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Society Work Of The Post-Economic State And Chinese-Style Social Work - Aging, Children, Health, And Social Services

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 mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">This book is one of a series of projects led by the editor, a forerunner to Chinaâ€™s rebuilt professional social work, with a scholarly team from greater China and overseas who are experts in social work and related fields.
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Bridging The Divide - Exploring Social Theory And Social Policy

by Jason L. Powell

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 In today''s complex and rapidly changing globe, understanding the link between social theory and social policy is crucial for addressing the diverse challenges that diverse societies face. This book aims to provide a thorough critical analysis of how social theory shapes social policy and how effective policies can be informed by theoretical frameworks emanating from history and the present.This book is both important and significant: by bridging the gap between theory and policy, this book seeks to contribute to the development of evidence-based policies that promote social cohesion, social justice, and well-being. The book is one of the first to open up theoretical strategies and applicability to social policies.
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Interdisciplinary Research On Healthcare And Social Service - Chinese And Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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 Research on healthcare and social service including professional social work is inherently an international subject.
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Endogenous Community Design - Community Revitalization Enabling Ecosystem For Collective Impact

by Tao Chen

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 This book is a comprehensive exploration of endogenous community building, aiming to investigate how to create a vibrant, service-integrated, and sustainable community through collective impact approaches.
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Rise Of Chinese American Leaders In U.S. Higher Education: Stories And Roadmaps

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 2025 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Honorable MentionThis book is a collection of stories and reflections that represent Chinese American leaders and depict their tortuous journeys in U.S. higher education that comes at a critical point in time.
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Social Work, Mental Health, And Public Policy In Diverse Contexts - Chinese And Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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 The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West. Unlike social policy that started with the post-war idea of a welfare state in the mid-20th century, social work traces its roots to individual casework pioneered by the Charity Organization Society (COS), early social administration including state-wide poverty relief (an advocacy effort of the COS but with deep roots in the English Poor Laws of the 17th century), and social action emphasizing political activities to improve social conditions (originating from the Settlement House Movement which began in the 1880s).The development of social work is historically intertwined with that of public welfare, philanthropy, and charity and is an inherently international subject. This conception is broader than "international social work" as a discrete field of professional practice, which crosses geopolitical borders and all levels of social and economic organizations with a focus on development. However, each nation has a story of its own in terms of professionalization of social work in the evolution of public welfare and philanthropic/charitable undertaking within its particular economic, political, social, and cultural settings. A wide-ranging and in-depth study of various (especially non-Western) country cases is essential to an adequate, comprehensive understanding of the social work profession, which is also a basic requirement of its value of diversity.China is undoubtedly an important case with the largest population on earth. It’s also unique in view of so-called Chinese characteristics which are sometimes fundamentally different from other (particularly Western) societies. It’s even intriguing given the country’s lengthy, complex history and its recent, rapid rise to a global superpower with a claim of national goals and core values that seem to be rather considerable to social work as a helping profession. Therefore, any significant lessons learned from the Chinese experiences would help with a better international understanding and further advancement of social work and public welfare at a global scale.
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New Perspectives On Health And Social Care

by Jason Powell

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 The relationship between health, social care, and the teaching of disciplines such as sociology, social work, and social policy are increasing in many regions worldwide.
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Knowledge, Innovation, And Impact - A Guide For The Engaged Health Researcher

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 This book provides researchers with a straightforward and accessible guide for carrying out research that will help them to combine good science with real-world impact.
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Military Past, Civilian Present - International Perspectives On Veterans'' Transition From The Armed Forces

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 This edited book presents a synthesis of current international knowledge on the topic of military veteran transition to civilian life.
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Community-Based Health Interventions In An Institutional Context

