Social Welfare & Social Services

Generalist Social Work Practice provides students with the foundational skills and knowledge needed to serve clients across micro, mezzo and macro ...

Photovoice for Social Justice, the latest volume in SAGEs Qualitative Research Methods Series, helps readers in the health and social sciences lear...

Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of adve...

How do you uncomplicate the subject of program evaluation for students without being too simplistic? David Royse focuses on what readers really nee...

The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century B...

The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood...

In the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression...

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobss ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobss First ...

The book is an in-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, f...

Excel in Adult Care with the ideal companion for the Level 2 Diploma, published in association with City & Guilds and written by expert author,...

When we allow ourselves to embrace both ordinary and extraordinary experiences, we can feel the divine anywhere.No matter where we areon a walk in ...

With contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the expe...

Child Protection in the Church investigates whether, amidst publicised promises of change from church institutions and the introduction of safe chu...

This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal...

This volume explores questions about narrative frameworks in disability research. Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form i...

As the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent....

The field of geriatric rehabilitation is constantly changing due to the discovery of new evidence-based evaluation and treatment strategies, as wel...

A guide to enable social work practice educators to be more creative in the teaching, supervision and assessment of students. Practice educators, ...

In a time of increasing social and economic inequality, this book illustrates the precarity experienced by millennials facing both rising rents and...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book...

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by chall...