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Improving Inter-professional Collaborations
Multi-Agency Working for Children's Wellbeing
Series: Improving Learning
** Shortlisted for the NASEN Special Educational Needs Academic Book Award 2009 ** Inter-professional collaborations are invaluable relationships which can prevent the social exclusion of children and young people and are now a common feature of welfare policies worldwide. Drawing on a four year...
Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
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Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World
Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series
Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘...
Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge
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The Self Psychology of Addiction and its Treatment
Narcissus in Wonderland
In the time of Freud, the typical psychoanalytic patient was afflicted with neurotic disorders; however, the modern-day psychotherapy patient often suffers instead from a variety of addictive disorders. As the treatment of neurotic disorders based on unconscious conflicts cannot be applied to...
Published June 8th 2006 by Routledge
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Urban Development and Civil Society
The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities
The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to...
Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge