Saul Becker
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British academic and social scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Saul Becker is a British academic and social scientist renowned for his work on Young Carers and considered as the pioneer and world leader in the field. He is author of author and editor of 18 books, including Young Carers and their families and Responding to Poverty. He is currently the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the Faculty of Health and Education of Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Published Works
- Quality Criteria for Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: A View from Social Policy (2008) (352)
- Global Perspectives on Children’s Unpaid Caregiving in the Family (2007) (267)
- The debate about quantitative and qualitative research (2012) (262)
- Children caring for parents with mental illness: Perspectives of young carers, parents and professionals (2003) (187)
- Children Who Care: Inside the World of Young Carers (1993) (163)
- Understanding research for social policy and practice : themes, methods and approaches (2004) (147)
- Young carers in the UK: the 2004 report (2004) (129)
- Social and therapeutic horticulture: evidence and messages from research (2003) (124)
- Children as carers: the impact of parental illness and disability on children's caring roles (1999) (122)
- Understanding research for social policy and social work: themes, methods and approaches, 2nd edition (2012) (119)
- A cross-national and comparative classification of in-country awareness and policy responses to ‘young carers’ (2017) (99)
- Integrating quantitative and qualitative research (2004) (97)
- Young adult carers in the UK: Experiences, needs and services for carers aged 16-24 (2008) (87)
- Assessment of caring and its effects in young people: development of the Multidimensional Assessment of Caring Activities Checklist (MACA-YC18) and the Positive and Negative Outcomes of Caring Questionnaire (PANOC-YC20) for young carers. (2009) (87)
- Health, well-being and social inclusion: Therapeutic horticulture in the UK (2005) (78)
- Young carers and their families (1998) (73)
- Young Carers in the UK (2004) (72)
- Young Carers Research, Practice and Policy: An Overview and Critical Perspective on Possible Future Directions (2019) (71)
- Responding to Poverty: The Politics of Cash and Care (1997) (68)
- Children as carers. (1993) (51)
- Think Family: A Literature Review of Whole Family Approaches (2008) (51)
- Children Caring for Parents with HIV and AIDS (2009) (50)
- Research, policy and practice (2004) (48)
- Punishing Children for Caring: The Hidden Cost of Young Carers (2007) (48)
- Adult carers quality of life questionnaire (AC-QoL): development of an evidence-based tool (2012) (45)
- Police Force, Police Service: Care and Control in Britain (1994) (43)
- My Child, My Carer: The Parents' Perspective (1993) (41)
- Counting Young Carers in Switzerland - A Study of Prevalence (2018) (41)
- Young Adult Carers: The Impact of Caring on Health and Education (2018) (39)
- Children with ill parents: extent and nature of caring activities (2018) (38)
- Young carers in England: Findings from the 2018 BBC survey on the prevalence and nature of caring among young people. (2019) (37)
- Young Carers in the United Kingdom: A Profile (1998) (37)
- Manual for measures of caring activities and outcomes for children and young people (2012) (33)
- Young carers in their own words (2000) (33)
- Approaches and methods (2012) (33)
- Young carers in Europe: an exploratory cross-national study in Britain, France, Sweden and Germany (1995) (32)
- Defining 'Quality' in Social Policy Research: Views, Perceptions and a Framework for Discussion (2006) (29)
- Disability rights and the denial of young carers (1996) (28)
- Police Force, Police Service (1994) (27)
- Young adult carers at school: experiences and perceptions of caring and education (2013) (24)
- Children Caring for Parents with Mental Illness (2003) (24)
- Outcomes for children who care for a parent with a severe illness or substance abuse (2018) (22)
- Young carers in the UK: research, policy and practice (2000) (20)
- Caring in mind? Professionals' awareness of young carers and young adult carers in Switzerland. (2020) (20)
- Service needs and delivery following the onset of caring amongst children and young adults: evidenced based review (2008) (18)
- Young carers: needs, rights and assessments (2000) (17)
- Children's labour of love? Young carers and care work (2001) (17)
- The experiences of young carers in the UK: the mental health issues (1999) (16)
- The quality of research evidence in social policy: consensus and dissension among researchers (2007) (16)
- Hidden young carers: the experiences, needs and resilience of children caring for parents and relatives with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania and the UK: stakeholder report (2007) (15)
- Young adult carers at college and university (2014) (15)
- Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Research (2012) (15)
