Social welfare, social policy and social services Books

Book SynopsisThis book explores how diverse citizens experience welfare provision. It seeks to promote broader debate and address the silences in research and debate, particularly in relation under-researched groups, with the aim of developing a renewed call for analysis.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati 2. Citizenship and diversity: challenging the conceptual framework - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati 3. Widening the gaze: institutional racism, social policy and conceptual diversification - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory 4. Disabled self-employed people and the UK welfare state - Gerardo Arriaga Garcia and Eva Kašperová 5. Neoliberalism, division and austerity: precarity and hunger in the UK - Dave Beck and Hefin Gwilym 6. Racialised institutions in the UK welfare state - Temidayo Eseonu 7. Statutory exclusion from social security: experiences of migrants in the UK - Ilona Pinter 8. Disadvantaged, discriminated against and ignored: the experiences of Romani and Gypsy Travellers - Teresa Crew 9. ‘You mean, my theoretical rights?’ Exploring service shortfalls and administrative (in)justice among homeless trans people - Edith England 10. Diverse graduate trajectories in austere times: the case of young working- class women in the UK - Laura Bentley 11. Scroungers, shirkers and the sick: disability and welfare in the 21st century - Aimee Grant 12. Male domestic violence victims’ experience of healthcare services - Natalie Quinn-Walker 13. Conclusion - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory

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Book SynopsisMost governments in the world have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and the state in the contemporary world and discusses views about government responsibility for social welfare services.Table of Contents1. Introduction: the state, and what it has become Part 1: On government 2. Government 3. Public Policy 4. The state and civil society 5. Global public policy Part 2: Salus populi suprema lex: the welfare of the people is the highest law 6. The scope of legitimate action 7. Welfare 8. Which people? 9. The commitment to welfare 10. Disputed principles 11. The duties of a government

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Book SynopsisDrawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines the rise, nature and effectiveness of recent developments in social policy in the Global South.

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Book SynopsisThe shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisTrade ReviewHatcher exposes an urgent paradox at the heart of American governance: why, and how, are states and localities teaming up with corporations to squeeze profits from societys poorest? The Poverty Industry breaks fresh ground. Every American who cares about the intersection of private profits and public justice should read this book, and wrestle with its arguments. Hatcher marshals years of legal experience and research towards fulfilling the muckrakers calling: 'to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.' But he also goes a step further. In The Poverty Industry, he combines a practitioners depth with a journalists flair for storytelling, to generate the first complete account of a little-known phenomenon that should be of interest to every reader with a conscience. -- Sarah Stillman, staff writer for The New YorkerEveryone today is skeptical of charitable organizations that spend too little of their money on charity. After reading this book, Americans are sure to become just as skeptical when state and local governments spend federal tax dollars. Hatchers tour-de-force spells out how federal government spending on services for the poor are being wasted. . . . No one who reads this book will ever feel the same about fiscal federalism. . . . Hatcher shows that a shocking amount of money is going to profit private businesses. Even worse, these businesses are teaching state and local governments how to scam the feds by taking money for one purpose and misusing it to help fill a hole in the state budget outside of the purposes for which the money is being given. An extremely important book. -- Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York UniversityIn the tradition of great muckraking, Hatcher has exposed how states and localities have misdirected and misused public funds envisioned to benefit the most vulnerable among us. . . . Should be required reading for lawmakers and public officials, to remind them of their legal and moral responsibilities and to inspire them to stop these disturbing practices and direct these crucial resources to their rightful recipients. -- Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University[An] important book...Hatcher has done a great public service by shining a light on these massive distortions. * Stanford Social Innovation Review *In this meticulously researched book Hatcher, who has represented vulnerable people in court for years, including children in foster care, lifts the lid on a system that rather than helping the needy, systematically turns them into 'a source of revenue'. * The Guardian,Mary O'Hara *Daniel Hatcher meticulously explains the impact of deregulated privatisation on America's already residual care services. * Times Higher Education *Hatcher provides beautiful examples of unintended consequences of government policies: states rip off the federal government because the federal government has unwittingly incentivized the states to do exactly that. * Choice *A law professor at the University of Baltimore who has represented Maryland victims of such schemes, Hatcher presents a distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars. * Boston Review *Hatcher throws light on what can be hidden processes in human services budgeting, contracting, and implementation. The Poverty Industry walks through the evolution of legal doctrine regarding rights of vulnerable persons...The narrative provides compelling evidence that scholars, policymakers, and advocates should take a closer look at the political and business relationships shaping contracting decisions involving for-profit firms. * Political Science Quarterly *"Poverty is here painted as an industry that, like the defense industry, has an iron triangle. As explored by Hatcher, it depicts revenue maximization services and contingency fees that decrease the funds from the federal government that go to helping children and the poor. * Library Journal *The Poverty Industry exposes the venality of a startling number of public servants and private contractors who misdirect and misuse public funds intended to benefit those most in need. * Jewish Currents *

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Book SynopsisCan there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and remote Australia. Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head to reveal a policy-driven world dominated by short term political interests and their erratic, irrational effects, and by the less obvious protection of long-term interests in resource extraction and the liberal settler lifestyles this sustains. Wild Policy argues policies are not about undoing the big causes of enduring inequality, and do not ameliorate harms terribly well either—without yielding all hope. Drawing on efforts across housing and infrastructure, resistant media-making, health, governance and land tenure battles in regional and remote Australia, Wild Policy looks at how the logics of intervention are formulated and what this reveals in answer to the question: why is it all so hard? Lea offers readers a layered, multi-relational approach called policy ecology to probe the related question, 'what is to be done?' Lea's case material will resonate with analysts across the world who deal with infrastructures, policy, technologies, mining, militarization, enduring colonial legacies, and the Anthropocene.Trade Review"By naming the arbitrary, anarchic nature of policy, Tess Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head. The sheer effectiveness of the writing speaks to her ethnographic skill in delineating bureaucratic purpose: the result is a stunning re-visioning whose implications will reach far beyond what stimulated it." -- Marilyn Strathern * University of Cambridge *"Wild Policy offers an extraordinary contribution to the anthropology of policy, settler colonialism, and infrastructural inequality. Tess Lea's profound accomplishment rests on her sharp, ethnographically innovative account of policy as a milieu, its attention to the uneven ground of policy's materiality, and its appreciation for the work involved in wresting some good from policy's consequential detritus." -- Daniel Fisher * University of California, Berkeley *"Lea is an acute observer of the everyday practices that characterise the wild, disorderly, and strange cultural world of the interventionist settler-colonial state....this is courageous scholarship. Wild Policy's blast of originality compelled me." -- Eve Vincent * Sydney Review of Books *"[There] is a poetics in Lea's anthologising of policies, one that is profoundly moored in land and relations. The efficacy and power of Lea's work, be [it] destabilising or advocating, lies in their specific and relational mode of engagement with human and more-than-human worlds." -- Jamie Wang * Sydney Environment Institute *"Wild Policy provides a nuanced take on how policy is formulated and implemented in ways that exclude Indigenous experience, and seeks to rectify this through the interludes that present Indigenous knowledge apart from scholarly theorization." -- Claire Ross and Alexander Howes * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

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Students, beginning and seasoned mental health professionals will be better prepared for diversity practice by this accessible, timely, provocative, and critical work, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, Fifth Edition. Author Tracy Robinson-Wood demonstrates, through both the time honored tradition of storytelling and clinically-focused case studies, the process of patient and therapist transformation. This insightful, practical resource offers behavioral health professionals a nuanced view of diversity beyond race, culture, and ethnicity to include and interrogate intersectionality among race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, class, nationality, religion, and disability. With a keen focus on quality patient care, this important text aims to help professionals better serve patients across sources of diversity. Readers will recognize their roles and responsibilities as social justice agents of change, while identifying the ways in which dominant cultural beliefs and values furnish and perpetuate clients’ feelings of stuckness and inadequacy, in both the therapeutic alliance and within the larger society. This remarkable text reveres the lifelong commitment of using knowledge and skills as power for good to make a meaningful difference in people′s lives.

