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Nick Manning tells the story of the therapeutic community movement,
analyses the leading British community, the Henderson Hospital and
examines the development of therapeutic communities in Australia.
This book should be of interest to students and professionals in
sociology, social policy, medicine, psychology.
Presenting the findings of a major research project funded by the
EU (INTAS), this key volume investigates the regional, ethnic and
socio-cultural aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Russia in
recent years. In-depth household interviews and survey data allowed
teams from the UK, Denmark and Russia to compare different
societies and communities in Russia across several different
themes: the definition of poverty in different regional, ethnic and
socio-cultural settings; the reproduction and formation of poverty
subcultures in different societies and communities; the
ethnic/national and political values of poor people; the readiness
of poor people for social protest; and a comparison of Russia with
other EU countries. Offering a wealth of original data collected
following a period of rapid impoverishment of the Russian
population, the study considers the challenge this presents to
Western European models of poverty and social exclusion.
This volume explores the nature of health and health-care
experiences in Russia by comparing societies and communities with
different socio-cultural conditions. The unique use of longitudinal
data collected over ten years, allows the authors to address key
questions on Russians individual experiences of health care and
their understanding of its influencing factors. They explore the
methods of self treatment and illness prevention in combination
with the effects poverty and treatment availability can have on the
standards of living for the people surveyed. This pertinent issue
follows a time of rapidly worsening health status amongst the
Russian population and a grave decline in male life expectancy. The
findings are set within the context of experience from Finland and
the UK, allowing the authors to explore the challenge of the
Russian health-care crisis to Western European models of health
status and health care.
This title was first published in 2000. The UNDP announced on 29th
July 1999 that 'A human crisis of monumental proportions is
emerging in the former Soviet Union.' This book reports on the
crisis through original and detailed data made possible by the
changes that have taken place in Russia in the 1990s. Based on an
EU and ODA funded project, it examines in depth the patterns of
contemporary unemployment and poverty, the origins of Russian
social policies and their aims, implementation and effects up to
2000. The conclusion situates the findings within a discussion of
the future of the Russian welfare state and the policy choices,
alternatives and consequences emerging in the context of current
social conflicts.
This volume explores the nature of health and health-care
experiences in Russia by comparing societies and communities with
different socio-cultural conditions. The unique use of longitudinal
data collected over ten years, allows the authors to address key
questions on Russians individual experiences of health care and
their understanding of its influencing factors. They explore the
methods of self treatment and illness prevention in combination
with the effects poverty and treatment availability can have on the
standards of living for the people surveyed. This pertinent issue
follows a time of rapidly worsening health status amongst the
Russian population and a grave decline in male life expectancy. The
findings are set within the context of experience from Finland and
the UK, allowing the authors to explore the challenge of the
Russian health-care crisis to Western European models of health
status and health care.
This title was first published in 2000. The UNDP announced on 29th
July 1999 that 'A human crisis of monumental proportions is
emerging in the former Soviet Union.' This book reports on the
crisis through original and detailed data made possible by the
changes that have taken place in Russia in the 1990s. Based on an
EU and ODA funded project, it examines in depth the patterns of
contemporary unemployment and poverty, the origins of Russian
social policies and their aims, implementation and effects up to
2000. The conclusion situates the findings within a discussion of
the future of the Russian welfare state and the policy choices,
alternatives and consequences emerging in the context of current
social conflicts.
Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work
offers an in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and
practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished
international advisory board, the editors have compiled almost
900,000 words across 734 entries written by 284 leading specialists
to provide authoritative coverage of concepts, policy actors,
welfare institutions and services along a series of national,
regional and transnational dimensions. Also included are
biographical entries on major policy makers and shapers. The
editors have particularly striven to provide strong coverage of
differing geographical and cultural traditions so that the variety
of social policy, as both an academic discipline and a domain of
governance, is reflected. Contributors draw in and make the
necessary connections with social policy's associated disciplines
to provide a rich picture of this vast and highly diverse field.
Comprehensive and authoritative, the Encyclopedia has sought to
open up rather than to foreclose the numerous areas in which there
is on-going research, debate and, sometimes, serious disagreement
and divergence in theory and practice. To this end, entries attempt
to introduce a core or common ground of understanding before moving
on to a wider discussion of debates regarding different conceptual
and geographical approaches. The whole is integrated by
cross-referencing and each entry includes a bibliography for
further reading. There is a full index. The International
Encyclopedia of Social Policy provides the most substantial mapping
of the international study and practice of social policy to date
and will stand as a vital storehouse of knowledge for many years to
come.
A Guide to Government in Afghanistan has three objectives: i) it
seeks to provide newcomers to the administrative and political
scene in Afghanistan with a basic guide to the structures and
processes of government; ii) it intends to provide reformers with
some understanding of how to work ""with the grain"" of the
existing institutional arrangements; and iii) it seeks to pay
tribute to the remarkable people who have kept the system running
and who are now reforming it. In pursuing these objectives, this
guide attempts to set out the underlying strengths of the public
sector, describing the evolution of the Afghan state, the current
political context, and the administrative and organizational
components of the government. It sets out the legal basis and
organizational responsibilities for key fiscal tasks including
revenue collection, budget preparation and execution, and
accounting and audit. It also describes the organizational
structures in the provinces, the way in which the staffing
establishment is determined, and the structure of pay and grading.
