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Work and Unemployment 1834-1911

Work and Unemployment 1834-1911

This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understandings of ‘unemployment’. The sources show the continuing power of discovering men’s commitment to work by finding ways to make them work. This volume focuses on emigration to put unemployed men to work in the British colonies the various projects to employ urban men without work on the land and the increasing ‘Intervention of the State’ in efforts like emigration and labour colonies. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this volume will be of great interest to students of British History. | Work and Unemployment 1834-1911

GBP 120.00
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Standard Work for Lean Healthcare

Standard Work for Lean Healthcare

Proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector Standard Work has become a key element in reducing process waste ensuring patient safety and improving healthcare services. Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare Series this reader-friendly book builds on the success of the bestselling Standard Work for the Shopfloor. Standard Work for Lean Healthcare explains how to apply this powerful Lean tool to increase patient safety and reduce the cost of providing healthcare services. It illustrates how standardization can help you establish best practices for performing daily work and why it should be the cornerstone for all of your continuous improvement efforts. Presented in an easy-to-assimilate format the book describes work in terms of cycle time work in process takt time and layout. It also: Defines the key concepts of standard work and explores the essential elements of a continuous improvement culture Provides detailed guidance through the process of creating maintaining and improving standards Illustrates the application of standardization and standard work in healthcare with a range of examples Includes access to helpful websites and further reading on standardization standard work the 5S System and Lean healthcare A joint effort between the Rona Consulting Group and Productivity Press this book presents invaluable insights from pioneers in Lean thinking to help you avoid common mistakes that can lead to unnecessary wastes of time and resources. Each richly illustrated chapter includes a chapter summary reflection questions and margin assists that highlight key terms how-to steps and healthcare examples making this an essential resource for healthcare professionals starting out on their Lean journey.

GBP 170.00
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Decent Work-Life in Business Essential Tool for Sustainable Development

Decent Work-Life in Business Essential Tool for Sustainable Development

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its application in business for sustainable development. It discusses decent work-life culture in a business environment. The book makes a strong case for decent work which not only provides work opportunities but also delivers a fair income fair treatment security at the workplace and social protection for families. With the help of empirical data and statistical indicators it explores themes such as: ILO and decent work agenda opportunities for work and dignity at work social dimensions of globalization and sustainable development poverty reduction through decent work work-life balance and social protection unacceptable work and social dialogue economic and social context of decent work This book will be an indispensable resource for the students scholars and teachers of business management and especially those pursuing a career in human resource management. It will also interest scholars of political economy sociology of work business management human resource management labour studies public policy and social anthropology alongside industry experts. | Decent Work-Life in Business Essential Tool for Sustainable Development

GBP 130.00
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Women in Social Work

Women in Social Work

Women have always played an important and dominant role in social work. Originally published in 1975 their special contribution to the profession is the theme of this book in which demographic data biographical material and records of social work organizations are skilfully used to show how women shaped the development of social work from 1860 to the 1970s often in the face of strong male resistance. Covering the earlier years of the period Dr Walton examines the links with the general movement for women’s rights as well as differences in the attitudes of women social workers to those of the suffrage movement. He shows how the growing influx of men into social work in more recent times has affected the position of their female colleagues. He discusses variations in the proportion of sexes in probation psychiatric social work child welfare and medical social work analyses typical patterns of employment for women social workers and evaluates the appointment in 1971 of directors of the social services. The author also looks into the future exploring the potential contribution of women to the social work profession with suggestions as to how the problems of women’s employment in social work might be overcome. | Women in Social Work

GBP 115.00
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Doing Critical Social Work Transformative Practices for Social Justice

Doing Critical Social Work Transformative Practices for Social Justice

Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporating critical theory into the practice of social workers and provides case studies and insights from a range of fields to illustrate how to work with tensions and challenges. Beginning with an outline of the theoretical basis of critical social work and its different perspectives the authors go on to introduce key features of working in this tradition including critical reflection. Part II explores critical practices in confronting privilege and promoting social justice in social work examining such issues as human rights gender poverty and class. Part III considers the development of critical practices within the organisational context of social work including the fields of mental health child and family services within Centrelink and prison settings. Part IV is focused on doing anti- discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice in social work with particular populations including asylum seekers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples domestic violence survivors older people and lesbian gay and transgender groups. Finally Part V outlines collectivist and transformative practices in social work and beyond looking at environmental issues social activism the disability movement and globalisation. 'A highly valuable addition to social work education and practice literature in Australia and beyond its shores. ' Ruth Phillips Associate Professor Faculty of Education and Social Work University of Sydney | Doing Critical Social Work Transformative Practices for Social Justice

