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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is centered on the participation of children in countries of the South. In this sense, it will review the possibilities of children's participation, as well as their forms of participation in different contexts of daily life. There has been a tendency to underestimate children’s role as active constructors of their surrounding social space, as well as of the internalized interpretations of the way social life operates. Today it is necessary to recognize that children are agents actively involved in the construction of their own lives and the life of the societies they live in; and in this sense, it is important to consider and re-signify the participation of boys and girls as a fundamental pillar in the process of building societies in the 21st century. The book contains chapters that re-significate children’s participation in different countries from South America and South Africa, in relation with different topics: well-being, methods, citizenship, poverty, education, rurality, ethics and human rights.Trade Review“This publication is well placed to assist researchers and policy makers in understanding the complex, diverse, and contextual nature of children’s participation in and as it affects their lives. The knowledge disseminated in the various chapters, if cognisance is taken of the contributions, will allow children, through active participation, to become an integral part of political and social reform in dealing with challenges and future planning.” (Phadiel Hoosen, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 18 (1), 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Acknowledgments.- Contributors.- 1. Children’s Participation In South America: A Pproposal Based on the Capability Approach.- 2. Conducting Participatory Research on Children’s Subjective Well-being: At the interface of ethics and methods.- 3. Child Participation in Nigeria: Three examples of dialogue with children and adolescents.-4. Children's Citizenship in 21st Century Societies: Key notes from the South.- 5. Children’s Rights and Participation in School in South Africa.- 6. Purpose For Power (P4P). Participation as a way of being and becoming in Haiti: A practical approach to genuine empowerment, and wellbeing among young people.- 7. Childhood Geography from the South: The right to participation of children living in rural settings.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on case studies from the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam, this publication highlights successful strategies, mechanisms, and innovations in early coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic response in Asia and the Pacific.Across the region, diverse approaches are being taken to mitigate COVID-19. The case studies presented here focus on analyzing pandemic-related challenges in the context of universal health coverage. They identify and describe good practices and lessons learned in emergency and crisis planning, management, and coordination along with whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to pandemic response.

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction.Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is “the work that makes all other work possible.” But as historian Premilla Nadasen argues, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives and our economy. Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today’s care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit.Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future.Trade Review“With this book, Premilla Nadasen has made an invaluable contribution to the ongoing debates around care and capitalism. In clear and concise prose, she takes apart the care-industrial complex that has emerged, like the military- and prison-industrial complexes before it, to wring the last drops of profit from the lives and deaths of working people. An absolutely necessary intervention in the most important political debate of our times.”—Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won’t Love You Back“Premilla Nadasen is a pathbreaking scholar of Black women’s labor and welfare organizing, as well as a radical feminist activist in her own right. She has a passion and a powerful talent for telling the complicated truths that define working class women of color’s lives. In Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Nadasen offers a brilliant interrogation of the exploitative and profit-driven care system in the United States. To fully understand racial capitalism in the 21st century, you have to read this book."—Barbara Ransby, professor and director of the Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of the award-winning Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement“If you think the ‘care economy’ sounds like a socialist nirvana, think again. Premilla Nadasen reveals how the exploitation and commodification of reproductive labor has enriched corporations, compensated for a shrinking welfare state, and pauperized the very workers responsible for the sustenance, health, and well-being of others. The consequences of a gendered racial capitalist ‘care economy’ are deepening inequality, more broken people, and a culture of sacrifice that only serves to mask misery and low wages. Once you read this highly original, incisive, and unsettling book, you will no longer honor nurses by banging pots together but by joining a picket line instead.