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Governing the sustainable development goals : quantification in global public…
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implem…
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- 9783031039386
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- XVII, 165 p
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- 338.927 JUS g
Transforming Social Work Field Education
Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social workers are expected to use research to inform their practice and to contribute to the production of research. Yet many social workers are reluctant to integrate research into their practice and into…
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- 9781773854403
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- xiii, 411 p. ; ill.
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- 361.7 TRA t
Youth suicide prevention and intervention
This open access book focuses on the public health crisis of youth suicide and provides a review of current research and prevention practices. It addresses important topics, including suicide epidemiology, suicide risk detection in school and medical settings, critical cultural considerations, and approaches to lethal means safety. This book offers cutting-edge research on emerging discoveries …
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- Springer Cham
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- xvi; 169; ill.
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- 362.280835 YOU y
Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy : Between Legitimation and Inte…
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core n…
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- 9783030803025
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- xxii, 158 p.
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- 306.8743 SOC D
Shared physical custody : interdisciplinary insights in child custody arrange…
This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution i…
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- 9
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- 9783030684792
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- 331p;
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- 346.173 SHA L
Enterprise social policy as a means of development of social work
The topic of the treatise entitled Social Policy in Enterprises as a Means of Develop-ment of Social Work is a reconstruction of the development of social work in enter-prises1 implemented as part of enterprise social policy in the territory of Bohemia and Moravia between the years 1876-1989. Since its professional beginnings, social work has been a major actor and instrument of social policy. …
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- 6
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- 9783966659925
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- 252p.
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- 361.94371 ENT s
The children of looked after children : outcomes, experiences and ensuring me…
Based on groundbreaking original research, this book provides a comprehensive account of the issues surrounding pregnancy and parenthood for young people in and leaving care. Featuring the voices of care-experienced parents, together with reflections from practitioners, it offers valuable insights into the issues facing this group. Using qualitative data to explore why parenthood is such an imp…
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- 9781447354307
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- viii, 163 p. : ill.
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- 362.732 ROB t
Professional social work in Australia
This is an unchanged republication of the first historical account of the social work profession in Australia. It traces the development of social work education and professional social work in the larger, more industrialised societies overseas before the same developments began in Australia in the late 1920s, and it notes the part played by overseas influence in the subsequent 30-odd years. Th…
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- 9781921934278
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- xvii, 241 p. tables. 25 cm.
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- 361.320994 LAW p
Workplaces as learning spaces--conceptual and empirical insights
This volume is focused on workplaces as learning spaces. It is the fourth volume of Asian and European researchers carrying out common or related work in the field of workplace learning. They are organised in the ASEM Lifelong Learning research net-work, which was established in 2005 and includes members from 14 countries in Asia and Europe. The research network is enhancing a vivid exchange of…
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- 9783903122734
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- 195 p.
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- Conference series,
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- 371.1 WOR w
The Service User as a Partner in Social Work Projects and Education : Concept…
To become a competent social worker it is essential to know the perspective of the service users. Therefore, service users are more and more included in field research projects and the instruction of social workers to-be. However, they are usually reduced to the role of informants and not actively taking part as co-partners. For the first time, this anthology gives an overview of courses in whi…
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- 9783847409298
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- 144 p.
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- 361.007 SER s
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