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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 ...

Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh & Veronica Strong-Boag
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, Political Science, Social Policy

From sentimental stories about polio to the latest cherub in hospital commercials, sick children tug at the public’s heartstrings. However sick children have not always had adequate medical care or ...

Canada the Good

By Marcel Martel
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, Social Policy, History, Canadian History

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take ...

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 ...

Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India

Edited by Gérard Vallée
Subjects: Political Science, Social Policy, Medical, Public Health
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Social Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale’s more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health ...

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 ...