Tag: Families

Boundaries for Codependents Hazelden Classics for Families


Free Download Rokelle Lerner, "Boundaries for Codependents: Hazelden Classics for Families"
English | 1988 | ISBN: 0894865609 | EPUB | pages: 24 | 2.2 mb
So much of recovery from codependence has to do with figuring out where we stop and another person begins. Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family often prevents us from creating healthy physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual boundaries. This pamphlet offers meaningful insight on how to build healthy boundaries.

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Working with Children, Young People and Families


Free Download Graham Brotherton, "Working with Children, Young People and Families"
English | ISBN: 1848609892 | 2010 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1165 KB
Written from a unique interprofessional perspective, this book is an essential introduction to working with children, young people, and families. It covers policy, practice, and theory, exploring key themes and developments, including poverty and disadvantage, ethical practice, child development, education, child protection, children and young peopleā€²s rights, and doing research. With case studies, reflective questions, and sources of further reading, the book introduces students to a range of theoretical perspectives, links the key themes to the existing and emerging policy and practice context, and supports students in engaging with and evaluating the central debates.

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Social Work Practice with Children and Families


Free Download Carolyn Spray, "Social Work Practice with Children and Families "
English | ISBN: 1412921783 | 2011 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Carefully researched and highly readable, this textbook explores what enables good and effective practice in local authority field social work delivered to children, young people, and their families. The book sets the context for local authority social work practice and then chapter-by-chapter takes the reader carefully through the social work process. Detailed case studies work really well in embedding the legal and theoretical context firmly within the practice challenges of safeguarding children. Overall the book is about social workers effecting change so that children can continue to live successfully with their families and within their communities.

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Small is Still Beautiful Economics as if Families Mattered


Free Download Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered by Joseph Pearce
English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 1933859040 | 350 pages | True EPUB | 0.82 MB
A third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Schumacher, a highly respected economist and adviser to third-world governments, broke ranks with the accepted wisdom of his peers to warn of impending calamity if rampant consumerism, technological dynamism, and economic expansionism were not checked by human and environmental considerations.

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