Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: noel timms

11 resultados

  • RECORDING IN SOCIAL WORK
    NOEL TIMMS
    Originally published in 1972 Recording in Social Work looks at how recording has always been claimed as one of the necessary activities of social workers, whatever form of social work they undertake. The book deals systematically with recording, and the theory and practice recording takes, as well as the research projects and small-scale studies which discuss critically certain...

    $980.00

  • PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN
    NOEL TIMMS
    Originally published in 1964 Psychiatric Social Work looks at psychiatric social work as an established form of professional social work in Great Britain, as well as the mental health policy introduced at the time of the book’s publication. The book looks at how social workers in the 1960s were striving for professional status, and the interest that grew around their profession...

    $980.00

  • PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL WORK
    NOEL TIMMS / RITA TIMMS
    Perspectives in Social Work was originally published in 1977 and provides a text for social workers in training to use. The book argues for a more philosophical approach to both understanding and doing social work and seeks to establish simple and basic elements in social work, asking questions such as: what should a social worker be able to do? What should a social worker know...

    $960.00

  • LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL CASEWORK
    NOEL TIMMS
    Originally published in 1968, Language of Social Casework considers the way in which social workers commonly neglect language. It is suggested that part of this neglect is due to the ways in which social workers and their critics envisage the activity of social work. The traditional criticisms of philanthropy and social work, are, therefore reviewed, and an attempt made to desc...

    $980.00

  • SOCIAL WORK
    NOEL TIMMS
    Originally published in 1970, Social Work is an introduction for students and others who are thinking of taking up social work, or who want to know what social work is. The book begins by outlining the development of social work in the United Kingdom. It describes the methods social workers use, the knowledge they require in order to work effectively, the values they espouse, a...

    $980.00

  • SOCIAL WELFARE: WHY AND HOW?
    NOEL W TIMMS
    Originally published in 1980, Social Welfare: Why and How? is a collection of papers contributing to the subject of welfare philosophy, and to philosophising about and doing welfare. It advances emerging arguments concerning the growth grounds and uses of social welfare. The book is divided into two main sections, the first looks at the growth and the grounds of social welfare ...

    $980.00

  • DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL WELFARE
    NOEL W TIMMS / RITA TIMMS
    First published in 1982, this dictionary offers a practical aid to students of social work and of social policy in their conversation about social welfare. It explains the meaning or range of meanings of common terms and explains their applications in welfare, legislation, policy and use by welfare practitioners. It helpfully cross-references terms with similar or related terms...

    $1,160.00

  • A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    NOEL TIMMS
    The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about. It is usual nowadays to label as sociological any discussion concerned, however loosely, with ‘Society’. But a careful reading of Mr Timms’ treatment of the problem areas he has chosen should make clear the difference between this use of the adjective in everyday spe...

    $1,360.00

  • SOCIAL CASEWORK ILS 189
    NOEL TIMMS
    First published in 1998. This volume is IX in the international library of sociology collection and focuses on social casework principles and practice. The text attempts to describe some of the main problems facing caseworkers as they both try to help their clients and to theorize about their methods and objectives to discern the knowledge they use and apply; and to appraise th...

    $1,320.00

  • PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN (1939-1962)
    NOEL TIMMS
    This is Volume V of seven in a collection on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1964, the object of this book is to study a particular group of social workers, those trained as psychiatric social workers. It was begun in the belief that their work should not be 'left to the imagination' and that an accurate factual picture of their training, practice, profe...

    $640.00

  • SECURE ACCOMMODATION IN CHILD CARE
    ROBERT HARRIS / PROFESSOR NOEL W TIMMS / NOEL TIMMS
    For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Care the authors use an empirical study of secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of the rel...

    $1,380.00