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Innocent trends may foreshadow a grimmer future. You may wonder why the title refers to pleasures. If you have read Huxley's Brave New World, you may understand how pleasures can be motors of control and manipulation, which makes them dangerous.

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Canceling” and calling out appear as the struggle against the opposite world views. I invite you to look at this cultural phenomenon from an economic perspective that outlines the social stakes of its practice. This book will encourage you to consider the unintended consequences of cancel culture and question its reliability as a tool of activism.

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This e-resource is aimed at guiding and supporting human services students through their placements.

Word Count: 10113

Included H5P activities: 30

ISBN: 978-0-6453261-2-3

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A Developmental Systems Guide for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Practitioners provides clinicians with actionable evidence-based practices for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. This approach combines developmental psychology and ecological systems in recognition of the fact that children’s developmental challenges, tasks, and capacities intersect with the risks and protective factors of their environment. Chapters feature detailed case studies and conclude with conversations with clinicians in which they share targeted recommendations for patient evaluation, treatment approaches, and family engagement and support.

"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places – hospitals, shelters, households – and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses. Bringing together both theoretical and practical material, this book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid knowledge about today’s service work."

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“Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities: Case Studies” is a freely accessible eCampus Ontario Pressbook containing case studies of immigrant women experiencing domestic violence to be used as educational materials. The book highlights the complexity of domestic violence cases in immigrant communities and the different legal processes that these women encounter in seeking justice and the challenges they face in relation to re-establishing their own lives and the lives of their children. The book contains questions for reflection; a description of legal processes involved in DV cases, and a glossary of the terms used throughout the case studies.

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“Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities: Case Studies” is a freely accessible eCampus Ontario Pressbook containing case studies of immigrant women experiencing domestic violence to be used as educational materials. The contents were created by analysing closed legal case files of 15 immigrant women living in Ontario who experienced domestic violence. The comprehensive case studies that emerge from this research present domestic violence experienced by immigrant women in all its complexity, highlighting their unique vulnerability at the intersections of race, gender and immigration status. The book also highlights the different legal processes that these women encounter in seeking justice and the challenges they face in relation to re-establishing their own lives and the lives of their children. In addition to the cases, the book contains questions for reflection; a description of legal processes involved in DV cases, and a glossary of the terms used throughout the case studies. This interactive Pressbook is an ideal resource for social work and legal practitioners, including students in social service work, social work and law programs, in order to increase their understanding about the complexity of domestic violence cases in immigrant families and develop strategies for culturally informed interventions.

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Eco-Social Work in Climates of Change examines the role of social work in disconnecting Indigenous people from their lands and cultural ways of connecting to land. As with other disciplines like economics, social work is mired in a modern worldview that is disconnected from Earthly relations; a disconnection that has fueled both the profession’s colonial growth and contemporary global environmental issues. We are in a time of changes when social work needs to re-learn the value(s) of rooting environmental justice and healing practices in the broader sociality of Earth relations, and that is the focus of this course.

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A Shared Lexicon of Equity Terms, Research, Experiences, and Resources

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Imposed by UK Judges - against Parents' Wills - in Secret Family Courts

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After having tried all possible legal and political avenues within the UK, our petition to 'Abolish Adoptions without Parental Consent' was the trigger to take me to Brussels. Eight months later, the case of the 'whistleblower kids' topped all others and made me submit an 'exceptional emergency petition'. The follow-up continues in the 'rolling now', from exile in Berlin, opening up deep philosophical and political questions about governance: nation states and national institutions vs control and rights of EU citizens and their children and grandchildren.

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The Secrecy of UK Family Courts has been the subject of our activities and online campaigns for many years. Taking the issue to the EU Parliament was a kind of ‘last resort’. However, it caused problems for parents who had come as supporters with hope, after their children had been wrongfully taken by UK Social Services and Police, ‘legitimised’ by secret Family Courts and some forcibly adopted, i.e. without their consent.

