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Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R. Adams
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Social Work, Political Science, Social Policy

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Kiaras Gharabaghi, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

False Alarm

By John M. Gandy & Lorne Tepperman
Subjects: Political Science, Social Policy, Technology & Engineering, Social Science

This book uses case studies to show how and why eight social service organizations adopted computers.
Computerized information systems can be destructive or constructive for organizations and staff. ...

After Prison

Edited by Adrienne M.F. Peters & Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Social Policy, Law

Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries ...

Doctors, Patients, and Society

Edited by Donald E. Larsen & Martin S. Staum
Subjects: Medical, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Science

What moral and legal issues are involved in the physician-patient relationship? What is bioethics? What social and environmental factors are involved in health and disease? An interdisciplinary workshop ...

Les sciences sociales au Canada

By Donald Fisher
Subjects: History, Social Science, Political Science, Social Policy

Ce livre, Les sciences sociales au Canada, est écrit sur le contexte et l’histoire de la Fédération canadienne des sciences sociales, en l’honneur de ses cinquante années d’acitvity nationale. ...

Social Policy and Practice in Canada

By Alvin Finkel
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Social Science, Social Work, Political Science, Social Policy

Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents ...

Surviving Incarceration

By Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, Social Policy, Law, Social Services

Is prison a humane form of punishment and an effective means of rehabilitation? Are current prison policies, such as shifting resources away from rehabilitation toward housing more offenders, improving ...

The Social Sciences in Canada

By Donald Fisher
Subjects: History, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Science

The Social Sciences in Canada is about the background and history of the Social Science Federation of Canada in honour of its fifty years of national activity.
There can be little doubt that during the ...

Child Welfare

Edited by Brad McKenzie & Kathleen Kufeldt
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, ...