Social Welfare & Social Services

Emergency operations centers (EOCs) are a key component of coordination efforts during incident planning as well as reaction to natural and human-m...

The terms wellbeing, empowerment and agency are common parlance in policy and practice with children, young people and families (CYPF), yet are oft...

Leadership with Impact offers new ways of thinking and approaching complex problems through a conceptual and practical leadership approach founded ...

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and pub...

This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards gl...

This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political ...

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of ...

This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the gen...

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity. As transitional healthcare be...

Global Social Work: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries is a collection of ideas, debates and reflections on key issues concerning social work as...

Adam Ferner's engaging and personal book explores the ethical dimensions of childcare in a world riven by conflict and inequality. He argues that w...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-l...

Sustainability is now a widely spread concept, and much progress has been achieved since the 1970s, when it started to be widely discussed. At pres...

This book brings together scholars based in, or had previously been based in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries, building on their respe...