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This work compares the nature and extent of changes in social welfare programmes and labour markets in nine industrialized countries. This cross-national study sheds light on general trends in social welfare, and provides clues to what constitutes successful reform and what has failed.

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This work asserts that the belief that the development of high-standard welfare states is primarily based on the ideology that pro-welfare, mostly leftwing, parties dominate welfare state literature and common thought in the Western world.

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The growing prominence of ecological and social systems perspectives in the child development and family studies fields is having an impact on the conceptualization and delivery of early intervention services. This text brings together the conceptual and empirical work of scholars in the field.

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This groundbreaking volume is written for therapists, school social workers, educational practitioners, and others who wish to provide psychological treatment to children from within the school environment.

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For many years, law enforcement administrators, government officials, and researchers have explored the possibility of professionalizing law enforcement agencies and their officers.

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Using a multidisciplinary approach to service learning in elder care, Seperson and Hegeman assist students in their actual experience with clients. Part III describes a service learning classroom and the many tools a student and a professor can use to maximize the learning in this special kind of class.

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Empowerment is vital to older people's quality of life and to the health of any society, and an international perspective on the issue will inform all who work with older people.

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Empowerment is vital to older people's quality of life and to the health of any society, and an international perspective on the issue will inform all who work with older people.

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This encyclopaedia covers all the major aspects of home health care for the elderly in the USA today. The articles discuss common problems, home care measures, trends, key issues, groups and agencies. An appendix links related topics and gives the addresses of 37 key organizations.

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Noted scholars of environment-aging relations and environmental psychology examine the value of selected classic, contemporary, and in one instance, completely new theories for enhancing both research and service provision on housing for elderly populations.

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As the American population ages, health care for the elderly grows in importance. Each citation is accompanied by an annotation that concisely summarizes and assesses the contents of the work.

The volume begins with an informative introductory essay on the ethical issues pertinent to health care for older adults.

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Today in the United States there is a lack of consensus about what constitutes ethical practice in adoption. Adoption specialists and professionals are unsure about how to serve the best interests of children who need to be adopted, and how birth parents, adoptive parents, and adult adoptees ought to be served.

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Characterizes the comparative lifestyles and wellbeing of heterogeneous older Americans by analyzing their expenditure patterns.

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Professor Brown provides a resource for clinicians, instructors, and students interested in promoting group process and progress, increasing group members' self-awareness and self-understanding, and strategies for resolving individual and group difficult behaviors.

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This work is the most comprehensive volume to focus on new directions in professional practice with families of people with mental illness.

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This text approaches the topic of family health from a macro perspective. Family health is a holistic approach to treatment embracing aspects of family functioning. This text places an emphasis on the ecological context in which the family functions.

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Develops a family health perspective to facilitate effective social work and policy development. A family health orientation practice utilizes a holistic approach that examines family strength and stress. How families perceive these conditions and their ability to adapt and change will determine how concerns are managed by the family system.

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Bringing together many different theoretical viewpoints and empirical findings, this volume provides an up-to-date state-of-the-art report on violence in families. Included are in-depth analyses of child, spouse, and parent abuse, sibling violence, and sexual abuse.

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The history of welfare provision has generally focused on the rise of the so-called welfare state and institutional provision for the poor.

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This timely book examines the history of American federal law enforcement as well as its current state in all of its forms.

The complex system of agencies, agents, and laws that make up our federal law enforcement program have a long and varied history.