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      • Trusted Partner
        Social work
        February 2013

        Children’s rights and child protection

        Critical times, critical issues in Ireland

        by Edited by Deborah Lynch and Kenneth Burns

        This topical book, now available in paperback, comprehensively draws together diverse perspectives from key leaders in the field to address critical issues for children in relation to their rights, welfare and protection at a critical time in Ireland. The broad array of chapters addresses the changing and complex landscape of policy, practice and law. It discusses the politics of children's rights, the impact of child abuse within the Catholic Church, diverse approaches to service delivery and professional practice, the media and representations of child protection practice and the relationship between research evidence and practice. It offers a critique of governance in children's services and identifies key barriers to fundamental progress in the area of children's rights and the protection of children. This original book fills a gap in publications in this area in Ireland. It is vital reading for academics, practitioners, managers, students and policy-makers, as well as being accessible to individuals with a broad interest in child welfare and protection.

      • Trusted Partner
        Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy

        The Protestant Orphan Society and its social significance in Ireland 1828–1940

        by June Cooper

        The Protestant Orphan Society, founded in Dublin in 1828, managed a carefully-regulated boarding-out and apprenticeship scheme. This book examines its origins, its forward-thinking policies, and particularly its investment in children's health, the part women played in the charity, opposition to its work and the development of local Protestant Orphan Societies. It argues that by the 1860s the parent body in Dublin had become one of the most well-respected nineteenth-century Protestant charities and an authority in the field of boarding out. The author uses individual case histories to explore the ways in which the charity shaped the orphans' lives and assisted widows, including the sister of Sean O'Casey, the renowned playwright, and identifies the prominent figures who supported its work such as Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland. This book makes valuable contributions to the history of child welfare, foster care, the family and the study of Irish Protestantism.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        The reputation of philanthropy since 1750

        Britain and beyond

        by Hugh Cunningham

        Most people now associate philanthropy with donations of money by the rich to good causes. It has not always been so. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how our modern definition came about and asks why praise for philanthropy and philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Were we really capable of loving all of humankind? Was it possible that what was thought of as philanthropy might create a dependency class and do more harm than good? Was it sensible to focus so much on far away places to the neglect of the poor at home? Deeply researched, timely and accessible, this book will inform today's thinking about the role that philanthropy should play in British society. The criticisms of philanthropy in the past have telling echoes in the present.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2020

        The reputation of philanthropy since 1750

        Britain and beyond

        by Hugh Cunningham

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2020

        The reputation of philanthropy since 1750

        Britain and beyond

        by Hugh Cunningham

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2020

        The reputation of philanthropy since 1750

        Britain and beyond

        by Hugh Cunningham

        Most people now associate philanthropy with donations of money by the rich to good causes. It has not always been so. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how our modern definition came about and asks why praise for philanthropy and philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Were we really capable of loving all of humankind? Was it possible that what was thought of as philanthropy might create a dependency class and do more harm than good? Was it sensible to focus so much on far away places to the neglect of the poor at home? Deeply researched, timely and accessible, this book will inform today's thinking about the role that philanthropy should play in British society. The criticisms of philanthropy in the past have telling echoes in the present.

      • Higher & further education, tertiary education
        November 2015

        Observing Children and Families

        Beyond the Surface

        by Gill Butler

        This book explains the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families and helps the reader develop their own skills in this approach.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        Der Spendenkomplex

