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How to Live Through a Pandemic (Hardcover): Simone Abram, Helen Lambert, Jude Robinson How to Live Through a Pandemic (Hardcover)
Simone Abram, Helen Lambert, Jude Robinson
R4,130 Discovery Miles 41 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are experienced and what we can learn from Covid-19 as well as previous instances that might inform future responses and help to alleviate suffering. The chapters highlight current research and longer-term reflections from different countries and areas of the discipline, covering medical anthropology, care and surveillance, digital and experimental ethnography, and the everyday economies of lockdown. They show the breadth and originality of anthropological work relevant to thinking about and responding to pandemic situations. Extending beyond Covid-19, the volume considers the implications for ongoing and future research under pandemic restrictions and gives a broad overview of current anthropology relevant to questions about pandemics. It will be of interest to both academic and applied anthropologists, as well as to sociologists and those working in global and public health.

Engendering Transformative Change in International Development (Paperback): Gillian Fletcher Engendering Transformative Change in International Development (Paperback)
Gillian Fletcher
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all, with 'no one left behind'. However, these goals will be impossible to achieve without addressing inequity, inequality, marginalisation, and exclusion related to gender, and to other intersecting social hierarchies linked to deeply emotional, culturally bound norms and judgements of worth. This book asks readers to consider issues of knowledge, power, and effectiveness, emphasising the limits of taking a categorical approach to gender and other social hierarchies, and the importance of process in what is known about generating transformative social change. Engendering Transformative Thinking and Practice in International Development draws on a range of real world examples which demonstrate both the limitations of the frameworks currently in use, and the very real possibilities for change when the intersecting social hierarchies that sustain and create inequity and inequality are challenged. This book brings together theoretical perspectives on social change, gender, intersectionality, and forms of knowledge, concluding with a set of proposals for revitalising a change agenda that recognises and engages with intersectionality and practical wisdom. Perfect for students and scholars of social change, gender, and development, this book will also be useful for practitioners looking for new ideas to help to generate social change.

Landscapes of Care - Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving (Hardcover, New Ed): Andrew Power Landscapes of Care - Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving (Hardcover, New Ed)
Andrew Power
R4,445 Discovery Miles 44 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Given the increasing shift of care from state residential services to community-based support, this book examines the complex geographies of family caregiving for young adults with intellectual disabilities. It traces how family 'carers' are directly and indirectly affected by a broad array of law and policy, including family policy, disability legislation, and health and community care restructuring policy. Each of these has material and institutional effects and is premised on the discourses, ideologies, and interactions in the state over time. Focusing on the welfare models of England, the US and Ireland, this book compares the welfare ideologies in each country and examines how the specific historical, cultural, and political contexts give rise to different landscapes of care and disability. Further, the book explores the unique lifeworlds of family carers of young adults with intellectual disability within the broader landscape of care in which they are situated.

Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy - Listening to Marginalised Voices (Paperback): Nicole Matthews, Naomi... Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy - Listening to Marginalised Voices (Paperback)
Nicole Matthews, Naomi Sunderland
R1,289 Discovery Miles 12 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and policy, this book challenges policymakers, professionals, and researchers to reimagine how they find out about and respond to people's daily lives and experiences of health, disability, and well-being. The book develops theoretical, methodological, and practical resources for listening to digital stories through a series of carefully selected international case studies, from dementia care education to campaigns in the UN to ban cluster munitions. The case studies explore and illuminate different ways that digital stories have - and have not - been listened to in the past. The authors expose the great potential as well as the complexity of using powerful personal stories in practice. Together, the case studies highlight that processes of listening to, learning from, and making use of digital stories involve unavoidable processes of reinterpretation, recontextualisation, and translation which have significant ethical and political implications for storytellers, listeners, and society. In mapping and theorising the movement of stories into new contexts of policy and practice, the book offers a critical lens on the widely celebrated democratising potential of digital storytelling and its capacity to amplify marginalised voices. Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy develops an authoritative and original re-conceptualisation of digital life stories and their use for social justice ends, and will be important reading for researchers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds, including social policy, digital media, communication, education, disability, and public health.