This experience was already ‘too much’ in March 2014, but certainly got aggravated, when we watched the cover-ups of the crimes that the ‘whistleblower kids’ had witnessed. The former UK Secretary of the Petitions Committee had said: “The UK can’t have it both ways: be part of a club, and not play by its members’ rules.”

In a BBC film, the current Chair of the Petitions Committee said: “This is against the Charter of Fundamental Rights, i.e. against European principles.”

This book is meant to help spread awareness and share disillusionment in a system of institutions that, so far, has failed far too many of us bitterly and cruelly.

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A Toolkit for B.C. Post-Secondary Institutions

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The purpose of this toolkit is to assist B.C. post-secondary institutions with evaluating and selecting resources to support their ongoing planning and delivery of training on sexualized violence.

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The purpose of this toolkit is to assist B.C. post-secondary institutions with evaluating and selecting resources to support their ongoing planning and delivery of training on sexualized violence.

Word Count: 5532

ISBN: 978-1-77420-071-1

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Evidence Based Practice outlines the how and why of proving what works in healthcare through explaining the origins and mechanics of Evidence Based Medicine and Practice. From the early development of the Randomized Controlled Trial through the evolution of the Meta-Analysis, this booklet will provide students in clinical healthcare fields with a foundational text for interpreting evidence and proving outcomes.

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Evidence Based Practice outlines the how and why of proving what works in healthcare through explaining the origins and mechanics of Evidence Based Medicine and Practice. From the early development of the Randomized Controlled Trial through the evolution of the Meta-Analysis, this booklet will provide students in clinical healthcare fields with a foundational text for interpreting evidence and proving outcomes. Information from this booklet can be applied to clinical environments with practical suggestions and solutions for developing research questions, locating literature, and assessing evidence through five steps: Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply, and Audit.

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Continued outcome disparities for historically underserved student populations point to the urgent need for educators to critically examine structural inequities in higher education and shift current practices for greater equity in learning environments. This resource provides a structure for faculty to self-evaluate their teaching, identify evidence-based practices that can bring greater equity to their classrooms, and develop an Action Plan for implementing and evaluating those practices. By focusing on "just one thing," educators can develop a personalized, discipline-specific approach to continual improvement in enhancing equity for students.

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The need for greater equity in higher education learning environments is abundantly clear, both nationally and in the state of Minnesota.[1] Yet many educators find themselves daunted by the enormity of the challenge. How exactly do we “do equity” in our classrooms, whether in person or online? While Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainings abound, it can be difficult to translate broad concepts into concrete applications and practices within our respective disciplines.

In this Faculty Learning Community, we bring together a community of peers within your discipline to help you develop “just one thing” you can bring into your teaching practices to enhance equity for your students. Research around culturally responsive teaching—one of many terms used to indicate equitable teaching practices—boils down to three key areas. There are many different frameworks that have been used to describe those areas (see Transactional Distance Theory,[2] Community of Inquiry,[3] and the Rigor/Relevance Framework,[4] among others), but for our community, we will use these terms: Relationships: creating trust and community, in a manner that ensures all students know they and their cultures are valued assets to a collaborative and safe learning environment Relevance: establishing the connection between the learning content and students’ daily lives, cultural practices, and aspirations Rigor: well-designed, disciplinarily-current, and learning-science-informed courses, instruction, and assessment

Starting from this framework, you will develop an Action Plan. Progressing alongside your colleagues and benefitting from their insights, you will move from identifying a goal, to choosing “just one thing” that you can do toward achieving that goal, to planning incremental and time-bound steps for implementation, to determining how you’ll evaluate the plan’s effectiveness. While achieving “just one thing” can make a significant difference for students, our hope is that this initial practice will also offer you insights into what works best—not just for your students, but also for you as you continue to bring future equitable teaching practices into your learning environments.

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This book introduces key terminology and research to help you define, discuss, diagnose, and deal with this the issue of addiction.