        Das kalte Geschäft mit heißen Gefühlen

        by Alexander Glück

        Sicher ist: Angesichts wachsender Hungersnöte in vielen Regionen der Welt wird das Spenden neben politischen, ökonomischen Veränderungen wichtiger denn je. Nicht nur der jüngste Skandal um das Kinderhilfswerk UNICEF lässt viele Spender aber am Sinn des organisierten Massenspendens zweifeln. Zuviel Geld geht für Organisation und Akquisition von Spenden verloren, zu viele Spenden erreichen nicht ihr Ziel oder zementieren eine kolonialistische Ausbeutung. Alexander Glück, der selber einem Hilfswerk für rumänische Kinderheime zugearbeitet hat, untersucht aber nicht nur die zweifelhafte Effektivität vieler Spendenorganisationen, sondern genauso kritisch und aufschlussreich die Motive der Spender selber. Es geht um Emotionen und Reflexe (die von den Organisationen oft manipuliert werden), es geht um gönnerhafte Gesten, mit denen ein schlechtes Gewissen erleichtert wird, es geht um selbsternannte Samariter, bei denen demonstriertes Mitleid allein der öffentlichen Imagepflege dient, und es geht um den Schaden, den selbstherrliches und falsch organisiertes Spenden bei den Adressaten, den Hilfsbedürftigen, anrichtet. Das bedeutet aber keineswegs eine grundsätzliche Ablehnung des Spendens. Die sehr differenzierte, scharf argumentierende und mit konkreten Beispielen illustrierte Kritik der gegenwärtigen Spendenpraxis mündet vielmehr in konkreten Vorschlägen: Was muss sich ändern, damit Spenden wieder Helfen bedeutet ... Aktuelle, brisante Fragen: Wofür spendet man? Was geschieht mit den Spenden, wie wirken sie? Wie funktionieren und wie animieren Spendenorganisationen? Welche Motive begleiten das Spenden?

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Ungal Manitham Jaathiyataratha?

        by Jeya Rani

        We understand patriotism as loving the country. What is a country? Its geographical boundaries? Boundaries are variable. In fact the country is its people. If the people are destroyed or expelled it is not the country. If the majority, for the sake of power, begins to destroy, there is no alternative but to cut off the last two human lives on Earth and kill each other. Our Constitution makes India the largest democracy in the world, rich in caste, religion, language, gender, color and ethnicity. It was built on the principles of justice, freedom, equality and brotherhood. The fundamental rights of everyone across birthmarks were guaranteed. What could true patriotism be other than respecting it as good people and walking with brotherhood?

      • Social work
        May 2016

        Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work

        by Dyke, Chris

        You write something in order that it can be read, not in order that it can be written – write reports that achieve and illuminate.

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        THE POWER OF SIX

        A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge

        by Philip Harland

        What is Emergent Self Knowledge, what are the Powers of Six, and what role do they play in self-development and therapeutic change? In this book by a leading authority in the field, you will learn a great deal that is new about psychology and the step-by-step practicality of change. If you are a coach, consultant, counsellor, health professional, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, teacher or trainer – a facilitator of others – you will learn how to progress your clients more easily and safely. They will work through their traumas without being retraumatized and at the end of the day they will own their own process. They will heal themselves. When conventional commonsense or intelligence fail us, the Power of Six is a means of tapping into the reservoirs of our own wisdom.   Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and leading authority on Emergent Knowledge and the Power of Six, having worked closely on its development with the originator of the process, the innovative therapist David Grove. They co-facilitated many clients and ran seminars together in Britain, France and New Zealand.Philip is also the author of a definitive book on Clean Language: ‘Trust Me, I’m The Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’ and three short Clean Language–related books ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’, ‘Possession and Desire: working with Addiction, Compulsion and Dependency’ and ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’; all published by Wayfinder Press.  For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        HOW THE BRAIN FEELS

        Working with Emotion and Cognition

        by Philip Harland

        “Let my heart be wise. It is the gods’ best gift.”  Euripides Models of facilitation (therapy, counselling, teaching, coaching, health management, etc.) have rarely dealt with the inter-dependency of emotion and cognition. In the 1980s, NLP researchers developed the concept of the structure of emotion. Work in the 1980s on ‘Meta-States’ addressed the modulating of primary emotional states with cognitively-led meta-levels of feeling. Here Clean Language psychotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner Philip Harland explores the neuro-linguistic basis of Emotional Intelligence, relating recent work on the structure and relationship of emotion and cognition to innovative therapist David Grove’s work in Clean Language and Therapeutic Metaphor. Philip worked for many years with the late David Grove. They co-facilitated many clients together and ran seminars in Britain, France and New Zealand. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He is also the author of ‘Trust Me, I’m The Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge; and the two short Clean Language–related books ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’ and ‘Possession and Desire: working with addiction, compulsion and dependency’; all published by Wayfinder Press. For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        POSSESSION AND DESIRE

