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Book SynopsisGraduate students in social work are dedicated to gaining the skills and knowledge to promote individual, family, and community well-being. Yet, students often struggle with translating research concepts into best practice. They must garner the skills to consider 1) client needs and preferences, 2) the best available evidence, and 3) the implementation context. Evidence-Based Practice Process in Social Work: Critical Thinking for Clinical Practice offers a framework for aligning these three essential ingredients of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. The book is divided into three major sections, with Section 1 consisting of the first three chapters that include a brief overview of the EBP process (Chapter 1), methods on how to conduct assessments and to rely on assessment data to formulate practice driven questions (Chapter 2) and locate culturally relevant studies to address them (Chapter 3). Section 2 covers Chapters 4-6, focusing on the other types of research designs that may help inform what interventions to implement. Section 3 focuses on what factors may impact implementation of the intervention plan, and under what circumstances it may need to be adapted. Chapter 10 focuses on the different methods to monitor client progress. Finally, a review of key concepts and additional complex case studies to reflect upon are included in Chapter 11. Acknowledging the complexity of context in the EBP process, each chapter operationalizes the EBP process with instructions, case studies, and exercises to enhance student understanding.Table of ContentsSection I: Gathering Evidence Chapter 1. Introduction: Overview of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Chapter 2. Client Assessment and the Development of PICO Questions Chapter 3. Locating Research to Inform Practice Questions (Jacqueline Corcoran, Sherry Morgan, and Antonio R. Garcia) Section II: Critiquing the Evidence Chapter 4. Randomized Control Trials and Alternatives for the EBP Process Chapter 5. The Role of Systematic Reviews In the EBP Process Chapter 6. Qualitative Research and the EBP Process (Jacqueline Corcoran, Holly Bell, and Antonio R. Garcia) Section III: Implementing the Evidence Chapter 7. Introduction to Implementation Science (Antonio R. Garcia, Sean E. Snyder, Courtney Wolk, and Jacqueline Corcoran) Chapter 8. Identifying and Addressing Common Barriers to Applying the EBP process (Antonio R. Garcia, Courtney Wolk, Sean E. Snyder, and Jacqueline Corcoran) Chapter 9. Adaptation Chapter 10. Review and Critique of Methods to Evaluate Practice Chapter 11. Review and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFeel it, stay with it, share it, and let it go. Take your life back from stress and trauma using self-help versions of proven treatments.Up to 90% of adults in the US will experience one or more traumatic events in their lifetimes, including interpersonal violence, traffic collisions, and sexual assault. Traumatic events and other difficult experiences (such as miscarriage, job loss, and divorce) can have a long-lasting impact on mental health and well-being. While most who suffer a trauma naturally recover over time, for others difficulties continue, and may lead to full-blown depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use, anxiety disorders, and other problems that interfere with healthy daily functioning. Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences is a self-guided mental health resource for people who have had potentially traumatic experiences and who wish to work through them independently, outside of a formal therapeutic setting. Based on psychological treatments witTrade ReviewCompassionate, yet directive, Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences provides readers step-by-step guidance and helpful tips for healing from trauma and finding resilience through adversity. Bringing a combined 50 years of clinical experience and informed by science, Drs. Rauch and Rothbaum have provided readers with timely education and practical strategies for coping with the effects of trauma and difficult experiences. For self-help readers and therapists alike, I highly recommend this book! * Elizabeth M. Goetter, Associate Professor, La Salle University & Clinical Consultant, Massachusetts General Hospital *Backed by decades of research on how to effectively treat PTSD, this book provides people who have experienced traumatic events with the knowledge needed to navigate their own recovery. Through compelling case examples, worksheets, and practices, readers are guided through how to process difficult memories and reengage in life to prevent long-term suffering. This book will be a valuable resource for people who are unable or prefer not to seek professional treatment and will empower them to take the steps needed to reclaim their lives after trauma. * Melanie Harned, PhD, School of Medicine, University of Washington *This very useful self-help workbook provides a step-by-step guide to implement a proven self-help plan for managing painful memories of stressful experiences. The accumulated wisdom of Professors Rauch and Rothbaum is packed into a highly readable, highly practical, evidence-based text. I recommend the workbook to anyone who if having difficulty resolving complex and painful emotions associated with highly stressful experiences, whether these experiences occurred only recently or in the distant past. * Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, McNeil Family Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School *Table of ContentsCh. 1 What Difficult Experiences Does Making Meaning Target? Ch. 2 Why Approach Difficult Experiences? Ch. 3 Memory Exposure and Processing Ch. 4 Behavioral Activation Ch. 5 Social Connection Ch. 6 Self-care Ch. 7 Considering When to See a Professional