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Book SynopsisRefugees have moved into the spotlight of public debate in Europe and North America, where they are targeted by multiple welfare state interventions. This volume analyses the tensions that emerge within the strong welfare states of Northern Europe when faced with an increased immigration of protection-seeking people. Examining the encounter between refugees and the welfare states, this book explores the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled groups and the role of media discourses and welfare policies in shaping those experiences.Building on both textual analyses and ethnographic fieldwork in welfare institutions, asylum centres, and refugee communities, this volume provides an in-depth understanding of the complex realities faced by refugees: deterrence and categorisation, struggle and success, mobility and stagnation. As social phenomena, Northern Europe’s asylum systems and integration programmes must be understood in the context of the bureaucratisation of everyday life.Trade Review'This collection analysing the entanglements of representation, governance and risk when immigration/asylum policy meets welfare states is a significant development in migration studies. Careful empirical work and fascinating analysis exposes bureaucratic violence. A must read for those interested in all areas of state policy.'Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol'Illuminating the complex and contradictory ways in which Northern European states evoked their welfare systems as a rationale for, and means of, controlling, disciplining and managing the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’, this volume offers an important contribution to research on the construction of refugeeness and how this is experienced by refugees.'Karen Fog Olwig, Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen -- .Table of Contents1 Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe: an introduction – Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann Part I: Governing refugees2 Social class, economic capital and the Swedish, German and Danish asylum systems – Martin Joormann3 Lesson for the future or threat to sovereignty? Contesting the meaning of the 2015 refugee crisis in Sweden – Admir Skodo4 Representations of the refugee Crisis in Denmark: deterrence polices and refugee strategies – Martin Bak Jørgensen5 Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden – Annika LindbergPart II: Disciplining refugees6 Images of crisis and the crisis of images: a visual analysis of four frames of representation of ‘refugeness’ in Swedish newspapers – Jelena Jovicic 7 Media constructions of the refugee crisis in Sweden: institutions and the challenges of refugee governance – Dalia Abdelhady8 (De-)legitimation of migration: a critical study of social media discourses – Marie Sundström and Hedvig ObeniusPart III: The Meaning of refugeeness9 Living bureaucratization: young Palestinian men encountering a Swedish introductory program for refugees – Nina Gren10 Aspiration, appreciation, and frustration: Syrian asylum seekers and bureaucracy in Germany – Wendy Pearlman11 The trauma of waiting: understanding the violence of the benevolent welfare state – Nerina Weiss12 Bureaucratised banality: asylum and immobility in Britain, Denmark and Sweden – Victoria Canning

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Book SynopsisSuccessful transition from school to adult life has always been difficult for people with disabilities, especially in the area of employment. The vast majority of people with disabilities are either unemployed or underemployed with low wages and few benefits, and many governments are struggling to find a way of providing employment and benefits to people with disabilities without creating disincentives to work. This book provides strategies and ideas for improving the lives of people with disabilities, exploring new ways of enabling a successful transition to an integrated adult working life by providing effective instruction and support. Following an introduction which outlines the importance of transition services and meaningful outcomes, topics covered in the remaining chapters include: person centered transition planning; enhancing competence and independence; employment assessment and career development; collaboration between agencies for a seamless transition; independent living

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Book SynopsisImagine missing school or work every month because you lacked proper menstrual supplies. How many days per year would you lose in education and wages simply because you got your period? What if no one ever taught you about menstruation, or worse - if menstrual taboos and myths made you feel ashamed of your body? In 2008, Celeste Mergens was working with an overcrowded orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, when she learned that menstruating girls sat on cardboard in their rooms for several days each month. This set into motion a simple idea - combining a washable, long-lasting pad with taboo-breaking education - that became a catalyst for an unlikely global movement for equity. Written in short, evocative chapters, The Power of Days tells the story of Mergens’s quest to rally a global response to elevate menstrual health, increase universal access to menstrual supplies, shatter stigma through education, and advocate for global policy change. Raised in poverty by a mentally ill parent, Mergens learned early on that building the life she wanted would take equal parts determination and humility, traits that led her to create the kinds of inclusive conversations and solutions she is known for around the globe. The challenges Mergens faced and the lessons she learned, personally and professionally, and the triumphs and resourcefulness of leaders all over the globe are illuminating to all who wish to make a difference and create a more equitable world. Today, Days for Girls reaches more than 2.6 million women and girls in 145 countries. The organisation’s impact continues to grow, proving that small changes can create big shifts. This journey to overcome one of the world’s most prevalent taboos is proof that no divide is impossible to bridge.

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Book SynopsisOur current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is predominantly occupied by forms of care - medical care, child care, agriculture, industrial maintenance and so on. We have a responsibility to care for our own bodies, but here again our culture tends to thematize the bodies of desire and to ignore the bodies of care - ill bodies in need of self-care and social care. But the discussion of care has a long philosophical tradition. The book retraces some episodes of this tradition - beginning with Plato and ending with Alexander Bogdanov through Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille and many others. The central question discussed is: who should be the subject of care? Should I care for myself or trust the others, the system, the institutions? Here, the concept of the self-care becomes a revolutionary principle that confronts the individual with the dominating mechanisms of control.Trade ReviewThe Covid pandemic and other ongoing crises made us all aware that the work of care in all its forms - healthcare, care for the old, care for the victims of natural and social catastrophes, up to self-care - is the type of work that defines our epoch. However, this notion is not exempt from ideological mystifications: from times immemorial, the rich and powerful justify their wealth and power by claiming they care for the needy. Groys analyzes the notion (and practice) of care in all its dimensions, from authentic solidarity to devious manipulations and New Age spiritualist self-care. Philosophy of Care is a book for everyone who wants to understand where we are today and why we are in such a mess. in short, it is a book for everyone. -- Slavoj ZizekBoris Groys has deepened the intellectual project of Art History in ways that will be felt for decades to come. With The Philosophy of Care, he expands and focuses the question of care to encompass the physical and the symbolic, the self and the other, value and life, recognition and recovery. The future is defined by the fragility of life --individual life, collective life and planetary life-- and the omnipresence of death. Groys offers us a new version of 'the common task' that binds us all. -- Benjamin Bratton