This resource will be updated as needed. For the most recent version, visit: https://cod.pressbooks.pub/addiction/

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This textbook was created to provide an introduction to research methods for BSW and MSW students, with particular emphasis on research and practice relevant to students at the University of Texas at Arlington. It provides an introduction to social work students to help evaluate research for evidence-based practice and design social work research projects. It can be used with its companion, A Guidebook for Social Work Literature Reviews and Research Questions by Rebecca L. Mauldin and Matthew DeCarlo, or as a stand-alone textbook.

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ISBN: 978-1-64816-991-5

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Short Description:
This textbook was created to provide an introduction to research methods for BSW and MSW students, with particular emphasis on research and practice relevant to students at the University of Texas at Arlington. It provides an introduction to social work students to help evaluate research for evidence-based practice and design social work research projects. It can be used with its companion, A Guidebook for Social Work Literature Reviews and Research Questions by Rebecca L. Mauldin and Matthew DeCarlo, or as a stand-alone textbook.

Word Count: 111030

ISBN: 978-1-64816-991-5

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The focus of this textbook is preparing students for a college education with the study and life skills they need to become successful students.

Indigenous Women and Girls Torn from Our Midst, 2nd Edition

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Laying our Canadian stories alongside the global phenomenon of femicide in other colonized countries such as Mexico and Guatemala, this book underscores the common, interlocking effects of racism and sexism on Indigenous women. Family members, scholars and researchers, artists, activists and policy-makers provide their decade-long perspectives, providing testimony and evidence that sexualized and racialized violence is not only a product of historic colonization but continues to manifest in entrenched systems of colonization and global femicide. The analysis and the heart of all the authors is generously shared, exemplifying what resistance looks like.

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Global Femicide: Indigenous Women and Girls Torn from our Midst brings Canadian, Mexican and Guatemalan stories together to show that the interlocking systems of sexualized and racialized violence is not only a product of historic colonization but continues to be entrenched as deliberate systems of colonization and global femicide. Using reflections from Torn from our Midst: Voices of Grief, Healing and Action from the 2008 MMIW Conference, this book is uniquely situated to provide a decades-long retrospective on what, if anything has changed since the time of that conference. Roadblocks and successes are found in the chapters written by family members, scholars and researchers, artists, global activists and Canadian policy-makers.

This book is designed to be readable and approachable, taking an Indigenous feminist approach of including personal stories of family members as well as critical analyses of history, governmental policies, intimate partner violence and health, and intergenerational art activism. Issues around governmental manipulation in the Canadian Indian Act, Mexican families’ resistance to neo-liberal economics as it pertains to the vulnerability of women workers in maquiladoras as well as the rampant environmental crisis, and the devastation wreaked by complicit governments and police forces in Guatemala all have bearing on the specific vulnerability of Indigenous women. Book sections provide specific recommendations, such as the chapters on pedagogical and administrative transformation at the university level. The book is driven by the underlying question of how we can best prepare and support young adults in work that redresses structural colonialism and violence against women. Each chapter serves as a call to all global citizens to engage in the work of decolonization, reconciliation (or “setting things right” as Maria Campbell teaches us) and justice. The analysis and the heart of all the authors is generously shared, exemplifying what resistance looks like.

Word Count: 83097

ISBN: 978-0-7731-0762-5

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A project-based approach

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This is a pre-release preview of a textbook that will be published in August 2020. Faculty considering adopting the textbook should browse this pre-release edition, as only small changes will be made between now and publication. For more information and ancillary resources contact profmattdecarlo@gmail.com.Our textbook guides students, step-by-step through the process of conducting a student research project--conducting a literature review, conceptualizing a research question, designing a research project, collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, as well as disseminating results to academic and lay audiences. The textbook emphasizes ethics, cultural humility, social justice, information literacy, and feasibility as core components of the research process.

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A project-based approach

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Our textbook guides graduate social work students step by step through the research process from conceptualization to dissemination. We center cultural humility, information literacy, pragmatism, and ethics and values as core components of social work research.

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