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this eagerly awaited second edition of his contemporary classic, Wicks readably synthesizes vast literatures on stress and coping, trauma and loss, positive psychology and posttraumatic growth, to trace a roadmap to resilience that is as refreshing in its clarity as it is remarkable in its comprehensiveness. But more than orienting readers to the rich yield of recent research and timeless wisdom, Wicks orients them to the deeper source of learning arising from taking a fearless inventory of their own interior life and the treasures to be found in its unhurried perusal. One part mentor, one part fellow traveler, he offers his stressed and harried colleagues a cornucopia of questions which, if asked earnestly, will point out a pathway to authentic living. * Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, Director of The Portland Institute for Loss and Transition *Resilience is a concept and practice that many of us assume we know more about than we do, and yet developing capacities for resilience remains fundamentally important for human wellbeing and flourishing. Robert Wicks helps us develop these capacities and furthers a conversation on resilience that he's led for well over a decade, with new stories, nuggets of wisdom, and a new chapter on posttraumatic growth, among other updates to his previous edition of this book. If I were to recommend a single book on the topic of resilience, this would be it. After reading it, I feel not only more resilient; I feel more human and humane. * Allan Cole, PhD, Dean, Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin *Table of ContentsHave a Life! An Introduction Ch. 1 Navigating Life's Rough Waters: Riding the Crest of Chronic and Acute Stress Ch. 2 Personal Renewal: Creating and Tailoring Your Own Self-Care Protocol Ch. 3 A Powerful Healing Combination: Friendship, Resilience, Positive Psychology and Compassion Ch. 4 Points of New Light Amidst the Darkness: Applying Themes from Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) Ch. 5 The First Steps Toward Self-Knowledge: Debriefing Yourself Ch. 6 Solitude, Silence, and Mindfulness: Centering Yourself in a Driven World The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart: An Epilogue Appendix A: Creating and Reflecting Upon Your Own Stress-Resilience Profile: An Exercise in Strengthening Your Inner Life Appendix B: An Individual Reflection Guide Further Reading: Resilience, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, and Contemporary Biographies/Autobiographies of Resilient People Works Cited Permissions Index

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Book SynopsisIn this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy. For decades, these front-line caregivers labored in the shadows of a welfare state that shaped the conditions of the occupation. Disparate, often chaotic programs for home care, which allowed needy, elderly, and disabled people to avoid institutionalization, historically paid poverty wages to the African American and immigrant women who constituted the majority of the labor force. Yet policymakers and welfare administrators linked discourses of dependence and iTrade ReviewAlthough Caring for America was the subject of numerous reviews at the time of its publication in 2012, it is only now, seven years later, that we can grasp the importance of its contribution to the literature on thecarework. * Sonya Michel, Clio: Femmes, Genre, Historie *Caring for America is a remarkable achievement. At once a simple story of how a large and growing sector of disadvantaged women fought for dignity and the right to be treated as workers, it is simultaneously a subtle analysis of the tension between private needs and state intervention. This inspiring tale is, in important ways, the story of modern America. * Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America *This long awaited book is the definitive historical account of the growth of employment and unionization in publicly funded home care work. Boris and Klein provide a powerful, deeply researched analysis of this burgeoning type of 'intimate labor,' past and present. Caring for America is a must-read for anyone interested in low-wage work, the labor movement, and the future of the massive and rapidly expanding carework sector of the U.S. economy. * Ruth Milkman, City University of New York, and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement *Caring for America is an outstanding study of an industry, social movements, and the people who compose them. It is fundamentally an analysis of a fight for social and economic justice and a tribute to a workforce that has emerged out of invisibility and become a source of energy for a workers' movement operating both inside and outside organized labor. Boris and Klein introduce the reader to a decades old struggle for dignity which has witnessed twists and turns but in order to sustain itself must rely on its own energy rather than the good-will of outsiders. * Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of Solidarity Divided and Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center *Is caring for the ill and the elderly real work or purely a labor of love? Engaging and deeply insightful, Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein's Caring for America draws on historical record to make an irrefutable case for the social, economic, and political significance of carework. Scholars, policy-makers, and all of us who provide or require care should pay notice. * Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University *Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein's Caring for America investigates the history of the home health care crisis. The study makes a significant contribution to labor history, welfare history, and the history of health care. ... Caring for America is thoroughly researched, sophisticated study by top scholars who have produced an important exploration of home health care in the United States." * The Journal of American History *Caring for America is an important, difficult, and timely book... [it] will be a tremendous asset to legal historians, labor historians, and scholars of the United States welfare state. * Law and History Review *Boris and Klein's study is exemplary... and is one of the finest studies anywhere of the complex political and economic interests that are associated with care. * Labour/Le Travail *Caring for America [is] part feminist critique of the welfare state, part labor history, part organizing case study... Boris and Klein meticulously trace the role of government policy in the creation of home care as a low-wage occupation. * DISSENT *Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein fill a void in the literature devoted to care work by documenting the history of this struggle for recognition. In addition to its passionate yet sober prose style, the strength of the argument comes from the authors' particular perspective. While both are professional historians, they study home care work through the voices of worker activists who fought for justice. Thus, this text is as much a history of a social movement as it is a history of public policy. Indeed, the authors treat these two forces, policy and praxis, as dialectically related. And this dynamic, movement oriented character of the study reveals an authorial imagination as much sociological as historical. * Critical Sociology *Historians Boris and Klein give us a narrative of the development of this still-evolving job-as well as of the activism and organizing of these workers-that is at once compelling in its nuance and local specificity and sophisticated in it analytical breadth. ...a rich historical analysis... * Signs *This important book brings attention to a neglected segment of the contemporary US workforce. Caring for America is essential reading for historians of labor and the welfare state. Policymakers, organizers, workers, and current and future clients must take stock of the authors' crucial point that working conditions and the quality of care are interdependent. * Labor *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Illustrations ; Abbreviations ; Acknowledgments ; Preface: The Personal Is Prologue ; Introduction: Making the Private Public ; Chapter 1: Neither Nurses nor Maids ; Chapter 2: Rehabilitative Missions ; Chapter 3: Caring for the Great Society ; Chapter 4: Welfare Wars, Seventies Style ; Chapter 5: <"Take Us Out of Slavery>" ; Chapter 6: <"The Union Is Us>" ; Chapter 7: <"We Were the Invisible Workforce>" ; Epilogue: Challenging Care

