Social Science : Social Issues

It is often said that interpersonal communication and relationships are at the ‘heart’ of health and social care. Communicating effectively and developing productive relationships, whether between care providers and service users or within organisations, are increasingly seen as central to the process of improving the quality of care services. A great deal of media and public attention has been focused in recent years on apparent failures or breakdowns in communication, whether between care professionals and the public or between different agencies. As a consequence, a range of initiatives have been designed to improve communication skills and processes, and to transform the nature and quality of relationships in care services. The emphasis is increasingly on openness, participation and partnership, even if the reality of everyday experience in care settings does not always live up to these high ideals. more...

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In exploring the unnatural history of natural calamity, this book surveys more than a century of losses from weather and seismic extremes, exposing the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events. The author shows that is always America's poor, elderly, and minorities who suffer most. more...

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The stages-of-change model has become widely known as a framework for conceptualizing recovery. Less well known are the processes that drive movement through the stages or how the stages apply to becoming addicted. From Carlo C. DiClemente, codeveloper of the transtheoretical model, this book offers a panoramic view of the entire continuum of addictive behavior change. The author illuminates the common path that individuals travel as they establish and reinforce new patterns of behavior, whether they are developing an addiction or struggling to free themselves from one, and regardless of the specific addictive behavior. The book addresses crucial questions of why, when, and how to intervene to bolster recovery in those already addicted and reach out effectively to people at risk. more...

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Phillips establishes a framework for understanding the issues pertinent to Australian Indigenous addictions to alcohol, gunga (marijuana) and gambling and its aftermath in one community, Big River which is a fictitious name for a real community. more...

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The author provides social work practitioners with research-based information necessary to develop prevention programs and policies that target young people according to their different levels of early sex, pregnancy, and parenthood experiences. The need to develop policies and services designed to reduce teenage pregnancy in ways appropriate for the social worker's specific client population is emphasized throughout. Identifying and synthesizing the wide literature on prevention theory and practice, this book offers "best practice" applications for effective social work intervention. Special issues of teens, such as the relation between alcohol, drug use, and early sex and pregnancy, and the needs of the children of teens are also explored. more...

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