Quantitative Research for Chaplains and Health Care Professionals - A Primer (Paperback): Kevin J. Flannelly, Laura T... Quantitative Research for Chaplains and Health Care Professionals - A Primer (Paperback)
Kevin J. Flannelly, Laura T Flannelly, Katherine R.B. Jankowski
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book takes readers from very basic research concepts, such as 'causality' and 'variables', to the application of different types of statistical analyses. The first two chapters introduce the scientific method and causality, and assess the degree to which the major types of research designs used in health care studies allow researchers to make causal inferences. The book concludes with a detailed description of the seven critical factors that must be controlled to draw causal inferences from experimental studies. The rest of the book covers levels of measurement, i.e. nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales; operational definitions; risk factors, independent and dependent variables, and other kinds of variables; how to calculate and interpret measures of central tendency and variability; the normal curve; commonly used measures of association and what they mean; criteria that have been suggested for inferring causality from nonexperimental research; and different types of t-tests. This book provides fundamental and practical knowledge about research methodology that is essential for health care chaplains, and students and professionals in other health care fields and the social sciences. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy.

Regional Environmental Politics in Northeast Asia - Conflict and Cooperation (Paperback): Jeongwon Bourdais Park Regional Environmental Politics in Northeast Asia - Conflict and Cooperation (Paperback)
Jeongwon Bourdais Park
R1,293 Discovery Miles 12 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The share of global CO2 emissions from the core Northeast Asian (NEA) countries in 2015 was estimated to be as high as 33.63 percent. Representing 28.21, 3.67, and 1.75 percent of total global emissions, China, Japan, and South Korea were ranked the first, fifth, and seventh largest contributors, respectively. Some parts of China, the Republic of Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Southeast Asia have long been on serious alert due to accelerated deforestation. With their rapid population growth and economic development, the core countries of Northeast Asia are responsible both directly and indirectly for numerous environmental problems. Urgent individual and collective action is required from the region's governments. Against the backdrop of debate on how to understand Northeast Asia as a "region," Park focuses on the major regional economies of China, Japan, and South Korea, along with Russia, North Korea, and the Republic of Mongolia, due to both their geopolitical proximity and their significance to the region. The author attempts to answer the questions: "How far has regional environmental cooperation progressed in Northeast Asia?"; and "Why are Northeast Asian countries reluctant to cooperate further on urgent transboundary and regional environmental issues?"

Bullying as a Social Experience - Social Factors, Prevention and Intervention (Paperback): Todd Migliaccio, Juliana Raskauskas Bullying as a Social Experience - Social Factors, Prevention and Intervention (Paperback)
Todd Migliaccio, Juliana Raskauskas
R1,287 Discovery Miles 12 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bullying as a Social Experience presents data from both the US and New Zealand and draws on past research from around the world to show how social context and factors shape individuals' behaviors and experiences. By engaging with bullying from a sociological framework, it becomes clearer how bullying occurs and why it persists throughout a society, whilst also allowing for the development of means by which the social factors that support such behavior can be addressed through intervention. An empirically rich and engaged analysis of the social factors involved in bullying at group, school and community levels, Bullying as a Social Experience will be of interest not only to social scientists working on the study of childhood and youth, bullying and cyber bullying, but also to educators and practitioners seeking new approaches to the prevention of bullying, as each chapter contains discussions concerning intervention and prevention practices and programs.

