Social Welfare & Social Services

Mental health professionals provide better care to their clients when they care for themselves. This acclaimed highly practical guide--now revised ...

Social welfare workers are frequently motivated by a desire to 'work with people', to 'bring about change' or to 'make a difference'. This valuable...

The key to flexible, skillful decision making in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) lies in understanding the connections between moment-to-moment ...

This publication is the result of UN-INSTRAW's research into migration, gender and development, and the organisation's recently launched work in a ...

Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is...

Combines the BTEC teams expertise with former Public Services professionals, verifiers and specification writers to provide an expert in...

Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United...

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. The...

First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything examines the remarkable triumphs of young people considered least likely to attain a coll...

Can there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and...

There are more senior citizens in the U.S. today than ever before. Public services for seniors are rapidly changing and expanding as this divers...

A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient pioneers a radical change in how we interact with older loved ones, especially those experiencing dementia, as s...

Despite their institutional preparation and lived experiences, new school social workers encounter numerous practices, political considerations, co...

This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.Throughout its three part...

This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their agei...

This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their agei...

A New Era in U.S. Health Care demystifies the Affordable Care Act for unfamiliar readers, setting an agenda for lawmakers and the health industry a...

One in every ninety-five people on the planet has been forcibly displaced from their home and our collective response is woefully inadequate. Throu...

Reflecting the latest research and practices, Corey/Corey/Corey's ISSUES AND ETHICS IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS, 11th Edition, helps you discover an...

The first of its kind, this guidebook provides an overview of clinical holistic interventions for mental-health practitioners. Submissions from ...

Social workers encounter politically fraught issues in many aspects of their professional lives. They must make decisions that touch on topics such...