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Social work: Voices from the inside

By Cree, Viviene E.

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

By Janina Fisher

Proactive Child Protection and Social Work

By Liz Davies, Nora Duckett

Dictionary of Social Work: The Definitive A to Z of Social Work and Social Care

By John Pierson, Martin Thomas

Britain's War on Poverty

By Jane Waldfogel

Childhood in a Global Perspective

By Karen Wells

The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice

By Franklin, Bob

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Current Issues and Future Directions

By Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, Gerald R. Adams

The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America

By Marisa Chappell

Parents, Poverty and the State: 20 Years of Evolving Family Policy

By Naomi Eisenstadt, Carey Oppenheim

In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

By Elizabeth Palley, Corey S. Shdaimah

Why We Need a New Welfare State

By Gosta Esping-Andersen (, Professor of Sociology at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Learning from Sure Start: Working with Young Children and their Families

By Jo Weinberger, Caroline Pickstone, Peter Hannon

Integrated Children's Centres: Overcoming Barriers to Truly Integrated Services

By Carole Beaty (National College of School Leadership, UK)

Rethinking Children's Rights

By Sue Welch, Phil Jones

Children's Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy

By Nancy E. Walker, Catherine M. Brooks, Lawrence S. Wrightsman

Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems

By Nancy Freymond, Gary Cameron

Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs

By Gerald Mallon (Associate Professor), Peg McCartt Hess

Child Protection Systems: International Trends and Orientations

By Neil Gilbert (Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley), Nigel Parton (NSPCC Professor in Applied Childhood Studies, NSPCC Professor in Applied Childhood Studies, University of Hudders...

Child Well-Being: Understanding Children's Lives

By Sylda Langford, Peter Pecora, Markell Harrison-Jackson, Asher Ben-Arieh, John Rowlands

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By Jonathan M. Metzl

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

By Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

Children Act, 1989: Guidance and Regulations: v. 3: Family Placements

By Dept.of Health

The Children Act 1989 guidance and regulations: Vol. 4: Residential care

By Great Britain: Department of Health

Youthwork & Mission Of God

By SPCK

Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook: A Practical Guide to Long-Term Recovery

By Nicola Davies, Emma Bacon

A-level Study Guide Sociology

By Stephen Moore

Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate measures) True Stories from a War Zone

By Cain, Kenneth; Postlewait, Heidi; Thomson, Andrew

Planning a Research Project: Guide for Practitioners and Trainees in the Helping Professions

By Martin Herbert

Speech and the Hearing-Impaired Child: Theory and Practice

By Daniel Ling