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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world''s leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The Handbook is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state''s history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalization. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state.The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This landmark book achieves its aspiration to provide the "most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published"... it should be part of the foundation collection in any college library. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *This is a landmark book for international scholarship in social policy. It has been compiled by some of the leading international scholars in the field and published, in some style, by Oxford University Press all academics in the field should ensure that university libraries acquire copies of the book. It will prove to be an essential reference for all those studying social policy, as well as many in politics, public administration, sociology and other cognate subjects. More generally, it is attention to detail, co-existing with breadth of vision and reach, which make this such an attractive book. The editors and their contributors are addressing most of the big questions that underpin the history of the welfare state and its future prospects, and they are doing this on an international scale. If you are not passionate about social policy before encountering this Handbook, then surely you will be once you have begun to delve into it. * Journal of Social Policy *Table of ContentsPART I PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATIONS AND CRITIQUES OF THE WELFARE STATE; PART II HISTORY; PART III APPROACHES; PART IV INPUTS AND ACTORS; PART V POLICIES; PART VI POLICY OUTCOMES; PART VII WORLDS OF WELFARE; PART VIII PROSPECTS

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Book SynopsisThis work explores the political, social and economic forces that shape US policies affecting human services. Seeking to shed light on the tension between individual and social responsibility, it should appeal to economists, social scientists and policy-makers concerned with social policy issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Victor R. Fuchs 1: Overview Timothy Taylor 2: Child Care: Private Cost or Public Responsibility? Arleen Leibowitz Comment: Francine D. Blau 3: Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Externalities, and Equity, and Their Connection to Rising Costs Eric A. Hanushek Comment: Christopher Jencks 4: Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology Henry J. Aaron Comment: Martin Feldstein 5: To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care Alan M. Garber Comment: John B. Shoven 6: Consumption Externalities and the Financing of Social Services Robert H. Frank Comment: Amartya Sen 7: Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement Paul M. Romer Comment: Roger G. Noll 8: Information, Responsibility, and Human Services Kenneth J. Arrow Comment: Glenn C. Loury 9: The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services Henry Hansmann Comment: Joseph A. Grundfest 10: Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why? James M. Poterba Comment: Richard J. Zeckhauser 11: The Politics of American Social Policy, Past and Future Theda Skocpol Comment: Seymour Martin Lipset Contributors Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisLooks at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering an evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, this title offers essential information and a number of solutions to policymakers.Trade Review"Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass." (David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World) "The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policymakers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they - as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races - would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis." (Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review)"

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that underpins this practice, with a view to outlining new roles for museums within community health and social care.This book engages with the recent growing focus on community participation in museum activities, notably in the area of health and wellbeing. It explores this theme through an analysis of the practices of community engagement workers at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in the UK. It examines how this work is operationalised and valued in the museum, and the institutional barriers to this practice. It presents the practices of care that shape community-led exhibitions, and community engagement projects involving health and social care partners and their clients. Drawing on the ethics of care and geographies of care literatures, this text provides readers with novel perspectives for transforming the museum into Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The Participatory Turn in Museums 2. The Problem of Engagement Part 2: The Institutional Life of Community Engagement Workers 3. The Language of Community Engagement 4. Managing Community Engagement Part 3: The Emotional Life of Community Engagement Workers 5. Community Engagement as Care Work 6. Curatorial Work and Care Part 4: Social Care in The Museum 7. The Museum as a Space of Social Care

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Book SynopsisIn the second edition of Inequality in U.S. Social Policy: An Historic Analysis, Bryan Warde illuminates the pervasive and powerful role that social inequality based on race and ethnicity, gender, immigration status, sexual orientation, class, and disability plays and has historically played in informing social policy. Using critical race theory and other structural oppression theoretical frameworks, this book examines social inequalities as they relate to social welfare, education, housing, employment, health care, and child welfare, immigration, and criminal justice. With fully updated statistics throughout, and an examination of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States, this new edition addresses the mammoth political and social changes which have affected inequality in the past few years.Inequality in U.S. Social Policy will help social work students better understand the origins of inequalities that their clients face, as well as provTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Social Policy 2. A Brief Historical Overview of Social Policy Development in the United States 3. Social Inequality 4. Theoretical Frameworks 5. Immigration 6. Social Welfare Benefits Programs and Social Control 7. Residential and Housing Segregation 8. Labor Market Inequality 9. Health and Health Care Inequality 10. Criminal Justice System Inequality 11. Educational Inequality 12. Child Welfare Inequality Index

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Book SynopsisParenting Coordination is a child-centered process for conflicted divorced and divorcing parents. The Parenting Coordinator (PC) makes decisions to help high-conflict parents who cannot agree to parenting decisions on their own. This professional text serves as a training manual for use in all states and provinces which utilize Parenting Coordination, addressing the intervention process and the science that supports it. The text offers up-to-date research, a practical guide for training, service provision, and references to relevant research for quality parenting coordination practice. Specifically, this book describes the integrated model of Parenting Coordination, including the Parent Coordinator''s professional role, responsibilities, protocol for service, and ethical guidelines.

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Book SynopsisPeople with intellectual disability are more likely to experience mental health difficulties, and their treatment responses may differ from those in the general population. This book, written by leading clinical practitioners from around the world, provides comprehensive guidance on prescribing for people with intellectual disability, as well as general information on their clinical care. The guidelines have been conceived and developed by clinicians working in intellectual disability services. Combining the latest evidence and expert opinion, they provide a consensus approach to prescribing as part of a holistic package of care, and include numerous case examples and scenarios. Now in its fourth edition, this update reflects the changes in prescribing practice; it places emphasis on clinical scenarios and case examples and includes input from service users and their families. This is a practical guide for busy clinicians, and a valuable reference for all primary and secondary healthcare professionals.