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Book SynopsisChild protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice. This authoritative book compares UK child protection systems with other systems world-wide as well as scrutinising and comparing the systems in different parts of the UK. Reflecting on the impact of devolution, the authors consider and critically analyse the way child protection systems are being developed, thought about and put into practice in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. An intra-country comparative approach is applied to the main features making up child protection including: policy frameworks, inter-agency guidance, the role of Local Safeguarding Children Boards and Area Child Protection Committees, child deaths and Serious Case Review processes, and vetting and barring legislation and systems. The authors also consider the unique position occupied by England and explore future directions for child protection across the UK.This important book will be of considerable interest to child welfare policy makers, academics, researchers, practitioners and students.Trade ReviewVery impressive book. It is certainly a book that should be read by those who are involved in the studying of child protection or involved in its practice... It is a very readable book took with the text written in a way that allows the reader to follow the logic of the authors. I certainly recommend its reading. -- Journal of Social Welfare & Family LawThe book... sets out how, despite ever deepening devolution, England continues to set the context within which the developed nations operate. In essence, apart from the Scottish children hearings system, there is little to differentiate child protection policy and practice across the UK, though this may well change. As with all of Nigel Parton's work, this is an interesting and informative read. -- Professional Social Work.It aims to provide insights that will help safeguard vulnerable children from abuse and neglect. (This) well-written book provides significant insights into selected child protection systems around the world... not only for policy makers by also for academics, researchers, child protection workers, and students. -- Bernadette J Saunders, Department of Social Work, Monash University, Australia * International Journal of Children's Rights *Table of Contents1. Introduction: About this Book. Part 1. Introduction and Context. 2. Contexts and Drivers of Policy Change in Child Protection across the UK. 3. Child Protection across the UK in an International Context. 4. Learning by Comparing: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Conducting Comparative Research. Part 2. Child Protection Processes and Structures. 5. Policies and Procedures to Protect Children across the UK. 6. Managing Individual Cases where there are Child Protection Concerns. 7. Assessment Frameworks. 8. Child Death Review Processes. 9. Child Protection and Offender Management Systems across the UK.10. Summary and Conclusion: Child Protection across the UK. Appendix. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisPerson-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the organisation, as well as organisational processes, culture and managing change. Drawing on the pioneering work of the social care charity United Response, the authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to enable organisations within health, social care and the voluntary sector to use person-centred thinking tools and approaches to move towards becoming person-centred organisations.This is an essential guide for managers and leaders within private, statutory and voluntary organisations.Stephen Stirk is Director of Human Resources at the social care charity United Response. He has had over 30 years' experience in human resources, organisation development and line management positions, including specialism in organisation design and development with GlaxoSmithKline. Helen Sanderson is Director of Helen Sanderson Associates. She has written extensively on person-centred thinking, planning, community building and Individual Service Funds. She has worked with a range of providers to enable them to deliver more personalised services. She is co-author (with Jaimee Lewis) of A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation: Person-Centred Practice in Health and Social Care (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).Trade ReviewThe book aims to define what person-centred practice means in organisation which aspire to deliver personalised services... The checklists in each chapter describe both the detail of what we expect to see in a person-centred organisation and they also give readers an opportunity to celebrate areas of responsibility that are being delivered well and to think about areas where development might occur... This person-centred approach on "one-to-one", focuses on there being opportunities for appreciation and feedback and reflection on progress and learning and an opportunity for shared problem-solving... Person-centred practices enable teams to deliver, at their best, in ways that work for everyone... The concluding chapter summarises the book so well that it alone could be used as the principles of good practice... If people working in health and social care use the tools and techniques provided by Stephen Stirk and Helen Sanderson, then they will have a multitude of options to take their organisation forward to become truly person-centred. -- European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare (EJPCH)It is a treasure-trove of good ideas which social workers will find useful in their day-to-day practice - for example, person-centred reviews and guidance on Individual Service Funds. -- Professional Social WorkThe unique person-centered approach described in the book is a very welcome contribution to reference manuals for people working in mental health services. Every condition is very thoroughly examined with remarkable insight into living with and seeking solutions to psychological disorders in collaboration with mental health practitioners. The strength of the insights is that it addresses behavioural aspects of mental illness in a non-judgemental and sensitive way. The discussions of each disorder provide excellent and thoughtful explanations of living with mental imbalances... The book contains no quick fixes, but rather concentrates on the growth and development of individuals collaborating with mental health providers in person-centered relationships. -- The International Journal of Person Centered MedicineThe book is (...) wonderfully rich in ideas... There is much in the 300-plus pages of this book to help you, and it is well worth buying as a comprehensive toolkit. -- Caring TimesStirk and Sanderson have really brought to life the concept of personalisation in its more holistic form. Their systemic analysis of what constitutes a person-centred organisation incorporates familiar theory about managing change, valuing people and remaining committed to the outcomes determined by service users and the community themselves. It is refreshing to see how the practical realities of this journey are tangible and the authors make it clear that being person-centred is more than just empty rhetoric. Based on personal experience, expertise and evaluation, I found the advice, tips and recommendations invaluable. This book is essential for leaders at all levels of the organisation and for those interested in fostering genuine participation in developing and delivering services from the bottom up! -- Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Middlesex University and co- author of How to Become a Better Manager in Social Work and Social Care: Essential Skills for Managing CareTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Figures. Part 1. 1. Person-centred Organisations. 2. Person-centred Practices and Conventional Organisation Development. Part 2. 3. Vision, Mission, Values and Strategy. 4. Organisation Design. 5. Working Together. 6. Creating a Person-centred Culture. 7. Leadership. 8. Human Resources. 9. Person-centred Team Working. 10. Enabling Risk. 11. Measuring and Improving Quality. 12. Managing Change. 13. Conclusion. Appendix 1. Progress for Providers. Appendix 2. Progress for Providers for Managers. Endnotes. About the Authors. Index.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the enormous organisational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, this volume provides an overview of the structure and function of social care at practice, management and policy levels. It contains contributions from leading academics, researchers and practitioners in the UK, and also includes chapters on the experiences across the United Kingdom and abroad. The contributors examine the impact and effectiveness of key shifts in:the weighting of responsibility of central and local governmentwho the purchasers and providers of social care arethe interaction between social services and other agenciesthe relationship between voluntary and statutory sectorsthe involvement of users and carers in service design and provision.They assess the significance of the breakdown of the traditional distinctions and roles underlying social care, and lay the foundations for effective and coordinated future policy, practice and research. With the publication of the Labour Government's White Paper Modernising Social Services, the future of social care is set for yet more upheaval. This volume will provide an indispensable overview of the evolution and destiny of local authority social services for students, practitioners and managers.Trade ReviewA comprehensive and compelling account of the development of social care policy and provision with a particular emphasis on the last decade... As it is there is so much to admire and recommend. It is a DipSW or social policy student's paradise, replete with evidence from research, lucidly showing the main threads of government policy and presenting information with accessible graphs and charts and a collective style which is never less than clear and resonant. Its topicality will also encourage practitioners to reflect on real issues of role and relationships. -- Journal of Interprofessional CareTable of Contents1. Introduction and Overview, Bob Hudson, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. Part One: The Changing Role of Social Care. 2. New Approaches to Local Governance, John Stewart, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham. 3. Changes in the Statutory Sector. Nirmala Rao, Goldsmith's College, University of London. 4. Changes in the Private Sector, Brian Hardy and Gerald Wistow, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. 5. Changes in the Voluntary Sector, Jeremy Kendall, London School of Economics. 6. Human Resources in Social Care, Sue Balloch, National Institute for Social Work. 7. The Changing Role of Users and Carers, Julia Twigg, University of Kent. Part Two: Working Across Boundaries. 8. Social Care and Housing, Murray Hawtin, Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University. 9. Social Care and Social Security, Geoff Fimister, Principal Welfare Rights Officer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council. 10. Central - Local Relations: The Changing Balance of Direction vs Discretion in Social Care, Melanie Henwood, Independent Policy Analyst and Visiting Fellow, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. Part Three: Comparative Perspectives. 11. UK Variations in Social Care, Alison Petch, University of Glasgow. 12. Who Pays? Who Provides? Towards a Comparative Approach to the Study of Social Care, Michael Hill, Goldsmith's College, University of London. 13.Conclusion: `Modernising Social Services': A Blueprint for the New Millennium? Bob Hudson. Index.

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Book Synopsis The most explosive economic and political force of the last decade of the twentieth century has been the growth of personal investment. About half of all Americans now own stocks and bonds through IRAs, 401(k)s, and other financial devices. Polls show that personal investment in corporations changes one’s view of the economy, world events, and public policy toward taxes, government spending, regulation, and protectionism. Much of the growth of personal investing has been facilitated by innovations in the financial services and information technology arena—such as mutual funds and online trading—as well as accidental public policies creating tax-deferred employee benefits and personal investment vehicles. This book represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of public policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. To gain a clear understanding of the investor politics of the twenty-first century, the book looks backward to human history and even to prehistory to examine the origins of capital formation. As the facts demonstrate, politics has always been intimately linked with investment, understood in the broadest sense of the word. “Over the next few decades, Americans must stop looking to Washington as a source of the money they need to take care of themselves—there is no alternative. They will need instead to look to investment and wealth creation on Wall Street and Main Street as the guarantors of their retirement security, their health security, their job security, and their children’s futures.” —from the introduction Table of Contents Introduction / 1 1. A Short History of Saving and Investment / 10 2. American Political Realignment and the Origins of Welfare / 35 3. Wall Street and the Second Economic Revolution / 54 4. Depression and the New Deal / 86 5. The Great Social Security Debate / 110 6. The New Health-Care Imperative / 142 7. Houses, Highways, and Physical Capital 8. Education, Training, and Human Capital / 217 9. The Savings Strategy for Shrinking the Welfare State / 258 Conclusion / 277 Notes / 285 Index / 303

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Book SynopsisThe programme was designed to support professionals to process their workplace experiences and support them to build resilience levels to ensure they had future coping strategies beyond the initial life of the supervision sessions. The model of restorative resilience supervision was first developed in response to the emotional demands of midwives, doctors and nurses caring for families who had experienced miscarriage and stillbirth.Table of ContentsContent Includes: Introduction Workplace stress Vulnerability of the helping professions Resilience and protective factors Why restorative resilience supervision? Key elements of the model Case studies

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Book SynopsisThis book can help anyone caring for a loved one. It gives practical know-how, guiding you to make the right choices to safeguard your own health and wellbeing whilst caring. There are so many ways that you can make positive changes to your daily life - the smallest of tweaks can make thebiggest of differences.

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Book SynopsisThe de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in countries on every continent except Antarctica, this book describes at length how to set up and operate a Food Not Bombs chapter. The guide considers every aspect of the operation, from food collection and distribution to fund-raising, consensus decision making, and what to do when the police arrive. It contains detailed information on setting up a kitchen and cooking for large groups as well as a variety of delicious recipes. Accompanying numerous photographs is a lengthy section on the history of Food Not Bombs, with stories of the jailing and murder of activists, as well as premade handbills and flyers ready for photocopying.Trade Review" Food Not Bombs is . . . rooted in belief . . . that we actually can feed a hungry world while helping our planet survive. . . I'm delighted that Keith McHenry's book, Hungry for Peace , will help usher us toward sanity and real security." --Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence"It is no coincidence that Food Not Bombs has become a mainstay within countless social movements around the world. . . Hungry for Peace provides the tools needed to get out and--without bosses, leaders or approval--do it yourself." --Will Potter, author, Green Is the New Red"Sharing food is a basic human function, and peace is humankind's highest aspiration. Food Not Bombs brings both of these together in a powerful way, providing a recipe. . . for creating a better world right here and now." --Randall Amster, JD, PhD, Graduate Chair of Humanities Prescott College Executive Director, Peace & Justice Studies Association"Over and over, we hear the refrain: 'The problems are so big. How can I make a difference?' Keith McHenry and Food Not Bombs answer this question every single day, in words and actions." --Mickey Z., author, Darker Shade of Green