Ethics and Professionalism in Healthcare - Transition and Challenges (Paperback): Sabine Salloch, Verena Sandow, Jan... Ethics and Professionalism in Healthcare - Transition and Challenges (Paperback)
Sabine Salloch, Verena Sandow, Jan Schildmann, Jochen Vollmann
R1,287 Discovery Miles 12 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recent social developments, such as demographic change, skill shortages and new medical technologies, have necessitated a transition in the traditional roles of health-care professions. New forms of division of labour and inter-professional health-care education are emerging while at the same time ethical challenges, such as corruption and conflicts of interest, have to be mastered. This book addresses historical, conceptual and empirical aspects of professionalism and inter-professionalism in health care from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The work is divided into five sections: historical and societal aspects of health care professions; learning and teaching medical professionalism; transformation of health care professions; professional leadership and team decision-making in health care; and ethical challenges to health care professionalism. The final chapter integrates the main ideas and perspectives on health-care professionalism which have been developed throughout the book and highlights how the work in the diverse disciplines is interrelated. The book will be a valuable reference for the many researchers and students with an interest in medical ethics, professionalism and comparative systems of healthcare.

Nurses Work - An Analysis of the UK Nursing Labour Market (Paperback): James Buchan, Ian Seccombe Nurses Work - An Analysis of the UK Nursing Labour Market (Paperback)
James Buchan, Ian Seccombe
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998, this volume emerged in the context of rapidly developing nursing and health care fields and features contributions on areas in the NHS and private nursing including nurses' pay and education, the gender balance in the nursing labour market, working patterns, employment contracts and turnover. It is part of a series of monographs offers up-to-date reports of recently completed research projects in the fields of nursing and health care. The aim of the series is to report studies that have relevance to contemporary nursing and health care practice. It includes reports of research into aspects of clinical nursing care, management and education. The series is of interest to all nurses and health care workers, researchers, managers and educators in the field.

Supervising the Reflective Practitioner - An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New): Joyce Scaife Supervising the Reflective Practitioner - An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New)
Joyce Scaife
R3,559 Discovery Miles 35 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner provides guidance for supervisors, focusing on what they can do to facilitate the development of reflective practice in supervisees. This book contains a wide range of practical examples including personal accounts and illustrations. Topics covered include: what is reflective practice and why is it important now? how reflective practice connects with personal and professional development key issues in supervising reflective practice methods that can be used in supervision. This accessible book will be of great interest to both supervisors and supervisees who practice clinically in a range of professions, including applied psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, psychiatry and nursing. It will also be useful for professionals working in education, health, and social care who want to support supervisees in the development of reflective practice.

A Moment of Equality for Latin America? - Challenges for Redistribution (Paperback): Barbara Fritz, Lena Lavinas A Moment of Equality for Latin America? - Challenges for Redistribution (Paperback)
Barbara Fritz, Lena Lavinas
R1,285 Discovery Miles 12 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities. Yet, despite this progress, nation-states in the region demonstrate little capacity to substantially change their patterns of deeply rooted inequalities. Focusing on the limits and challenges of redistributive policies in Latin America, this volume synthesizes and updates the discussion of inequality in the region, introducing the perspective of global and transnational interdependencies. The book explores the extent to which redistributive policies have been interlinked with the provision and quality of public goods as well as with structural changes of the productive sector. Inspired by structuralist and neostructuralist thinking of Latin American economists, such as RaAl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, authors question the redistributive impact of the interplay of recent macroeconomic, fiscal and social policies, particularly under left and center-left administrations committed to greater equality. Bringing together experts in social, fiscal and macroeconomic policies to investigate the interdependent and global character of inequalities, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, economics, development and politics with interests in Latin America, inequality and public policy.

Motherhood, Absence and Transition - When Adult Children Leave Home (Hardcover, New Ed): Trish Green Motherhood, Absence and Transition - When Adult Children Leave Home (Hardcover, New Ed)
Trish Green
R1,760 Discovery Miles 17 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focused on women's experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the young person's experience. Combining lively empirical material with an illuminating social-theoretical framework, Trish Green's book addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of separation from her child at the time of their home-leaving. The book makes clear how the mother's experience of separation is silenced, first by the socio-cultural constructions of motherhood per se, second by the privileging of the child's transition to adulthood, and third by a neglect of the relational dimension of this particular life-course transition. In doing so the book makes an important contribution to debates on ageing, identity and the life-course, and will be of great interest to sociologists with various academic interests.