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination“Premilla Nadasen’s Care is a clear, useful tool for thinking about both the brutal exploitation of capitalist care relations and the transformative power of grassroots collective care projects. Nadasen deftly weaves insights from labor resistance, Black feminism, anti-colonial struggles, disability justice, and other radical traditions into a cohesive analysis of reproductive labor that will be a readable primer for classroom and community use as much as it is a visionary inquiry into what new social relations we need to be building right now. This book is a generous contribution to the most urgent conversations happening in social movements and embattled communities right now.”—Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)“Nadasen takes a deep and discouraging dive into current practices of care as they have been shaped by historical precedents and capitalist greed. Her research illuminates generations of resistance by recipients, and uncovers creative approaches to collective care that promise effective solutions to poverty, housing, and the well-being of the ill, the unhoused, children, and the elderly. I hope everyone who wants to understand what is perhaps our greatest contemporary concern will read this book.”—Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America"Incisive.... Crisply argued, rigorously contextualized, and approachably written, this is essential reading for those interested in social justice and working-class politics."—Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: “One of the Family”: Gender, Labor, and the Care Work DiscourseChapter 2: The Labors of Life: Care Work, Social Reproduction, and CapitalismChapter 3: Social Reproduction, Coercion, and CareChapter 4: “Tell ‘Dem Slavery Done’”: Social Reproduction and the Politics of ResistanceChapter 5. Who Cares? Caring (or Not Caring) for the PoorChapter 6: In Bed with Capitalism: The State, Capital, and Profiting Off Those in NeedChapter 7. Radical CareConclusion

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Book SynopsisADHD is an increasingly common diagnosis, and is far more prevalent among children in care than the general population. The symptoms of ADHD intersect significantly with trauma responses, and it can be challenging for child protection professionals to form a full picture of a child''s challenges and needs. When a child is seen to be lacking in focus, ADHD may be the first line of enquiry, but for child protection professionals, more questions may need to be asked. Is it ADHD or an overactive threat response? What might be causing a child''s emotional dysregulation? Are they defiant or are we seeing a learned coping strategy to protect themselves from what they perceive to be harmful? Understanding the roots of a child''s behaviour leads to better assessments, support and interventions. This book will provide the information and practice guidance you need to navigate this complex terrain.

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Book SynopsisReviewing diverse sites, including the US, Cambodia, Israel, Poland, Chile, Australia, and Brazil, this book considers how schooling systems are being influenced by the rise of external actors who increasingly determine the content, delivery, and governance of education.Table of ContentsForeword - Gita Steiner Khamsi Introduction - Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Christopher Lubienski 1. Collective parental involvement: an in-between actor - Audrey Addi-Raccah 2. When teachers become the external actor: private tutoring and endogenous privatisation in Cambodia - Hang M. Le and D. Brent Edwards, Jr. 3. Cross-sectoral alliances in charter schools: the role of boards of directors from for-profit and non-profit sectors - Charisse Gulosino and Elif Şişli Ciamarra 4. A communitarian framework for understanding the relations between schools and NGOs - Izhar Oplatka 5. PISA for sale? Creating profitable policy spaces through the OECD’s PISA for Schools - Steven Lewis and Bob Lingard 6. Historical reconfigurations of internal/external actors in Danish educational testing practices - Christian Ydesen 7. A short history of external agency involvement within education in contemporary Poland - Mikołaj Herbst 8. New philanthropy in the heterarchical governance of education in Brazil - Marina Avelar 9. Venture philanthropy and the rise of external actors in Australian education - Emma Rowe 10. Power struggle in education policy change: the role of knowledge actors in structural reforms in Chile - Dante Castillo-Canales and Javier González Díaz Conclusion - Christopher Lubienski, Claire Maxwell, Miri Yemini

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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume's groundbreaking publication, the authors once again closely examine how the main aspects of parenting have been established, explored, and critically evaluated. Chapters revisit phenomena such as intensive parenting and politics around parenting, as well as controversial issues including policing pregnant women's bodies and parental determinism. In addition to updates throughout the volume, including those addressing literature that has built from the book’s original publication, the book features a new third part discussing parents dealing with risk assessment, school closures, contradictory care arrangements, and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of ContentsForeword (Updated)1. Introduction Part 1: ​Parenting Culture2. Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting3. Experts and Parenting Culture4. The Politics of Parenting 5. Who Cares for Children? The Problem of Intergenerational ContactPart 2: Case Studies in Parental Determinism6. Policing Pregnancy: The Pregnant Woman Who Drinks7. The Problem of Attachment: The Detached Parent8. Babies Brains and Parenting Policy: The Insensitive Mother9. Intensive Fatherhood? The (Un)involved Dad10. The Double Bind of Parenting Culture: Helicopter Parents and Cotton Wool KidsPart 3: Parenting and the Pandemic11. Parenting’ after Covid-19: When the Quantity of ‘Quality time’ Becomes Untenable12. From Safeguarding to Childism? Covid-19 and the School Closures Debate13. Pregnancy and Vaccination: The Precautionary Principle and Parenting Culture in Covid Times14. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDisorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear without solution' and the effects can be lasting and damaging.This book is a comprehensive and accessible text on disorganized attachment. It outlines what it is, how it can be identified and the key causes, including neurological, biochemical and genetic explanations. Factors that contribute to disorganized attachment are covered including unresolved loss and trauma, and the behaviour of caregivers. The authors also discuss evidence-based interventions to help families and carers as well as how to work with adults to prevent or minimize its occurrence. To root the theory in practice and to illustrate real-life examples of disorganized attachment case vignettes are included.With an authoritative research base, this accessible text will be invaluable to practitioners and academics in the fields of social care, psychology, counselling and allied health professions as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.Trade ReviewThis accessible and informative book takes an up-to-date approach to the topic of disorganized attachment... The text has an authoritative research base and will be of use to social work and counselling/therapy professionals. -- The Journal of Analytical PsychologyShemmings and Shemmings cut to the crux of the child protection system... If the vision of practice featured in Understanding Disorganized Attachment is realized, social workers will have a research-based framework with which to assess and to assist parents and children most at risk of maltreatment. In turn, this knowledge could help raise social workers' confidence in their abilities, sense of efficacy in interventions and purpose in visits. -- Critical Social PolicyWhen I read a book, I put a sticky note on any page I find interesting and intend to refer to later. In this book of 240 pages, there were 55 stickies. I read it again. It is an easy to read, though academic, book and, in parts, is entertaining. It draws from a list of references and demonstrates not only how our knowledge has developed over the years, but where we might go in the future. The subject matter is crucial to anyone working with, and making decisions on behalf of, children and families... I would recommend this book to any childcare practitioner in health and social care and carers. -- Seen and HeardI was keen to review this book and have not been disappointed. It is a scholarly and practical work containing a wealth of valuable information and theoretically researched suggestions... the book in its entirety is one that should be required reading for training in anything connected with children's welfare, for health and particularly mental health professionals, and for teacher training. -- Counselling Children & Young PeopleThis book is written in a clear, accessible style, without over-simplifying some of the very complex ideas. It is scholarly and well-researched. It also provides helpful introductions to attachment theory, metallisation and recent developments in neuroscience. -- Children & Young People NowA well-written book that clearly, and in detail, describes the ethology, assessment, and components of effective treatment of disorganized attachment. The authors explain the main concepts of attachment theory with a remarkable clarity that is refreshing and insightful, drawing on historical and everyday examples to illustrate their points. It is clear, complete, and put into easily understandable terms. The [authors] have written a seminal work on disorganized attachment. -- Dr Arthur Becker-Weidman, Director, The Center for Family Development in Williamsville, New York, USAThis is a fabulous book. It provides a clear and coherent account of normal attachment systems in children and their parents, and an equally clear account of how the behaviours of parents affect the security of children's attachment. The authors are experienced real-world practitioners as well as researchers, and it shows. I hope and anticipate that this book will be read by all those working in child protection systems, especially family court judges and those who assess parents accused of maltreatment. -- Dr Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Dedication. Introduction. Part 1. Theoretical and Research Background. 1. What is Disorganized Attachment? 2. Key Pathways to Disorganized Attachment and its Consequences. 3. Identification and Assessment of Disorganized Attachment. 4. Neurological, Biochemical and Genetic Explanations. Part 2. Intervening Factors Leading to Disorganized Attachment. 5. Unresolved Loss and Trauma. 6. Mentalization and Reflective Function. 7. Specific Caregiver Behaviour (with David Wilkins). Part 3. Theory and Research into Practice. 8. What Produces Successful Interventions? (with David Phillips). 9. The Assessment of Disorganized Attachment and Maltreatment (ADAM) Project (with Tania Young). Concluding Comments. References. Subject Index. Author Index.

