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The Supportive Network - Coping With Old Age

by G. Clare Wenger

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 First published in 1984, this study of the everyday lives of elderly people, and the sources of help and care available to them in the community at the time, made a special contribution by showing how they can and do make creative adaptations to the challenge of age, and by increasing our understanding of their informal networks of support.
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Liberalised India, Politicised Middle Class And Software Professionals

by Anshu Srivastava

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 This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and definition of the Middle Class in India. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India â€" the software professionals, emblematic of the 'new Indiaâ€™.
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The Point Of Entry - A Study Of Client Reception In The Social Services

by Anthony S. Hall

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 First published in 1974, this book aims not only to focus attention on the problems faced by those seeking the help of a social service organisation, but also to analyse what happens and why at the point of entry. This study analyses reception practices in four different social work agencies.
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When Social Services Are Local - The Normanton Experience

by Morag Mcgrath e Roger Hadley

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 Originally published in 1984, this book based on an 18-month study of the area team at Normanton, which incorporated social workers, ancillaries, and domiciliary staff in neighbourhood sub-teams, offered the first systematic account of the operation of a new approach of community-oriented patterns of organisation in social services.
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The Field Training Of Social Workers - A Survey

by E. R. Gloyne e S. Clement Brown

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 Learning with the help of skilled practitioners is as essential in training for social work as for medicine and teaching. First published in 1966, the staff of colleges and social agencies, students, and professional organizations have helped to produce the facts and views on which this survey is based.
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Towards Death With Dignity - Caring For Dying People

by Sylvia Poss

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 The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by. First published in 1981, it was to fill this important gap that this title was written.
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Volunteers In Prison After-Care - The Report Of The Teamwork Associates Pilot Project

by Hugh Barr

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 Originally published in 1971, Hugh Barrâ€™s report describes a pilot project in London in which he tried to build effective partnership between professionals and volunteers, and between statutory and voluntary agencies. It is a report that was immediately relevant in the field of probation and prison after-care at the time.
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Across The Generations - Old People And Young Volunteers

by Adrian Webb, Christine Farrell e Roger Hadley

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 First published in 1975, the particular value of this study was twofold: first it provided a detailed and vivid picture of the work of one section of the volunteer movement â€" young volunteers working with the elderly; second it examined the wider issue of how voluntary work can be evaluated.
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Caring For People - Staffing Residential Homes

by National Council Of Social Service

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 Originally published in 1967, this Report was the result of the deliberations of a committee of enquiry of experts, most of who had been intimately concerned with the residential services, either statutory or voluntary, for many years.
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Decision In Child Care - A Study Of Prediction In Fostering

by R. A. Parker

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 First published in 1966, this study assembled the past experience of foster care in one area, analysed it and presented it in such a way that predictions could be made of the outcome of a potential placement. It offered an important contribution to the task of providing the best possible care for children separated from their own families.
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A Place Like Home - A Hostel For Disturbed Adolescents

by W. David Wills

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 First published in 1970, this book describes an experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted children who lacked any settled home from which to enter the community. It demonstrates the author's conviction that the offender wants to be â€˜goodâ€™ and will be helped by affection rather than by punishment.
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The Adopted Child Comes Of Age

by Lois Raynor

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 How do adoptions really turn out? First published in 1980, the study on which this book is based sought to answer this and other questions. The research involved 160 sets of parents and over 100 of their adopted children, now young adults. This was the largest group of adult adoptees to be interviewed and studied in a systematic way.
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Adoption Of Non-White Children - The Experience Of A British Adoption Project

by Lois Raynor

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 Originally published in 1970, this book is an account of a four-year project in which International Social Service of Great Britain joined with Bedford College, London University, to provide a first-class adoption service for babies born in Britain of diverse racial origins, and to study the outcome of the adoptions.
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Mother And Baby Homes - A Survey Of Homes For Unmarried Mothers

by Jill Nicholson

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 First published in 1968, this book gives the facts but, even more, it gives the feelings and ideas of those most concerned â€" the mothers-to-be and those who care for them. This is a careful and sensitive study. It was unique in putting on record for the first time the views of unmarried mothers themselves about the care they received.
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Group Work - Learning And Practice

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 Despite the upsurge of interest in group work as an aspect of social work method at the time, this title, originally published in 1978, represented the first attempt at providing an up-to-date and carefully integrated source book for students â€" in the form of a series of mainly original and British papers on social group work.
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Staff And Student Supervision - A Task-Centred Approach

by Dorothy E. Pettes

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 Originally published in 1979, this successor volume to Dorothy Pettesâ€™ earlier Supervision in Social Work volume aimed to provide supervisors and team leaders with the information they needed to function more effectively as either staff or student supervisors in both individual and group supervision.
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Plans And Provisions For The Mentally Handicapped

by Bernie Spain, F. M. Martin e Margaret Bone

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 The lack of good statistical information had been a major factor in the poor planning of services for the mentally handicapped in the late 1960s. The principal object of this book, first published in 1972, was to provide an accurate factual basis for the planning of future services.
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Introduction To A Social Worker

by The National Institute For Social Work Training

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 Originally published in 1964, this was an introduction to social casework, that is social work with individuals and families. It was written for students at the beginning of their training and, while intended for the social worker, it would also prove useful to other students of the social sciences.
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Education For Social Work - Readings In Social Work, Volume 4

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 Some outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the issues of education for social work have been brought together in this volume, originally published in 1968. Today it can be enjoyed in its historical context.
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Social Work And Social Values - Readings In Social Work, Volume 3

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 Originally published in 1967, this volume would appeal to those who were becoming increasingly concerned about the whole question of value assumptions in social work at the time. In this volume are gathered together some of the most influential and often quoted articles which had appeared in Britain and the United States in recent years.
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New Developments In Casework - Readings In Social Work, Volume 2

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 Originally published in 1966, this book gives examples of the most advanced thought about casework by well-known writers in England and the United States at the time. These articles by well-known authorities illustrate the increased range of insight and skill required of modern caseworkers.
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Social Work With Families - Readings In Social Work, Volume 1

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 Originally published in 1965, this book gathers together some outstanding contributions to various aspects of social work with families. The subject was now more than ever of concern to social workers, as fresh knowledge added to their understanding of the dynamics of family life and interaction.
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Social Work And Social Change

by Eileen Younghusband

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 First published in 1964, this book studies social work in relation to the evolving role of social workers in the social services and to their training at the time. The author considers past discoveries and setbacks insofar as they bear upon the present position, and studies the present for the light it casts on the future.
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Integrating Social Work Methods

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 Originally published in 1977, this title introduces the reader to the main developments in the conceptualisation of a unitary method. It clarifies what it is that is being unified, identifies issues involved in the attempt to unify, and discusses their implications for social work practice and training.
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