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Book SynopsisThis book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice. It is a philosophical self-reflection on the ways in which ‘white’ reactions to Black Lives Matter stand in the way of the movement’s important work. It probes reactions which often prevent white people from according to black activists the full range of human emotion and expression, including joy, anger, mourning, and political action. Johanna C. Luttrell encourages different conceptions of empathy and impartiality specific to social movements for racial justice, and addresses objections to identity politics.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Getting my People 1.1 Whiteness and Self-Reflection 1.2 “We” White People: On the Possibility of Collective Identity 1.3 The Hate that we see Might be our Own: Distinguishing Black Anger from White Hate Chapter 2: Empathy and Racial Justice: Redefining Impartiality in Response to Social Movements 2.1 White Empathy and Black Lives Matter 2.2 Perspectives Against ‘Just Empathy’ 2.3 Managing Empathy Through Colorblindness 2.4 Empathy and Racial Justice: A Different Idea of Impartiality Chapter 3: How White People Refuse to Understand Black Mourning 3.1 White Responses to Black-led Political Mourning 3.2 Conservative Responses to Black Mourning: Militarization, Gas-lighting, Tone-policing 3.3 Liberal Responses to Black Mourning: Voyeurism and Appropriation 3.4 Recognizing Agency, Giving up the Idealized Victim 3.5 Mourning’s Potential: Undoing the Political Order in Antigone and the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 4: Respecting Black Lives Matter as Arendtian Political Action 4.1 How Political Action is Different from Scientific Inquiry 4.2 Political Action as Unprecedented 4.3 Political Action as Revelatory 4.4 Political Action as Knowledge-Creating 4.5 Arendt’s Failure to Respect Black-Led Social Movements as Political Action Chapter 5: Conclusion 5.1 Interrogating Allyship 5.2 Answering Objections to Identity Politics 5.3 White Feminism and Allyship 5.4 A Positive Prescription for Empathy?

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Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators; followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future directions for research and addresses issues associated with effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable source for both researchers and policy makers. Table of ContentsPart I. Introductory Section.- Chapter 1. Empirical and Policy Landscape; Jim Ogg and Martina Rasticova.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives; Clary Krekula, Sarah Vickerstaff.- Chapter 3. Data Sources and Issues; Michaela Gstrein and Tindara Addaboo.- Part II. Country Reports.- Chapter 4. Albania.- Chapter 5. Austria.- Chapter 6. Belgium.- Chapter 7. Bulgaria.- Chapter 8. Chile.- Chapter 9. Croatia.- Chapter 10. Cyprus.- Chapter 11. Czech Republic.- Chapter 12. Finland.-Chapter 13. France.- Chapter 14. Germany.- Chapter 15. Greece.- Chapter 16. Ireland.- Chapter 17. Israel.- Chapter 18. Italy.- Chapter 19. Lithuania.- Chapter 20. Netherlands.- Chapter 21. New Zealand.- Chapter 22. Poland.- Chapter 23. Portugal.- Chapter 24. Romania.- Chapter 25. Serbia.- Chapter 26. Spain.- Chapter 27. Sweden.- Chapter 28. United Kingdom.- Chapter 29. United States.- Part III. Future Directions.- Chapter 30. Policy Tool-Kits; Jonas Radl and Nata Duvvury. - Chapter 31. Conclusion: Future Directions: Debra Street and Aine Ni Leime.

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Book SynopsisThis book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections. It features narratives from fields such as integrated behavioral health, integrated primary care, primary care behavioral health, medical family therapy, health psychology, primary care psychology, and clinical social work. The key focus of the chapters are the relationships that are formed during primary care delivery. The book is organized into six core chapters: Family of Origin, Teachers and Mentors, Our Patients and Ourselves, Colleagues and Collaborators, Clinician as Patient, and Death and Loss. Each chapter contains a variety of styles and formats of narrative medicine, including personal reflections, story-telling, and poetry. Connections in the Clinic will be of interest to a wide audience of clinicians and educators dedicated to a reflective or story-telling approach to healing.Trade Review“For the new-to-the-profession student or resident, the book serves as a preview and road map to anticipated experiences and emotions. For the seasoned provider, the narratives undoubtedly will trigger memories of similar personal and professional experiences. … If storytelling encourages educators to bring the humanity into the teaching of medicine, does it not also remind us of our own humanity and inherent vulnerabilities? Connections in the Clinic succeeds in both.” (Franklin Berkey, Family Medicine, Vol. 55 (4), 2023)Table of Contentshapter 1. Family of Origin 1.1 Colleen Fogarty 1.2 John Spangler 1.3 Alexandra Hulst 1.4 Julia Sager (pen name) 1.5 Deb Taylor 1.6 Michelle Keating 1.7 Paul Simmons 1.8 Laurie Ivey 1.9 Karen Wyatt 1.10 Pam Webber 1.11 Randall Reitz 1.12 Juli Larsen Chapter 2. Teachers and Mentors 2.1 Colleen Fogarty 2.2 Cammy Froude 2.3 Jeff Ring 2.4 AJ Jayabarathan 2.5 Dave Seaburn 2.6 John Spangler 2.7 Andy Valeras 2.8 Kathryn Fraser and Claudia Allen 2.9 Laura E. Sudano and Florencia Lebensohn-Chialvo 2.10 Michael Talamantes and John Scheid 2.11 Juli Larsen Chapter 3. Our Patients and Ourselves 3.1 Colleen Fogarty 3.2 Amy Davis and Lucy Graham 3.3 Alice Lu 3.4 Jennifer Hodgson 3.5 Mark Knudson 3.6 Jennifer Ayres 3.7 Kathryn Hart 3.8 Justin McCarthy 3.9 Arnold Goldberg 3.10 Juli Larsen Chapter 4. Colleagues and Collaborators 4.1 Colleen Fogarty 4.2 Amy Romain and Amy Odom 4.3 Glenda Mutinda 4.4 Mike Olson and Catalina Triana 4.5 Mary Talen 4.6 Alan Lorenz and Lisa Black 4.7 Christine Runyan 4.8 David Conway 4.9 Sarah Gerrish 4.10 Angela Lamson 4.11 Jackie Williams-Reade 4.12 Juli Larsen Chapter 5. Clinician as Patient 5.1 Colleen Fogarty 5.2 Aimee Valeras 5.3 Kathryn Hart 5.4 Rachel Hughes 5.5 Tai Mendenhall 5.6 Grace Wilson and Jonathan Wilson 5.7 Samantha Monson 5.8 Jamie Banker 5.9 Tania Riosvelasco 5.10 Cormac O’Donovan 5.11 Larry Mauksch 5.12 Juli Larsen Chapter 6. Death and Loss 6.1 Colleen Fogarty 6.2 Sabrina Mitchell 6.3 Keith Dickerson 6.4 Sally Stratford 6.5 Deborah Edberg 6.6 Paul Simmons 6.7 Stephen Mitchell 6.8 Julie Mayer 6.9 Karlynn Sievers 6.10 Randall Reitz 6.11 Juli Larsen

