Emergent Practice Planning

Emergent Practice Planning
Author: Frances Ricks
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2002-11-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780306473968

Practitioners are faced with the complexity of health and social service work and are bombarded with policy directives, quick-fix prescriptions, new fads, and conflicting opinions. Emergent Practice Planning supports practitioners in working with the complexity of issues and developing an integrated approach to practice. This textbook aims to provide an opportunity for inexperienced practitioners to think through the issues that define practice and develop an integrated and intentional approach, including assessment, planning, evaluation, and continuous learning. Emergent Practice Planning is a significant resource for school psychologists, school counsellors, child practitioners, child psychologists, and upper-level students of school psychology.

For We Are Young And . . . ?

For We Are Young And . . . ?
Author: Sally Beadle
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 052286015X

For we are young and . . . ? offers a provocative perspective on Australia's young people against a global and local backdrop of uncertainty and change. It asserts the importance of a critically informed and positive approach to youth, moving beyond seeing young people through the lens of shortcomings and problems to be solved. For we are young and . . . ? draws directly on the work of the Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne and its legacy of innovative and significant research on young Australians. Opening with the theoretical context of youth research, the book draws on contemporary examples to discuss new conceptual and research approaches; the ways in which young people participate in change and the challenges and possibilities that are presented by current conditions. For we are young and . . . ? identifies emerging issues and future directions for youth research, policy and professional practice.

Institutions in Turbulent Environments

Institutions in Turbulent Environments
Author: T.P. Keating
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429853939

Published in 1999. Contemporary organizations are faced with increasingly rapid and dramatic change within their political, cultural and technological environments. Institutions in Turbulent Environments critically examines the way organizations respond to these changes,with a particular focus upon the institutional disability sector. The book examines available theory concerning organizational contingency, adaptation and population ecology. It utilizes a framework developed from this theory to examine the ways in which a major institution for the intellectually disabled responded to the turbulence within its environment. It uses this data to re-examine theory and to propose changes to the way organization/environment relationships are understood.

Program Evaluation

Program Evaluation
Author: John M Owen
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-07-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1446275671

This book offers a straightforward, practical introduction to evaluation for beginners and practitioners. It shows how to identify appropriate forms and approaches, using an original framework. The authors examine the role of evaluation in program development, and offer techniques for involving stakeholders in the planning process and for disseminating the evaluation findings. They use references to recent research and international examples.

Senior Community Service Employment

Senior Community Service Employment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Retirement Security and Aging
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Leadership in Child and Family Practice

Leadership in Child and Family Practice
Author: Margarita Frederico
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351810952

This edited collection situates the wellbeing and safety of vulnerable children as the focus of leadership. It provides a guide to theories and practice of leadership for those who want to make a difference to the lives of these children and their families. Drawing on the experience of a highly successful postgraduate program in Child and Family Practice Leadership, the book explores the changing context of Child and Family Practice and the role of leadership, in addition to the knowledge and skills required for effective practice. Contributors draw upon their own practice experiences and insights into the most effective ways to support the work of practitioners to achieve the best outcomes for children and families. The content comprises a mixture of theoretical consideration, discussion of original research and interviews with child and family practitioners. Bringing together contributions from leading specialists and professionals in the field, this book will be essential reading for individual practitioners, organisations and policymakers looking to assist the development of leadership within the child and family practice sector. It will also be of interest to those working in child protection and related workforces.