercises and practice scenarios, values used in clinical practice, how they present in different situations and how they influence decision making are examined. It will assist you to critique and monitor your practice in order to maintain best care according to the patient's perspective.This book can be used as a standalone resource or to complement the training pack that goes with this guide, Applying Values-based Practice for People Experiencing Psychosis: A training pack for inpatient settings, also available from Pavilion.Table of ContentsSection 1: The importance of working with values to provide person-centred care Section 2: The importance of values for the person living with mental illness - historical perspective Section 3: The importance of including all values relevant to the person Section 4: How to stay connected with the person when there is a conflict of values Section 5: How to stay connected by being aware of different responses to values Section 6: How to manage your values.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook presents a much-needed overview of the recent developments in implementation science — a discipline that is young, has gained increasing attention in recent years, and has experienced substantial and rapid growth in knowledgeproduction and debate. It captures the latest developments in research and pushes the reader toward the next phase for implementation science: bridging the science-to-practice divide. Drawing from multidisciplinary, international research by top scholars in the field, this book provides a critical but friendly approach to understanding what implementation science is, what it isn’t, and where it’s going.Topics include:• Factors associated with effective implementation• Organizational context and readiness for change• Implementation theories, models, and frameworks• Enhancing implementation measurement• Bringing interventions to scale• Closing the science-practice gap in implementationImplementation Science 3.0 is a timely, important resource for researchers, students, and others with an interest in implementation working across the fields of social welfare,public health, education, and psychology.The chapter “Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks”,in which some modifications to the text were made, is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License in Nilsen, P. (2015). Implementation Science, 10(53), via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1: En Route to Implementation Science 3.0.- Chapter 2: CUTOS: A Framework for Contextualizing Evidence.- Chapter 3: Making Sense of Implementation Theories, Models and Frameworks.- Chapter 4: Factors Associated with Effective Implementation: Research and Practical Implications.- Chapter 5: Organizational Readiness for Change: What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Need to Know.- Chapter 6: Changing Organizational Social Context to Support Evidence-Based Practice Implementation: A Conceptual and Empirical Review.- Chapter 7: Implementation of Effective Services in Community Settings.- Chapter 8: Implementation Teams: A Stakeholder View of Leading and Sustaining Change.- Chapter 9: Advancing Implementation Science Measurement.- Chapter 10: Implementing Implementation: Integrating the Measurement of Implementation and Effectiveness in Complex Service Systems.- Chapter 11: The Scale Up of Linked Multilevel Interventions: A Case Study.- Chapter 12: Closing the Science-Practice Gap in Implementation Before It Widens.

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Book SynopsisPresenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss’s well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore’s idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled. Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches, Reciprocity in Human Societies suggests that evolutionary psychology reveals a human tendency for reciprocity and collaboration, not only in a mutually cooperative way but also through increasing retributive moral emotions. The book discusses various historical societies and the different models of the current welfare state—Nordic (social democratic), conservative, and liberal— and the repercussions of the neoliberal policies of tax havens, tax cuts, and austerity with a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges evolutionary psychology, sociology, and social anthropology with history.Trade Review“The book has many merits, and it can be warmly recommended to all researchers, teachers and students in wide fields of related research. Kujala and Danielsbacka clearly provide new insights into reciprocity by … shedding light on the questions of why and how reciprocity has played an important role in premodern and contemporary societies and will continue to do so in the future.” (Hans Hämäläinen, Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 53, 2018)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Inca and Maya Reciprocity.- 3. The Indian Gift and Village Servants.- 4. Moral Obligations in Early Modern Japan.- 5. Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in the Nordic Countries.- 6. Reciprocity in the French Army in the First World War and in the Finnish Army in 1941-44.- 7. The Modern Welfare State.- 8. Inequality in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries.- 9. Reciprocity Past and Present.