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of open adoption from care in Australia. It contributes to the international debate concerning the advantages and disadvantages of face-to-face post adoption contact with birth families.The chapters assess whether adoption provides a better chance of permanence and more positive outcomes than long-term foster care for abused and neglected children in care who cannot safely return to their birth families. They also explore whether open adoption can avoid some of the detrimental consequences of past policies in which adoption was shrouded in secrecy and children frequently grew up with a conflicted sense of identity. The book will appeal to policy makers, practitioners and students of social policy, social work, the law, psychology and psychiatry. It should also be of interest to adult adoptees and adoptive parents, whose experiences it reflects. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. Part One: Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents and Children When They Entered their Adoptive Homes.- Chapter 2. Issues Facing the Birth Parents and their Implications for Open Adoption. - Chapter 3. The Children.- Chapter 4. The Adoptive Parents.- Part 2: Outcomes of Open Adoption From Care.- Chapter 5. Permanence.- Chapter 6. Post-Adoption Contact and Relationships with Birth Family Members.- Chapter 7. Progress After Placement.- Chapter 8. Adult Outcomes.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Implications for Policy and Practice.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how academic leaders throughout higher education experience and practice care and the ethics of care. Drawing on a narrative inquiry study of experiences and practices of feminist care ethics in higher education leadership, Schultz counters academic norms, including expectations of competition and criticism across all activities, by uncovering the common experiences of academic leaders who intentionally adopt practices guided by an ethics of care and relationality. Within the context of institutions of higher education responding to present-day social movements, the book highlights how practices of care-centered leadership can enable change that begins on campus and reaches outwards to positively impact the community.Table of ContentsPart I Introduction. 1 Coming to Care Ethics in Higher Education. Theme and Scope. Coming to a Research Puzzle: A Narrative Beginning. Foregrounding Personal Justifications. Feminist Care Ethics as a Theoretical Framework. My Earliest Stories Linking Care and Higher Education. Noddings’s Language of Care. Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand Leadership Experiences and Practices. Narrative Inquiry’s Methodological Commitments. Research Design Summary. Methodological Characteristics and Considerations. Towards an Understanding of Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities. References. 2 Care Ethics that Matter. Practical Justifications. Contextualizing Change. Higher Education in Neoliberal Times. Higher Education Leadership. Social Justifications. Care in Education. Care in Higher Education. Tensions. (En)Countering the First Tension: Organizations as Obstacles to Care. (En)Countering the Second Tension: Leadership as a Barrier to Care. (En)Countering the Third Tension: Gendered Care and Caring. Beginning to Understand Care Ethics in Higher Education Leadership. References. Part II Stories of Experiences and Practices of Care-Centered Leadership. 3 Beth. Introducing Beth. Beginning in the Middle. Where Care Comes From. Beginning Again. Weaving Care and Self-Care. As Care Seeks and (Sometimes) Finds Visibility. Being Cared For: Friendship and Feeling Seen. Caring into the Future. References. 4 Lynn. Introducing Lynn. Connecting. Journeying Towards Leadership. Embracing Leadership. Care in Her Midst. The Relational Nature of Care. Caring for the Work, Too. Tending to Tensions, Too. The Whole Self-Caring. Self-Care and Rest. Leaning into the Future. Postscript. Reference. 5 Abby. Introducing Abby. Learning to Show Up, to Participate, and to Listen. Learning to “Think on My Feet”. “There Was No Care”. Enacting Feminist Care and Care Ethics. Deep Listening. Being Genuine. Caring and Chairing in Neoliberal Times. Enabling Care, Now and into the Future. Being Surrounded by Care. Lighting the Way. References. 6 Genevieve. Introducing Genevieve. Beginnings. The Work of Care. The Hard Work of the Work of Care. Receiving Care. An Arc of Care and Not Care. Creating Care. Research as Self-Care. Making Care Visible. Feeling Cared for as a Leader. Caring and Chairing. Seeing Care. Coda. Reference. Part III Towards Care-Centered Leadership in Higher Education. 7 Resonant Threads. Thinking with Resonant Threads. Situating the Writing of the Resonant Threads. Awakening to Three Resonant Threads. Learning to Care: Awakening to Where Care Comes From. Experiences of Care from Mentors. Familial Experiences of Care. With the Threads of This Resonance. The Challenge of Care: Caring in Challenging Moments and Times. The Limits of Care: Tensions in Challenging Moments. The Labor of Care: Risking the Work of Care in Challenging Times. With the Threads of This Resonance. Care for the Self: A Condition of Care. Care for the Self with Movement and Music. Care for the Self with Research and Writing. Care for the Self with Rest and Recalibration. With the Threads of This Resonance. References. 8 Conclusion: Care-Centered Leadership in Our Midst. Emerging Visibility of Care-Centered Leadership. Making Care in Leadership in Higher Education Visible. Revisiting Social, Practical, and Personal Justifications: Implications and Possibilities. Revisiting Social Justifications: Social and Theoretical Implications and Possibilities. Revisiting Practical Justifications: Practical Implications and Possibilities. Revisiting Personal Justifications: Implications and What I Will Remember. References. Epilogue: Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Times of Change.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an application of the concepts and recommendations of The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity Report, a Consensus Study from the US National Academy of Medicine. It offers complementary guidance through tools, tips, examples and storytelling. As such this book, written by prominent international academics and nurse practitioners, offers program and policy recommendations for health equity. As the world’s largest and most trusted workforce, nurses are in a key position thus must step up to help address these inequities now. The recent pandemic has laid bare these inequities in ways that are stark and demanding of our attention. This book offers program and policy recommendations, along with case studies, designed to empower nurses to understand and ACT to improve health equity. This text provides nurses an opportunity to clearly see the need for an equitable, just, and fair society. There has never been a more urgent call to action. Table of ContentsForeword1. The Goal for 2030: Health Equity2. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Global Applications to Advance Health Equity3. Diversifying the Nursing Workforce 4. Strengthen and Protect Nurses Well-being5. Transforming Nursing Education: The Hong Kong Experience.6. Strengthening Nursing Education to Address Social Determinants of Health: Systems Leadership7. Capitalizing on Nurses’ Potential to Improve Consumers’ Access to Care8. Fully Support Nurses by Designing Better Payment Models9. The Nurse’s Role in Achieving Health Equity in Disasters and Public Health Emergencies in Asia10. Enabling Techquity in Nursing Practice: Informatics, Technology, and Innovation11. Creating a Shared Agenda to Achieve Health Equity12. Part 1: Research in Health Equity: Building the Evidence Base12. Part 2: Research in Health Equity: Building the Evidence Base13. Concluding Remarks: The Nurses’ Role in Achieving Health Equity Through Multisector Collaboration and Workforce DiversityAfterword

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Book Synopsis"Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.S. – with a focus on social construction, oppression, scaffolding, and institutional web – providing insight into racist thought and behavior that construct and mark people of color as 'a problem.' […] I highly recommend this book for those who are engaged in working to combat domination and racism at the local, national, and global levels."-Gary Bailey, DHL, MSW, ACSW, Professor of Practice, Director of Urban Leadership Program, Simmons College School of Social WorkThis important volume provides a powerful overview of racism in the United States: what it is, how it works, and the social, cultural, and institutional structures that have evolved to keep it in place. It dissects the rise of legalized discrimination against four major racial groups (First Nations, Africans, Mexicans, and Chinese) and its perpetuation as it affects these groups and new immigrants today. The book’s scaffolding framework—which takes in institutions from the government to our educational systems—explains why racism remains in place despite waves of social change. At the same time, authors describe social justice responses being used to erode racism in its most familiar forms, and at its roots. This timely resource: Examines the sociology of discrimination as a constant in daily life. Traces the history of the legalization of racism in the United States. Locates key manifestations of racism in the American psyche. Links racism to other forms of discrimination. Identifies the interlocking components of institutionalized racism. Offers contemporary examples of resistance to racism. A forceful synthesis of history and social theory, Systemic Racism in the United States is vital reading for practitioners and other professionals in fields related to human rights, social policy, and psychology. And as a classroom text, it challenges its readers to deepen their understanding of both historical process and current developments. Table of ContentsRacial Scaffolding: Conceptual Overview.- Discrimination.- Institutional Legalization of Racism: Exploitation of the Core Groups.- Immigration through the Lens of Systemic Racism.- The Infrastructure of Racism: The Psychic Dimension.- The Infrastructure of Racism: The Institutional Dimensions.- Intersectionality: The Linkage of Racism with Other Forms of Discrimination.- Racism and Social Justice.- Deconstruction of Racism.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice, negotiate, understand and feel their citizenship. The authors offer both empirical analyses of how social work influences the rights, obligations, identities and belongings of children, homeless people, migrants, ethnic minorities, and young people with mental disabilities; and a theoretical framework for analysing the complexities of social work.Drawing on the notion of intimate citizenship and an understanding of citizenship as socio-spatial, the theoretical framework addresses the challenges of enhancing the agency of social work clients and of promoting inclusive citizenship, and how these challenges are shaped by emotions, affect, rationality, materiality, power relations, policies and managerial strategies. Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including social policy and social work. Table of Contents1. Introduction; Hanne Warming and Kristian Fahnøe.- 2. Citizenship on the edge: homeless outreach and the city; Tom Hall.- 3. Spaces of surveillance and citizenship learning opportunities in a 24-hour care institution; Michael Christensen.- 4. The role of social work practice and policy for the lived citizenship of young people with psychological disorder; Hanne Warming.- 5. Exploring norms about citizenship in stories of young people with “psychological vulnerabilities; Manon Lavaud.- 6. Social repair of relations: Rights and belonging in outreach work with homeless people; Kristian Fahnøe.- 7. For a pragmatic approach of children’s citizenship: the case of school social work in France; Pascale Garnier.- 9. From objects of care to citizens – young carers’ citizenship; Anne Wihstutz.- 10. Migrant Women’s Intimate Struggles and Lived Citizenship. Experiences from Southern Europe; Daniela Cherubini.- 11. Geo-politics and Citizenship: Why geography matters in defining social citizenship rights of Canadian Muslim youth; Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha.- 12. Conclusion; Kristian Fahnøe and Hanne Warming.

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Book SynopsisThe sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The system of social welfare in Germany is one of the pillars of economic stability.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Social Protection in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern State: Alms, Poor Relief, Care, Social Help.- Social Policy in the Empire: The Insurance Solution.- The First World War.- The Weimar Republic.- The Nazi State.- The Post-War Period, the Federal Republic, and the German Democratic Republic.- Social Law as a Scientific Discipline.- Europeanization of Social Law.- Long Term Perspectives for Social Protection.- References.- Index.

