Social Welfare

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Bed for the Night The Struggle for Shelter From: Fight to Win View Fernwood Publishing	In 2017/2018 Ontario Coalition Against Poverty witnessed the greatest crisis in homelessness in 3 decades. This chapter describes a successful campaign to increase Toronto shelter beds by 1,000 …	A. J. Withers	53	2021	$5.30 Add
From A Chance to Prove Myself Again – Gordon Cousins From: Field Excercises View New Society Publishers	Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading tells the story of …	Stephanie Westlund	10	2014	$1.00 Add
From A Choice From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Opioids. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these …	Stephen Miller	5	2019	$0.50 Add
From NEW! A Decade of Indigenist re-Search Projects and Methodologies Part 2: Wholistic re-Search Methodologies From: Kaandossiwin, 2nd Edition View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 12, Absolon presents an updated summary of the last ten years in the growing emergence of Indigenous re-search projects and the good work Indigenous searchers are doing. The chapter …	Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From A Moment in Time From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these …	Ann Dwyer Galway	5	2019	$0.50 Add
From A Question of Spirit From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these …	Christopher Wallace K.	8	2019	$0.80 Add
From A Rogue Asteroid From: About Face View Breakwater Books	The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this …	Blaine E. Hatt	8	2019	$0.80 Add
NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some …	Deborah Stienstra	168	2020	View
About Face Essays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada Breakwater Books	About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face …	Douglas Gosse	424	2019	View
From Addictive Thinking and the Eating Disorder Mindset Similarities and Discrepancies From: About Face View Breakwater Books	The readings in the third section of the book discuss food related mental illnesses including body dysmorphia and eating disorders. The readings in this section include firsthand accounts from …	Emily Orr	8	2019	$0.80 Add
From Afterwords From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work View Fernwood Publishing	This section includes the closing thoughts of three social justice social work scholars who have committed their work and the days of their lives to advancing agendas of equity, fairness and …	Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell; Ben Carniol	13	2022	$1.30 Add
From "All We Got" – Deston Dennison and VETS_CAFE From: Field Excercises View New Society Publishers	Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading discusses the …	Stephanie Westlund	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From An Evolutionary Perspective on Social-Media Addiction From: About Face View Breakwater Books	The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction.	Steven Arnocky	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From Anti-Oppressive Practice: Roots, Theory, Tensions From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter describes the origins and core themes of anti-oppressive practice (aop), as well as any ongoing tensions in the relatively new theory of social work practice.	Donna Baines; Natalie Clark	38	2022	$3.80 Add
From Anti-Oppressive Social Work with Older Adults: Counterstorytelling and Other Strategies From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter examines social work practice in the context of aging and working with older adults. The harmful assumptions made in social work practice, especially that older adults are frail, …	Ilyan Ferrer; Shari Brotman; Wendy Hulko	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From Appendices From: Field Excercises View New Society Publishers	Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. The appendices consist of a …	Stephanie Westlund	11	2014	$1.10 Add