Social Welfare & Social Services

This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Through working the Twelve Steps and by attending ...

This book weaves together service users' lived experiences of mental health recovery and ideas about how creative activities such as art, music, an...

In a social and political environment that has become more accepting of gender equity, women's health issues have emerged in the forefront of the s...

The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixons daring...

The behaviour and safety of children and young people in and around schools is a topic of world-wide concern. From school shootings and deaths on s...

This book demonstrates that alternative approaches to criminal rehabilitation succeed in developing pro-social attitudes and in improving mental, p...

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argue...

Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts o...

This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms wit...

Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems much less visible in international development. However, this book demonstrates tha...

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...