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Book SynopsisAxeI Borsch-Supan and Meinhard Miegel The provision of retirement income is a dynamic system that needs to be adapted constantly to the ever changing economic and societal environment. Sometimes, incremental adaptations suffice; sometimes, however, larger reform steps are necessary. We see this evolutionary process both through history and across countries. Over and again societies are confronted with new challenges, not the least with respect to old age social security. At this juncture of history, almost all industrialized countries face rapid population aging and need. to adapt their pension systems to this historically unprecedented demographic change. The six countries in this study (Chile, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States) have responded very differently to this new challenge. This is the point of departure for this book. Why did the countries respond so differently? What can we learn from each other? It is not the point of this book to provide a universally optimal solution to the pension problems caused by population aging. The six countries are simply too different in terms of their demographic and cultural, and in particular in terms of their historical and economic backgrounds. However, since national discussions tend to be surprisingly narrowly focussed even in times of globalization, there is much to learn by looking over the neighbor' s fence. And since some countries have reformed earlier than others, we even have the benefit of quite a few trials and errors in one country from which all other countries can learn.Table of ContentsSix Countries — And No Pension System Alike.- References.- 1 The German Retirement Insurance System.- 1.1 A Brief History of the German Public Pension System.- 1.2 The Pillars Providing Retirement Income in Germany.- 1.3 Future Developments.- 1.4 Current Reform Options.- References.- 2 The Dutch Pension System.- 2.1 A Brief History of the Dutch Pension System.- 2.2 The Pillars Providing Retirement Income in the Netherlands.- 2.3 Future Developments.- 2.4 Current Reform Options.- 2.5 Conclusions.- References.- 3 The Swiss Three—Pillar Model.- 3.1 A Brief Look at How the Swiss System of Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Evolved.- 3.2 The Three Pillars of Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance in Switzerland.- 3.3 Future Developments.- 3.4 Amendments under Discussion.- References.- 4 The UK System of Pension Provision.- 4.1 The Evolution of the UK Pension System.- 4.2 The Development of a Multi-Pillar Pension System from 1975 to 1999.- 4.3 Future Prospects for the UK Pension Scheme.- 4.4 Public Attitudes to Pension Reform.- 4.5 A Summing Up.- References.- 5 United States: Support in Retirement: Where We Are and Where We Are Going.- 5.1 Overview of the United States Social Security System.- 5.2 Social Security and Other Forms of Retirement Support.- 5.3 Future Developments.- 5.4 Social Security Reform.- 5.5 Summary.- References.- 6 Chile’s Pension Revolution Coming of Age.- 6.1 A Brief History: From Public Pay-As-You-Go to Private Fully-Funded Pensions.- 6.2 The Pillars.- 6.3 Current Shortcomings Of Chile’s Pension System And Reform Options.- 6.4 Conclusions.- References.- Abbreviations.- List of Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThe existing welfare regime literature identifies differences in welfare state systems. Sarah Förster asks, if we can learn something on the organizational level about the embedding of philanthropic foundations in the field of social welfare in different welfare state systems. This investigation is based on comparative insights from the three country cases of Germany, Sweden and the UK (England). Guided by propositions from theoretical analysis of welfare regime literature, comparative explorative case studies based on interview data and secondary sources give insights into the field and the embedding of philanthropic social welfare foundations in the three different welfare state systems. Each type of foundation has different levels of independence from external constraints and is embedded to different degrees according to the propositions from welfare regime theory. These differences hold further implications for the investigation of foundations as a special organizational form.Table of ContentsResearch Problem and Broader Research Context.- Welfare Regimes and the Underlying Logic of Country Differences.- Plan of Inquiry.- Country Case Studies.- Regime Influence, Theoretical Propositions.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies. It explores the contribution of migrant workers to the Chinese economy, the impact of changes within the ‘hukou’ system (household registration) and the impact of recent migration policies promoting rural-urban migration and targeting key events during migrant workers’ migration trajectories - job-seeking, wage exploitation, work injuries and illness - namely the corresponding ‘Skills Training Program for Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Managing Wage Payment to Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Migrant Workers Participating in Work-Related Injury Insurance’, and the ‘New Rural Medical Cooperative Scheme’ (Health Insurance). Through in-depth interviews, it examines how when facing such challenges, migrant workers choose to either make a claim under existing policies, or use other coping strategies. The book notably proposes a typology of “coping” which includes a variety of administrative coping, political coping and social coping, and considers how workers in China harness the power of civil groups and social networks.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- A glance on rural urban migration.- Concepts and methods: coping as a social action.- Migration phases and state intervention in the history of the PRC.- Rural urban migration policies in China since 2000s.- Job Seeking: social networks as a functional substitute for government’s program.- Wage exploitation: protests as an emerging strategy in Chinese society.- Work-related injuries: injured but not entitled for legal compensation.- Illness in cities: claimants appreciate the usefulness of “money”.- Conclusion and Discussion.

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Book SynopsisThis book captures the evolution of consumerism in the human services. By addressing the changing roles and contributions of consumers (those working within human service organizations and systems and those working outside of those organizations and systems) the author offers an encompassing framework of consumerism. This framework is multidimensional and incorporates multiple types and forms of consumerism. The author offers a rationale for consumerism in the human services, illustrates its evolution, and considers multiple perspectives and models culminating in policy considerations, including specific strategies. This book will equip consumers, survivors, practitioners, and policy makers with substantive knowledge of how to advance human services through action and innovation.Table of ContentsRationale for consumerism in the human services.- Evolution of consumerism in the human services.- Substantive differences between consumerism and survivorship.- Typology of consumerism and survivorship.- Cultures of consumerism in human services.- The inside-outside approach to consumerism- Progressive and radical policy strategies.- Consumerism as an enduring social force in human services.

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Book SynopsisThis clear and succinct text offers a valuable introductory guide to health and social care, helping people who want to study or work in the field understand why these services matter, how they have developed and how they work.Trade Review“Jon Glasby has successfully integrated a historical perspective and key analytical concepts to produce a text which is comprehensive and simple but not simplistic. A valuable introduction to this complex field.” Sally Richards, Oxford Brookes University“There is a need for a good book that enables people to have a sense of where health and social care have come from. Jon Glasby knows both health and social care; he also knows practitioners and managers. This is informed, up-to-date and accessible – as good as it gets. I would certainly recommend it.” Jill Manthorpe, King's College London“This is a well constructed textbook which offers a very balanced and comparative approach. There is a good movement through policy into practice, with some key theory. There is a logical order and sense of progression, which makes the information accessible. It links well with the issues that are typically covered and of significance within health and social care.” Joanne Smith, University of BoltonTable of ContentsIntroduction: why health and social care matter Part 1: Structures and services History and structure Funding health and social care Organising health and social care Part 2: People and practice The social context of health and social care Being a professional Delivering care Short summary and key messages

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Book SynopsisA cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them.Trade Review"Co-Winner of the William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the PROSE Award in Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the Bronze Medal in Women / Minorities in Business, Axiom Business Book Awards"

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Book SynopsisCritical Suicidology introduces alternative approaches to suicide prevention, approaches that don’t pathologize inequality and distress but rather take into consideration the social, political, and cultural contexts of people’s lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Suicide / Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan MorrisPart 1: Critiquing Suicidology: Constructions of Suicide and Practices of Prevention1 Critiquing Contemporary Suicidology / Ian Marsh2 A Critical Look at the Current Suicide Research / Heidi Hjelmeland3 Exploring Possibilities for Indigenous Suicide Prevention: Responding to Cultural Understandings and Practices / Lisa M. Wexler and Joseph P. Gone4 Risky Bodies: Making Suicide Knowable among Youth / Jonathan Morris5 Speaking of Suicide as a Gendered Problematic: Suicide Attempts and Recovery within Women’s Narratives of Depression / Simone Fullagar and Wendy O’BrienPart 2: Insider Perspectives6 “Being More Than Just Your Final Act”: Elevating the Multiple Storylines of Suicide with Narrative Practices / Marnie Sather and David Newman7 When Despair and Hope Meet the Stigma of “Manipulation” and “Ambivalence” / Yvonne Bergmans, Andrea Rowe, Michael Dineen, and Denise Johnson8 No Regrets / Andrea RowePart 3: Creating Alternatives: Re-envisioning Suicide and Prevention9 Hate Kills: A Social Justice Response to “Suicide” / Vikki Reynolds10 Queer Youth Suicide: Discourses of Difference, Framing Suicidality, and the Regimentation of Identity / Rob Cover11 Understanding the Unfathomable in Suicide: Poetry, Absence, and the Corporeal Body / Katrina Jaworski and Daniel Scott12 Indigenous Best Practices: Community-Based Suicide Prevention in Nunavut, Canada / Michael J. Kral and Lori Idlout13 Reimagining Youth Suicide Prevention / Jennifer WhiteIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces reablement, a radical new integrated care approach which seeks to empower older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence.Table of ContentsPART I Reablement in contexts, ideas, and implementation 1. Introduction: The concept, rationale, and implications of reablement - Tine Rostgaard, Hanne Tuntland, and John Parsons 2. Perspectives on institutional characteristics, model features, and theories of reablement - Hanne Tuntland, John Parsons and Tine Rostgaard 3. The ideas of reablement and their travel across time and space - Marte Feiring, Oddvar Førland, Fiona Aspinal and Tine Rostgaard 4. Reablement as an evolution in home care: a comparison of implementation across five countries - John Parsons, Elissa Burton, Lea Graff, Silke F. Metzelthin, Hilary O’Connell and Hanne Tuntland PART II Outcomes 5. Does reablement improve client-level outcomes of participants? An investigation of the current evidence - Gill Lewin, John Parsons, Hilary O’Connell and Silke Metzelthin 6. Examining client-level outcomes and instruments in reablement - Hanne Tuntland, Daniel Doh, Maria Ranner, Susanne Guidetti and Magnus Zingmark 7. Reablement as a cost- effective option from a health economic perspective - Magnus Zingmark, Hanne Tuntland and Elissa Burton PART III Experience 8. Reablement and dementia - Miia Rahja and Jette Thuesen 9. Better care, better work? Reablement in Danish home care and the implications for care workers - Tine Rostgaard and Lea Graff PART IV Future perspectives 10. How can we help? Promoting autonomy-compatible help to reable older adults - Amy Clotworthy and Rudi G.J. Westendorp 11. A cross-country reflection on empirical and theoretical learnings, challenges, and the way forward for reablement - John Parsons, Hanne Tuntland, Michelle Nelson, Rudi Westendorp and Tine Rostgaard

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Book SynopsisThe compelling true story of Nelly Benatar—a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the "last million" escaping the Second World War. When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a flood of refugees fleeing Nazi terror quickly overwhelmed Europe's borders and spilled across the Mediterranean to North Africa, touching off a humanitarian crisis of dizzying proportions. Nelly Benatar, a highly regarded Casablancan Jewish lawyer, quickly claimed a role of rescuer and almost single-handedly organized a sweeping program of wartime refugee relief. But for all her remarkable achievements, Benatar's story has never been told. With this book, Susan Gilson Miller introduces readers to a woman who fought injustice as an anti-Fascist resistant, advocate for refugee rights, liberator of Vichy-run forced labor camps, and legal counselor to hundreds of Holocaust survivors. Miller crafts a gripping biography that spins a tale like a Hollywood thriller, yet finds its truth in archives gathered across Europe, North Africa, Israel, and the United States and from Benatar's personal collection of eighteen thousand documents now housed in the US Holocaust Museum. Years of Glory offers a rich narrative and a deeper understanding of the complex currents that shaped Jewish, North African, and world history over the course of the Second World War. The traumas of genocide, the struggle for anti-colonial liberation, and the eventual Jewish exodus from Arab lands all take on new meaning when reflected through the interstices of Benatar's life. A courageous woman with a deep moral conscience and an iron will, Nelly Benatar helped to lay the groundwork for crucial postwar efforts to build a better world over Europe's ashes.Trade Review"Susan Gilson Miller's Years of Glory illuminates major themes: that period's refugee crisis, resistance in Morocco to the Vichy regime, a talented woman's professional advancement in a traditional society, and the life of a once-vibrant Jewish community in North Africa. An exemplary unearthing of the remarkable legal career of Nelly Benatar." —Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France and the Jews and The Anatomy of Fascism"A brilliant work of history, Years of Glory reads like a thriller. Susan Gilson Miller describes the hardships but also the glory of Jewish life in Morocco through the intrepid Nelly Benatar, one of the great heroes of modern Jewish history, whose extraordinary leadership Miller uncovers in this fascinating book." —Susannah Heschel, author of The Aryan Jesus"Susan Gilson Miller's groundbreaking book reveals the life of an unsung Moroccan heroine, Nelly Benatar. Years of Glory is historical detective work at its finest, showing how, in the face of an unprecedented refugee crisis, Benatar's struggle bound Moroccans of all faiths in an enduring sense of duty, love, and compassion." —Hicham Alaoui"Narrating the life of a remarkable woman, Susan Gilson Miller has written a fascinating account of the herculean struggles to obtain justice for the sea of stateless and homeless people. Miller's fine book provides an excellent example of the importance of historical remembering." —Caroline Moorehead, author of A House in the Mountains"Susan Gilson Miller helps readers experience the war from aNorth African perspective, refocusing resistance and Holocaust history away from its usual European setting... This study of Nelly Benatar makes it clear that Morocco was an integral part of the Vichy/Nazi war machine. The issues Benatar raised about meeting the needs of stateless people, and about the role of Israel as aJewish homeland, are as important today as they everwere."—Bettina Berch, Jewish Book Council"Thanks to Susan Gilson Miller's marvelous new biography, Benatar's legacy is finally made legible for readers. More importantly,Years of Glory explores the Maghrib as a central part of the Holocaust and World War II. At the same time, Miller demonstrates just how profoundly the war disrupted the lives of those in Morocco and across French North Africa, soundly refuting historiographies that have tended to see the war as a blip in Maghribi history. And Miller does all this in lucid, beautiful prose that draws readers in: I literally could not put the book down."—Jessica M. Marglin, The Middle East Journal"[Years of Glory] is a beautifully written reconstruction of Benatar's cosmopolitan and peripatetic life of service."—Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, The Middle GroundTable of Contents1. The Early Years 2. 1939: The Undesirables 3. 1940 Refugees and Resistance 4. 1941: The Casablanca Connection 5. 1942: Stateless in Morocco 6. 1943: Liberating the Camps 7. 1944: The Right to Have Rights 8. 1945: The Shock of Recognition 9. After the War

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Book SynopsisThis important book uses empirical evidence to explore the concept of public trust in health systems.In doing so, it provides a comprehensive contemporary explanation of public trust, how it affects health systems and how it can be nurtured and maintained as an integral component of health system governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Why Do We Care About Public Trust in the Health System? 2. What Is Trust? 3. Three Health System Examples: Vaccination Uptake, COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Data Use in Health Systems Part 2: What Is Public Trust in the Health System? 4. Where Does Public Trust Develop? 5. What Builds Public Trust? 6. What Are the Effects of Public Trust? 7. What Frames Public Trust? Part 3: How Can We Foster Public Trust in the Health System? 8. How Can We Build Public Trust by Means of Effective Health Policy and Governance? 9. How Can We Foster Public Trust by Means of Effective Communications? 10. How Can We Foster Public Trust Through Effective Observation? 11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough''s Whatever It Takes is one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa (The Washington Post).What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children — not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.Whatever It Takes is a tour de forc

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding and addressing the impact of racial trauma is vital for providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. This book explores how racial stressors affect all aspects of Black clients' lives and offers powerful ways to support healing. Therapists and counselors will gain tools for approaching--rather than avoiding--the topic of race in individual therapy and in family, school, and community contexts. The book discusses how to incorporate aspects of racial trauma into assessment and case conceptualization; validate clients' pain as well as their strengths; and adapt evidence-based treatments to overcome cultural gaps. It presents extensive case examples; dos and don'ts; and self-care strategies for therapists of any background. Instructive features include end-of-chapter takeaway points, bolded key terms, and an end-of-book glossary.