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Book SynopsisBehaviour is always in the news. Sometimes we praise people for their endeavour, their heroism and their love. Generally we complain about people for their laziness, arrogance, pettiness and bad behaviour. The media are full of it and our daily conversation is filled with what our acquaintances or characters from the soaps are up to!Blob Behaviour is a set of cards which looks at how we all relate and provides the user with an opportunity to look at the whole range of human behaviour ...and understand one another through it!Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.Table of Contents48 cards (125 x 80mm) +booklet Boxed ISBN 978-0-86388-879-3 ORDER CODE D11-003-5752 GBP25.75 +VAT

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Book SynopsisProvides a systematic framework for understanding and shaping moral action Taking Moral Action offers a timely and comprehensive overview of the emerging field of moral psychology, introducing readers to one of the most vibrant areas of research in contemporary psychology. With an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, authors Chuck Huff and Almut Furchert incorporate a wide range of scholarly traditions, philosophical theories, empirical findings, and practical moral writings to explore the complex network of influences, contexts, and processes involved in producing and structuring moral action. Integrating key empirical and theoretical literature, this unique volume helps readers grasp the different aspects of both habitual and intentional acts of moral action. Thematically organized chapters examine moral action in contexts such as evolution, moral ecology, personality, moral identity and the self, moral reason, moral emotion, and more. Each chapter features a discussion of how nTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction xiii Part I Contexts 1 1 Evolution 3 2 Neuroscience of Moral Action 29 3 Moral Ecology 57 Part II Influences 87 4 Personality 89 5 Moral Identity and the Self 115 6 Skills and Knowledge 145 Part III Processes 177 7 Moral Reason 179 8 Moral Emotion 215 9 Moral Formation: Shaping Moral Action 246 Coda: Taking Moral Action 291 Index 299

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Book SynopsisAn impassioned critique of mental health movements from one of the left’s most important thinkers on healthTrade Review'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' -- William Davies, author of 'The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being''One of the most prolific, versatile and scholarly of this country’s socialist writers' -- 'The Times''A unique voice, politically committed but always balanced, urgent but always laced with humour' -- 'New Statesman'Table of ContentsIntroduction to the New Edition About the Author Acknowledgements Part One: Anti-Psychiatry 1. Anti-Psychiatry, Illness and the Mentally Ill 2. Psycho-Medical Dualism: The Case of Erving Goffman 3. R.D. Laing: The Radical Trip 4. R.D. Laing: The Return to Psychiatry 5. Michel Foucault: The Anti-History of Psychiatry 6. Psychiatry and Politics in Thomas Szasz Part Two: Psychiatry and Liberation 7. Mental Health Movements and Issues: A Survey and Prospect References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWho Cares is a fresh, informative look at the nature of the American welfare state: why do we care about some needs more than others? What's the actual level of protection afforded, and for whom? What do key actors (the public, parties and politicians, unions, and business organizations) have to say? Will the gaps exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic spur a reset, or not? Chris Howard wields his stunningly clear prose to examine both the usual policy areas (income, healthcare, food) and the often-overlooked (housing, child- and elder-care). I can't wait for the conversations this thoughtful book will prompt. * Andrea Louise Campbell, author of Trapped in America's Safety Net *The strengths of the book include its deep dive into public opinion and its information on the roles of government, charities, and volunteers in mitigating poverty...Who Cares is suitable for undergraduate courses on social welfare, public policy, and the sociology of poverty. * Choice *...by surveying caring commitments and practices across the public-private spectrum throughout society, the book's detailed empirical analysis greatly helps to place our collective caring efforts to aid the disadvantaged in the United States into a robust context, actually making thorough assessment more possible. For this alone, the book is an important contribution to the scholarly literature and deserving of a wide audience among the broader public. * Sanford Schram, Hunter College-City University of New York *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction WHAT WE SAY 1. General Public 2. Business and Labor 3. Churches and Other Charities 4. Public Officials WHAT WE DO 5. Income 6. Food 7. Housing 