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  1. Administrative Leadership in the Social Services

    The Next Challenge

    By Yeheskel Hasenfeld

    What should be the roles and behavior of administrators to meet the challenges facing social service agencies today? Here is a thought-provoking book that provides a great deal of insight into administrative leadership, an essential component in the survival and effectiveness of social service...

    Published January 2nd 1990 by Routledge

  2. Ministry With the Aging

    Designs, Challenges, Foundations

    By William M Clements

    Ministry With the Aging--the one most frequently used textbook in seminary courses that deal with ministry and aging--is now available from The Haworth Press. Here is a genuinely useful and informative text in which an all-star cast of authors reflects on the current situation of the aged in our...

    Published October 4th 1989 by Routledge

  3. Gerontology in Theological Education

    Local Program Development

    Gerontology in Theological Education: Local Program Development provides a source book for administrators and faculty in theological schools who are concerned about the increasing number of older persons in congregations and communities. Theoretical, theological, and practical chapters offer...

    Published September 25th 1989 by Routledge

  4. Homosexuality and the Family

    Disproving the notion that homosexuals are antifamily, this enlightening book details the variety of family forms in which gays and lesbians live and explores the effects of homosexuality on individuals in families and on the family as a whole. Little in the professional literature addresses the...

    Published September 18th 1989 by Routledge

  5. The Values of Change in Social Work

    By Steven Shardlow

    Series: Tavistock Library of Social Work Practice

    Examining the major developments in social work from moral, philosophical and political perspectives, the highly respected and experienced contributors to this text analyse social work values and place them firmly in a modern, practical context....

    Published September 6th 1989 by Routledge

  6. Integrating Library Use Skills Into the General Education Curriculum

    By Linda S Katz

    This provocative new book will help you design and implement the most effective library user education possible--one that builds on basic library use skills through a progressively sophisticated program that is fully integrated into course curriculum at all levels, from the freshman year to...

    Published July 10th 1989 by Routledge

  7. Perspectives on Adolescent Drug Use

    By Bernard Segal

    Perspectives on Adolescent Drug Use provides an understanding of the nature of the problem of drug-taking among adolescents in order to plan effective countermeasures. Although contemporary research has provided descriptions of adolescent patterns and trends, an important issue is whether these...

    Published June 26th 1989 by Routledge

  8. Adult Day Care

    A Practical Guidebook and Manual

    By Lenore A Tate, Cynthia M Brennan

    Intended for long-term care providers, consumers, and gerontology students, this valuable new guidebook and manual encourages the promotion and enhancement of adult day care as an essential link in long-term care. Since the early 1970s, the number of adult day care centers in the United States has...

    Published June 12th 1989 by Routledge

  9. Developing Norm-Referenced Standardized Tests

    By Lucy Jane Miller

    Transform your ideas and data into norm-referenced standardized tests with this “how-to” manual. Edited by the author of the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP), a nationally standardized, norm-referenced test, Developing Norm-Referenced Standardized Tests is designed specifically...

    Published May 24th 1989 by Routledge

  10. Assessing the Driving Ability of the Elderly

    A Preliminary Investigation

    By Ellen D Taira

    This much-needed book explores the extensive literature on assessing the driving ability of the elderly and provides specific guidelines for practitioners working with the well and the frail older driver. As the number of elderly drivers increases, therapists are being called upon to evaluate...

    Published May 24th 1989 by Routledge