The Good, the Bad, and the Just - How Modern Men Shape Their World (Paperback): Riel Vermunt The Good, the Bad, and the Just - How Modern Men Shape Their World (Paperback)
Riel Vermunt
R1,293 Discovery Miles 12 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing on multidisciplinary findings and ideas, this book discusses fair allocation of social resources, such as goods, services and information, in a novel and integrated way. The role of the essential features of allocation behavior: motivation, cognition and emotion, as well as morality and reactions to perceived unfairness are examined in the newly developed Justice Model. The author offers explanations as to why, how and to what extent, people, in an effort to attain justice, allocate social resources between self and others and among others. It is held that the allocation event, featuring actor, recipient and observer, as well as the resources to be allocated by an actor, can function as a guideline for the essentials of fair behavior. The work explores the conditions under which an actor may deviate from a just division of social resources thus instigating a reaction from recipients and observers. The study covers various levels of analysis ranging from the intra-personal to the societal. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of crime, law, justice, public policy and governance.

Counselling Ideologies - Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity (Hardcover, New Ed): Lyndsey Moon Counselling Ideologies - Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Lyndsey Moon
R4,433 Discovery Miles 44 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Counselling Ideologies draws our attention to the dilemmas inherent within the therapeutic ideologies commonly subscribed to by psychotherapists and counsellors working with those who challenge heteronormative models and approaches. Identifying the modernist, heteronormative understandings of the world implicit in the more popular models, this book employs queer theory to challenge these ideologies, drawing on disciplines both within and outside of counselling and psychology, as well as sociology, cultural studies and various ethnographic accounts. It highlights the dilemmas faced by those who may wish to practise as 'queer therapists', addressing not only therapeutic dilemmas, but also issues such as: identity, race, coming-out experiences, 'internalised homophobia', 'empathy', 'ethical issues', bisexuality and pathologisation. Comprising contributions from both academic experts and practitioners from the UK, USA and Australia, this book represents a new approach to counselling and psychotherapy that will appeal not only to sociologists and those working in the field of mental health, but also to scholars of race and ethnicity, gender, queer studies and queer theory.

Illegal Drug Use in the United Kingdom - Prevention, Treatment and Enforcement (Paperback): Cameron Stark, Brian A. Kidd, Roger... Illegal Drug Use in the United Kingdom - Prevention, Treatment and Enforcement (Paperback)
Cameron Stark, Brian A. Kidd, Roger A.D Sykes
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, Illegal Drug Use in the United Kingdom provides a comprehensive review of information and interventions available in drug misuse in order to inform local drug policies. In keeping with the policy documents in both Scotland and England, the volume covers the breadth of possible interventions, rather than health care alone. Separate chapters review educational, policing and counselling approaches and discuss work with special groups such as rural drug users, sex workers and club-goers. Although there are specialist textbooks on all aspects of addiction, this is the first text-book to bring together information in the framework used in the policy documents in the UK.

A Guide to Aging and Well-Being for Healthcare Professionals - Psychological Perspectives (Paperback): Norman M. Brier A Guide to Aging and Well-Being for Healthcare Professionals - Psychological Perspectives (Paperback)
Norman M. Brier
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the main issues an aging person is likely to face and overcome if they are to maintain a sense of well-being as they age. Based on an extensive body of research, the relevant up-to-date knowledge for each topic is concisely presented, followed by practical, concrete, evidence-based suggestions as to how a healthcare provider might acknowledge and create a partnership with their clients to help the person increase their sense of well-being. Each chapter contains a list of key terms, a summary, and case examples that illustrate in realistic and humanistic ways how a person might present the concern being addressed and intervene. The specific challenges associated with aging that are addressed include: anxiety attached to an increasing awareness of mortality; retirement; the increasing number of losses of significant others; regrets; memory loss; the arrival of old-old age and feelings of loneliness, mattering insufficiently, and a loss of purpose; and finally, dealing with imminent death. This book is suitable for all health professionals who provide clinical services or advice to older adults including physicians (i.e. particularly in the specialties of internal medicine, family medicine, geriatrics, and geriatric psychiatry), nurses, social workers, psychologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and audiologists.

