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This book provides students with the essential context, knowledge and practice skills required to succeed in your health and social care degree.

Students doing a health and social care degree make a real difference to people's lives every day in incredible and inspiring ways. Choosing to study health and social care gives you the opportunity to acquire a wide range of essential context, knowledge and practice skills that positively transform both your life and the lives of many others. This book uniquely presents these essential context, knowledge and practice skills in one essential place, to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the requirements of doing a health and social care degree.

Topics covered in the book include health and social care legislation, demographic change, children's rights, disability, mental health, anatomy and physiology, health and social care regulation, communication skills, teamwork and leadership and reflective practice. It is an indispensable learning resource for health and social care students wishing to succeed in their degree and beyond in a wide range of both health and social care settings, as well as a wide variety of other settings, such as schools, community settings and welfare organisations.

Welfare racism is a combination of racial discrimination in the welfare system and racist discourses used in the name of the welfare state. Presenting a global overview of discourses of welfare racism across the world by institutional actors, public figures, political parties, and mass media, this book examines the evolution, character, role, and consequences of racialised welfare discourse towards immigrants, asylum seekers, and BIPOC.

This volume explores how racialised welfare discourse fuels and legitimises inequality, as well as its role in public policies concerning social citizenship, and its role as a structural element of migration policies and welfare policies. The chapters focus on a variety of global contexts to analyse how welfare racism is linked to the historical development of the welfare state, the dismantling of social welfare in Western countries, the structures and practices of public administration, the intertwining of welfare racism and welfare classism, political discourses, the media, and the role of far-right parties, academics, and professionals in the spread of racialised welfare discourse.

Presenting a novel, in-depth study of the phenomenon from a critical racism perspective, this book expands knowledge on the ideological-discursive dimension of welfare racism. It will appeal to scholars, post-graduate students, and professionals with interests in inequality, migration, public discourse, communication, mass media, social policy, and welfare.

A nursing narrative note is a type of nursing documentation used to provide clear, detailed information about a patient. A narrative note is written in paragraph form and tells a story, if you will, about the patient, the care being received, response to treatment, and any interventions or education provided. Narrative notes allow for more detailed descriptions of health conditions and concerns, which means you have greater freedom when it comes to painting a representative picture of a patient's health. You can communicate their thoughts and feelings, as well as your own professional judgments.

The format of the book will cover the Narrative Nursing workshop format that has been instituted over the years with nurses from a range of organizations. Each nurse will follow an outline of storytelling and select one meaningful nurse-patient, nurse-colleague, or nurse-leader encounter to present as a story to share with other nurses. Each chapter contains stories from nurses at all levels of development, from the novice (student nurse) to the expert nurse and nurse leader.

The overall purpose is to illustrate, in a structured format, the impact of nursing care provided to individuals, families, and communities. The storytelling process that will be used includes the key techniques of storytelling: namely, engaging the audience, describing the scene, building tension, focusing on what is important, keeping the flow logical, and making the story conclusive, particularly in light of the lessons learned from the story.

Each story will be accompanied by analysis and commentary from the two primary authors, remarking on the meaningfulness of the story, lessons learned, and lessons for other nurses. Each story will be unique, but there will be conclusions drawn at the end of each story, and there will also be an introductory chapter and a final chapter written by the primary authors to introduce the value of story-telling and in the final chapter to synthesize lessons learned. A main feature of this book is that the stories will allow the reader to identify personal and professional moral and ethical principles confronted by clinical nurses and nurse leaders at all levels.

This open access book offers a comprehensive review of the deinstitutionalisation process in the Nordic countries and its long-term developments from 1960 to 2020. Challenging the popular idea of deinstitutionalisation as a "mission accomplished" in this region, it heralds discussion about how the relocation process has unfolded and what consequences it has had for people with intellectual disabilities in practice. It presents a compelling narrative of the history and the current status of services for people who moved out of institutions to live in the community and discusses to what extent the intentions have been achieved.

