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“felicity callard”

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  • Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law

    Fighting for Social Justice

    by Felicity Callard, Norman Sartorius, Peter Bartlett, Hanfried Helmchen, Heather Stuart, Graham Thornicroft, Julio Arboleda-Flórez, José Taborda ...
    This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems. Straightforward and practical, it provides useful information on how to address disabilities so these people may enjoy full citizenship. It presents the key issues succinctly and illustrates these with legislative examples from around the world. This book documents ... Read more

    $114.00 USD

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    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Read more

    $189.99 USD

  • Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care And Development In Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Garcia Marito H.; Pence Alan; Evans Judith ...
    This book, the first of its kind, presents a balanced collection of articles written by African and non-African authors ranging from field practitioners to academicians and from members of government organizations to those of nongovernmental and local organizations.Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge compiles the latest data and viewpoints on the state of Sub-Saharan Africa's children. Topics ... Read more

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  • The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities

    International Perspectives

    by Bronagh Byrne, Kate Diesfeld, Petra Engelbrecht, John Hancock, Neville Harris, Jim Jackson, Laura Lundy, Nina Ranieri, Marius Smit, M K. Teh, Fatt Hee Tie, Sally Varnham, Ran Zhang, Greg M. Dickinson, Allan G. Osborne Jr. ...
    Since 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all students have been declared the right to education. The rights of disabled students have not been explicitly addressed, however, and each country has developed their own rules and regulations. Although similarities exist among the different countries, differences are evident, especially in both the extent and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Homelessness & Health in Canada

    Edited by Manal Guirguis-Younger, Ryan Mcneil, Stephen W. Hwang ...
    Series series Santé et société | Health and Society
    Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis. This book is divided into three distinct but ... Read more

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  • The Psychology of Culture Shock

    by Colleen Ward, Stephen Bochner, Adrian Furnham ...
    Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social processes involved in intercultural contact, including learning new culture specific skills, managing stress and coping with an unfamiliar ... Read more

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  • Child Protection and Child Welfare

    A Global Appraisal of Cultures, Policy and Practice

    by Selwyn Stanley, Sven Hessle, Dennis Kimberley, Anuarbek Kakabayev, Teresa Bertotti, Otrude Nontobeko Moyo, Alean Al-Krenawi, PhD, Annamaria Campanini, Kathryn Goldfarb, Marie Connolly, Contiu Soitu, Nazgul Assylbekova, Clare Colton, Menka Tsantefski, Marie-Antoinette Sossou, Daniela-Tatiana Soitu ...
    Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.Devoting particular attention to the role played by culture in determining child welfare issues and child protection responses, this book illustrates the impact of both long-term influences, ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

  • West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

    Edited by Mora L. McLean ...
    Series series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
    This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the ... Read more

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  • Public Health

    Local and Global Perspectives

    Edited by Pranee Liamputtong ...
    Public Health: Local and Global Perspectives presents a comprehensive introduction to public health issues and concepts in the Australian and international contexts. It provides students with fundamental knowledge of the public health field, including frameworks, theories, key organisations and contemporary issues. The third edition features a new chapter on the public health workforce and the ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • Violence Against Children

    Making Human Rights Real

    Edited by Gertrud Lenzer ...
    Violence Against Children adopts in its title the exhortation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, "Making Human Rights Real," which also represents the leitmotif of the book. It examines the prevalence of violence against children in Africa, the Asia Pacific Region, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the United States, and explores major ways of its prevention. Making human rights real ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

    by Miriam Potocky ...
    Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are especially vulnerable to psychological problems. Among these problems are anxiety, depression ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives

    The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose

    by Penelope Weller ...
    Series series Explorations in Mental Health
    The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and mental health law, and the changing attitudes which have led to the recognition of a right to demand ... Read more

    $70.99 USD