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Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs

Across Borders

By: Laura Ferrer-Wreder,Håkan Stattin,Carolyn Cass Lorente,Jonathan G. Tubman,Lena Adamson

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Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs

Across Borders

By: Laura Ferrer-Wreder,Håkan Stattin,Carolyn Cass Lorente,Jonathan G. Tubman,Lena Adamson

The authors of this work closely explore the incidence of problem youth behaviors and scrutinize the efficacy of existing prevention programs. This review includes interventions specifically designed to promote youth development or to minimize the long-term consequences of problem behaviors from violence and criminality, substance use and abuse, teen pregnancy and hazardous sexual behaviors, and school failure. Academics and professionals in public health social work, psychology, and school counseling will find special interest in this important work.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441991204

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9781441991201

The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Whose News?

By: Lena von Naso

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The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Whose News?

By: Lena von Naso

News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy towards development aid. The Western media reinforce a picture of a continent that drowns in chaos, is dominated by conflicts, diseases, corruption and failed democratisation. Whose interests lie behind that? How does foreign news on sub-Saharan Africa emerge, which actors are relevant in its making, and on the basis of what interests do these actors shape the coverage that is then presented as 'neutral information' to a broad international audience? Closely examining the relationship between foreign correspondents of international news media and humanitarian organisations, Lena von Naso shows how the aid and media sectors cooperate in Africa in a unique way. Based on more than 70 interviews with foreign correspondents and aid workers operating across Africa, the book argues that the changing nature of foreign news and of aid is forcing them to form a deep co-dependency that is having a serious and largely unnoticed effect on Western news coverage. This comprehensive examination of a new paradigm will interest students and scholars of media and journalism, African studies, development and humanitarian studies and the aid and media communities operating across Africa.

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270

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Routledge

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1351271784

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9781351271783

Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice

By: Lena Dominelli

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Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice

By: Lena Dominelli

Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.) impact on gender relations. This major text by a leading writer in the field seeks to develop a new framework for feminist social work that takes on board postmodernist arguments to do with difference and power yet retains a commitment to collective solidarity and social change. As such, it will be essential reading for students, educators and practitioners alike in social work.

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193

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230628206

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9780230628205

Women and Community Action

Local and Global Perspectives

By: Dominelli, Lena

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Women and Community Action

Local and Global Perspectives

By: Dominelli, Lena

Historically, women and men have been assigned to different spaces in their communities. Although several decades of feminist social action have made significant progress to the social, economic and political condition of many women, change has been uneven and there remain considerable advancements to be made globally. This valuable third edition considers women’s changing position in the world today, updating some of the perennial challenges that women face and examining new and emerging issues including digital exclusion, sustainable community development and environmental justice. Published in association with the British Association of Social Workers, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of social work, community work, sociology and social policy.

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Policy Press

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1447341570

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9781447341574

Women and Community Action

Local and Global Perspectives

By: Lena Dominelli

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Women and Community Action

Local and Global Perspectives

By: Lena Dominelli

Including case studies to illustrate the topics discussed, this title highlights women's role in a community's growth and development, taking into account the considerable changes in society since the first edition.

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272

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Policy Press

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1861347081

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9781861347084

Locating Privacy in Tudor London

By: Lena Cowen Orlin

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Locating Privacy in Tudor London

By: Lena Cowen Orlin

Locating Privacy in Tudor London asks new questions about where private life was lived in the early modern period, about where evidence of it has been preserved, and about how progressive and coherent its history can be said to have been. The Renaissance and the Reformation are generally taken to have produced significant advances in individuality, subjectivity, and interiority, especially among the elite, but this study of middling-sort culture shows privacy to have been an object of suspicion, of competing priorities, and of compulsory betrayals. The institutional archives of civic governance, livery companies, parish churches, and ecclesiastical courts reveal the degree to which society organized itself around principles of preventing privacy, as a condition of order. Also represented in the discussion are such material artefacts as domestic buildings and household furnishings, which were routinely experienced as collective and monitory agents rather than spheres of exclusivity and self-expression. In 'everyday' life, it is argued, economic motivations were of more urgent concern than the political paradigms that have usually informed our understanding of the Renaissance. Locating Privacy pursues the case study of Alice Barnham (1523-1604), a previously unknown merchant-class woman, subject of one of the earliest family group paintings from England. Her story is touched by many of the changes-in social structure, religion, the built environment, the spread of literacy, and the history of privacy-that define the sixteenth century. The book is of interest to literary, social, cultural, and architectural historians, to historians of the Reformation and of London, and to historians of gender and women's studies.

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392

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OUP Oxford

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0191527610

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9780191527616

Sociology for Social Work

By: Lena Dominelli

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Sociology for Social Work

By: Lena Dominelli

This major text addresses the relevance of sociological concepts to social work practice, arguing that lack of understanding of the ways in which social work fits into society's structures and is informed by its relationship with these can lead to impoverished social work practice. Written from an anti-racist, feminist perspective, it both argues for social workers to engage in empowering forms of practice and provides students, practitioners and educators with a new 'paradigm' to draw on.

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304

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349134732

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9781349134731

Enhancing Brain Development in Infants and Young Children

Strategies for Caregivers and Educators

By: Doris Bergen,Lena Lee,Cynthia Dicarlo,Gail Burnett

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Enhancing Brain Development in Infants and Young Children

Strategies for Caregivers and Educators

By: Doris Bergen,Lena Lee,Cynthia Dicarlo,Gail Burnett

A clear explanation for early childhood caregivers and educators of what is presently known about prenatal and early childhood brain development to help them be aware of the important role their child care and teaching practices can play in facilitating positive brain development, and to give them practical suggestions for brain-enhancing curricula practices for these crucial developmental years"--

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0807764442

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9780807764442

Anti Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice

By: Lena Dominelli

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Anti Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice

By: Lena Dominelli

This book, by one of the leading theorists of social work, tackles a subject of crucial importance to students and practitioners alike: how social workers can enable their clients to challenge and transcend the manifold oppressions that disempower them (whether through poverty, disability, mental illness, etc.). It moves from a discussion of social work's purpose and ambitions to an exposition of theory and, from there, to the practice arenas of working with individuals, in groups, within organisations, and within a wider social and political context.

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211

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1403914001

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9781403914002

Violence against Women in Politics

By: Mona Lena Krook

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Violence against Women in Politics

By: Mona Lena Krook

Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this phenomenon, exploring how women came to give these experiences a name: violence against women in politics. Tracing its global emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on insights from multiple disciplines--political science, sociology, history, gender studies, economics, linguistics, psychology, and forensic science--to develop a more robust version of this concept to support ongoing activism and inform future scholarly work. Krook argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors, taking physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and semiotic forms. Incorporating a wide range of country examples, she illustrates what this violence looks like in practice, catalogues emerging solutions around the world, and considers how to document this phenomenon more effectively. Highlighting its implications for democracy, human rights, and gender equality, the book asserts that addressing this issue requires ongoing dialogue and collaboration to ensure women's equal rights to participate--freely and safely--in political life around the globe.

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Oxford University Press

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0190088486

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9780190088484

Book's by Lena Adamson

Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs

Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs

The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice

Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice

Women and Community Action

Women and Community Action

Women and Community Action

Women and Community Action

Locating Privacy in Tudor London

Locating Privacy in Tudor London

Sociology for Social Work

Sociology for Social Work

Enhancing Brain Development in Infants and Young Children

Enhancing Brain Development in Infants and Young Children

Anti Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice

Anti Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice

Violence against Women in Politics

Violence against Women in Politics

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