Retracing the conceptualisation of normalisation in the 1960s and the new wave of deinstitutionalisation in Norway and Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s, this collection discusses how dismantling of institutions came to the forefront of the political agenda. It scrutinises the drivers of change in policies and practices for persons with intellectual disabilities, exploring changing ideologies, political goals, and service developments in the context of more general policy developments in the Nordic region. Leading experts in the field unveil the complex dynamics between ideologies, policies, practices, and contexts to challenge and reconsider lessons learned in the past fifty years from the Nordic experience. A 'must read' for students and researchers interested in disability studies, intellectual disability, social policy, social work, special care nursing, rehabilitation, as well as professionals, policymakers and stakeholders.

This book explores eco-social policy and its role in the global governance system. By focusing on the eco-social policy discourses of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of how and to what extent these influential international organisations integrate environmental and social concerns and promote an integrated eco-social policy perspective. While the OECD and the World Bank promote crucial elements of eco-social policy integration, the book argues that they fall short of pushing toward a social-ecological transformation within global governance that profoundly focuses on the decommodification of nature and labour. Drawing on different concepts, including Polanyi's notion of the double movement, it shows how there are partly contradictory policy perspectives on eco-social policy integration in both organisations, which eventually stabilise the existing capitalist mode of production, albeit with green conditions. Through its in-depth exploration of the eco-social policy discourses of the OECD and the World Bank, this book serves as an essential resource for understanding and questioning the scope of sustainable and equitable global policy frameworks for both researchers and practitioners.

From algorithms that draft clinical notes in seconds to autonomous agents that triage emergency room backlogs, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping every facet of healthcare. Generative AI: Unlocking the Next Chapter in Healthcare is the first comprehensive guide to this revolution-charting how we got here, what's working now, and where the technology could take us next.

Drawing on frontline case studies from leading health systems, biotech labs, and tech giants, the book reveals how large language models, synthetic data engines, and multi agent ecosystems are boosting diagnostic accuracy, accelerating drug discovery, and personalizing patient engagement. It also confronts the hard questions-privacy, bias, liability, and the fear of "machines taking over"-offering clear, actionable frameworks for ethical, human centered deployment.

Written for clinicians, executives, innovators, and policy makers and patients alike, this definitive volume distils the expertise of industry pioneers into an accessible roadmap. You'll explore:

* The evolution from early machine learning to today's generative powerhouses

* Real world wins-ambient documentation, AI assisted radiology, virtual nursing, and more

* The players shaping the landscape: Epic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Salesforce, and a wave of insurgent startups

* Guardrails that preserve trust, protect privacy, and keep humans in the loop

* Bold yet plausible futures-from digital twin medicine to globe-spanning agent networks

Whether you're leading a hospital, building health tech solutions, a tech startup, or simply curious about the future of care, Generative AI: Unlocking the Next Chapter in Healthcare delivers the insight, inspiration, and practical guidance you need to thrive in the era where human empathy and machine intelligence work side by side.

This open-access book presents a multidisciplinary approach to the design of living spaces from an age-friendly perspective, in line with the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) paradigm, which promotes the integration of assistive devices and technologies to create safe, comfortable environments that meet the needs of older adults and their caregivers. It outlines new operational strategies, incorporating an analysis of technological development trends focused on the well-being and health of older adults, identifying their needs and expectations through participatory processes, and establishing design requirements to foster the acceptance of interfaces and emerging devices. In light of the exponential increase in smart applications within living environments, the book emphasizes the necessity to introduce cutting-edge solutions for data transmission and processing, as well as the development of semantically driven tools to support designers in selecting and integrating assistive technologies through virtual environment simulations. The book also illustrates the methodological processes adopted in defining guidelines for the design of spaces dedicated to older adults, with attention to architectural and functional aspects in various domains: perceptual and sensory factors for the design of waiting areas in Community Houses, technological and environmental requirements for the integration of devices in home adaptation projects for Home Care and locational and typological criteria for the development of new Social Day Care Centers. These contributions are based on the experiences shared during the conference organized by the WP1 "Human-Centred Design and Evaluation, Certifications, Sustainability within the Built Environment" of Spoke9, within the framework of the Age-It/NRRP program.

In Equity at the End, authors Staci M. Zavattaro and Jennifer L. Wright-Berryman explore the intricate and often confusing landscape of deathcare in the United States. This complex system of public, private, and nonprofit institutions often leaves individuals perplexed as they navigate their final arrangements, revealing significant inequities.

Combining comprehensive research from public administration and social work to examine policy design and deathcare bureaucracy, Zavattaro and Wright-Berryman scrutinize the governance of the deathcare system, the policies shaping it, and the economic and personal biases influencing its implementation. They begin by defining the concept of death equity, exploring disparities in access to resources like eco-friendly burials, identity-aligned services, and affordable body disposition. Through their extensive research, including interviews with over 70 deathcare professionals from both the public and private sectors, the authors provide readers with tools to navigate these inequities, addressing the reluctance to discuss and prepare for death.

Equity at the End offers practical tools and insights to reduce inequities and improve transparency in the deathcare system. Promoting death literacy and equitable practices, this work is essential reading for social scientists, public policy experts, healthcare professionals, and educators.

This book offers a bold and critical examination of the intersections between artificial intelligence (AI) and disability justice. Rather than framing AI as a neutral or purely beneficial tool, the book interrogates how AI systems reproduce ableism, deepen systemic exclusions, and perpetuate colonial, neoliberal, and corporate power structures. It challenges the prevailing reliance on "tech fixes"-improving datasets or tweaking algorithms-and instead insists on addressing the deeper social, political, and ethical dimensions of AI development and deployment. Through a disability justice lens, it highlights the complex realities faced by disabled communities and emphasizes the need for approaches that dismantle ableism rather than superficially enhance accessibility.

Covering topics such as algorithmic bias, data colonialism, technoableism, and the militarization of AI, this book foregrounds critical frameworks including design justice, data sovereignty, and participatory governance. It draws on diverse scholarly perspectives and activist insights to propose actionable pathways toward more accountable, equitable, and inclusive AI futures. By centering disabled people's experiences and knowledge, the book offers not only critique but also visionary strategies for transforming AI systems to serve justice rather than entrench oppression.

Pollution refers to the negative impact of human activity on the environment, posing risks to human health, ecosystems, and economic growth. Environmental sciences, an interdisciplinary field, investigates the influence of humans on the environment and solutions to solve problems.

The present book, encompassing ten chapters, covers the impacts of aerosol, and bioaerosol pollution, ozone and black carbon, micro plastics on marine life, rare earth elements, the environmental impact of energy production, heavy metal pollution, wastewater treatment, and the influence of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) on health and environment in a single overarching scientific theme.

Features:

• The book provides up-to-date information on various types of pollution and methods of their mitigation/ remediation.

• For anyone with a curiosity for environmental biology, environmental science, or environmental studies, this is a desk reference.

• New innovations and data are accounted for and included.

• This book is intended not only for research scientists, engineers, biologists, and chemists but also for laymen and policy makers.

• The book not only engages the fundamentals of environmental science but also demonstrates to the general public how environmental science studies show methods of sustainability, environmental policies, economics, and personal choices.

• Diversity of the chapters chosen to represent this book is one of its distinguishing features.

Tracing the evolution of social thought on leisure in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present day, this book documents an alternative and almost totally ignored discourse of leisure as a field of welfare. Investigating evolving understandings of leisure in social philosophy, the nascent social sciences and welfare economics, it explores the ways in which leisure became a field of individual and social welfare in terms of personal growth, cultural democracy and social citizenship. While the social philosophy of ancient Athens remained a reference point, new modern meanings of leisure were forged in the intellectual and political cross-currents of late Victorian and Edwardian political economy, the 'new' liberalism and social ethics. In terms of welfare economics, the book's pivotal figure is John Hobson, a self-declared economic heretic, who adopted Ruskin's idea of intrinsic value as the basis of a new political economy in which leisure would be crucial to individual and social well-being. Providing a unique contribution to the historiography of leisure and welfare and to current debate around wellbeing and work, this is a timely and interdisciplinary book.

This book contributes to advancing social accountability in medical schools. By offering insights, case studies, and innovative approaches and strategies, the book inspires educators, administrators, and policymakers to understand the significance of social accountability and implement effective practices within their medical schools. Through a comprehensive exploration of diverse topics related to social accountability, the book fosters a collective effort towards nurturing socially responsible physicians and improving healthcare outcomes for communities worldwide.

