Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality care and support for adults who may be at risk of abuse or neglect. Chapters cover core areas of practice according to Care Act and adult safeguard ...
Violence against women is a pervasive problem in society and responding appropriately to those who experience it and those who perpetrate it is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professions today. This volume seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women at all levels, from its root causes to the specific needs arising in victims of gendered abuse from a particular social or ethnic group. Drawing on the expe ...
This second edition of a widely-respected textbook is one of the few resources available to provide an overview of human need, as a key concept in the social sciences. Accessible and engaging, it models existing practical and theoretical approaches to human need while also proposing a radical alternative. ...
Words of Wisdom from Wild Women In Wild Words from Wild Women , author and feminist August Stephens compiles words of wisdom from much loved famous feminists. Hilarious, inspiring, and empowering, this pocket book of quotes is the perfect gift for all the nasty women with something to say. Some tongues just can’t be tamed. This ribald compilation of powerful women quotes everything from bras to babies, menopause to men, ...
– The racist violence on display in Charlottesville struck an alarming wake-up call about the rise of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and pro-fascism have during the Trump presidency. As these flash points continue to occur and tip into the news cycle, Jamey Tracy and Hilary Moore will be able to address them from the standpoint of the history of radical groups’ efforts to confront similar outbreaks when white supremacists felt th ...
TOSH: Selling and Marketing Points: Candid, funny, name-dropping, page-turning memoir by Tosh Berman, the son of Wallace Berman. Wallace Berman is one of the most significant artists of American culture, associated with the Abstract artists, as well as the Beat Generation. He is “the father” of assemblage art. To get a sense of how well-known he was in his own time, Wallace Berman was ...
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes readers of the New York Times , as half of these conversations were first published in their online philosophy column «The Stone.» The other half co ...
Gibler's is the first and only book available in English that is based on extensive interviews with survivors of the September 2014 killings and abductions of students in Iguala, Mexico. It is a peerless expose of the crimes and the official cover up. The only other book available in English on the subject («The Iguala 43: The Truth and Challenge of Mexico's Disappeared Students» (Semiotext(e) – February 3, 2017) is, according to Gible ...