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Improving Child and Family Assessments: Turning Research into Practice
The quality of the assessment of children in need has a significant impact on outcomes for the children concerned. Good assessment contributes to better outcomes, but poor assessment can have tragic consequences. Understanding what makes a good assessment is vital. This book brings together finding... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition: Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity
by David Howe • Julie Selwyn • Kim Golding • Jon Baylin • Joanne Alper • Ben Gurney-Smith • Dan Hughes • Ailsa EdwardsAssessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis to ena... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Thinking Through Tourism (ASA Monographs #46)
The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes. An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as hospi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010