New leaf
Social care practice in rural communities
Cheers, B, Darracott, R, Lonne, B
Federation Press, Sydney
This book is written for all those who provide social care to people in rural areas. Encompassing society’s arrangements for meeting people’s material, social and emotional needs, social care expresses our fundamental need to connect with others, belong to groups and look after each other.
The book breaks new ground with the view that social care is something that everyone participates in during the course of everyday life. Social carers include professionals, friends, neighbours, relatives, agribusiness sales personnel trained to identify depression in farmers, State Emergency Service workers providing emotional support to bushfire victims, ambulance officers consoling victims at a vehicle accident, and sports coaches listening to troubled young people.
The authors have more than 50 years experience in all aspects of rural social care. Brian Cheers has worked in community development and social and regional planning in three states; Ros Darracott is a generic social worker servicing a large area from Charleville in Queensland; and Bob Lonne, who is now at the University of Queensland, has worked in state government departments in two states.
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Kai: Ocean wisdom from Hawaii
Provenzano, R
Watermark Publishing, Hawaii
This hardcover coffee-table book is a collection of stunning photographs of ocean life around the Hawaiian Islands.
Author and UniSA graduate Renata Provenzano has gathered people from across the Islands - artists, surfers, oceanographers and many others - who give their views on the ocean as a source of creation, discovery, art, recreation, ecology and spirituality.
The author’s own observations are interwoven with contemporary quotes and traditional Hawaiian proverbs.
Provenzano was born in Holland to a Dutch mother and Sicilian father. She learned to walk on a six-week voyage when her family emigrated to Australia in 1972.
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