8. Medical Care 9. Daily Care Conclusion Postscript: The Social Safety Net and the Pandemic Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMost chronically and terminally ill patients are cared for in their own homes by family and friends, rather than in hospitals or hospices. These carers are an invaluable free resource and there is an increasing amount of research into their role and the experiences in caring for the terminally ill, patients with cancer and patients with other chronic diseases. This book provides a critique of the theoretical concept of caring, carers and caregivers. Material is based on empirical evidence from recent studies with adults with acquired chronic illnesses, including terminal illness. The empirical data within the book has been gathered from the perspective of those providing personal, domestic or emotional care to others already known to them by virtue of kinship, co-habitation or friendship, rather than carers organised on a professional or voluntary basis. This new evidence is used to make suggestions about possible ways forward within health and social care practice. Students in the fieTrade ReviewThis is a very welcome text that examines informal caring from a holistic perspective, exploring the emotional and social implications of caring and the impact of societal and professional attitudes on carers. Theoretical perspectives and research findings are integrated well, supported by plentiful examples of real life experiences. It includes a good mix of studies and each chapter is well referenced for readers who wish to explore particular aspects in more depth... The content is informative, refreshing and challenging to existing attitudes to carers and includes helpful suggestions for practice. I would certainly recommend it to students on palliative care courses and encourage teachers to give carers more voice in their courses by using it as a key text. * Progress in Palliative Care *This book should be recommended as essential reading for professionals engaged in aspects of care. * British Journal of Social Work *Table of ContentsBeing a carer ; Positive aspects of caring ; Caring and identity: the experience of spouses in stroke and other chronic neurological conditions ; A longitudinal study of carers providing palliative care ; Who is a carer? Experiences of family caregivers in palliative care ; Being a carer in acute crisis: the situation for relatives of organ donors ; Family Caregiving: A Gender-Based Analysis of Women's Experiences ; The Contribution of Carers to Professional Education ; The future: interventions and conceptual issues

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Book SynopsisThere are relatively high rates of complications in the fetal and neonatal periods (1 in 33 fetuses born with birth defects and 1 in 10 preterm births in the US). With advances in maternal-fetal care and growing services and life-extending medical innovations in the neonatal period, more families are presenting to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) and often for longer lengths of time. The growing recognition of mental health needs of families and providers in fetal care centers, NICUs, and neonatal follow-up programs has led to a quickly increasing presence of behavioral health providers in these settings. Behavioral Health Services with High-Risk Infants & Families is a practical guide for mental health clinicians working in fetal care, NICU, and neonatal follow-up care. The book provides a broad overview of common medical conditions in fetal and NICU settings (e.g., congenital anomalies, premature birth, hypoxic injury in the perinatal period), prevalence, and symptoms of behavioral health challenges, specific considerations for assessment and intervention, and cross-cutting issues to assist the clinician with optimizing behavioral health care integration with mothers, partners, babies, and families. Additionally, information about the provision of psychosocial support and education to staff is also included. The text represents a comprehensive, practical resource for behavioral health clinicians working with pregnant women, partners, infants, families, and providers in perinatal and neonatal intensive care settings. The book features de-identified case examples, trauma-informed care prompts/scripts, specific questions for assessment and intakes, key medical terms, resource guides, and reference lists.Trade ReviewBehavioral Health Services with High-Risk Infants and Families offers clinicians numerous detailed and varied chapters that provide direction and insight on providing behavioral health care for infants and their families across numerous settings serving high-risk infants. This book is particularly beneficial and useful and has substantially informed my practice via chapters grounded with up-to-date research and illustrated with over 100 detailed case studies connecting research to practice. This book will surely be on my shelf for the duration of my career as it provides