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Book SynopsisDescribing an innovative approach to the evaluation of complex health interventions, this book allows reader to assess what interventions work, how and for whom. Proposing how realist evaluation methods may be incorporated within trials and systematic reviews, this approach provides useful evidence to inform policy and scientific advancement.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Why are trials and systematic reviews necessary but insufficient to inform health policy?; 3. Realist critiques and manifesto for evaluation and reviews; 4. Building realist theory in evaluations; 5. Refining realist theory through process evaluations; 6. Testing realist theory through trials or other evaluation designs; 7. Building and refining realist theory in systematic reviews; 8. Testing realist theory through synthesising outcome evaluations; 9. Using evidence to inform intervention scale-up and transfer; 10. Using evidence to refine middle range theory; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings a fresh approach and conversation to the practice of professional supervision for human services by specifically articulating its often performed, but unnamed and under-explored therapeutic function. The discussion of the therapeutic function is timely given the rising complexities in our world, and the increasing awareness of emotional impacts of human service work. These impacts include stress, distress, emotional labour, indirect trauma, and direct trauma. Posing a challenge and invitation to supervisors to comfortably inhabit the therapeutic function of supervision to increase emotional support to workers, it places safe practice and worker wellbeing at the heart of supervision to enable high quality service delivery for often the most vulnerable in society. While underpinned by theory, it is written to be practically applied and is developed from a lived experience' perspective, offering a unique glimpse into actual practice. By modelling one of tTrade Reviewhttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/1121https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02667363.2023.2270738?src=Table of Contents0.Introduction. 1.Defining the therapeutic function of supervision. 2.Relational skills to enable the therapeutic function. 3.Developing a coherent narrative. 4.Working with emotions. 5.Working with relational dynamics. 6.Connecting to compassion. 7.Supporting courage, grit, and resilience. 8.Strengthening holistic wellbeing. X.Conclusion

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Book SynopsisVirtual Reality Interventions for Patients under Palliative Care is a groundbreaking guide that empowers healthcare professionals to transform end-of-life care with the innovative use of virtual reality (VR).

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Book SynopsisInsecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combining insights from psychology, political science and labour market research, this book offers new theories and evidence on the political repercussions of temporary jobs.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Labour Market Change in Europe: Determinants and Effects of Temporary Work Contracts3. Theoretical Perspectives on the Political Behaviour of Temporary Workers4. The Policy Preferences of Temporary Workers5. The Party Preferences of Temporary Workers6. The Voting Behaviour of Temporary Workers7. Are Temporary Workers Politically Alienated8. ConclusionsAppendix

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Comparative Health Policy: An Introduction 2. The Context of Health Care 3. Funding, Provision and Governance 4. Setting Priorities and Allocating Resources 5. The Health Workforce 6. Health Care Beyond the Hospital 7. Public Health 8. Understanding Health Policy Comparatively.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services.Table of Contents1. What Do We Mean by ‘Child Online Safety’.- 2. Public Concern and the Policy “Solution”.- 3. Young People and Digital Lives.- 4. Gaming: Violent Content = Violent Children?.- 5. Sexting: “The Teen Epidemic”.- 6. How Big is the Gulf?.- 7. Where next?