GBP 130.00
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New Horizons in Standardized Work Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement

New Horizons in Standardized Work Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement

Enabling management to verify that processes are being performed correctly and in an efficient manner standardized work provides limitless opportunities for process improvements. So much so that it has become a vital component of improvement efforts in Lean enterprise systems. New Horizons in Standardized Work: Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement is an all-inclusive guide to applying standardized work principles to virtually any business in any industry. It facilitates a fundamental understanding of standardized work principles and the logic behind their development so readers can successfully extend and adapt them to their own work situation. It also: Supplies an accessible introduction to standardized work from a cyclic perspective Explains how to instill and maintain quality in work processes right from the get go Provides the foundational basis required to apply standardized work concepts to a wide range of work situations Includes several appendices with helpful tips and problem-solving tools In a step-by-step format this book discusses the relationship of the work period and the takt time as well as the importance of the three main worker interface levels in job design. It includes an array of examples that demonstrate how the concepts discussed can be applied across a range of industries including health care construction business processes and food services. | New Horizons in Standardized Work Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement

GBP 170.00
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Older People Ageing and Social Work Knowledge for practice

Older People Ageing and Social Work Knowledge for practice

'Essential reading for practitioners educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older people. ' - From the foreword by Mark Lymbery Associate Professor of Social Work University of NottinghamThe reality of our ageing population means all social workers need to be confident in working with older people. Social workers are engaged in ongoing practice with older people in a variety of contexts from hospitals aged care assessment teams and mental health services to employment services housing services and rehabilitation services. Older People Ageing and Social Work draws on theoretical research policy and practice knowledge to inform contemporary practice with older people. Hughes and Heycox demonstrate that high level professional skills are required in this area as well as detailed knowledge of the issues affecting older people's lives. They argue that practitioners need to take into account the social and emotional needs of the older people they work with as well as the practical and administrative aspects of their roles. They emphasise understanding the diversity of the older population and enabling older people to make the most of their strengths and capacities. | Older People Ageing and Social Work Knowledge for practice

GBP 130.00
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Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work Theory and Practice

Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work Theory and Practice

Malcolm Carey provides social work students academics and practitioners with a practical guide to completion of a small-scale qualitative research project or dissertation. This clear text takes the reader through the process of beginning and developing a research problem or question defining their objectives and undertaking empirical or literature-based research that involves data collection analysis writing up and dissemination. The book also highlights and details potential obstacles essential techniques and methods types of theory and methodology used and presents case studies and ongoing debates involved in qualitative social work research. It suggests ways by which sometimes difficult processes (such as the literature review interviews with practitioners etc. ) can be made easier to complete and explores traditional methods such as the focus group or interview alongside less conventional methodologies such as participative narrative discourse or ICT-related approaches. Recent investigation has highlighted the lack of research skills held by many social workers in practice. This book overcomes these problems by providing an essential and easily accessible guidebook to qualitative research methods for social work students and practitioners as well as being of interest to tutors who teach research methods to social work students or supervise dissertations. | Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work Theory and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Social Work and Social Care

Social Work and Social Care

Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years in particular the extensive legislative changes to childrens and community care services. A new chapter examines the relevance of social exclusion for social work and continues to affirm the importance of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice within social work. Social Work and Social Care: outlines the importance of social policy for social work describes the powerful ideological forces that underpin current practice considers the future of social work and social care within altered social and political contexts covers all main areas of social work includes a glossary and useful website addresses. This book is essential reading for students approaching the study of social work social care and social policy and includes the most current research available.