In particular, it looks at the arrangements for service delivery in
the education and health sectors. The guide draws the bulk of its
material from six provincial case studies: Faryab and Herat,
undertaken in November 2002; Badakhshan and Wardak, in April 2003,
Kandahar in June 2003, and finally Bamyan in July 2003. The paper
has also benefited from additional research undertaken by the
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) and the World Bank.
What is social policy, and why are welfare systems important? How
have they been affected by the global financial crisis?
The fourth edition of this well-respected textbook provides an
excellent introduction to social policy in the twenty-first
century. Expert contributors examine the development, delivery, and
implications of welfare, as well as the social and economic context
by which it is shaped. With numerous helpful learning features and
an attractive two-colour text design it is an ideal starting point
for students new to the subject, and for those looking to take
their learning further.
The fourth edition includes three new chapters on the history and
development of social policy, making social policy in a global
context, and how to research and write about social policy. It is
up-to-date with the coalition government's social policy agenda,
and offers increased coverage of the important issues of equality,
gender, ethnicity, migration, globalization and sustainability.
Social Policy is also supported by an accompanying Online Resource
Centre with the following features:
- Updates on recent developments in the field
- Searchable glossary
- Web links
Many countries have undertaken public administration reform
projects over the last ten to fifteen years. This book analyzes the
experiences and outcomes of these reforms. The analysis starts with
"what was broken"; and then moves on to assess what reformers
actually did and what they achieved and why reformers faced with
similar problems in different countries in fact did very different
things. The conclusion is that the level and type of reform
activity was determined primarily by the degree of traction
available to reformers the leverage available to reformers and the
malleability of basic public sector institutions. In some countries
reformers had considerable leverage and were able to launch
comprehensive reform programs relatively quickly. In other
countries with low traction and with comparatively complex
constitutional arrangements for public sector architecture,
implementing public administration reform appears to be
particularly problematic. A number of practical suggestions for
approaches to implementing public administration reform are then
identified for policy makers and reformers in low traction
countries such as the Russian Federation."
This book not only documents how a therapeutic community functions,
it also contributes to understanding how people can be influenced
by their social setting and how individuals can form coherent
social organizations together.' - Administration & Policy in
Mental Health 'Hinshelwood is a leading figure in the
pro-therapeutic communities camp. This book is a collection of many
of his papers and presentations on the subject. We enjoy a rich
journey through philosophical thought of the last 200 years with
Marx, Foucault and Wittgenstein, among others, making an
appearance. The book is strongest on the historical development of
therapeutic communities. There is plenty of food for thought here.'
- Mental Health Today 'In this book, Bob Hinshelwood distils a
lifetime of clinical and intellectual work to discuss the major
contours of the social and psychological processes that can be
found in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using ideas
drawn from the psychoanalytic world he examines the powerful
relations that develop between groups and between individuals and
their social surroundings. The argument is clearly and securely
based, and will prove an enduring and helpful contribution to that
spirit of reflective enquiry to which he is so deeply committed.' -
Nick Manning The interplay between the internal world of
individuals and the external, social world has been the theme of
many papers R.D. Hinshelwood has published over the past two
decades. In this book he brings these ideas together, and shows how
they derive from therapeutic community practice, and have arisen
from a psychoanalytic understanding of the human unconscious. Many
institutional phenomena derive from this hidden level, and have
implications for therapeutic work in communities and in psychiatry,
for understanding institutions in general, and for reflecting on
public and political aspects of society at large. These themes link
discussions of communication phenomena, of thinking and action in
institutions, of alienation, and of the place of therapeutic
communities in a psychiatric service. Thinking About Institutions
not only documents how a therapeutic community functions, it also
contributes to understanding how people can be influenced by their
social setting and how individuals can form coherent social
organisations together.
"Collective cabinet decisionmaking provides the institutional
mechanism by which many governments prioritize their policies and
guard against unpredictable policy reversals." - Mansood Ahmed,
Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network,
The World Bank The style and membership of cabinets vary in every
country. The heads of democratic governments form a cabinet for
three principal reasons: 1. The threat that the legislature will
significantly amend the government's program as expressed in the
budget proposals made by the executive. 2. The threat of dismissal
between elections. 3. The risk that the executive will be seen by
the public as having departed from a previous tradition of cabinet
government and judged poorly as a result. 'Strategic Decisionmaking
in Cabinet Government' shows that cabinet government is a rational
response to these risks and sets out the institutional arrangements
that make the cabinet a binding device. This report recognizes the
significance of the budget process for collective decisionmaking,
but moves beyond the simplistic assumption that tradeoffs in
cabinet government can only be made by reallocating the budget. It
supports practical approaches for assessing the strength of cabinet
decisionmaking arrangements and for identifying practical steps to
improve the prospect that decisions will be collectively binding.
Presenting the findings of a major research project funded by the
EU (INTAS), this key volume investigates the regional, ethnic and
socio-cultural aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Russia in
recent years. Indepth household interviews and survey data allowed
teams from the UK, Denmark, and Russia to compare different
societies and communities in Russia across several different
themes: the definition of poverty in different regional, ethnic and
socio-cultural settings; the reproduction and formation of poverty
subcultures in different societies and communities; the
ethnic/national and political values of poor people; the readiness
of poor people for social protest; and a comparison of Russia with
other EU countries. Offering a wealth of original data collected
following a period of rapid impoverishment of the Russian
population, the study considers the challenge this presents to
Western European models of poverty and social exclusion.
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