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Book SynopsisDerek Fraser is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Teesside, UK, where he was formerly Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive. He was also previously Professor of British History at UCLA, USA.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Select Time Chart, 1801-2016 Introduction: Perspectives on the History of Welfare 1. The Factory Question 2. The Poor Law 3. Public Health 4. Education and Welfare 5. Laissez-faire and State Intervention in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 6. The Growing Awareness of Poverty 7. Liberal Social Policy, 1905-14 8. Politics and Policy, 1914-39 9. War and Welfare in the 1940s 10. The Welfare State in Modern Britain Conclusion Two Centuries of Welfare History: An Overview Documentary Appendix Notes and References Select Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisResearch shows that intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is the most common form of sexual assault. Professional focus is often on the victim, but more information is needed about the perpetrators in order to have a fuller understanding of this crime. The very nature of IPSV sexual assault within a relationship means that professionals who work with victims must understand the dynamics of perpetrators as well.This new book will distill the knowledge that exists about perpetrators of IPSV. It includes chapters by authors who have worked directly with IPSV perpetrators and covers important subjects such as addressing IPSV in batterer groups, police management strategies, the danger of IPSV to children, the different types of violence perpetrators use, and prevention approaches for young people. There is also still a widely held view that rapists are strangers in alleyways. This book is intended to educate professionals about who is a perpetrator, as well as to highlight thTrade Review'Perpetrators of IPSV is an important and valuable contribution to our understanding of this widespread, yet understudied, form of violence. Noted scholars, practitioners and survivors offer new research as well as extensive intervention and prevention recommendations. This volume will prove most useful for all of us working to end sexual violence.' - Kersti Yllo, Wheaton College, U.S.A 'The subjects of this comprehensive, well-researched, and disturbing collection are the men who have sexually assaulted a partner and the effects on the women and children who are victimized by them. The book is long overdue, much needed, and path-breaking.' - Evan Stark, Rutgers University, U.S.A'McOrmond-Plummer, Easteal and Levy-Peck have made a critical contribution to the field of violence against women with this multi-disciplinary book that addresses a highly understudied phenomena. For far too long there has been a dearth of information about men who sexually abuse their intimate partners. This important book assembles leading experts from a variety of disciplines to address this void in an important way. For those who are working in the community with perpetrators, those working with women who have been victimized by their partners and others committed to ending violence against women, this book is essential reading.This book contributes in an important way to furthering our understanding of IPSV as 'real rape' with very real consequences for society and most importantly, the lives of women who are victimized by their partners.' - Raquel Bergen, Saint Joseph's University, U.S.ATable of ContentsList of contributorsForeword - Evan StarkAcknowledgementsPart 1: Moving the Focus to Perpetrators and their Impact Introduction: Why a Focus on Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence is Essential – Louise McOrmond-Plummer, Patricia Easteal AM, and Jennifer Y. Levy-Peck Talking to Killers: What Can They Tell Us About Sexual Assault as a Risk Factor for Homicide? – David Adams Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Sexual Violence – Kathryn Ford Part 2: Who Are the Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence? The Mindset of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Perpetrators: Motivations and Myths – Patricia Easteal AM and Louise McOrmond-Plummer Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Perpetrators and Entitlement – Debra Parkinson Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: Characteristics & Motivations – Joseph A. Camilleri and Melissa M. Miele What Type of Men Sexually Assault Their Partners, and Why Do Women Love Them? Beyond Stereotyping – Louise McOrmond-Plummer Part 3: Perpetrators’ Strategies for Control What Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Looks Like: Coercive Methods of Perpetrators – Louise McOrmond-Plummer "But He Didn’t Hit Me" – Living with a Non-Physical-Battering Sexual Abuser – Lindsey Mason Lucky to Be Alive: A Battering Partner Rapist – Louise McOrmond-Plummer Perpetrators and Reproductive Coercion – Jennifer Y. Levy-Peck Part 4: How Perpetrators are Condoned: The Social Context of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence The Role of Male Peer Support in Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Perpetrators’ Offending – Walter S. DeKeseredy The Role of Adult Pornography in Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Perpetrators’ Offending – Walter S. DeKeseredy and Rus Ervin Funk The Court’s Response to Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Perpetrators – Anna Carline and Patricia Easteal AM Intimate Partner Sexual Violence and Family Law – Angela Lynch, Janet Loughman, and "Eleanor," with commentary by Thomas P. Alongi When Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Intersects with Faith Traditions and Practices – Marie M. Fortune Part 5: Community Prevention and Intervention with Perpetrators Addressing and Combatting Intimate Partner Sexual Violence – Rus Ervin Funk and Lundy Bancroft Intimate Partner Sexual Violence and Perpetrator Programs: Project Mirabal Research Findings – Nicole Westmarland and Liz Kelly Law Enforcement Response to Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Perpetrators – Mike Davis Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Prevention with Young People – Kat Monusky and Jennifer Y. Levy-Peck Preventing Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment with Young People: A One-Year Follow-up on the Shifting Boundaries Intervention – Bruce G. Taylor, Elizabeth A. Mumford, Weiwei Liu, and Nan D. Stein Conclusion: A Fresh Approach to Prevention, Identification, and Accountability of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Perpetrators – Jennifer Y. Levy-Peck, Patricia Easteal AM, and Louise McOrmond-Plummer Index

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Book SynopsisThe popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a uniquely global view of an expanding field that challenges these and other stereotypes of cross-border marriage.Table of ContentsIntroducing Cross-Border Marriage Migration Gendering Migration An Agency Approach to Understanding Marriage Migration An Overview of Global Cross-Border Marriage Migration Power, Stigma and Violence in Migration and Cross-border Marriage Transnational Marriage within South Asian Communities Cross-border Marriages within East Asia Marriage within Refugee Communities – Some Examples of Transnational and Non-transnational Marriages Migration Regimes and Policy Implications Migrant Life/ Married Life - Life as a Cross-border Marriage Migrant Conclusions and a Proposed Research Agenda Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they ''provide'' more security than they ''consume''. But the utility for NATO of partners also changes over time. This book scrutinizes these partnerships, both from a NATO perspective and from that of its partners.Trade Review'A must-read reference for NATO policymakers in the wake of the Lisbon 'partnership' summit, where Alliance leaders resolved to strengthen every existing partnership and build new ones.' Charles Barry, Senior NATO Research Fellow, National Defense University, Washington. USA "As the challenges confronting NATO have become more global, the Alliance's partnerships have become increasingly important as well as politically and geographically diverse. This timely volume offers an extraordinarily comprehensive account of the utility of these various partnership initiatives to NATO, to its individual members, and to the partners themselves." - Rebecca R. Moore, Concordia College, USA 'Addressing a little studied aspect of NATO's evolving mission - its partnerships with a variety of countries from Argentina to Australia - the authors write with admirable erudition and refreshing good sense. Each offers a key insight into the way in which the alliance has tried to reboot itself since the end of the Cold War, with varying degrees of success.' - Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK "This volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature on NATO, casting new light on a field of study that has received little scholarly attention until now." - Ellen Hallams, Lecturer in Defence Studies, King's College, London and Joint Services Staff & Command College, UKTable of ContentsUtility for NATO – Utility of NATO?; H.Edström, J.H.Matlary & M.Petersson Partnerships and Power in American Grand Strategy; S.Kay The 'Natural Ally'? The 'Natural Partner'? – Australia and the Atlantic Alliance; S.Frühling & B.Schreer Partnerships to the East and South: A 'Win-Win' Policy; J.H.Matlary Political and Military Utility of NATO for Ukraine; T.Bukkvoll NATO and the EU 'Neutrals' – Instrumental or Value-Oriented Utility?; M.Petersson Sweden and NATO – Partnership in the Shadow of Coalitions and Concepts; H.Edström Potential NATO Partners – Political and Military Utility for NATO; R.C.Hendrickson Political and Military Utility of NATO for Argentina; F.Merke

