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Book review: Kinship care: Fostering effective family and friends placements. Elaine Farmer and Sue Moyers London, Jessica Kingsley Publications, 2008. 254pp, ISBN 978 1 84310 631 9

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2010
Family and kinship care has a long history. It dates from times when children or young people were taken in to extended family networks or placed with relatives when birth parents or primary carers were unable, for whatever reasons, to provide them a ...
Leon Fulcher
doaj   +1 more source

A cluster randomised controlled trial of a manualised cognitive–behavioural anger management intervention delivered by supervised lay therapists to people with intellectual disabilities

open access: yesHealth Technology Assessment, 2013
Background: Anger is a frequent problem for many people with intellectual disabilities, and is often expressed as verbal and/or physical aggression. Cognitive–behaviour therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for common mental health problems, but CBT ...
P Willner   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Managing care environments: reflections from research and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This chapter considers the role of senior staff in managing the use of space and the physical environment within care settings. These day and residential settings come under the broad umbrella of social work and social care but the care may also be ...
Peace, Sheila, Reynolds, Jill
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Social and Health Equity: Adopting an Alberta Social Determinants of Health Framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This discussion paper highlights the well-documented social factors that influence our health. In a time when the Alberta government is looking for the best innovative ideas around health care, we suggest that a social determinants approach would lead to
Philip O'Hara
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Spatiotemporal and quantitative analyses of phosphoinositides – fluorescent probe—and mass spectrometry‐based approaches

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The looking after children in Scotland materials

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2004
The Looking After Children materials provide a comprehensive aid for planning and participation to help ensure the physical, emotional and social needs of young people in residential care.
Jane Scott, Malcolm Hill
doaj   +1 more source

Social Capital and Children in Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We have known for a long timet hat children in care underperform in schools.But perhaps focusing on outcomes is part of the problem. Michele McClung and Vernon Gayle report on research investigating the impact of social capital on children’s attainment ...
Gayle, Vernon, McClung, Michele
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Postmodernization: a phase we're going through? Management in social care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper considers the challenges facing managers of social care services in public sector organizations in the UK. Some theorists might argue that these challenges are the manifestation of a new postmodern era. It is argued here, however, that society
Harlow, E, Lawler, J
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