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Communications and Conflict: Sample interview on conflict styles
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What do you regard as the main challenges presented to social policy by globalisation? How has the EU attempted to respond to this?
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In what ways is friendship important in childhood?
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Totemism.
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This Case Study is based on the work of Sylvia Scotting, Initial Duty and Assessment Team, Kent Social Services.
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Set about a critical exploration of different forms of empowerment in relation to people with disabilities and/ or social disadvantages.
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