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Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...family residential treatment unit with their young son. There are a range of challenges and dilemmas for both social workers and other professionals when working with families where there is problematic substance misuse affecting the lives of children. Balancing and assessing risks, needs, vulnerabilities and rights There are key dilemmas in supporting parents with...
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...families to France (Le Pen underplays how difficult it already is) and asylum seekers will have to make their applications at French embassies and consuls outside France. The fight against Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism will be ramped up, with the creation of a new anti-terrorist agency. ‘Intelligent protectionism’ France’s prosperity, Le Pen argues, depends...
Sea level rise in Bangladesh
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Bangladesh

...family home and land where he cultivated shrimp was inundated by seawater. The family was forced to move to Shyamnagar, 15 kilometres away, where he found temporary work while the water retreated. When he returned after 4 months the saltwater had left his field unsuitable for raising shrimp, effectively ending the basis of his family’s survival. 190 people are estimated...
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...family, education or culture, we are part of these things, for we live, think and communicate within them. Social science has to wrestle with the problem of human beings creating explanations about themselves and their society when they are part and parcel of that society. Even when social scientists think about and describe their theories and findings they use words,...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Digging up Spain's dead
Society, Politics & Law

Digging up Spain's dead

...families were devasted when loved ones were killed by the Franco regime, as they try to find their relatives' remains. Perspective: Digging up Spain's dead For decades, silence has surrounded the civil war and General Franco's dictatorship - but now Spain is starting to confront its past. Dr Georgina Blakeley is joined by Professor Paul Preston and Emilio Silva to explore...
Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...family rather than public life and consumption instead of production. Yet this is all relatively recent. A hundred years ago, a twelve-year-old working in a factory would have been perfectly acceptable. Now, it would cause social services' intervention and the prosecution of both parents and factory owner. American colonial families: Industrious girls treated with respect...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...family income and wealth, but also the wider context such as the political stability of your country or the laws and rights in existence within your society. You may consider that science and technology made it a very safe time for you to be born, perhaps that your parent(s) had a stable job in a strong economy, perhaps that there was good maternity health care for your...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan

...family - ‘I am the pillars… I am the fire… I am the house…’ The woman is self-sufficient and there is no sense of patriarchy (male control of the family). In the last stanza the woman epitomises physical strength- a ‘wall against all danger’. She does humbly pray for the safety of her family, but in terms that emphasise female power - Jesus is addressed as...