- Growing up caring: young carers and vulnerability to social exclusion (2005) (13)
- Advocates, Agnostics and Adversaries: Researchers’ Perceptions of Service User Involvement in Social Policy Research (2010) (12)
- Children who care: a case for nursing intervention? (1995) (12)
- Evidence and other ways of knowing (2012) (12)
- Carers and indicators of vulnerability to social exclusion (2000) (12)
- The 2021 cross-national and comparative classification of in-country awareness and policy responses to ‘young carers’ (2022) (11)
- Prevention and intervention: young carers and their families (1997) (11)
- Informal family carers (2008) (11)
- Partners in caring: a briefing for professionals about young carers. (1997) (10)
- Public issues: private pain, poverty, social work and social policy (1988) (9)
- 'Security for those who cannot': Labour's neglected welfare principle (2003) (9)
- Young adult carers and employment (2014) (9)
- Growing together: A practice guide to promoting social inclusion through gardening and horticulture (2005) (8)
- The first cross-national study of adolescent young carers aged 15–17 in six European countries (2022) (8)
- Children who care: rights and wrongs in debate and policy on young carers (2001) (8)
- New poor clients: social work, poverty and the social fund (1990) (8)
- The debate about quantitative and qualitative (2004) (8)
- We’re in this together: Conversations with families in caring relationships (1999) (8)
- Study protocol: young carers and young adult carers in Switzerland (2018) (7)
- Protecting young carers: legislative tensions and opportunities in Britain (1997) (7)
- Children in care, children who care: parental illness and disability and the child care system (1997) (6)
- In touch with the earth. (2005) (6)
- The Matrix of Care and Control (1994) (6)
- Young carers in Southwark: the hidden face of community care (1996) (6)
- Sheffield Young Carers Project: An Evaluation (1998) (5)
- The nature of quantitative and qualitative research (2004) (5)
- Listening to children: meeting the needs of young carers (2000) (5)
- Assessing caring activities in French adolescents and young adults: Relevance of the Multidimension Assessment of Caring Activities for Young Carers (MACA-YC18). (2022) (5)
- Sheffield Young Carers Project: an evaluation - interim report April 1997 September 1998 (1998) (4)
- A friend indeed: the case for befriending young carers (1994) (4)
- Introduction: Force is Part of the Service (1994) (4)
- Windows of Opportunity: Public Policy and the Poor (1991) (4)
- Missing persons and missing helpers: young carers, the family and the faith community. (1995) (4)
- Comparing Children’s Care Work Across Majority and Minority Worlds (2018) (4)
- Meeting Young Carers' Needs: An Evaluation of Sheffield Young Carers Project (2000) (4)
- Life beyond work? Safety nets and "security for those who cannot" work (2009) (3)
- Befriending young carers: a pilot study (1996) (3)
- Defining 'quality' in social policy research (2006) (3)
- Conducting a literature review (2012) (2)
- The capital carers: an evaluation of capital carers young carers project (1999) (2)
- Some local authority approaches to poverty (1987) (2)
- Mapping therapeutic services and approaches in Nottingham City secondary schools (2004) (2)
- Young carers projects: what do CCFR evaluation reports tell us about dedicated projects for young carers? (2002) (2)
- Improving behavior through therapeutic approaches: research into practice in Nottingham city learning support units (2004) (2)
- Poverty and social welfare (1996) (2)
- Research and Innovation for and with Adolescent Young Carers to Influence Policy and Practice—The European Union Funded “ME-WE” Project (2022) (2)
- Ready and able? Professional awareness and responses to young carers in Switzerland (2021) (2)
- How professional support for young carers benefits from a salutogenic approach (2021) (1)
- Research design: an overview (2004) (1)
- Geoff Fimister, Welfare Rights Work in Social Services , Macmillan, London, 1986. x + 166 pp. £15.00, paper £5.95. (1987) (1)
- Therapeutic approaches in LSUs: from research to practice (2004) (1)
- Overview of the main research methods and sources of data in qualitative social policy and social work research (2012) (1)
- Children’s experiences of caring for parents with severe and enduring mental illness (2003) (1)
- The role and responsibilities of professionals: services and support for young carers and parents with mental illness (2003) (1)
- Evidence and knowledge (2004) (1)
- Crossroads: getting it right for young carers (1996) (1)
- Research Note: Poor Clients (1986) (1)
- Being prepared: managing particular research methods (2012) (1)
- Parental mental illness and young caring: research and prevalence (2003) (1)
- Personal Social Services (1992) (1)
- Methods and approaches in social policy research (2008) (1)
- Conclusions: a new agenda (1991) (1)
- Analysing qualitative data: an overview (2012) (1)
- Young carers in Europe: a comparative perspective (1995) (1)
- Cross-sectional design and longitudinal design (2004) (1)