GBP 120.00
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Work Design: Occupational Ergonomics

Work Design: Occupational Ergonomics

This book gives readers the tools they need to achieve work design that is ergonomically effective while remaining economically feasible. Whether studying work design/ergonomics in a college classroom preparing for the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE) exam or working as a professional in the field readers can depend on this book to provide them with the information they need. Work Design is a single source for ergonomics work design and work measurement. Its engineering orientation equips readers with practical design information and procedures; its explicit organization conversational style and clear explanations make it easy to read and understand. The book's many charts and graphics dynamically illustrate important concepts and principles and its extensive references give readers confidence in the material. | Work Design: Occupational Ergonomics

GBP 175.00
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The Meaning of Work Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs

The Meaning of Work Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs

The author has spent forty years working on the twin themes of the practice of social science in organizations and the importance of work and work organization. Papers on the first of these were published as Working Across the Gap (catalogue number 20169). This volume brings together papers covering the second theme the meaning and organizati | The Meaning of Work Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs

GBP 130.00
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Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work. The ‘Uberisation’ of work is not in reality a new phenomenon. It reintroduces the practices of ‘on-demand’ engagement of labour common prior to the development of continuing employment. What is new however is the capacity of digital technology to engage labour in ways that avoid characterisation as employment according to the legal tests developed in the 20th century. This book tackles the challenge of ensuring that the emerging tribes of ‘gig’ workers in labour markets across the globe are afforded decent standards of work. This book discusses how to provide decent conditions and safe working standards for on-demand workers engaged through digital platforms. It interrogates the rise of gig work and the legal strategies that might be engaged to deal with the risk that on-demand work will fall and remain outside of employment protections. It draws on observations of practices across the globe but focusses particularly on regulatory solutions developed in Australia. The book will be a useful reference to policy making and legal reforms to address vulnerabilities of gig workers. | Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

GBP 130.00
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Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

This book seeks to contribute to a psychological perspective to aircrew wellbeing and help aircrew to acquire an understanding of how to better manage the many challenges arising from sleep deprivation and frequent absence from friends and loved others at home. | Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

GBP 130.00
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The Economics of Women and Work in the Global Economy

The Economics of Women and Work in the Global Economy

This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century. It identifies the factors that inhibit women's participation in the labor market studies occupational segregation by gender and analyzes labor transitions questioning whether the experience for men and women differs. It also explores the effect of entrepreneurship support programs on women's economic and social positions as well as the public policy implications of women's entry into the labor market. The book investigates working women in Mexico and also offers comparisons with countries such as Spain and developing countries within Eastern Europe. It explores a variety of topics from a gender perspective such as labor participation the feminization of poverty migration wage gaps changes in employment informal work programs and public policy. Finally the book offers a topical and timely analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic tracking the gender inequalities among men and women in labor markets. The main market for the book is the global community of academics researchers and graduate students in the fields of economics and specifically in the study of the labor market from a gender perspective. It will also be beneficial to government institutions responsible for the creation of public programs and policies as well as non-governmental and non-profit organizations. | The Economics of Women and Work in the Global Economy

GBP 130.00
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Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today 11th Edition is an exciting update of a well-loved textbook that introduces industrial and organizational psychology explaining how industrial-organizational psychologists make work and working better. This accessible and informative text explains how industrial-organizational psychologists help organizations hire the best people by designing tests and interviews that uncover the skills and abilities of applicants make work better by removing or reducing safety issues and sources of stress so that personnel are motivated and able to perform to their abilities and work with managers and leaders to be more effective at leading others. This book also describes how industrial-organizational psychologists work with organizations to embrace diversity in the workforce and celebrate the strengths that employees from many backgrounds bring to organizations. In addition this text includes how psychologists help organizations to design the physical work environment to best suit employees while other psychologists help organizations to market their products and services to consumers. This text covers both the essential and traditional industrial-organizational psychology topic areas such as job analysis employee selection and work motivation as well as topic areas that are important in workplaces today such as stress and well-being human factors and preparing for jobs of the future. The chapter on consumer psychology remains unique to this textbook. This new edition includes coverage of employable skills desired by hiring managers and executives; the ways the highly publicized replicability crisis has affected the science and practice of industrial-organizational psychology; online and mobile employment testing; diversity and inclusion throughout the workplace including microaggressions; preparing people and organizations for jobs of the future; incivility and harassment at work including abusive supervision; safety climate and employee health; and advertising on social media and video games. Including many illustrative examples of industrial-organizational psychology in real-world workplaces the 11th Edition is thoroughly updated to include the latest theory research and practice on each key topic. Each chapter features defined key terms a chapter outline a chapter summary review questions annotated additional reading and engaging Newsbreak sections. The book will be of interest to undergraduate students in introduction industrial-organizational psychology or psychology of work behaviour courses.