Global Public Health Vigilance - Creating a World on Alert (Hardcover): Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy Global Public Health Vigilance - Creating a World on Alert (Hardcover)
Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy
R4,443 Discovery Miles 44 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease, historically the focus of international disease control, was displaced by "international public health emergencies," a concept that brought new responsibilities to public health authorities, helping to shape a new project of global public health security. Drawing on research conducted at the World Health Organization, this book analyzes the formation of a new social apparatus, global public health vigilance, for detecting, responding to and containing international public health emergencies. Between 1995 and 2005 a new form of global health surveillance was invented, international communicable disease control was securitized, and international health law was fundamentally revised. This timely volume raises critical questions about the institutional effects of the concept of emerging infectious diseases, the role of the news media in global health surveillance, the impact of changes in international health law on public health reasoning and practice, and the reconstitution of the World Health Organization as a power beyond national sovereignty and global governance. It initiates a new research agenda for social science research on public health.

Designs for Living - A Comparative Approach to Normalisation for the New Millennium (Paperback): Steven Carnaby Designs for Living - A Comparative Approach to Normalisation for the New Millennium (Paperback)
Steven Carnaby
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, this volume explores how the principle of normalisation informs British learning disability services by instructing them to help service users acquire behaviours and characteristics which are as 'culturally normative as possible'. While many studies have attempted to assess the efficacy of this approach, their measurement criteria are usually based on levels of competence and participation - values themselves derived from the principle of normalisation. The case study in this volume compares services in London to services in Milan, Northern Italy,where the concept of deinstitutionalisation has been interpreted differently. Recommendations are made for increasing good practice in certain aspects of British provision. A key suggestion is that consistent, legislated training for support staff in British learning disability services might contribute towards ameliorating current difficulties described by much of the contemporary research.

Racism, Nationalism and Citizenship - Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany (Paperback): Nicola Piper Racism, Nationalism and Citizenship - Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany (Paperback)
Nicola Piper
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998, this book is about the consequences of the permanent settlement of former labour migrants in contemporary Germany and Britain and the extent to which these 'new' minorities are regarded as citizens in both societies as well as citizens of the European Union. It is argued that a socio-historical link between processes of racialization and nationalism lead to an exclusionary concept of citizenship in both countries. This link is concretized by the intermingling of nationality and citizenship as reflected in law and/or in the perception by civil society. Thus, the concept of citizenship can only function as a mechanism for inclusion of ethnic minorities if de-linked from nationality (i.e. ethnic descent). In addition, recent supra- and sub-national development on the EU level lead to the suggestion of a three-layered conception of citizenship (i.e. local, national, European), and it is argued that the local level is probably the most effective to resist the power of racism and nationalism.

Helping to Promote Social Justice (Paperback): Debra A. Harkins, Kathryn J. Kozak, Lauren I. Grenier, Lynne-Marie Shea Helping to Promote Social Justice (Paperback)
Debra A. Harkins, Kathryn J. Kozak, Lauren I. Grenier, Lynne-Marie Shea
R1,148 Discovery Miles 11 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Infuses discussion of values, power and social identity into every chapter, providing students with a strong frame of view that encompasses and applies the concepts of social justice and intersectionality. - Strong theoretical background of critical race, identity, and feminist scholarship is applied through the authors' use of rich examples and reflective writing exercises, which guide the reader to explore contemporary issues theoretically, reflexively, and experientially. - Conversational style and easy-to-follow organization of chapters both permit students to approach and deeply reflect upon deceptively complex ideas and social issues and, also, teach them to practice social responsibility and justice-minded activism in their professions.

