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Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use their experience in the area to produce an operational manual of the issues involved in refugee health programmes.

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Social Security in Britain provides an analysis of the social security system in Britain. As well as covering the historical and comparative context, the book explains today's complex system in simple terms. Current issues, such as the policy debate around welfare reform and the effects of the social security system, are also discussed.

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Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.

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Social Work and Community Care makes a case for the involvement of social work skills, knowledge and values as part of the development of policy and multi-professional practice in community care. Malcolm Payne shows how ideas of community and community care are entwined with the development of social work and the social services.

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Salbi presents a riveting collection of letters and first-person narratives by amazing women who survived wars devastation

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This book brings together papers by voluntary sector scholars which were commissioned to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the LSE's Centre for Voluntary Organisation. The papers address key issues currently facing UK voluntary sector managers.

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An indispensable guide for anyone engaged in counselling, or interested in understanding the inner workings of personality.

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The director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative looks at the alarming rise in violence against doctors and aid workers, and how to stop it.

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A ground-breaking rethink of caregiving in our society, by writer, activist and former policy advisor Emily Kenway

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Here, now fully updated for the twenty-first century, is the complex and fascinating history of the formation of the British Women Police. Full of drama, intrigue and humour, it also captures, through well-authenticated primary material, the colour and manner of the times.

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The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving.

In Toxic Charity, Robert D.

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"Memorial Sloan Kettering radiologist, nationally recognized patient advocate, and Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier argues that we can't fix the American healthcare system until we fix ourselves"--

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Problems of Administration in Social Work was first published in 1940. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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Join veteran crime-fighter Stephen Smith on a journey through the dark and dangerous world of the Metropolitan Police specialist firearms command from its inception in 1966, when the cold-blooded murder of three police officers sparked a revolution in the training of armed officers, to the present day.

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A Practical Guide to a broad and extremely vital psychological speciality

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Twelve families share stories of the triumph and heartache that accompanies adopting children from the US foster care system.

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Packed full of images, case studies, reflection points, this accessibly written textbook is designed to introduce undergraduate students on social science courses to the science behind the brain.

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This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. It examines the ways that ideas inform practice, explores recent changes in the organisation of services and addresses what it means to be a critical, reflective practitioner.

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A practical guide offering best practices, checklists, and profiles of inspiring leaders for women who want to do philanthropy right, For a Good Cause is the go-to resource for how to give joyfullyand effectively.

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This book provides an accessible overview of human needs,exploring how they may be translated into rights. It also looks at how social policy can be informed by a politics of human need.

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Although state provision may have dominated in Britain since 1945, there is a growing movement towards welfare pluralism - a mixed economy of welfare - involving private, voluntary and informal sectors. This book, written by social policy and welfare experts, sheds light on this neglected area of social policy.

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Drawing on case studies from voluntary and community activities in England, this book challenges existing academic, policy and practice conceptions about voluntary action and develops a realistic understanding of how voluntary action works in practice.