- Young carers and public policy (2005) (1)
- The Princess Royal Trust for Carers/Comic Relief Young Carers grants programme 2008-2011 : Final evaluation report (2011) (1)
- Emergency schemes for carers in Britain: results of a national survey (2011) (0)
- Writing a literature review (2004) (0)
- Managing particular research methods (2004) (0)
- Social worker's attitudes to poverty and the poor (1987) (0)
- Dissemination as part of the research process (2004) (0)
- Building a community strengths: facilitating dementia (2017) (0)
- Statistical profile of young carers (2002) (0)
- Carers’ assessments in Coventry: content, process and outcomes (2007) (0)
- Researching poverty amongst users of social work services (1986) (0)
- Resilience and impacts of care work for individual young people and their families (2009) (0)
- The conduct and management of research: ethics and rigour (2012) (0)
- Dissemination and knowledge transfer as part of the research process (2012) (0)
- Living with HIV and the effects on family life: parents’ narratives (2009) (0)
- Whole Family Approaches: a review for the Social Exclusion Task Force (2007) (0)
- Global and local processes influencing young people’s caring roles in families affected by HIV and AIDS (2009) (0)
- An A-Z therapeutic approaches of pupils with challenging behavior: a review of research evidence on "what works" in secondary schools (2004) (0)
- [Introduction] From enterprise to opportunity (1991) (0)
- Formulating research ideas (2004) (0)
- Reflexivity, methodology and ethics: the research process (2009) (0)
- Using the published literature to understand social policy issues (2004) (0)
- Towards a systemic approach: ways forward and conclusions (2003) (0)
- Researching social policy (2016) (0)
- Adult Carers Quality of Life Questionnaire (2018) (0)
- Young carers in Great Britain: a literature of omission (1995) (0)
- Modelling the research process (2012) (0)
- Recruitment of Adolescent Young Carers to a Psychosocial Support Intervention Study in Six European Countries: Lessons Learned from the ME-WE Project (2023) (0)
- Children’s and young people’s caring responsibilities within the family (2009) (0)
- [Introduction] Public issues: private pain, poverty, social work and social policy (1988) (0)
- Learning support units and the therapeutic approaches project in Nottingham (2004) (0)
- Policy-oriented research (2004) (0)
- Adolescent young caregivers of older, sick or disabled family members : evidence from the ‘ME-WE’ European project online survey in Italy (2019) (0)
- [Foreword] Understanding the finance welfare: what welfare costs and how to pay for it (2003) (0)
- Children with ill parents: positive and negative outcomes of caring activities (2019) (0)
- HIV and the family. (1994) (0)
- The Oldest Well (2006) (0)
- [Foreword] Understanding social security: issues for policy and practice (2003) (0)
- Modelling the policy research process (2004) (0)
- Children’s and young people’s care work in households affected by HIV and AIDS (2009) (0)
- Resilience and impacts of young people’s care work within the school and wider community (2009) (0)
- [Introduction] Young carers in Europe: an exploratory cross-national study in Britain, France, Sweden and Germany (1995) (0)
- Social Policy Review 12, edited by Hartley Dean, Robert Sykes and Roberta Woods, Newcastle, Social Policy Association, 2000, 370 pp., ISBN 1 903395 01 1, £13.00. (2001) (0)
- What research criteria should we use to judge whether a therapeutic intervention is effective (2004) (0)
- Guidance on what is meant by, and how to recognize, "challenging behavior" and "emotional and behavioural difficulties" (2004) (0)
- Responding to the support needs of children and young people caring for parents with HIV (2009) (0)
- Codes of ethics (2004) (0)
- The role of formal safety nets in building children’s and families’ resilience (2009) (0)
- Overview of methods for collecting and coding quantitative data (2012) (0)
- Evaluating sources for a literature review (2004) (0)
- Caught in the caring trap: the health of children who care (1996) (0)
- Ten questions to inform dissemination and knowledge transfer (2012) (0)
- Ten questions to inform dissemination (2004) (0)
- Making an impact (2012) (0)
- For love, not money: children's unpaid care work in modern Britain (2010) (0)
- Nottinghamshire carers' breaks demonstrator site 2009-2011 (2011) (0)
- Care and the community (1994) (0)
- Parents with mental illness (2000) (0)
- The effects of mental illness on parents and relationships with their children (2003) (0)
- Visibility as a Key Dimension to Better Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health: Results of the European Union Funded “ME-WE” Online Survey Study on Adolescent Young Carers in Switzerland (2023) (0)
- Evidence-based policy and practice (2012) (0)
- Comic Relief and the Princess Royal Trust for Carers young carers grants programme 2006-10 : final evaluation report (2009) (0)
- The effective management of policy research (2004) (0)
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