Romani Communities and Transformative Change; A New Social Europe

Communities and Social Change

UNDER the Chairmanship of Mr. Kenneth Robinson, M.P., a whole session of the Fifth British National Conference on Social Welfare?held in London at the beginning of January 1964?was devoted to consideration of "Community Care". The groups selected as needing such care were "The Mentally Disordered"; "The Physically Handicapped"; "The Delinquent"; and "Children out of their own homes". (Preparato...

Sustaining a Focus on Transformative Change.

As I reviewed Bev Simpson’s remarks for this focus on the Dorothy Wylie Health Leaders Institute, I was struck by how similar the current environment is to that which birthed the Institute in 2000. Sixteen years later, we are still trying to achieve transformative change in the healthcare system and leadership still needs our focused attention (Naylor 2016). To complicate the current picture, h...

Reducing mental health disparities through transformative learning: a social change model with refugees and students.

Distribution of power and resources greatly impacts the mental health of individuals and communities. Thus, to reduce mental health disparities, it is imperative to address these social determinants of mental health through social change. Engaging in social change efforts requires people to critically engage with present conditions on personal, local, national, and global levels and to develop ...

Economic change, social welfare and health in Europe. Introduction.

a new view on ibn-khaldun,s social change idea

ibn-khaldun,s social change theory has been often classified as cyclic theoty of social changes that has three stages includes in generation, growth and progress and ultimately regressive and decadence. but, what is inferred by rethink in text of ibn-khaldun,s moghaddame, are two different courses,as interrelated to each other, “civilizational evolution” and “cyclic changes of state.avoiding ma...