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Book SynopsisFocusing on male-on-male rape, this book looks at the common myths surrounding this taboo issue, including the idea that ''men who rape other men must be homosexual'' and that ''real men can''t be raped''. It also reveals that men are not only raped in prison, as is commonly believed, and that they suffer similar trauma to female survivors of rape.Trade Review'Although the topic of male rape is receiving increasing research interest in the forensic, clinical and social psychological literature, there are currently very few academic texts relating to this issue. I applaud Dr. Abdullah-Kahn for under-taking this timely and potentially very useful book.' Dr. Michelle Davies, Senior Lecturer of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction Taking Victims into Account and Considering the Impact of Victim blame. Contextualising the Issue of Male Rape Theoretical Explanations for the Occurrence of Male Researching Male on Male Rape Challenging Myths? Male Rape in the News The Metropolitan Police Service The Nature and Impact of Male Rape: Empirical Findings from Survivors of Male Rape Policy Directions for Male Rape and Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART I: THE POLICY DIMENSION Evaluating Policy Change: Some Theoretical and Methodological Remarks Historical, Normative and Institutional Foundations of the German Welfare State in the Golden Post-World War II Era Socio-Economic Developments since the mid-1970s The Changing Normative and Institutional Design of Social Policy PART II: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION Theories Explaining Welfare State Change Changing Interpretative Patterns PART III: CONCLUSIONS Can Germany Still be Considered a Conservative Welfare State? Endnotes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFollowing extensive research in the UK, Bruce Cohen allows mental health users to tell their own stories (or 'narratives') of illness and recovery. Institutional and home treatment care is covered alongside controversial self-coping techniques such as drug-taking, spiritualism, alternative healing, sleep and watching television.Trade Review"Bruce Cohen offers innovative views about the value and impact of considering mental health services from users' perspectives." - British Journal of Psychology "... very interesting, well researched and respectful of the service-user voice." - Psychiatric Bulletin " an engaging critical study of the development and treatments of mental illnesses, which successfully demonstrates both the importance and relevance of social scientific approaches to the study of this area of medicine." - Medical Sociology Online "In Mental Health User Narratives Cohen places the real experts on mental health problems centre stage. The subjective experience of people who use mental health services has been largely ignored, by researchers and clinicians, for as long as the 'medical model' has been dominant. This book provides a refreshing antidote to the bizarre notion that we can understand people's emotional pain by counting 'symptoms' and applying a diagnostic label. This is a must read for all involved in mental health services and research." -Professor John Read, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction Mental Illness and Psychiatry Narratives Crisis Intervention and Home Treatment Methods The User Narratives Descent into Illness and Psychiatric Intervention Recovery from Illness and Self-Coping Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.Trade Review'[A] good and enjoyable read...[,] should certainly be considered by anyone interested in welfare reform, ideas, discourses and policy paradigms in Western Europe.' - Social Policy 'This book makes a worthwhile contribution to the debate on the role of ideas in welfare state change...' - Julia S. O'Connor, International Journal of Social Welfare '...an exposition of an extensive and important piece of research carried out within a rigorously comparative methodology and with carefully developed accounts of its findings.' - Robert Sykes, Social Policy& AdministrationTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors Ideas and Policy Change; P.Taylor-Gooby Paradigm Shifts, Power Resources and Labour Market Reform; P.Taylor-Gooby Policy Paradigms and Long-Term Care: Convergence or Continuing Difference?; V.Timonen The Myth of an Adult Worker Society: New Policy Discourses in European Welfare States; T.P.Larsen Changing Ideas on Pensions: Accounting for Differences in the Spread of the Multipillar Paradigm in Five EU Social Insurance Countries; F.Bönker Towards Activation? Social Assistance Reforms and Discourses; A.Aust & A.Arriba Current Employment Policy Paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany; J.Kananen The Europeanisation of Welfare; Paradigm Shifts and Social Policy Reforms; L.Moreno & B.Palier Index

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Book SynopsisThe Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects of the recent financial crisis on welfare states around the world. Provides comprehensive and in depth coverage of changes in welfare states as a result of the financial crisis Reveals how the financial crisis is changing our perception of the welfare states Features contributions from policy researchers and academics from around the world Table of ContentsEditorial Introduction: Overview and Conclusion 1 Bent Greve 1 To What Extent Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State? 7 Barbara Vis, Kees van Kersbergen and Thomas H. Hylands 2 Falling Back on Old Habits? A Comparison of the Social and Unemployment Crisis Reactive Policy Strategies in Germany, the UK and Sweden 23 Heejung Chung and Stefan Thewissen 3 The Impact of the Crisis on Australian Social Security Policy in Historical Perspective 41 Peter Saunders and Chris Deeming 4 US Social Policy in the 21st Century: The Difficulties of Comprehensive Social Reform 59 Anne Daguerre 5 Economic Crisis and Welfare Retrenchment: Comparing Irish Policy Responses in the 1970s and 1980s with the Present 79 Fiona Dukelow 6 Crisis and Welfare State Change in the Netherlands 101 Mara Yerkes and Romke van der Veen 7 Explaining Welfare Reforms in Italy between Economy and Politics: External Constraints and Endogenous Dynamics 117 Franca Maino and Stefano Neri 8 The Economic Crisis as a Trigger of Convergence? Short-time Work in Italy, Germany and Austria 137 Stefano Sacchi, Federico Pancaldi and Claudia Arisi 9 Health Care Policy for Better or for Worse? Examining NHS Reforms During Times of Economic Crisis versus Relative Stability 161 Lorraine Frisina Doetter and Ralf Götze Index 179

