• Child Welfare: Policies and Best Practices (SW 360K Child Abuse and Neglect)

    Understand human behavior with HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT! Three key tools are provided for theory-by-theory comprehension-models, metaphors and maps-that help you to easily compare and contrast theories as well as understand their relevance to social work practice. Detailed questions, learning activities, and a comprehensive list of references save you time when you study. Metaphors for each theory bring the content to life and make the applications of ideas and concepts specific to social work and social workers.

    • ASIN: 0495004847
    • ASIN: 0495004847
    • ISBN: 0495004847
    • Brand: Brooks Cole
    • Manufacturer: Cengage Learning

  • Child Welfare and Family Services: Policies and Practice (8th Edition)

    This thorough revision of Child Welfare and Family Services reflects current issues, controversies, and innovative practice methods in both family and child services.  It provides a strong historical context to current programs, issues, and policy decisions; as well as  in-depth information on legal and legislative frameworks.    A new chapter on child welfare practice, including an expanded treatment of foster care, provides a foundation for social work interventions with children.  In addition, new and updated information covers topics such as; child welfare issues with immigrant... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0205571905
    • ASIN: 0205571905
    • ISBN: 0205571905
    • Manufacturer: Pearson Education

  • Child Welfare in the United States: Challenges, Policy, and Practice

    Distinguished by its critical perspective, this book delivers a balanced and comprehensive examination of the child welfare system in the United States today. In a clear and accessible style, it outlines key issues, reviews the history of the child welfare system, and explores the challenges to developing appropriate federal, state, and local policies that address child welfare concerns. A chapter devoted to innovative and effective child welfare and prevention practices showcases examples of successful programs. Additionally, the book underscores the importance of coordination among human ser... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0826126421
    • ASIN: 0826126421
    • ISBN: 0826126421
    • Manufacturer: Springer Publishing Company

  • Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective (6th Edition) (Advancing Core Competencies)

    A comprehensive view of the field of child welfare   This text provides a comprehensive view of the field of child welfare, including the services offered and their rationale for the best interests of the child.  It takes a practice perspective important for future professionals.   Learning Goals Upon completing this book, students will be able to: Consider the full range of services available for children and families See how services can be viewed from the perspective of supplementing family life, supporting family life, or substituting for family life Understand how studen... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0205819923
    • ASIN: 0205819923
    • ISBN: 0205819923
    • Brand: Pearson
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

  • Child Welfare Research: Advances for Practice and Policy

    Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change. In the incisive chapters gathered here, some of the field's top investigators present their work and assess its effect on the full spectrum of child welfare services. Future generations of researchers, as well as students, practitioners, and service providers, will find the resulting text indispensable. Edited by Duncan Lindsey and Aron Shlonsky, two of the discipline's most articulate voices,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0195304969
    • ASIN: 0195304969
    • ISBN: 9780195304961
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character


    • ASIN: B0070ZLZ1G
    • ASIN: B0070ZLZ1G
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention

    A groundbreaking resource for the field of early intervention.Full of clear, straightforward steps, guiding principles and useful techniques backed by neuroscience and research, Dr. Mona Delahooke provides practical methods so that all childhood providers can better support the social and emotional lives of children and families.Illustrated with worksheets, charts and handouts, this reader-friendly book will provide valuable tools to nurture relationships, measure progress, reduce child stress, address challenging behaviors and promote self-regulation.Proven and effective tools for children di... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1683730550
    • ASIN: 1683730550
    • ISBN: 1683730550
    • Manufacturer: PESI Publishing & Media

  • Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective, with Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (7th Edition) (Merrill Social Work and Human Services)

    NOTE: Used books, rentals, and purchases made outside of Pearson If purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson, the access codes for the Enhanced Pearson eText may not be included, may be incorrect, or may be previously redeemed. Check with the seller before completing your purchase.   This package includes the Enhanced Pearson eText and the bound book.   An engaging, comprehensive overview of services for children and their families. This practical, engaging, and informative book provides a comprehensive look at child welfare services and what can be done to best help ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0134300793
    • UPC: 000134300793
    • ASIN: 0134300793
    • ISBN: 0134300793
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

  • Reunification Family Therapy: A Treatment Manual

    A unique, succinct treatment manual based on evidence-based approaches to repairing parent child relationshipsChildhood problems are often related to and exacerbated by the disintegration of the family structure, whether through parental separation and divorce, military service, or incarceration. Reunification therapy is a therapeutic process incorporating different empirically based methods (CBT, humanistic, and systemic) to help repair relationships between parents and children and restore not only physical contact but also meaningful social, emotional, and interpersonal exchanges between pa... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0889374910
    • ASIN: 0889374910
    • ISBN: 0889374910
    • Manufacturer: Hogrefe Publishing

  • The Early Intervention Workbook: Essential Practices for Quality Services

    Discover the 7 key principles and associated practices for effective early intervention services—and start putting them into action today! This easy-to-use, fillable workbook reveals not only what every EI professional should be doing in their practice, but also how to do it, with practical tips, activities, and strategies they can use to improve their work with children and families right away.Based on specific recommendations from a workgroup of today's top researchers, this comprehensive resource walks readers through every key step of the early intervention journey with children birth to... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1598572245
    • ASIN: 1598572245
    • ISBN: 1598572245
    • Manufacturer: Brookes Publishing

  • Math in Focus: The Singapore Approach, Workbook 4B

    This consumable student workbook is part of the Math in Focus: The Singapore Approach curriculum series. Book 4B, this workbook accompanies Math in Focus' Student Book Grade 4, Part B, and provides opportunities for practice, assessment, and skill-development. Cheery illustrations and easy-to-understand text give kids a fun atmosphere to work in. This book's exercises focus on decimals, angles, perpendicular & parallel line segments, squares & rectangles, area & perimeter, symmetry and tessellations. Each chapter includes "Put on Your Thinking Cap" exercises and often a math journal exercise. ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0669013331
    • ASIN: 0669013331
    • ISBN: 0669013331
    • Manufacturer: Marshall Cavendish Education

  • Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs

    This up-to-date and comprehensive resource by leaders in child welfare is the first book to reflect the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997. The text serves as a single-source reference for a wide array of professionals who work in children, youth, and family services in the United States-policymakers, social workers, psychologists, educators, attorneys, guardians ad litem, and family court judges& mdash;and as a text for students of child welfare practice and policy.Features include:* Organized around ASFA's guiding principles of well-being, safety, and permanency* Foc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0231130724
    • ASIN: 0231130724
    • ISBN: 0231130724
    • Manufacturer: Columbia University Press

  • The Politics of Child Abuse in America (Child Welfare: A Series in Child Welfare Practice, Policy, and Research)

    Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intensified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while being "protected" by public agencies. This "rediscovery" has also led to the frenzied pursuit of offenders, resulting in the sacrifice of some innocent people. Moreover, the media's focus on the sensa... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0195116682
    • ASIN: 0195116682
    • ISBN: 0195116682
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

    A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.

    • ASIN: 1566635055
    • ASIN: 1566635055
    • ISBN: 9781566635059
    • Brand: Brand: Ivan R. Dee
    • Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee

  • Kids Need to Be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care (Kids Are Important)

    “Kids are important… They need safe places to live, and safe places to play.” For some kids, this means living with foster parents. In simple words and full-color illustrations, this book explains why some kids move to foster homes, what foster parents do, and ways kids might feel during foster care. Children often believe that they are in foster care because they are “bad.” This book makes it clear that the troubles in their lives are not their fault; the message throughout is one of hope and support. Includes resources and information for parents, foster parents, social workers, co... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1575421925
    • ASIN: 1575421925
    • ISBN: 1575421925
    • Brand: Nelson, Julie/ Gallagher, Mary (ILT)
    • Manufacturer: Free Spirit Publishing

  • Planning and Response to an Active Shooter: An Interagency Security Committee Policy and Best Practices Guide - Law Enforcement and First Responder Coordination; Run, Hide, Fight Response Plan - eBook

    This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.The primary mission of the ISC Active Shooter Working Group is to streamline existing ISC documents on active shooter into one cohesive policy and

    • UPC: 214608808

  • Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting : A Best Practice Guide for Managing Users and PCs Through Group Policy

    Find out how to isolate, understand, and solve problems encountered when managing users and PCs on Windows. Learn from a Microsoft MVP with many years' experience supporting Windows users with their Group Policy issues. This

    • UPC: 52566574

  • America's Voluntary Standards System : A 'Best Practice' Model for Asian Innovation Policies?

    New

    • UPC: 53371897

  • Fast Grading : A Guide to Implementing Best Practices: Common Mistakes Educators Make with Grading Policies

    Embrace effective grading procedures that have the power to reduce failure rates, encourage learning, and enhance morale. In this three-part guide, author Douglas Reeves presents practical strategies teachers and administrators can use to ensure their

    • UPC: 50550778

  • Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need---And What We Can Do about It

    Education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the context of the global knowledge economy and analyzes the skills necessary for our young people to

    • UPC: 19412294
    • Rating: 4.333

  • The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook

    9781447335559

    • UPC: 843231432

  • Managing Health and Well-Being in the Public Sector : A Guide to Best Practice

    As governments throughout the world experience increasing fiscal challenges, the pressures on public sectors to streamline services and harness technological advances is unprecedented. Many have undergone huge budgetary cuts as a result, but what are

    • UPC: 284593274

  • Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

    Rather than focusing on specific groups, this book takes a "pancultural" perspective that focuses on the common experiences of refugees and immigrants. The author focuses on empirically-based practice approaches; assessment and intervention techniques that have

    • UPC: 32726262

  • Best Practice Policy Guidance for Liquefied Natural Gas (Lng) : Small Scale Lng - Truck Loading

    Natural gas, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), has clear environmental benefits over other, more carbon-intensive fossil

    • UPC: 793549815

  • The Social Media Handbook : Policies and Best Practices to Effectively Manage Your Organization's Social Media Presence, Posts, and Potential Risks

    The Social Media Handbook is a comprehensive risk and compliance management toolkit that walks employers step-by-step through the process of developing and implementing effective social media policy and compliance management programs that are designed to

    • UPC: 17334932

  • Studyguide for Child Welfare: Policies and Best Practices by Lager, Patricia B.,

    • UPC: 361424014790
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 40 USD

  • CHILD WELFARE: POLICIES AND BEST PRACTICES (SW 360K CHILD By Patricia B. Lager

    • UPC: 184176640134
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 55 USD

  • A Framework for Effective Child Welfare Practice Series Part 2 of 5

    What Works for Addiction and Child Welfare

    A Framework for Effective Child Welfare Practice Series Part 3 of 5