This book comprehensively covers various dimensions of social accountability in medical education. It delves into the theoretical underpinnings of the concept, the evolution from community-based education to embracing social accountability, and the vital link between social accountability and medical school accreditation. The book also outlines a roadmap for health professions and education colleges to adopt social accountability principles. It presents inspiring case studies of successful social accountability initiatives from around the globe. Furthermore, it explores strategies for managing change and empowering leaders to foster socially accountable schools, employing tools such as appreciative inquiry to catalyze progress. Chapters on curriculum development, innovative teaching methods, and student assessment shed light on integrating social accountability into the educational process. The book also addresses the faculty's role in promoting social accountability and examines the global perspectives and challenges in advancing social accountability internationally. In summary, the book's scope encompasses a comprehensive examination of social accountability in medical schools, providing valuable insights and practical guidance for educators to create socially responsible learning environments and produce future physicians responsive to their communities' healthcare needs.

This book deals with key situations in social work and reflects on them from the perspective of the Gestalt approach, which has enormous potential for consulting practice. The Gestalt approach has so far played a minimal or no role in social science courses (social work, psychology) as well as in the practice of social work. This book makes the Gestalt approach accessible to a wider audience so that specialists can expand their methodological repertoire accordingly.

The authors see professionalism as a continuous, lifelong process that consists of training, reflection and research in specific practical situations. With this volume, they open up a learning path for readers, conveying a didactic concept so that readers can acquire methodological skills for conducting consultations. Based on the authors' experiences dealing with the topics of depression, addiction, codependency, parenting advice, trauma/dissociation and psychosis, short video recordings, commented transcriptions and summary graphics have been created to explain the basic relationship dynamics and approaches to action. This learning material can be used by students and practitioners in the field of the social work, but it is also would interest anyone who is involved in consulting and coaching in other areas. The focus is on reenacting and reflecting on practical situations based on cases. In role plays, students or professionals put themselves in the shoes of clients and consultants. Through these case reflections, basic conversation dynamics on specific topics can be both experienced as well as understood. Approaches can be tried out in order to expand the methodological repertoire for practice.

Gestalt in Social Work: Case Studies in Practice is primarily intended for students, lecturers, professors, teachers and practitioners of social work. Readers in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy (doctors, psychiatrists, psychotherapists), Gestalt therapists and trainers, and consultants in other related fields also would find the book of interest.

The translation of the original German version of this book into English was done with the help of artificial intelligence. The authors (with the friendly support of a bilingual psychologist) have subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.

This book brings together cutting-edge theoretical work across a range of disciplines in service of developing better understandings of the nature and experience of time in relation to health, illness and care. While the passage of time - smooth or otherwise - is a universal experience, it is often felt acutely in relation to compromised health and/or the need for care. These are key sites for understanding how time is managed and made meaningful in healthcare settings and in everyday life. Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care takes an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding how considerations of time - its ontological standing, normative value, and embodied and intersubjective experience - are vital to understanding experiences of health and illness, the governance of healthcare institutions, and the cultures that circulate around (and often obscure) informal care.

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of agency-based social work practice, consistent with the values and ethical principles of the profession. Applying an anti-oppressive, liberatory social justice lens to working with Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and other at-risk populations, the book provides contemporary theoretical frameworks and practice approaches, rich clinical examples, and practice wisdom from expert agency-based social work clinicians working in the dominant fields of practice: child welfare, education, health, mental health, youth justice, carceral systems, substance use, intimate partner violence, racial and other traumas, palliative care, world of work, and older adults. This is the essential guide for beginning social workers and supervisors practicing in diverse organizational settings.

The book provides both an overview of practice in the aforementioned areas, as well as an in-depth look at intersubjective practice with the specific population. Each clinical chapter provides:

• the history of social work in the practice setting;
• an overview of the current research in the area;
• the predominant evidence-based practice approach(es) being used;
• the role(s) of the social worker in the specific setting and grounded in anti-oppressive and ethical clinical practice;
• an extensive case example and discussion, inclusive of the clinician's reflections and countertransference reactions;
• practice and supervisory wisdom offered by the authors as to how to negotiate the organizational system to best benefit their clients;
• evolving nature and future direction of the practice area; and
• reflection questions for students, instructors, and beginning clinicians.

