Social Welfare & Social Services

The most comprehensive resource to date on the methods of empowerment with lesbian and gay clients, this book explores the history and politics of ...

How can injustice and oppression be overcome and prevented, regardless of who the victims are? What are the meanings, sources, and dynamics of thes...

Almost forty percent of American adults age sixty-five and over spend some time in a nursing home, and residents in nursing homes will be increasin...

How do outside factors affect public administrators' decisions to make changes in their organizations? How do they manage those changes? The Manage...

Since its establishment in 1978 the Center for Family Life has been an integral source of assistance to immigrant families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn...

American social policy today largely serves global corporate interests rather than the general public, according to William Roth. Based on incisive...

American social policy today largely serves global corporate interests rather than the general public, according to William Roth. Based on incisive...

For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The...

Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized adaptations and applications...

Almost forty percent of American adults age sixty-five and over spend some time in a nursing home, and residents in nursing homes will be increasin...

Since its establishment in 1978 the Center for Family Life has been an integral source of assistance to immigrant families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn...

This book is the first to utilize the empowerment approach of social work practice with substance-abusing clients, bridging clinical, community, an...

Can governments do anything right? Can they do anything at all about the problems of poverty and inequality? Despite the recent boom in the U.S. ec...

How can the history of birth weight add to our knowledge of women's living conditions in the past? In this study of newborn weight and economic gro...

This is an analysis of the beneficial effects of community service on the political and moral identity of adolescents. This text uses a case study ...

While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into t...

The history of American gender and sexuality is examined here through a case study of the YMCA, the organization devoted to young men. The social h...

-- The Social Worker

In the United States, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhood...

The Social Security Act of 1935 must be counted among the most monumental pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. Sixty-five years after its...

"Most of us are unaware of child neglect even when we are witnessing it. . . . Neglect is a matter of things undone, of inaction compounded by indi...

"Like the subject about which she writes, Perlman engages the reader immediately, permitting a view into the author's rich and varied experiences, ...

Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or ...

Drawing from their experience as government insiders, George P. Shultz and Kenneth W. Dam show how economic policy is shaped at the highest levels ...

It is often said that the federal government cannot or should not attempt to address America's problems of poverty and inequality—because its burea...

In over sixty years of involvement in social work—as practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and author—Helen Harris Perlman has become all ...

In over sixty years of involvement in social work—as practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and author—Helen Harris Perlman has become all ...

The basic shape of American federal policy in housing as in many other areas, was determined during the New Deal, but not without conflict among mo...

In the United States, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhood...

Why have both Great Britain and the United States been unable to create effective training and work programmes for the unemployed? The author conte...