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Book SynopsisThis title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details alcohol’s status as a psychoactive drug; he notes, however, that in contrast to other psychoactive drugs, alcohol has been widely culturally accepted in Western countries and legally available, except in isolated incidents for a short period of time. Joshua considers which policies are being correctly utilised so as to reduce the abuse of alcohol, and how these policies may operate on a supply and demand model. Whereas programs of prevention and treatment operate on the demand side of alcohol abuse, legislation is directed at the supply side of alcohol; that is, dealing with marketing – product, promotion, point of sales and price. This is the second title in a four volume series ‘The Economics of Addictive Behaviours’, consisting of three additional volumes on smoking, illicit drug abuse and overeating. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Consumption of Alcohol World-Wide a) The Patterns of the Consumption of Alcohol b) The World-Wide Risk Factors of Alcohol Abuse 3. The Stages of Alcohol Abuse: From Initiation to Alcohol Dependence a) Living Conditions and Alcohol Abuse b) The Pathways from Initiation to Alcohol Dependence 4. The Consequences of Alcohol Abuse a) The Physiological Effects of Alcohol Abuse b) The Psycho-Social Effects of Alcohol Abuse c) The Processes of Alcohol Abuse and Dependence 5. The Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol Abuse a) Government Intervention in the Abuse of Alcohol b) The Effectiveness in the Intervention of the Abuse of Alcohol c) The Treatment of Alcohol Abuse d) The Prevention and Rehabilitation of Alcohol Abuse e) Harm Minimization as a Viable Strategy 6. Legal Remedies to Reduce the Abuse of Alcohol a) Educational Impact on the Reduction of Alcohol Abuse b) Conditions of Sales: Purchasing Outlets, Number of Locations and Density, and Hours of Opening c) Price Promotion and Discounts d) Randomized Breath Testing and Other Means to Prevent Driving Under the Influence e) Ban of Advertising of Alcoholic Beverages 7. The Market and the Social and Private Costs of Alcohol Abuse a) International Trade and Public Health b) The Social and Private Costs of Alcohol Abuse 8. Economic Remedies to Reduce Alcohol Abuse a) Elasticities and the Demand for Alcohol b) Taxation Policies to Reduce the Abuse of Alcohol 9. The Politics of Corporate and Social Responsibilities a) Corporate Social Responsibilities and Policies b) Corporate Responsibilities and Social Costs10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisInternational Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies. This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding of IOs in global social governance. It provides studies on a variety of social policy fields in which different, but also the same, IOs operate. The chapters shed light on IO involvement in a particular social policy field by describing the population of participating IOs; exploring how a particular global social policy field is constituted as a whole, and which dominant IOs set the trends. The contributors also examine the discourse within, and between, these IOs on the respective social policies. As such, this first-of-its kind book contributes to research on social policy and international relations, both in terms of theoretical substantiation and empirical scope. Table of ContentsPart I Introduction 1 The Architecture of Arguments in Global Social Governance: Examining Populations and Discourses of International Organizations in Social Policies Part II Labor and Migration 2 International Organizations’ Involvement in Youth Unemployment as a Global Policy Field, and the Global Financial Crisis 3 International Organizations and Global Labor Standards 4 International Organizations, Care and Migration: The Case of Migrant Health Care Workers 5 International Organizations and the Global Social Governance of Pensions Part III Family and Education 6 Governing Children’s Rights in Global Social Policy—International Organizations and the Thin Line Between Child Protection and Empowerment 7 Global Discourses, Regional Framings and Individual Showcasing: Analyzing the World of Education IOs 8 IOs’ Role in Global Social Governance: Family Policy 9 Disability as a ‘New’ Global Social Theme: The Role of International Organizations in an Expanding Global Policy Field Part IV Health and Environment 10 Characterizing Global Health Governance by International Organizations: Is There an Ante- and Post-COVID-19 Architecture? 11 IOs and Climate Change: Toward Global Eco-Social Policy 12 Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security 13 International Organizations and Food: Nearing the End of the Lean Season? Part V Conclusion 14 International Organizations and the Architecture of Arguments in Global Social Governance