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook is extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. Laying out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, it provides a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject.Trade Review"There is more food for thought here than in most introductory texts. It captures the very particular approach to the study of social issues that is British 'social policy', which is gaining ground internationally. It also gives really helpful advice to any student embarking on this rewarding journey." Howard Glennerster, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science"Social Policy: Theory and practice comes highly recommended as a thorough and stimulating introduction to the field." Citizen's Income Trust“Highly recommended book for professionals and students that care and are interested in people’s welfare, more than just measures.” Claudia Susana Gómez López, Universidad de Guanajuato"Extremely useful textbook for all social policy and social science undergraduates. The links between theory, policy and practice are particularly relevant and informative." Linda Wilkinson, Hull CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: the nature of social policy; Part 1: Social policy and society; Welfare in society; Inequalities; Problems and responses; Needs and welfare; Indicators - quantifying social issues; Part 2: Policy Public policy; Welfare states; Principles and values; Strategies for welfare; Policy in practice; Part 3: Social administration:The organisation and delivery of welfare; Welfare sectors; The organisation of public services; Value for money; Service delivery; Receiving welfare; The administrative process; Part 4: The methods and approaches of social policy; Research for policy; Evidence and policy; Social policy for practice.

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Book SynopsisCurrent and future provision of health and social care for older people is explored in this timely study. It draws on examples from Germany, Sweden and the UK to measure the impact of trends including neoliberalisation and marketisation and it considers new solutions to contemporary challenges in a complex care system.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Discourse, Capital, Intersectionality and Precarity 3. Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Welfare State Models: A Comparative Analysis 4. Failing Health and Social Care in the UK: Austerity, Neoliberal Ideology and Precarity 5. Public Health, Emergency Settings and End of Life Care 6. The COVID-19 Health and Social Care Challenge 7. Innovative Solutions and Cultural Change Appendices

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Book SynopsisAdult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market. This book meticulously charts this shift, challenges the dominant market paradigm, explores alternative models for a post-Covid-19 future and locates the debate within the wider political thinking and policy change literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Before the market 2 The emergence and consolidation of the market 3 Dilemmas in the commissioning of adult social care 4 Dilemmas in the provision of adult social care 5 State or market? 6 Context: funding and administration 7 Looking ahead: an ethical future for adult social care 8 COVID-19: the stress test of adult social care 9 Conclusion: making it change – morals, markets and power

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Book SynopsisLeading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the social' of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing social questions' and critically engages with contested conceptions of the social' which are increasingly deployed by international institutions and policy makers.Table of ContentsThe ‘social’ in the age of sustainability ~ Christopher Deeming ‘No such thing as society’?: Neoliberalism and the social ~ John Clarke The social question: Reconciling social and economic imperatives in policy ~ Bradley W. Bateman Disputing the economization and the de-politicization of ‘social’ investment in global social policy ~ Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa The social dimension of sustainable development at the UN: From Brundtland to the SDGs ~ Iris Borowy Paradigm lost? Blocking the path to ecosocial welfare and post-productivism ~ Tony Fitzpatrick World population at the UN: Our numbers are not our problem? ~ Danny Dorling Ageing sustainably ~ Alan Walker The political challenges to governing global migration and social welfare ~ Edward A. Koning Bringing ‘the social’ into an intersectional analysis of global crises and welfare ~ Fiona Williams Global social policy and the quasi-concept of social cohesion ~ Jane Jenson Putting the global in social justice? ~ Gary Craig ‘Go-social’? Inclusive growth and global social governance ~ Christopher Deeming For better or worse? ~ Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The struggle for social sustainability ~ Christopher Deeming

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Book SynopsisEast Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing. This original volume considers welfare attitudes in East Asia, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macao, Singapore and Taiwan. It proposes new methods and approaches to analysing cross-national variations in welfare attitudes.

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of this leading textbook offers a contemporary, lively and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation, identifying key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.Table of Contents1. Introducing Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden Part 1: Institutions, Actors and Theories 2. Global and Regional Social Governance - Sophie MacKinder, Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden 3. International Trade, Global Economic Governance and Welfare - Chris Holden 4. Business, Labour and Global Social Policy - Kevin Farnsworth and Robert O’Brien 5. Theorising Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden 6. Global Social Justice - Theo Papaioannou Part 2: Cross-Cutting Policy Fields and Issues 7. Global Climate Justice - Carolyn Snell 8. Global Poverty and Inequality - Chris Holden 9. Global Migrations and Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Nicola Piper 10. Gender and Global Social Policy - Rianne Mahon 11. Young People and Global Social Policy - Ross Fergusson Part 3: Global Social Policy Domains 12. Global Social Policy at the Nexus of Water, Energy and Food - Jeremy J. Schmidt 13. Global Health Policy - Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila 14. Global Education Policy - Susan Robertson and Roger Dale 15. Global Social Security Policy - Lutz Leisering