the reader with insights for integrating into the role of behavioral health clinician for high-risk infants and families, as well as, training and teaching new clinicians to enter the field. * Melissa Maye, PhD, Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research, Henry Ford Health System *This text provides a comprehensive review of the importance of addressing perinatal and infant mental health. The chapters offer a historical perspective, reinforce the argument for thinking about the entire family unit when taking care of the high risk infant (starting prenatally, well through post-partum and post NICU care). With each chapter carefully outlining approach and theories to management of PMADs, as a reader, it makes it easier to take an overwhelming topic such as this (often under-resourced in healthcare settings) and start to make headway in the different settings (e.g. fetal, NICU, post-discharge, etc.). The combination of authors across the disciplines of healthcare only enhance the perspectives and takeaways for each setting. * Dr. Dmitry Dukhovny, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science University *Table of ContentsSECTION I: ROLES AND PRACTICE ISSUES 1. History of Psychological Services in Neonatal Intensive Care Michael T. Hynan 2.Roles, Activities, and Opportunities of Behavioral Health Clinicians in Delivering Continuity of Care Tiffany Willis, LaTrice L. Dowtin, Dailyn Acosta, and Kara Hansen 3.Quality Improvement and Research Across Fetal and Neonatal Care Settings Pamela A. Geller, Ariana Albanese, Victoria A. Grunberg, John Chuo, and Chavis A. Patterson 4.Systems Interventions and Program Development Susanne Klawetter, Jill A. Hoffman, Kristi Roybal, and Sunah S. Hwang 5. Interdisciplinary Behavioral Health Teams Chavis A. Patterson, Mona Elgohail, Alison Hartman, Vincent C. Smith, and Pamela A. Geller 6. Teaching and Training Developing Professionals in Perinatal and Neonatal Settings LaTrice L. Dowtin, Tiffany Willis, Soudabeh Givrad, and Melissa Scala 7.Operations and Ethical Considerations Elizabeth Fischer, KristiLynn Cedars, Abbey Kruper, and Steven R. Leuthner SECTION II: CROSS-CUTTING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND APPROACHES 8. Infant Mental Health for High-Risk Infants Across the Continuum of Care Miller Shivers, Annelise Cunningham, Natalia Henner, and Kerri Machut 9.Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among Parents of High-Risk Fetuses and Infants Birdie Meyer, Brenda Papierniak, and Christena Raines 10. Screening for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Across Settings Amy E. Baughcum, Olivia E. Clark, Shannon L. Gillespie, and Jeanne Decker 11. Psychotherapy and Medication Interventions for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Across Settings Teni Davoudian, Jacquelyn Knapp, Lana Weber, and Nicole Cirino 12. Trauma and Trauma Informed Care Mary Coughlin 13. Addressing Perinatal Substance Use Across the Continuum of Care Jennifer J. Paul, Jessalyn Kelleher, Susanne Klawetter, and Sarah Nagle-Yang 14. Human Milk and Breastfeeding Diane L. Spatz and Elizabeth D. Morris 15. Shared Decision-Making Across Settings Jeannie Zuk, Kristin Carter, Beth McManus, and Brooke Dorsey Holliman 16. Perinatal Crisis and Traumatic Bereavement Mara Tesler Stein and Deborah L. Davis 17. The Value of Peer Support for High-Risk Pregnant Women and Their NICU Infants Sue L. Hall, Jenny Landry, and Erin Thatcher SECTION III: FETAL CARE SETTINGS 18. Specialty Care Settings: Perinatal Management, Fetal Therapy and the Fetal Therapy Center Christina Paidas Teefey, Sarah Robinson, and Julie S. Moldenhauer 19. Role of Behavioral Health Clinicians in Fetal Care Settings Lacy Chavis, Sakina Butt, and Elizabeth Vaught 20. Uncertainty and Coping in the NICU: Relationships Matter Zina Steinberg and Susan Kraemer SECTION IV: NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE SETTINGS 21. Neonatal Intensive Care Settings Sara C. Handley and David Munson 22. Role of Behavioral Health Clinicians in the NICU Setting Rochelle Steinwurtzel, Sandhya Brachio, Sheau-Yan Ho, Solimar Santiago-Warner 23. Regulation, Relationships, and Reflection: Developmental Care in the NICU Ayelet Talmi and Joy V. Browne 24. Mental Health and Coping Challenges Among Families in the NICU Jennifer Harned Adams, Stacey R. Bromberg, and Anna Zimmerman SECTION V: NEONATAL FOLLOW-UP SETTINGS 25. A Brief History of Neonatal Follow Up and Why It's Done Howard Needelman, Beatrice Egboh, Whitney Strong-Bak, and Grace Winningham 26. Common Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Challenges in Neonatal Follow-Up Kathryn E. Gustafson and Mollie G. Warren 27. Role of Behavioral Health Clinicians in Neonatal Follow-Up Settings Casey Hoffman and Annie Markovits 28. After the NICU: Primary Care Behavioral Health Services Verenea J Serrano, Jonna von Schulz, Melissa Buchholz, Kristina Malik, Amy Wrenn, and Ayelet Talmi