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Book SynopsisOverwhelming evidence indicates that new social workers going into child welfare or other trauma-related care discover emotional challenges. In a textbook that bridges the gap between theoretical and pragmatic approaches, Jason M. Newell provides a solution by conceptualizing self-care as the key to professional resilience.Trade ReviewNewell emphasizes the importance of professional self-care as it relates to providing ethical and quality services to others who are vulnerable and needing help. Clearly, if as helping professionals we do not take the first breath of oxygen, how is it possible to help others breathe? -- Carolyn Szafran, Washburn University Jason M. Newell's important book is a wake call to the field of social work and its accrediting body; that self-care is the key to professional resilience. Awake and read this book! -- Charles R. Figley, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. An Introduction to Resilient Practice Through Holistic Self-CareSection 1: Theory, Conceptualization, and Measurement2. Understanding the Connection Between Stress and Trauma 3. Chronic Empathy and Trauma in Human Service Work: Implications for Social Service Professionals4. Understanding and Preventing the Effects of Professional Burnout and Indirect Trauma: An Individual and Organizational Challenge5. Assessment and Measurement of Occupational Stress and TraumaSection 2: A Holistic Framework for the Application of Self-Care Practices6. The Essential Practice of Professional Self-Care: The Key to Professional Resilience7. Preserving Professional Resilience: The Ongoing Practice of Holistic Self-Care8. The Ethical Obligation of Professional Self-Care, with James L. Jackson Jr.9. Trauma-Informed Education, Training, and Professional Development10. The Use of Mindfulness Practice as a Function of Self-CareEpilogue: Finding Balance in Social Work Practice: Self-Care as Practice WisdomWorksheetsPersonal Reflection Exercise: Resilience and Self-AppreciationPersonal Reflection Exercise: Engaging Group Discussion on TraumaSample Assignment: Deep Breathing ExerciseSample Assessment of Organizational Strengths and ChallengesSelf-Care Process: Setting Organizational GoalsSelf-Care Process: Setting Personal GoalsProfessional Development Assignment: Construct a Plan of Personal and Professional Self-CareSuggestions for Developing a Comprehensive Plan of Self-CareSample Goals and Objectives for a Plan of Self-CareBlank Template for a Comprehensive Plan of Self-CareSample Self-Care Plan: Personal TableSample Assignment: Journaling MindfullyBibliography of Recommended ReadingsBibliography of Suggested Internet ResourcesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisFather and daughter provides an unique ‘insider perspective’ on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter Ann Oakley.Trade Review"Analysed with intellectual boldness and the rigour that typifies all of Oakley's work." British Journal of Social Work"[A] riveting book...Oakley has put together a collection of short essays and biographical fragments that explore not just her own unusual family life but key moments and personalities in the history of 20th-century social research." The Guardian"A very important contribution to historical and sociological scholarship. It is an original and carefully researched corrective to the existing 'business as usual' institutional and intellectual history of conflicts and tensions in the development of sociology, social administration, social policy and the professionalisation of social work." Times Higher Education"Ann Oakley is a highly original writer. The personal becomes political as she revisits her own history and that of her father. The web of social connections that made up the LSE's Department of Social Administration makes particularly fascinating reading." Jane Lewis, London School of Economics and Political Science"Ann Oakley’s story of how she is still taking stock of her relationship with Richard Titmuss is one of family dynamics and secrets, of politics at the grand and small scale, and of the ongoing process of making sense of who we are." Professor Graham Crow, Southampton University"Powerful and unique." LSE Review of Books blog"A fascinating study of an eminent father by his eminent daughter. This respected sociologist, feminist and novelist offers a true 'insider's view' of their relationship." Cherie Booth, QC"Father and Daughter is particularly powerful...the writing moves between scholarly exactness, dreamy reverie and pained resentment." London Review of Books"I have been gripped by "Father and Daughter" and I would like to say thanks for the best read in years!" A customer"In Father and Daughter, Ann Oakley revisits her childhood years and explores the causal links between her family's fraught domestic relationships and her father's idiosyncratic 'socialist view of inequality' that excluded gender issues from its policy concerns. This superbly researched memoir will become a classic of its kind - albeit a highly controversial one." Robert Pinker, Emeritus Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science"A tribute to the achievements, but many weaknesses, of her famous, revered father, Ann Oakley's own memoire of a childhood dominated by 'the Professor' makes often poignant but always fascinating reading." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town"I love Ann Oakley's writing. She interrogates quite beautifully ' the shadowy spaces' in which public and private lives overlap and the effect this has, particularly on women." Melissa Benn,writer"An honest, intriguing and readable book about the author and her eminent father, her conflicts with him and his conflicts with his female colleagues. I could not put it down!" Baroness Blackstone of Stoke NewingtonTable of ContentsDaughter of a Blue Plaque Man; Falling into the Bog of History; Memory and Identity; Family and Kinship in London and Other Places; Mrs Titmuss’s Diaries; Love and Solitude; The Story of the Titmice: an alternative version; Meeting Win; Harem in Houghton Street; Difficult Women; Post-Mortem; The Troubles; Dusting his Bookshelves; Vera's Rose; This Procession of Educated Men; Telling stories.

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Book SynopsisActive Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more severe disabilities, and is of growing interest to those responsible for providing support and services. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of Active Support and how it can be used in practice, based on the theory and research underpinning the methods involved. They describe how to engage people with intellectual disabilities in meaningful activity as active participants, and look at the communication style needed to foster positive relationships between carers and the people they are supporting. Highlighting the main issues for those trying to put Active Support into practice, they explain what is needed on a day-to-day basis to support the implementation, improvement and maintenance of the approach, along with possible solutions for the difficulties they may encounter. Finally, they look at how to integrate Active Support with other person-centred approaches, drawing on examples from various organisations and individual case studies. The definitive text on Active Support, this book will be essential reading for anyone professionally concerned with the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities, including psychologists, behaviour specialists, social workers, care managers, occupational therapists and inspectors and regulators of services, as well as families.Trade ReviewMansell and Beadle-Brown have created a thorough handbook of AS and how to implement it successfully. Readers of this book will also obtain different perspectives of challenges faced with AS, and how to resolve these. The book is a stimulating read, with a strong evidence base referenced to research and government papers. The authors explain their material clearly, and offer ideas for future research. This is a book to buy for any student or practitioner in a relevant field. -- British Journal of Occupational Therapyexcellent and accessible book... It provides a concise explanation of active support - meaningful, engaging and fulfilling daily activities by carers providing intensive support - and how to set about providing this. -- Nursing StandardThe book is comprehensive and essentially provides a value base and structure to support service users positively. It will be useful for families, care providers and health and social care practitioners who work or care for people with intellectual disabilities. -- International Journal of Developmental DisabilitiesThis book is drawn from international sources and sits within social policy and social work values of social inclusion, choice, participation, respect and dignity. Its great value is that by drawing on research as to what works in practice then it is both a key source of evidence and a call of action to effect change at different levels... Each chapter manages to discuss and analyse issues and challenges with which we are all familiar. The evidence is used to highlight what works and to recommend best practice at different levels. This is an important book that deserves to be read by students, social workers, team leaders, senior managers, policy makers and inspectorate staff and its recommendations acted upon. -- RostrumThis landmark book is an authoritative text on the organisation of support and methods of direct practice with people with severe intellectual disability. Written by two outstanding academic leaders, it draws together the significant body of research that forms the evidence base for person centred active support. Its unique contribution and thus immense value is the clarity with which this knowledge is translated into a comprehensive guide to every day practice for staff, front line leaders and senior managers. This book is a key source of theory and evidence for students, researchers and policy makers, as well providing practitioners and organisations with a blueprint for action. -- Professor Christine Bigby, LaTrobe University, AustraliaMansell and Beadle-Brown have pulled together, in one place, a readable, practical yet research-based guide to improving supports for people with significant intellectual disabilities. I recommend this concise volume for any service provider or policymaker who supports this population. It is well worth the read. -- Steven M. Eidelman, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Human Services Policy and Leadership, University of DelawareThis is a really helpful book for anyone wishing not only to understand the place of person centred active support in enabling people with complex support needs to exercise control over their own lives, but to implement it effectively. It is meticulously researched and distils experience gained from implementation really well. -- Bob Tindall, Managing Director, United Response and former Chair and current board member of the Association of Supported Living (ASL)In my 35 years of working with people with a disability I have not come across anything as important as Person-Centred Active Support. It is now at the core of almost all the work that I do. -- Gary Radler, Clinical Psychologist, Positive Behaviour Support Services, AustraliaPerson Centred Active Support has been an essential core element of what we do for more than 10 years; it takes energy and tenacity to implement and maintain but the difference it makes in people's lives makes it very worthwhile. -- Ian McLean, CEO, Golden City Support Services (GCSS), AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. 1. Engagement in Meaningful Activity and Relationships. 2. The Enabling Relationship. 3. Organising Staff Support. 4. Practice Leadership. 5. The Organisational Context. 6. Integrating Active Support with Other Person-centred Approaches. Conclusion. Appendix I: Summary of the Levels of Engagement Reported in Available Studies and Additional Analysis of Available Data, with Adaptive Behaviour Scale Part 1 (ABS) Score Where Available. Appendix II: Summary of Data on Engagement and Support from Staff Following Implementation of Active Support. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisManagers in social work and social care contexts are required to manage a wide range of projects: long-term and short-term, on large and small scales, in partnership with other agencies, and covering a broad range of issues and contexts.Management of these projects requires specific expertise, and this book sets out what these core skills are and how they can be achieved. Topics such as managing resources, assessing risks, and measuring outcomes are covered, as well as how to start and end a project. The authors acknowledge the values and ethics inherent to care environments, as well as the business skills necessary for good management. Detailed case studies demonstrate the ideas in action, and reflective activities, practical tools and action checklists are included throughout.This practical handbook provides a clear and comprehensive guide to how to be an excellent project manager, and is a must-read for all social work and social care managers and post-qualifying social work and social care students.Trade ReviewSuccessful Project Management in Social Work and Social Care is packed with practical exercises giving valuable tools to social workers and project managers. -- Social Work MattersProject management has become increasingly important in social work and social care. This volume provides essential information and tools tailored for managers in social work. As we have to transform and change our services in response to different expectations and environments, I consider project management to be a core skill, necessary for all managers to enable them to meet these challenges head on. -- Adi Cooper, Strategic Director of Adult Social Services and Housing, London Borough of SuttonAs a senior manager, I welcome this series of practical books specifically written about social work and social care management. They should be essential reading for all front line managers across any organisation or agency in social care. -- Adi Cooper, Strategic Director of Adult Social Services and Housing, London Borough of SuttonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Series editor's foreword. 1. Introduction to Project Management. 2. Projects in Action. 3. The Context for Project Management. 4. Project Management for Service Users. 5. Managing Your Project. 6. Leading Your Project Team and Developing Partnerships. 7. Delivering Your Project. 8. Ending Your Project. 9. Project Management Across Diverse Cultures. References. Contributors' Information. Index.

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