Reframing Social Work with an Anti-Oppressive Lens is primarily intended for social work students as well as beginning social workers and their supervisors who could also benefit from its contents. Chapters can readily be assigned in placement settings such that the supervisor-supervisee dyad can reflect on the core aspects of social work practice within their agency context.

This textbook is a teaching and learning guide for social work education.

Increasingly, instructors want to implement active learning strategies. With changes in our students - from the wired Gen Z to nontraditional students- instructors are hungry for ways to engage students in the content and the classroom. Furthermore, as new educational standards from our discipline's governing body are being implemented across social work programs, faculty may be seeking additional content or be looking to make changes to how they teach their courses. This textbook addresses this need.

Many PhD programs in social work do not include specific methods in their coursework; however, most graduates will go on to teach throughout their careers. New instructors, as well as those who have been teaching for a while, can use this book to help implement new activities and approaches that make learning fun and engaging.

The contents of this text comprise detailed descriptions of different creative teaching and learning activities. Both in-class activities and assignments are provided. The book's 100 chapters are organized under 20 themed sections: I) Photography; II) Art and Music; III) Mindfulness and Self-Care; IV) Reflective Reading and Writing; V) Podcasts; VI) Artificial Intelligence; VII) Fun and Games; VIII) Professional Development; IX) Anti-Racist Teaching and Design Justice; X) Addressing Stereotyping and Bias; XI) Human Behavior and the Social Environment; XII) Theory; XIII) Engagement, Assessment, and Clinical Practice; XIV) Mezzo and Macro Practice; XV) Research Methods; XVI) LGBTQ+ Affirmative Practice; XVII) Reproductive Justice and Sexual Health; XVIII) Environmental Justice; XIX) International Connections and Cultural Awareness; and XX) Evaluating Teaching and Learning.

Teaching Activities for Social Work: Creative Pedagogies to Engage Students can be used as a guidebook for current teachers and/or doctoral students. This text is intended to engage a diverse audience including those who teach as an adjunct, doctoral students in social work, or those who hold a PhD and want to make shifts in their teaching methods or who teach courses on pedagogy.

This book, sourced from the experience of the social work researchers, educators and practitioners, offers, for the first time from the Indian context, a reflexively situated and insightful pathways to social work research and theorising practice that underlines the importance of 'methodologies in fields of practice'- epistemologies, locationalities and positionalities embedded at varied sites of practices. This understanding is built on the observation that research capturing specific 'Fields of subjectivities' (rural tribal communities, women, children and youth, and persons with disabilities) located in the Indian contexts responds to social issues in complex and diverse situations - a relational ontology. It underscores the scope and new possibilities of research in the Social Work discipline, and its function in contextualizing 'fields of practice'. The strength of the book lies in capturing and visibilizing these varied sites of practices through 'research-practice continuum' approach while demonstrating the primacy of 'methodologies of practice' in building a social work knowledge i.e. democratic, emancipatory and locally empowering.

Accordingly, the book suggests that strengthening of social work research and theorising practice would entail recognition of 'methodologies in fields of practice' in the context. In doing so, the book underlines the need to take a decolonial approach and intends to strengthen practice-based knowledge for an immediate reference point for social work scholars, researchers, educators, practitioners, administrators and policymakers.

This work explores solutions for efficient large-scale pension administration, examining historical and current roles of pensions and their interaction with society amid a 21st-century crisis driven by demographic change and technological stagnation. Pensioners, governments, regulators, and administrators face growing challenges that risk deepening societal imbalances.

Through field research, single-/multi-country case studies, a practical example and expert insights, this work makes a compelling case for distributed ledger technology (DLT) as a scalable, efficient solution. It contrasts DLT with alternatives like cloud technology and draws on Socio-Technical and Structuration Theory to reveal broader societal and structural benefits. While promising, DLT's adoption is tempered by regulatory hurdles, its experimental nature, and institutional conservatism.