Social Welfare & Social Services

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds is an essential human behavior textbook for social work students....

First published in 1998. This is Volume I, of seven in the Sociology of Mental Health series. This is a study of the work and effects of the psychi...

'This book is valuable for and beyond the international development industry. It deftly leads a non-specialist through the maze of ideas and argume...

Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation—the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls ...

Group work is a popular and widely used social work method. Focusing particularly on the central role of mutual aid in effective group work, this t...

Hilary Weaver has drawn together leading Native American social workers, researchers, and academics to provide current information on a variety of ...

'Essential reading... A horrifying account of the worst that human beings can do to each other. Neil Belton's synthesis of biography and history is...

First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of an eighteen volume library of Sociology on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work and includes a st...

Hilary Weaver has drawn together leading Native American social workers, researchers, and academics to provide current information on a variety of ...

This is Volume III of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1964, this is a study of policy; of why a...

First Published in 1998. This book is concerned with the development of social security in the United Kingdom and is aimed mainly at social science...

While much has been written about the problematic behaviour of young people and their families, there has been silence on the problem of young peop...

Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our trou...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialog...

First published in 1967. Part of the International Library of Sociology collection, this is a study on 'Adopted Children' a volume of the Sociology...

This is Volume II of seven in a collection on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1955, this study presents the social history...

Assessing and managing risk is a daily challenge for social workers. Working with risk can be anxiety provoking and demanding, requiring great skil...

The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their ...

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000. In the th...

This work explains the causes of social policy reform in Chile and Uruguay in the areas of health care, pensions and education. Until the 1970s, Ch...

Enables workplace responders to prepare for and respond to falls from height How do you rescue someone suspended in midair or trapped above ground?...

Social Problems and Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based explanations of complex social problems. Written in clear and understandabl...

Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodolog...