Social Welfare & Social Services

The world of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has dramatically changed during the last two decades. The author critically analy...

This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised,is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with childr...

With a focus on how to improve the effectiveness and cultural competence of clinical services and research, this authoritative volume synthesizes c...

Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta...

Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta...

Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book sh...

This acclaimed work--now in an extensively revised second edition--provides an up-to-date conceptual framework and hands-on strategies for cultural...

The essential guide to managing senior living communitiesnow updated!Senior Living Communities has long been considered the most comprehensive guid...

As the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has incre...

As the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has incre...

Metropolitan Detroit is America's most segregated metropolitan area, but amidst segregation, there is also growing diversity, including increasing ...

Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various globa...

This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment, today. It draws on HIV-positive peo...

The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant s...

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminati...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging interplay that runs between energy seen as a basic need and a providential material se...

This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Sou...

The first workbook written for individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength and resiliency-based re...

A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted co...

This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Po...

What is a 'we' a collective and how can we use such communal self-knowledge to help people? This book is about collectivity, participation, and sub...

An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained...

This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child sponsorship practi...

This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to regulation, rights and redistrib...