AI for Death and Dying (Paperback): Maggi Savin-Baden AI for Death and Dying (Paperback)
Maggi Savin-Baden
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How does AI affect death matters and the digital beyond? How are death and dying handled in our digital age? AI for Dying and Death covers a broad range of literature, research and challenges around this topic. It explores ethical memorisation, digital legacies and bereavement, post death avatars and AI and the digital beyond. It also analyzes religious perspectives on AI for death and dying, and planning for death in a digital age.

Knots (Paperback, New ed): Trevor Bounford Knots (Paperback, New ed)
Trevor Bounford
R185 R158 Discovery Miles 1 580 Save R27 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A clear introduction to the world of knots, from the practical to the decorative. Illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to master over 50 knots.

Step-by-step instructions to tying over 50 knots from the essential to the decorative. A practical guide for sailers, moutaineers and campers as well as those who would like to try their hand at more decorative knots.

Particle-Lung Interactions (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Peter Gehr, Christian Muhlfeld, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Fabian Blank Particle-Lung Interactions (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Peter Gehr, Christian Muhlfeld, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Fabian Blank
R7,301 Discovery Miles 73 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why the "Second Edition" is the must-have guide for all pulmonologists and particle research scientists:
STAY INFORMED - nine brand new chapters cover recent developments and research, with several chapters focusing solely on the fast-developing area of man-made and naturally occurring nano-sized particles
GAIN FULL UNDERSTANDING OF ALL ASSOCIATED DISCIPLINES - including topics and concerns in pulmonology and respiratory medicine, toxicology, and environmental research
KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT as a disease progresses, from a distinguished team of over 40 experts who detail all stages of particle-lung interactions, from inhalation of particles to clearance from the organism
LEARN MORE ABOUT FREQUENTLY NEGLECTED TOPICS - such as the beneficial developments and uses of inhaled man-made particles and reduced side-effects of alternate therapies

What is Right for Children? - The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights (Hardcover, New Ed): Karen Worthington,... What is Right for Children? - The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights (Hardcover, New Ed)
Karen Worthington, Martha Albertson Fineman
R4,582 Discovery Miles 45 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Combining feminist legal theory with international human rights concepts, this book examines the presence, participation and treatment of children in a variety of contexts. Specifically, through comparing legal developments in the US with legal developments in countries where the views that children are separate from their families and potentially in need of state protection are more widely accepted. The authors address the role of religion in shaping attitudes about parental rights in the US, with particular emphasis upon the fundamentalist belief in natural lines of familial authority. Such beliefs have provoked powerful resistance in the US to human rights approaches that view the child as an independent rights holder and the state as obligated to proved services and protections that are distinctly child-centred. Calling for a rebalancing of relationships within the US family, to become more consistent with emerging human rights norms, this collection contains both theoretical debates about and practical approaches to granting positive rights to children.

Educating Professionals - Practice Learning in Health and Social Care (Paperback, New Ed): Steven M. Shardlow Educating Professionals - Practice Learning in Health and Social Care (Paperback, New Ed)
Steven M. Shardlow; Edited by Mark Doel
R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How do health and social care professionals learn their practice? What can the professions learn from each other? This book offers a comprehensively written account of the recent organizational and conceptual changes in UK practice education. Using case examples, the authors focus on the experiences of students' learning in practice settings: how this is organized, what methods are used to help students learn their trade and how their abilities are assessed. The book offers separate chapters on nine professions, all by authors well-established in writing about practice-based learning in their field. They present an exploration in areas of similarity and difference in expertise and outlook between professions, whilst introducing the general concepts that translate between professions. This book will be of great interest to academics and professional in the fields of health studies and social work.

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