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Books reviewed Patch Adams [Film]. Starring Robin Williams Cooper, John F., A Primer of Brief Psychotherapy O'Hanlon, Steffanie and Bertolino, Bob (Eds) Evolving Possibilities: Selected Papers of Bill O'Hanlon Haber, Russell. Dimensions of Psychotherapy Supervision: Maps and Means Coale, Helen W. The Vulnerable Therapist: Practicing Psychotherapy in an Age of Anxiety Anderson, Leela (Ed.) Bedtime Stories for Tired Therapists     

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Books reviewed:
Mich`e Barrett Imagination in Theory
Davina Cooper Governing Out of Order: Space, Law and the Politics of Belonging
Jock Young The Exclusive Society
Elizabeth Hallam, Jenny Hockey and Glenys Howarth Beyond The Body: Death and Social Identity
Ian Culpitt More Practice Needed
Ian Culpitt Social Policy and Risk     

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This paper presents the findings of a study of Aboriginal children whom the South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs placed in foster homes between 1954 and 1966. It is an attempt to follow up one of the many problems expressed by social workers in Adelaide during a study of Aborigines and their use of social agencies.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy: Hecker, Lorna (Ed.) Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability: Seligman, Martin, Benjamin Darling: Blue Sky July: Nia Wyn, Nia, Penguin UK     

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Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method, New Mexico University Press, 1986, By John, Collier, Jr. and Malcom Collier

Snapshot Versions of Life, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987, By Richard Chalfen

Six‐Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western, University of California Press, 1975, By Will Wright, St. Lawrence University

Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America, University of Washington Press, 1987, By Jeff Gillenkirk and James Motlow

Committing Photography ‐ Yes and No, But Mostly Yes. A Review Essay of Committing Photography, by Su Braden, Pluto Press, 1983

Sociology in a Changing World, by William Kornblum, Holt, Reinehart, and Winston, 1987     

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Beyond Hitler's Grasp. Michael Bar‐Zohar, Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews (Holbrook MA: Adams Media Corporation 1998), 299pp.

Russian Jews Abroad. Evrei v kulture zarubezhnoy Hossii: Statii, publikatsii, vospominaniya, ocherki (Jews in the Culture of Russia Abroad: Articles, Publications, Memoirs and Essays), Vol. 5. Compiled and published by M. Parkhomovsky. Jerusalem 1996. 560pp. Index

Learning the Lessons of the Past. Istvan Pogany, Righting Wrongs in Eastern Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1997, xiv+226pp. Notes. Index. £45.00     

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The article discusses language as a form of social differentiation and the importance of its recognition as such within social work. Structural and ideological barriers to the recognition of linguistic identity within the UK context are explored, before focusing on additional language tuition and the benefits of its use as an awareness raising tool, drawing from socio‐linguistics literature and applying it to social work education.

Research points to the necessity of the development of a ‘third place’ between a native and target linguistic culture to permit a greater depth of understanding of multicultural and multilingual contexts. It is argued that culturally competent language tuition, when used beyond an exercise in communicative competence or bilingual resource development, has great potential in terms of developing anti‐discriminatory practice past a monolingual framework, and allowing monolingual practitioners to discover their own linguistic identities, and reach their own ‘third place’.     

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Book reviewed in this article: MAKING SENSE OF THE CHILDREN ACT 1989 Nick Allen. TRAINING TOGETHER: A TRAINING AND CURRICULUM MODEL FOR THE CHILDREN ACT 1989 The Family and Child Care Law Training Group. ACTING ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN: PART 1, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CHILDREN ACT 1989 John Paley. WORKING WITH THE CHILDREN ACT 1989 Helen Armstrong, Peter Elfer, Ruth Gardner, David Hodgson, Anne Hollows and Peter Smith. BLACKSTONE'S GUIDE TO THE CHILDREN ACT 1989 Jane Bridge, Stuart Bridge and Susan Luke.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Dick King-Smith London Manners Aliki London I Want to be on TV Penny Speller London How the World Works David Thorpe London Paper Bird Maretha Maartens London The Year I was Born 1983 S. Tagholm (ed) London The Empty Island Roger Smith London The Much Better Story Book Jane Asher (foreword) compiled in aid of Westminster Children's Hospital