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Book SynopsisStigma is one of the major barriers to care for people with mental health and related disorders. Stigma includes negative beliefs about and hostile perceptions towards others, shame and self-stigma, discriminatory practices in hiring, promotion and recognition of people who suffer from mental health challenges, and structural and organizational policies and processes that result in inequalities for people who have mental health challenges. Stigma has been recognized as a significant factor in the well-being of people with mental health and related problems and can be more debilitating than the direct effects of mental health problems themselves.The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) was established to conduct policy reviews and to promote initiatives related to mental health. The Opening Minds program of the MHCC is the largest systematic effort in Canadian history to reduce stigma related to mental illnesses. The program has adopted the systematic development, evaluation and deployment of targeted programs based on theories of change, best practices and available research evidence as a model for stigma reduction.The Stigma of Mental Illness is an important vehicle to communicate conceptual issues in the field of stigma reduction, to document the work done to date within the MHCC Opening Minds program, and to offer practical strategies to broaden the scope and utility of the work for different contexts, cultures, and countries. This volume will be a global interest, given the growing importance of stigma reduction related to mental disorders and related problems.Table of ContentsPreface Contributors Chapter 1: Prejudice and Discrimination Related to Mental Illness Keith S. Dobson and Heather Stuart Chapter 2: Prejudice and Discrimination Related to Substance Use Problems Shu-Ping Chen and Heather Stuart Chapter 3: Best and Promising Practices Heather Stuart Chapter 4: Measuring Structural Stigma Thomas Ungar and Stephanie Knaak Chapter 5: The Assesment of Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace Keith S. Dobson and Andrew C. H. Szeto Chapter 6: Measuring Opioid-Related Stigma Stephanie Knaak and Heather Stuart Chapter 7: Stereotype and Social Distance Scales for Youth Michelle Koller and Heather Stuart Chapter 8: The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Providers Stephanie Knaak and Scott Patten Chapter 9: Best Practices in Antistigma Programming Targeting Youth Michelle Koller and Heather Stuart Chapter 10: Stigma Reduction in Postsecondary Settings: Moving From Individual Initiatives to Holistic Mental Health Approaches Andrew C. H. Szeto and Brittany L. Lindsay Chapter 11: Stigma Reduction in the General Workplace Dorothy Luong and Bonnie Kirsh Chapter 12: Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness in First Responders Beth Milliard Chapter 13: Stigma Reduction for Healthcare Workers Bianca Lauria-Horner Chapter 14: Stigma Reduction for Substance Use and Opioids Stephanie Knaak and Heather Stuart Chapter 15: Media Programs Rob Whitley Chapter 16: Dissemination and Implementation Science in Stigma Programs Keith S. Dobson and Heather Stuart Chapter 17: Future Directions of Stigma Reduction: Lessons Learned Heather Stuart and Keith S. Dobson

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in this book describe the current situation and changes that affect the health and well-being of different Indigenous populations around the world. They also highlight the adaptations and strengths of older people as they find ways to meet current challenges in their lives.Trade ReviewThe book focuses on the mental, physical, and social challenges older people are experiencing regarding social change in the growing community. The book is a helpful learning tool for instructors, undergraduate and graduate students, and healthcare practitioners across the globe...It is rich in understanding the uniqueness of diverse cultures on issues concerning indigenous older adults. * Dolapo Adeniji, Ph.D., MSW, MEd, Department of Social Work College of Health and Human Services Indiana State University *Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Cultural Determinants of Healthy Indigenous Aging Michael Yellow Bird, Gina Belton and Jamie Jensen Chapter 2. Active Aging in Mountainous Villages: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous Older Adults in Taiwan Hai Luo Chapter 3. Locating Aging in India: Indigenous Perspectives of the Khasis and Jad Bhotiyas Juster Lyngdoh and Malathi Adudsumalli Chapter 4. Socio-cultural Beliefs and Health Seeking Behavior among Older Adults in Selected Rural and Urban Areas in Lagos State, Nigeria Fatai A. Badru and Oluwafunmilayo T. Adekola B. Aging and Social Policy: Challenges and Effects on Indigenous Older Persons Chapter 5. Lapland in Transformation: Impacts on Cultural Well-Being of the Older Population, with Special Reference to Indigenous Residents Shahnaj Begum Chapter 6. Indigenous Adults in Taiwan: The Aging Population and Related Policy Kui Kasirisir