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Book SynopsisThis book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to the developing of policymaking and, in general, to the understanding of social phenomena. It draws from the experience and data of a large-scale project, RECRIRE, funded by the H2020 program that mapped the symbolic universes across Europe after the economic crisis. It further develops the relationship between culture and policy-making discussed in two previous volumes in this series, and constitutes the ideal third and final element of this trilogy. The book is a useful tool for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers attentive to the cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies.Table of ContentsPART I. Framework.- Chapter 1. The meaning of culture and the call for policies of cultural development.- Chapter 2. Cultural theories and Policies.- PART 2. Field explorations.- Chapter 3. What to do. Cultural and symbolic components of place-based policy for migrants' inclusion.- Chapter 4. Innovation and institutions: Reframing policies and the culture of local administration.- Chapter 5. Economic policies as a driver of cultural development.- Chapter 6.The dialectic between demand and supply in welfare domain. How does policies can survive in context of high personality intensity.- Chapter 7. How, where and when culture matters. A meta-analysis of the case studies.- Chapter 8. Conclusions: culture and the need to re-politicize policy making.- PART 3. Discussion.-Chapter 9. Commentary.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several subfields of social policy, in order to interrogate which network dimensions drive this process. The focus is on a global perspective of social policy diffusion via networks, and it is the first book to explicitly follow this macro-quantitative perspective on diffusion at a global scale whilst also comparing different networks. The collection tests the network structures in terms of their relevance to the diffusion process in different subfields of social policy such as old age and survivor pensions, labor and labor markets, health and long-term care, education and training, and family and gender policy.The book will therefore be invaluable to students and researchers of global social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, organization theory and economics.Table of ContentsNetworks of Global Social Policy Diffusion: The Effects of Culture, Economy, Colonial legacies, and Geographic Proximity.- The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building.- Networks of Global Policy Diffusion. The Introduction of Compulsory Education.- The Global Diffusion of Adult Basic Education.- The Emergence of Healthcare Systems.- Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems: The Nascent Diffusion of an Emergent Field of Social Policy.- Origins of Family Policy: Prerequisites or Diffusion.- From Geneva to the World? Global Network Diffusion of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Employment and Occupation: The ILO’s C111.- The Diffusion of Workplace Anti-discrimination Regulations for the LGBTQ+ Community.- Critical Summary and Concluding Remarks.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook will familiarize readers with some of the most pressing solidarity and social justice issues in contemporary societies. Ongoing and emerging inequalities along the lines of gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnic background, and sexual orientation challenge the solidarity underlying societies, resulting in complex questions of social justice. Moreover, several global challenges, such as digitalization, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge solidarity and social justice in new ways. How do societies respond to these enduring, growing or changing inequalities? Do these challenges lead to an expansion or an erosion of solidarity, in an 'us versus them' rhetoric? And to what extent do societies differ in their social justice values and hence the acceptance of social inequality? Taking a sociological, psychological, and political philosophical approach to these topics, this book offers state-of-the art theoretical and empirical contributions from globally-recognized scholars in sociology, psychology, and political philosophy, providing a unique interdisciplinary approach to understanding solidarity and social justice in response to social inequalities in contemporary European societies.Table of ContentsSection I Introduction. 1 Why Solidarity and Social Justice Still Matter Today. Introduction. Key Concepts in the Book. Outline of the Book. Glossary. References. Section II Theoretical Perspectives on Solidarity and Social Justice. 2 Who We Are and Who We Choose to Help (or Not): An. Introduction to Social Identity Theory. Introduction. A Brief Introduction to Social Identity Theory. How Can Social Identities Encourage Intergroup Animosity and Resistance to Social Change?. How Can Social Identities Facilitate Intergroup Solidarity and Social Change?. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 3 Understanding Solidarity in Society: Triggers and Barriers for In and Outgroup Solidarity. Introduction. Forms of Solidarity: To Whom Do We Owe?. Social Justice: What Do We Owe?. Macro−/Meso-level Solidarity: Sociological Ideas About Social Justice and Solidarity. Micro-level Solidarity: Psychological Ideas on Solidarity. Conclusion: Social Justice and Solidarity. Glossary. References. 4 Social Justice and the Justification of Social Inequalities. Introduction. What Is a Just Distribution of Burdens and Benefits?. How Can We Create a Just Decision-Making Process?. Who Is Included in Our Justice Judgments?. How Do People Justify Injustice and Inequalities?. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 5 The Philosophy of Social Justice and Welfare Provision: Towards Capacitating Solidarity. Introduction. The Good Polity: From T.H. Marshall to John Rawls. The Good Life: From the Means of Economic Security to the Ends of Human Flourishing. ‘Stepping-Stone’ Solidarity to Complement ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Piggy-Bank’ Social Security. Conclusion: The Correlates of the Good Life in the Good Polity. Glossary. References. 6 Who Should Get What and Why? Insights from Welfare Deservingness Theory. Introduction. The Welfare Deservingness Model. Individual and Contextual Differences in Deservingness Opinions. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Section III An Empirical Overview of Social Inequalities Across Societal Fault Lines. 7 Gender Stereotypes: What Are They and How Do They Relate to Social Inequality?. Introduction. Where Do Gender Stereotypes Come From and How Are They Reinforced?. Gender Stereotypes and Social Inequality. Promoting Gender Equality. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 8 Gender Inequality: Perceptions of Fairness and Justice. Introduction. Gender Inequality in Housework, Care Work, and Paid Employment. A Social Justice Framework for Understanding Gender Inequality. Empirical Example: Accepting Unfair Arrangements at Work. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 9 Modern Ageism and Age Stereotyping. Introduction. Age-Related Stereotypes. Stereotype Origins. Consequences of Stereotypes. Countering Modern Ageism. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 10 Is the Intergenerational Social Contract Under Pressure?.-Studying Age Cleavages in Attitudes Towards Government Support for the Young and the Old. Introduction. Age and Attitudes Towards Welfare Provision for the Young and the Old. Data and Methodology. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 11 How to Study and Understand Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health. Introduction. Defining and Measuring Socioeconomic Position. Intersectionality, Self-Perceived SEP, and Stereotypes. Consequences of SEP for Health and Well-Being. Battling Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health and Well-Being. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 12 Deservingness and Socio-Economic Cleavages. Introduction. Deservingness theory and Socio-Economic Differences. Deservingness perceptions in Slovenia and Germany. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 13 They Take Away Our Jobs! They Undermine Our National Culture! Public Perceptions of Immigrants and Their Consequences for Solidarity Across Ethnic Boundaries. Introduction. Are They Friendly and Competent? Stereotypes of Immigrants. Stereotypes as Barriers for Inter-Ethnic Solidarity in the Context of Immigration. Host Society Members’ Perceptions of Economic and Cultural Threats. Threat Perceptions as Barriers for Host Society’s Solidarity with Immigrants. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 14 Welfare Chauvinism: Are Immigrants Granted Access to Welfare State Benefits?. Introduction. Welfare Chauvinism in Relation to the Welfare Deservingness Literature. Explanations of Welfare Chauvinism. Incidence of Welfare Chauvinism. Welfare Chauvinism: EU Versus Non-EU Immigrants and Different Welfare State Domains. Immigrants Themselves on Welfare State Access. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 15 Sexual Orientation as Social Justice Fault Line: The Role of Stigmatised Identities and Minority Community Solidarity in Social Inequalities in Wellbeing. Introduction. Social Inequality Affecting Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People. Social Stigma, Minority Stress and Wellbeing of LGB People. Solidarity to Achieve Social Justice for LGB People. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 16 Perceptions of Deservingness: Civil and Social Rights for Same-Sex Families. Introduction. Civil and Social Rights of Same-Sex Families Within the EU: The Debate. The Current Study: Data and Methods. Results. Civil and Social Rights of Citizens Who Move Within the EU. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Section IV Global Challenges to Solidarity and Social Justice. 17 Leaving No One Behind: Climate Change as a Societal Challenge for Social Justice and Solidarity. Introduction. Environmental Justice in Reaction to Climate Change. Individual Behaviour in Climate Change Mitigation. Beyond the Motivation for Sustainable Behaviour. Sustainability Transitions: Challenges for Solidarity and Social Justice. Glossary. References. 18 Digitalisation of Public Services as a Challenge to Social Justice. Introduction. Digitalisation of Public Services Provision. Social Justice and the Digital Divide. Conclusion. Glossary. References. 19 The Covid-19 Pandemic and Societal Challenges to Solidarity and Social Justice: Consequences for Vulnerable Groups. Introduction. Inequalities in the Prevalence and Severity of COVID-19. Inequalities in the Impact of Measures to Curb COVID-19. Challenges to Solidarity and Social Justice During the Ongoing Pandemic. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Section V Conclusions. 20 Understanding Solidarity and Social Justice: Barriers that Remain. Introduction. Key Conclusions About Solidarity and Social Justice. Solidarity, and Social Justice in a Changing World?. References.