        Working with Addiction, Compulsion and Dependency

        by Philip Harland

        Understanding and working with addiction, compulsion and dependency; a 6-part guide for addicts, enablers and therapists“Choosing the temporary discomforts of desire over the permanent discomforts of possession” Part I  VIOLENT PLEASURES ARE RELIEFS OF PAIN  Each one of us is prone to addiction or dependency to a greater or lesser degree. Part I is about understanding why this is so. Part II  SOME ADDICTIONS FEEL PHYSICAL, BUT ALL ADDICTIONS ARE MENTAL  Addiction is a subject for study. Addicting is something we do. Part II follows the bodymind process of becoming addicted as a basis for deciding where we wish to go next. PART III  THE PHYSICIAN’S PROVIDER  How as therapists and facilitators do we position ourselves in relation to addictive clients? How does language affect our beliefs and practices? Part III discusses the difference between intervening and interfering, and between conscious and unconscious outcome forming. It suggests a way to align ourselves with the client’s outcome and to activate change without resorting to supposition, interpretation or suggestion. PART IV  THE LIMIT OF DESIRES  As addicts we give energy to a system that encourages us to play victim and persecutor in turn. Part IV examines the differences between ‘quitting’ and ‘controlling’. The continuum of progression from simple desire to complex need to total possession is explored. PART V  ADDICTIVE CONTRADICTIONS  Part V deconstructs typically addictive double-binds and dualities, including the familiar dilemma of being caught between aversion (‘I must give up X’) and attraction (‘I can’t give up X’). Eight approaches to resolving duality thinking are identified and explained PART VI  AUDITING FOR X  Unscrambles haphazard approaches to client assessment and offers a systematic audit for facilitators of all kinds, including self-helpers, to assess addictions, compulsions, and dependencies and to work successfully with them through language as an alternative to medical means. The audit is arranged in four frames: person, possession, pattern, and preference:  Person: how much of the client is involved, and where?   Possession: what is the nature of the client's attachment?   Pattern: how do the client's life patterns and internal patterns relate?   Preference: what choices does the client have? Most of us can learn to move from addictive state to non-addictive state. Those uncertain about the path to take will find the aids to navigation here useful both theoretically and practically. We may all – addicts and enablers, therapists and clients alike – learn to deal with the occasional discomforts of desire rather than the permanent discomforts of possession. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘Trust Me, I’m the Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor, and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six, A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’; and ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’. All published by Wayfinder Press. For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        RESOLVING PROBLEM PATTERNS

        with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor

        by Philip Harland

        How can problem patterns be discerned, decoded and the information within them released? This guide has five parts: ‘What is as Pattern?’ ‘How Can Patterns be Discerned?’ ‘How Can Problem Patterns be Decoded?’ ‘How Can the Information Within be Released?’ and ‘Then What Happens: the Nature of Change’. At a time when psychoactive drugs are being prescribed more widely than at any time in history, it is more important than ever to educate ourselves about the alternatives. The drug-free resolution of problem patterns of behavior, feeling or belief is as important for health professionals to be able to facilitate as it is for their clients and patients to achieve. This guide has a bias towards the talking therapies – and in particular the radical new art of Clean Language – but its precepts and procedures are applicable to any area of human enquiry. New, more productive, patterns of behaviour, feeling and belief emerge through CleanLanguage modelling as the client identifies component parts of their perceptions, develops these in form, space, or time; elucidates key relationships between them; discerns patterns across the relationships and translates these patterns to their everyday lives. As a result it is the client, not the facilitator, who determines the significance of their perceptions. And as the system learns about its own organization, a context for self-generated change is created and it is the client, not the facilitator, who determines what needs to happen for the system to evolve.  Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘Trust Me, I’m the Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six: a Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘Possession and Desire: understanding and working with addiction, compulsion and dependency’; and ‘How the Brain Feels: working with emotion and cognition’; all published by Wayfinder Press, London England. For more on these books see Amazon and www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Adult literacy guides & handbooks
        June 2013