GBP 170.00
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The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in higher education study whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level in university college or in the workplace. Skills are needed in reflection analysis communication and recording information to produce good work to engage effectively in a group to carry out a project or perform well in exams; personal skills are needed to handle time and pressure and to relate to others on a course or in the workplace. This new guide builds on the hugely successful materials the authors have developed over the last 15 years. Along with highly practical guidance on traditional learning skills The Guide to Learning and Study Skills provides direction for students on learning in a blended environment; the increased use of personal and professional development planning continuing professional development and work-based learning. | The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

GBP 175.00
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Motivation to Work

Motivation to Work

Quality work that fosters job satisfaction and health enjoys top priority in industry all over the world. This was not always so. Until recently analysis of job attitudes focused primarily on human relations problems within organizations. While American industry was trying to solve the unsolvable problem of avoiding interpersonal dissatisfaction problems with the potential for solution such as training and quality production were ignored. When first published 'The Motivation to Work' challenged the received wisdom by showing that worker fulfillment came from achievement and growth within the job itself. In his new introduction Herzberg examines thirty years of motivational research in job-related areas. Based on workers' accounts of real events that have made them feel good or bad on the job the findings of Herzberg and his colleagues have stimulated research and controversy that continue to the present day. The authors surprisingly found that while a poor work environment generated discontent improved conditions seldom brought about improved attitudes. Instead satisfaction came most often from factors intrinsic to work: achievements job recognition and work that was challenging interesting and responsible. The evidence marshaled by this volume called into question many previous assumptions about job satisfaction and worker motivation. Feelings about intrinsic and extrinsic factors could not be validly averaged on a single scale of measurement. Motivation and performance are not merely dependent upon environmental needs and external rewards. Frederick Herzberg and his staff based their motivation—hygiene theory on a variety of human needs and applied it to a strategy of job enrichment that has widely influenced motivation and job design strategies. 'Motivation to Work' is a landmark volume that is of enduring interest to sociologists psychologists labor studies specialists and organization analysts.

GBP 145.00
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Nursing Home Social Work Research

Nursing Home Social Work Research

This book focuses on the characteristics roles and training needs of social service delivery providers in leadership roles in U. S. skilled nursing facilities. The chapters in this volume explore a range of issues salient to nursing home social workers and social work practices such as realistic staffing ratios qualification levels dementia training needs involvement in care transitions and admissions and barriers to psychosocial care. The book also addresses the Social Service Directors’ involvement in and preparation for disaster care planning suicide risk management and serious mental illness. This edited collection will greatly benefit students academics and researchers in nursing psychology health and social work. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Gerontological Social Work. | Nursing Home Social Work Research

GBP 130.00
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Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10 this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work. This approach addresses the diversity of masculinities and the ways in which they are implicated in the production of power relations in the text. It explores the ‘feminized’ masculinity of the peoples-of-the-lands the unstable masculinity of the golah Ezra’s performance of penitential masculinity and the rehabilitation of divine masculinity. The rejection of the marriages and the call for the expulsion of the women and children are addressed as sites on which masculinities and power relations are configured. In doing so this book sheds light on how women and the traits and performances culturally ascribed to women femininity and inferior masculinities are appropriated to produce masculinities and negotiate power relations between men. It posits that the debate in Ezra 9-10 is not ultimately about the women themselves but about bringing the masculinities bodies and practices of dissenting men under the ‘management’ of those who wield the Torah in the narrative world of the text. Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra-9-10 is of interest for scholars and students working on the Book of Ezra specifically as well as the Hebrew Bible and its world more broadly. It is also a valuable study for those working on masculinities and gender in the biblical world and ancient Near East. | Men Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

GBP 130.00
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Home-based Work in Victorian Britain Insights for Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety

Home-based Work in Victorian Britain Insights for Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety

Home- based work has increased in recent decades and intensified as a result of policies created to control the spread of COVID-19 creating a labour market in rapid transition. Yet little attention has been paid to the issues associated with occupational health and safety or to how employers will monitor and maintain employee health and safety in a home- based work environment. Using historical case studies from Victorian Britain this book reflects on the past to examine resurfacing health and safety concerns that shaped and continue to shape the home- based working experience. Anchored by family research case studies this book presents documents and newspaper accounts about the diverse experiences of three real people who lived and worked from their homes in the Victorian era. Supported by academic and popular literature on work and policy about the era the book discusses changing worldviews and social context that shaped occupational health and safety at the time and critiques the outcomes of policies that were challenged to address these risks. The case study experiences are used as a touchstone between the past and present to draw parallels between important health and safety concerns that may be resurfacing in our modern post-COVID transition to home-based work. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers academics and postgraduate students of occupational health and safety occupational science labour history and human resource management as well as Victorian studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners working across the fields of workplace and occupational health and safety. | Home-based Work in Victorian Britain Insights for Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety

GBP 130.00
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Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

'An invaluable resource for social workers in all practice settings not just mental health and a core text for social work students. ' - Dr Valerie Gerrand former AASW representative and board member of the Mental Health Council of Australia'An outstanding and very original contribution to the scholarship on mental health policy research and service. ' - Associate Professor Maria Harries AM University of Western AustraliaDeveloping the skills to work effectively with people who have mental health problems is fundamental to contemporary social work practice. Practitioners face new challenges in a rapidly changing work environment including working with consumers and their families and in multidisciplinary teams. Now more than ever social workers need discipline-specific mental health knowledge and training. This second edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health continues the guiding principles of the first edition - an emphasis on the centrality of the lived experience of mental illness and the importance of embracing both scientific and relational dimensions of practice. The new edition reflects the latest developments in best practice including the emergence of recovery theory and the importance of evidence-based approaches. This is a comprehensive guide to social work practice in specialist mental health settings as well as in other fields of practice covering the most commonly encountered mental health problems. It features information on assessment case management family work and community work and reveals how the core concerns of social work - human rights self-determination and relationships with family and the wider community - are also central to mental health practice. | Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

GBP 130.00
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Men and Mothers The Lifelong Struggle of Sons and Their Mothers

Men and Mothers The Lifelong Struggle of Sons and Their Mothers

Not all men vie with their fathers for the love of their mothers. In some families the mother becomes the central figure for her son - the father is excluded (or excludes himself) and does not come between mother and son. The main thesis of this book - using clinical vignettes and quotes from the work of Marcel Proust to illustrate the author's points - is that in these cases fantasies of matricide replace patricide. Men develop their male gender identity by being permitted to separate from their mother early on but when a man does not resolve his infantile tie to his mother he risks remaining in a passive and/or dependent position towards her. Over-identification with the mother might ensue hampering masculine development. Mothers who seek emotional support by binding their sons too closely can become seductive towards them. The child is inclined to try to satisfy the emotional needs of his mother and he fears rejection if he asserts his independence instead of complying. | Men and Mothers The Lifelong Struggle of Sons and Their Mothers

GBP 130.00
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Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

Working with Violent Men gives a detailed insight into working with men who have been violent towards intimate partners. As such this monograph aims to contribute to a gap in knowledge and understanding within an important social and criminal justice topic. The book is underpinned by research based on participant observation at domestic abuse groups allowing for direct observation of behaviours and interactions including gestures and emotional responses as well as semi-structured interviews with group facilitators and participants. It also draws on the author’s experience of working with domestically abusive men as a probation officer and facilitator of domestic abuse programmes. He argues that groups involve a micro social order involving rules and rituals. These are continuously constructed and negotiated by participants against a backdrop of ideas about masculinity and involve the performance of gendered roles. Understanding the perspectives of these men as well the interactional rules rituals and dynamics of programmes enables facilitators to navigate the hostility that men display and engage them in a process of change. Attention to these considerations has implications for the effectiveness of group-based interventions in reducing violence against intimate partners and the training of those who deliver programmes. More general extrapolations are also drawn about contemporary understandings of gender masculinity identity and effective communication within groups. This book will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students with interests in domestic violence gender probation and the rituals of social interactions. It will also be useful to academics researchers and policymakers wishing to explore and develop approaches to work with domestically violent men. | Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

GBP 130.00
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