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Book SynopsisThis book on end of life examines how to include people with intellectual and developmental disability in the inevitability of dying and death. Comprising 17 chapters, it addresses challenging and under-researched topics including suicide, do-not-resuscitate, advance care planning, death doulas and accessible funerals. Topics reflect everyday community, palliative care, hospice and disability services.The book proposes that the rights of people with disabilities should be supported up to and after their death. Going beyond problem identification, the chapters offer positive, evidence-supported responses that translate research to practice, together with practice examples and resources grounded in lived experience. The book is applicable to readers from the disability field, and mainstream health professionals who assist people with disability in emergency care, palliative care or end-of-life planningTable of ContentsChapter 1: Current and New Developments in Death, Dying and End-Of-Life Care Policies and Practices.- Chapter 2: Experience of End-of-Life Issues by People with Intellectual Disability.- Chapter 3: Suicide and Autism: A Lifespan Perspective.- Chapter 4: Advance Care Planning with and for People who have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Chapter 5: Decision-Making at the End of Life: Challenges and Opportunities for People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Residential Homes in Germany.- Chapter 6: How People with Intellectual Disability are Dying and Implications for Quality Care.- Chapter 7: Living and Dying Well with Dementia.- Chapter 8: Building shared end-of-life supports and cross-training for hospice/palliative and intellectual disability services providers.- Chapter 9: Supporting People with Intellectual Disability at End of Life: Moral Distress among Staff Caregivers During COVID-19.- Chapter 10: Accessible Funerals and People with Intellectual Disability.- Chapter 11: End-of-Life Doulas and People Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.- Chapter 12: Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children with Intellectual Disabilities.- Chapter 13: End-of-life Issues and Support Needs of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disability.- Chapter 14: The Process of Dying.- Chapter 15: Use of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders.- Chapter 16: Positioning the Issues: An Agenda for Future End-of-life Research, Policy and Practice.- Chapter 17 End-of Life Resources.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Tourette's syndrome: What we know, what we don't know, and what we still haven't asked.- Chapter 3: Tourette's Stigma.- Chapter 4: Research methods, and ethics.- Chapter 5:Tourette's syndrome and comedy.- Chapter 6: Tourette's Stigma in Everyday Interactions: Staring and the Paradox of Hypervisibility and Invisibility.- Chapter 7: Mass Media And Tourette's Stigma Shaping Stigma and Society's Perception.- Chapter 8: Educational Experiences of Students with Tourette's Syndrome: Navigating Inclusion, Stigma, and Systemic Barriers.- Chapter 9 Tourette's stigma within employment, and strategies to create an inclusive workplace.- Chapter 10: Barriers to Care: The Impact of Stigma and Systemic Inequities on Health and Support for Individuals with Tourette's.- Chapter 11: Management of TS stigma.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.

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