        DYSLEXIA DISMANTLED

        A practical breakdown of the myths and realities of dyslexia

        by Laughton King

        Finally, an insightful, clear and practical breakdown of the realities of dyslexia, from the author’s own life experience. This exposition of the thinking, learning and living style that characterise the dyslexic individual is written equally for the educator, the parent and the struggling dyslexic himself. Eighteen myths dispelled, 61 personal characteristics outlined, and a raft of indicators examined, this book will help a large section of the population understand their own normality, their own intact and integrated thinking style, and allow them to take positive charge of their learning processes and their functioning in society. There is nothing wrong with their brain wiring, they are not deficient, they do not need medication. As a diesel motor differs from a petrol engine, the so-called ‘dyslexic’ differs from the non-dyslexic in a simple and rudimentary way. The Western world has a modern education system based around language as the prime learning tool – teaching, learning and assessment are typically language-based. The ‘dyslexic’ person is disadvantaged in this system, not only because is he a pictorial thinker, but because of a lesser capacity to use 'internal dialogue', he is unable to process the language-based education system at a competitive level.

      • Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy

        Nipping Crime in the Bud

        How the Philanthropic Quest Was Put Into Law

        by Muriel Whitten (Author)

        At a time when problems of crime and antisocial behaviour stimulate debate on big society solutions, this book provides an exceptional means of tracing a line of response which began at the end of the 18th century. Nipping Crime in the Bud explores the origins and development of the Philanthropic Society (and its influence on contemporary institutions) amid growing alarm about crime levels, Draconian sentences under England’s Bloody Code and a paucity of effective crime prevention measures. Driven by Enlightenment zeal and ideals, this was the first voluntary sector charity devoted to ‘nipping crime in the bud’. It did so through education, training, accom­modation, mentoring and support for young people. Uniquely, the book traces the first hard won policy networks and partnerships between government and the voluntary sector. It reveals how—sometimes against the odds, with funding on a knife edge but constantly striving for effective answers—influential philan­thropists rose to the challenge and changed approaches to young people involved in crime and delinquency, traces of which endure today within the great crime prevention charities which still rally to this cause. Muriel Whitten’s book draws on previously neglected archival sources and other first-hand research to create a formidable and illuminating account about what, for many people, will be a missing chapter in English social and legal History.

      • Social welfare & social services
        June 1997

        The Reminiscence Quiz Book

        by Mike Sherman

        An enduringly popular, informative and unusual quiz book specifically produced for work with reminiscence groups. Covering the years 1930 to 1969, it draws on memories and experiences of daily life and recalls major events and celebrities. More than 600 questions and answers are offered on four topics: news, people, entertainment and daily life. Questions can be adapted to all ages and abilities, and answers are supported by a wealth of background information, ensuring that the answers can be discussed to extend the activity.

      • Counselling & advice services
        January 1997

        Assertiveness

        A Practical Approach

        by Clare Ward, Stephanie Holland

        This highly successful title offers an opportunity for professionals from all backgrounds to develop an understanding of assertiveness. which has been shown to be therapeutically advantageous for all kinds of client groups and can be useful in many contexts. It is a highly practical working manual from which you can apply the principles of assertiveness both to yourself and to your clients. Contents: Behaviour types Being assertive Our right to be assertive Owning our feelings Refusing and requesting Self respect Criticism & conflict Sexuality The assertive option Clinical application.

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