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Book SynopsisPublished in association with the Social Policy Association, this volume addresses current issues and critical debates throughout the international social policy field with a key focus on migration, the impact of COVID-19 and global policy responses.Table of ContentsPart 1: COVID-19: Responses and Implications for Social Policy Introduction: Responses and implications for Social Policy - Marco Pomati and James Rees 1. Locked Down or Locked In? Institutionalized Public Preferences and Government Pandemic Response in 32 Countries - Hung H.V. Nguyen, Nate Breznau and Lisa Heukamp 2. New directions for European Union social policy in challenging times - Carla Valadas 3. Lesson-drawing for the UK Government during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a comparison of official, media and academic lenses - Sophie King-Hill, Ian Greener and Martin Powell 4. On the periphery of the global spotlight: Sweden’s social policy responses during the COVID-19 pan-demic - Jayeon Lindellee 5. Social Policies Put to Test by the Pandemic: Food Banks as an Indicator of the Insufficiencies and Paradoxes of Contemporary Social Policies - Jean-Michel Bonvin, Max Lovey, Emilie Rosenstein and Pierre Kempeneers 6. "We have been left to go it alone” The wellbeing of family carers of older people under Covid-19 - Cheshire-Allen M. and Gideon Calder 7. Gender crisis, or not? A comparative analysis of the impact on gender equality in Sweden and Germany due to the Covid-19 pandemic - Marlene Haupt and Viola Lind 8. Older adults’ access to information and referral service using technology in British Columbia, Canada: Past learnings and learnings since COVID-19 - Karen Lok Yi Wong, Andrew Sixsmith andd Leslie Remund 9. The pandemic as a litmus test for social security systems in transition economies – a case of Georgia - Ana Diakonidze Part 2: Migration Introduction - Andy Jolly 10. All of the same type? The use of ‘welfare tourism’ to limit the access of EU migrants to social benefits in the UK and Germany - Angie Gago 11. Where is the vulnerability assessment tool? Disabled asylum seekers in Direct Provision in Ireland and the EU (recast) Reception Conditions Directive (2013/33/EU) - Keelin Barry 12. Re-thinking exclusionary policies: the case of irregular migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe - Marie Mallet and Nicola Delvino

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Book SynopsisBryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards. The book explores evolutions through the lens of three traditions, social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism, with insights into the people and beliefs that influenced each.Table of Contents1. Three roads 2. The invention of laissez faire 3. Utopian socialism 4. Reform liberalism and technocracy 5. Catholic social thought versus modernity 6. The case for social democracy 7. Social engineering versus democracy 8. The rise of neoliberalism 9. European Christian democracy 10. Legacies

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Chris Pierson argues that we will need to think quite differently about the British welfare state after COVID-19. He looks back to the welfare state's origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Welfare in an age of austerity 2. The last social democratic welfare state 3. Back to the future, again 4. Future imperfect 5. COVID-19 and after Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAcademic experts review the impact of neoliberal politics and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries. They explore different understandings of the care crisis, the consequences for gender equality and the long-term sustainability of the Nordic welfare states.Table of Contents1 Introduction: A care crisis in the Nordic welfare states? - Hanne Marlene Dahl and Lise Lotte Hansen 2 The ‘care crisis’: its scientific framing and silences - Hanne Marlene Dahl 3 Fraser’s care crisis theory meets the Nordic welfare societies - Lise Lotte Hansen, Margunn Bjørnholt and Laura Horn 4 Crisis of care: a problem of economisation, of technologisation or of politics of care? - Anne Kovalainen 5 Deteriorating working conditions in elderly care: an invisible crisis of care? - Anneli Stranz 6 Managerialism as a failing response to the care crisis - Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania, Antero Olakivi, Minna Zechner and Lena Näre 7 ‘We are here for you’: care crisis and the (un)learning of good nursing - Carsten Juul Jensen and Steen Baagøe Nielsen 8 Professionalisation of social pedagogues under managerial control: caring for children in a time of care crisis - Steen Baagøe Nielsen 9 Raising quality in Norwegian early childhood centres: (re)producing the care crisis? - Birgitte Ljunggren 10 Conclusion: less caring and less gender- equal Nordic states - Lise Lotte Hansen and Hanne Marlene Dahl 11 Postscript: a care crisis in the time of COVID- 19 - Laura Horn, Carsten Juul Jensen and Birgitte Ljunggren

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Book SynopsisOffering a much-needed analysis of the overlooked crisis of food poverty in Ireland, this book brings together the complex picture emerging from interviews with users of food aid, explores the international landscape of food poverty and what action should be taken.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. An international perspective 3. Poverty and food: the Irish context 4. Interpreting the data 5. Pathways into food poverty 6. Pathways through food poverty 7. Investigating the policy drivers 8. Responses to food poverty 9. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book is a step toward curating our existing knowledge in the emerging field of 'disaster philanthropy'. It aims to build a robust base for future research, practice and public policy, whilst recognising that philanthropic responses to disasters are complex, conditional and subject to change.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Diana Leat, Susan D. Phillips and Alexandra Williamson 2. The Public’s Philanthropic Response to Disaster: Plus Ca Change? - Diana Leat 3. Disaster Fundraising: Readiness Matters - Wendy Scaife 4. Roles of Philanthropic Foundations as Funders and Distribution Agents in Disaster Response - Alexandra Williamson and Diana Leat 5. The Private Sector and Disasters: From Reactive Response to Disaster Resilience - Michael Moran, Graham Dwyer and Krystian Seibert 6. Fundraising, Grant Making and Regulatory Issues: Regulating Good in Bad Times - Myles McGregor-Lowndes 7. Doing Good Better: Public Policy for Disaster Philanthropy - Susan D. Phillips and Kristen Pue 8. Philanthropy’s Place in Community-Based Capacity Development for Disaster Resilience - Megan Conway 9. Nonprofit Collaboration and Coordination in Disaster Response: Lessons from the September 11th Recovery - Gregory R. Witkowski 10. The Promise and Reality of Philanthropy in Disasters - Jeffrey Schlegelmilch 11. Conclusions and Looking Forward - Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips

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