Social Welfare & Social Services

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the multiple meanings of empowerment. Rather than seeking to define and critique this term, ...

The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Throughou...

Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals over the last two decades in the face of an intensification o...

Sociological social work is a lifelong social work practice which is animated by a sociological perspective. Social workers 'shorthand' orientation...

First published in 1975, this book compiles a number of studies concerning institutional care and children, which address the question of why insti...

Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness offers a comprehensive look at family housing distress related to the homelessness epidemic in the United Sta...

This title was first published in 2000: The second edition of Social Work as Community Development is thoroughly revised and updated taking into ac...

In the UK the number of people who came from a minority ethnic group grew by 53 per cent between 1991 and 2001, from 3.0 million in 1991 to 4.6 mil...

Child sexual abuse by clergy within the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a social and political discourse over the last three decades. The anal...

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a rang...

Evaluation Cultures draws upon a sample of reflections, drawn from organizational practices, nationally centered political cultures, and ethnic cul...

This title was first published in 2001. Making decisions about the care and protection of children who appear before the courts is complex. Attenti...

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide a...

A comprehensive guide to social work praxis, this book provides a clear conceptual understanding of fieldwork supervision in India. It elaborates o...

Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare critically reviews the concepts of egoism and altruism as they are expressed in residual and intu...

Welfare state professionals decide or establish premises as to whom will receive what, in what manner, when and how much, and when enough is enough...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System presents an overview of the criminal justice system for social workers, exploring the networks ...

The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments a...

Originally published in 2005. The primary focus of this work is the relationship between family, work and the welfare system. Focusing on Denmark, ...

All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book f...

In this volume, Lena Sommestad explores the significance of rural womanhood in the formation of Swedens gender-egalitarian welfare state in the ear...

The European Unions (EU) fundamental principles on free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of ...

This book aims at uncovering the politics behind the provision of US foreign aid to Pakistan during three distinctive periods: the Cold War, the po...