and Hai Luo Chapter 7. Development of the Indigenous Long Term Care System in Taiwan Hung-Yu Ru Chapter 8. Indigenous Spirituality, Decolonization and Restoration of Traditional Elders' Ancestral Knowledge Today: Social Work and Aging Julian Kunnie C. Effects of Social Change on Communities, Families and Older Persons Chapter 9. Aging in the Contested Floodplain: Challenges of Indigenous People of the Kafue Flats Fred Moonga Chapter 10. Survival Strategies of Older Adults in the Manipuri Community in Bangladesh Tulshi Kumar Das Chapter 11. Elderly Care in Rural Ghana: Support System and Survival Strategies of Older Persons in Bamang, Ashanti Region Kwadwo Ofori-Dua Chapter 12. Socioemotional Challenges of Indigenous Elders: A Study Based on a Rural Village of Northern Sri Lanka Subramaniam Jeevasuthan and Varatharajah Jeyaruban D. Emotional and Psychological Issues Chapter 13. Etahi Kaum? tua Momeki: Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older M?ori Living in Aotearoa, New Zealand Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Stella Black, Tessa Morgan, Janine Wiles and Merryn Gott Chapter 14. Loneliness among Indigenous People in Chile: A Neglected Issue Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta, Esteban Sànchez-Moreno and Vicente Rodriguez-Rodriguez E. Contributions of Indigenous Older Persons Chapter 15. Honoring and Preserving Culture through Indigenous Cultural Generative Acts to Reduce Generative Mismatch and Improve the Health of All Generations Jordan Lewis Chapter 16. Continuity, Connectedness and Community: An Alaska Native Lifecycle and Explanatory Model of Caregiving Networks Maria Crouch and Rosellen Rosich Chapter 17. Reigniting the Indigenous Spirit: Indigenous Elders and Organizations Jason Albert, Susannah Walker and Gilbert Kewistep Chapter 18. Examining Inter-Generational Ties and Roles: From the Lens of Tribal Older Persons in India Jennifer Philip and Asha Banu Soletti Chapter 19. Shared Role and Responsibilities of Older Adults in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Unrecognized Contributions to their Families and Communities Shamila Sivukumaran and Subramaniam Jeevasuthan Conclusion Tuula Heinonen (with Jordan Lewis) Index

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Book SynopsisThis book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare management. The 2008 crash marked a critical stress test for European welfare states with dramatic repercussions, including a massive surge in unemployment, a widening in wage and income disparities, and rising poverty. Hikes in fiscal deficits and public debt, required to pre-empt an economic meltdown, forced policymakers to make painful cuts in welfare services to shore up public finances, thereby jeopardizing welfare support for vulnerable groups. The overall scope of welfare-policy responses is heterogeneous, disparate, and uneven. In some cases, the response to the Great Recession was accompanied by deep social conflicts, while in others unpopular crisis-management measures received broad consent from opposition parties, trade unions, and employer organizations. Alongside serious r

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisManaging in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to illustrate techniques for managing people, resources, information, projects and change.This new edition has been extensively revised and updated, and includes many new case studies and examples, as well as a new chapter on motivation. It covers topics such as: interorganisational and interprofessional working leadership responding to the needs of service users the service environment accountability and risk working with a budget standards and quality managing change. The authors explore how managers can make a real and positive difference to the work of organisations providing health anTrade ReviewThis book will help service and project managers and should be key to the development of local projects management communities - Anthony Douglas, Community CarePraise for the first edition:'This book will help service and project managers, and should be key to the development of local projects' management communities.' - Community CareTable of ContentsPart 1: The Manager and the Team 1. Your Job as a Manager in Health and Social Care 2. Improving your Effectiveness as a Manager 3. Management and Leadership 4. Understanding Motivation 5. Values and Vision Part 2: Managing for Service Users 6. What do your Service Users Want? 7. Mapping the Service Environment 8. Engaging with Service Users 9. Managing Outcomes for Service Users Part 3: Managing Services 10. Managing Processes 11. Working with a Budget 12. Service Planning, Accountability and Risk Part 4: Managing Improvement 13. Quality in Services 14. Working with Standards 15. Management Control 16. Developing Effective Performance 17. Managing Change 18. Planning and Managing Projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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