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 Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context examines challenges of "institutionalizing" community-based health care. While the community-based or localized model is growing in popularity and importance in the United States, in practice it must often be brought in to larger institutions in order to grow to scale. The typical goals of an institution—standardization, formalization, and control—may be seen as antithetical to those of a community-based healthcare provider, such as spontaneity, customization, and flexibility. The contributions to this work raise questions about how the community-based model can be scaled up through institutions, and how "institutionalization" can be rethought from a bottom-up approach. They provide not only an overview of community-based organizations, but also delve into practical topics such as establishing budgets, training workers, incorporating technology, as well as more theoretical topics like goal-setting, policy effects (like the ACA), and relationships between patient and community. This work will be of interest for researchers interested in exploring the community-based health care model, as well as practitioners in health care and health policy.
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Mentorship, Leadership, And Research - Their Place Within The Social Science Curriculum

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 This insightful volume details the implementation and challenges of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), developed in the UK to ensure equal access to higher education for all social classes. It posits that a modern higher education institution requires a robust set of mechanisms - specifically mentorship, leadership, and research - to create high-quality teaching and learning. Noted contributors pose and answer key questions about the TEF in such areas as solution-focused teaching, mentoring for the job market, and social science curriculum development, using best practice examples in the field. These ideas and strategies carry great potential to improve the caliber of teaching and learning in universities, and with it, students’ social mobility.Among the topics covered:· Why have mentoring in universities? Reflections and justifications.· Working with students as partners: developing peer mentoring to enhance the undergraduate student experience.· The employers’ reach: mentoring undergraduate students to enhance employability.· Learn it and pass it on: strategies for educational succession.· Mentoring mentees to mentor.· Interdisciplinarity in higher education: the challenges of adaptability.Mentorship, Leadership, and Research will play a pivotal role in UK higher education since currently there is scant academic literature on practical tools to help universities to succeed at the TEF. A resource with international implications, it should interest sociologists of education and professionals in business strategy and leadership, social work, and community development.Michael Snowden is a Senior Lecturer in Mentoring Studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK.Jamie P. Halsall is a Reader in Social Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, UK."Given the recent introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in the United Kingdom, this timely book outlines effective practices to help earn the "Gold" standard. While considering TEF within the current climate of academic competition and critical evaluation, a diverse group of experts lay out why mentoring is one highly effective answer to the TEF standards and without compromising productivity in other service and research agendas. This book is a must read for academics and higher learning administrators alike."Leda Nath, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin
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Revisiting Globalization - From A Borderless To A Gated Globe

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 This provocative volume takes an international, multidisciplinary approach to understanding globalization and assessing its economic, social, and environmental effects. Representing the Global North and South, it addresses important debates stemming from recent political events in the U.S. and U.K., the continuing rise of information technology, and the constant struggle between corporate interests and the health of the planet.The human outcomes of world human rights challenges are considered in the ongoing global narratives of migrants, refugees, and disabled persons, as well as possibilities for greater social equity and integration.This expert synthesis takes critical steps to reshape the concept of globalization from an amorphous mass of objectives and initiatives to a forward-looking model of clarity and balance. Included in the coverage:<ul><li>Globalization and migration: is there a borderless world </li><li>A comparative assessment of climate policies of top emitters. </li><li>Neo-protectionism in the age of Brexit and Trump. </li><li>Working inclusively and redefining social valorization in the globalized world.</li><li>Understanding the strategy of M&As in the globalized perspective. </li><li>Reappraisal of social enterprise in a globalized world.</li></ul> Revisiting Globalism will be of particular interest to those in the academic field and the statutory and nonprofit sectors whose work deals with teaching social sciences in higher education settings.
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Dimensions Of Community-Based Projects In Health Care

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 This salient reference grounds readers in the theoretical basis and day-to-day practice of community-based health care programs, and their potential as a transformative force in public health. Centering around concepts of self-determination, empowerment, and inclusiveness, the book details the roles of physicians, research, and residents in the transition to self-directed initiatives and greater community control. Community-focused interventions and methods, starting with genuine dialogue between practitioners and residents, are discussed as keys to understanding local voice and worldview, and recognizing residents as active participants and not simply targets of service delivery. And coverage pays careful attention to training issues, including how clinicians can become involved in community-based care without neglecting individual patient needs. Among the topics covered are: <ul><li> Narrative medicine in the context of community-based practice. </li><li> Qualitative and participatory action research. </li><li> Health committees as a community-based strategy. </li><li> Dialogue, world entry, and community-based intervention. </li><li> Politics of knowledge in community-based work. </li><li> Training physicians with communities. </li></ul> Dimensions of Community-Based Projects in Health Care challenges sociologists, social workers, and public health administrators to look beyond traditional biomedical concepts of care and naturalistic methods of research, and toward more democratic programs, planning, and policy. The partnerships described in these pages reflect a deep commitment to patients’ lives, and to the future of public health.p>
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Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, And The Normalization Of Violence

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 This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on contemporary life and behavior. Synthesizing perspectives from politics and economics with insights from psychology and linguistics, it argues that market-driven public institutions promote antisocial thinking, discourage critical reflection, and inure individuals to inequity and cruelty. Chapters cite the ubiquity of violence in modern society, from the marketing of the military to impersonal mass upheavals in the job market, as devaluing human worth and thus self-worth. But the editors also assert that these currents are not terminal, and the book concludes by identifying conditions potentially leading to a more civil and egalitarian future. Included in the coverage: <ul> <li>The language of current economics: social theory, the market, and the disappearance of relationships.</li> <li>Neoliberalism and education: the disfiguration of students.</li> <li>Slicing up societies: commercial media and the destruction of social environments.</li> <li>Neoliberalism and the transformation of work.</li> <li>Economics, the network society, and the ontology of violence.</li> <li>A new economic order without violence.</li></ul> Given the centrality of economic events on the global stage, Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence stands out as botha springboard for discussion and a call to action, to be read by political and cultural economists, political scientists, and sociologists.
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Pedagogy Of The Social Sciences Curriculum

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 This far-sighted volume describes emerging trends and challenges in university-level social sciences education in an era marked by globalization, austerity, and inequity. It spotlights solution-focused and interdisciplinary methods of teaching, developed to match influential academic ideas, such as self-directed learning and learning in communities, as students seek to engage with and improve conditions in their immediate environments. Chapters offer real-world applications of foundational concepts in the modern practice of teaching, learning, and curriculum development. Accordingly, the editors emphasize the relationship between pedagogy and curriculum, as both are critical in encouraging student autonomyand promoting optimum academic and societal outcomes.Included in the coverage:· Towards a concept of solution-focused teaching: learning in communities.· Heutagogy and the emerging curriculum.· Collaborative working in the statutory and voluntary sectors.· Delivering a community development curriculum to students with multiple identities.· Photography and teaching in community development.· A model for change: sharing ideas and strategies.The Pedagogy of the Social Sciences Curriculum will inspire sociologists, social workers, and health and sociology educators to take a deeper role in community well-being as students, faculty, and communities collaborate to make lasting contributions to society.
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Rural Welfare In China

by Yi Pan

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 This comprehensive reference views China’s welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare. Focusing on the mainland’s vast, mainly rural population and its long and complicated history, it analyzes rural welfare from the imperial dynasties, to the socialist planned economy under Mao Zedong, to its recent history in the current market economy. Findings from government and academics explore salient topics such as urban/rural inequity, the situation of migrant workers, change of social security system, the community development of the countryside, and the relationships of rural welfare policy with social structure, cultural background, economic development and political institution. This broad and deep knowledge gives readers the tools necessary for understanding the relationship of China’s unique and nuanced past to its prominent status in the evolving global economy. Among the book’s topics: <<ul><li> Welfare studies in the West and China </li><li> Welfare practice in the period of 1840-1949 </li><li> Creation of the Socialist Welfare System: socialist reformation and construction </li><li> The Social Security system in rural China, 1979-1998 </li><li> Re-collectivized process in welfare and economy</li><li> Welfare’s political contexts: rural grass-roots democracy</li>With its accessible, up-to-date coverage and holistic approach to its subject, Rural Welfare in China will find a diverse interested audience, including sociologists, political economists, and social policymakers. </ul>

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