Social Welfare & Social Services

Healing the Hospital Environment identifies why many healthcare premises do not look or feel welcoming and why even well-intentioned efforts to mak...

Remaking Social Work with Children and Families provides a sustained examination of the 'modernisation' of this area of social care. It analyses so...

The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current ...

Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and ...

The twentieth-century “Mexican Miracle,” which solidified the dominant position of the PRI, has been well documented. A part of the PRI’s success s...

In Fostering Autonomy, Elizabeth Ben-Ishai explores the role of the state in fostering autonomy in vulnerable citizens—such as people who are addic...

This title covers sex, gender, charity and class in Victorian Britain. This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public w...

James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan, in 2007. The newest Médicins Sans Frontières' doctor in the field, he arrived...

Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major...

Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to: visiting project sites i...

Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies reports the findings of an empirical study of drug users in London, Amsterdam, Turin, Pragu...

The first wave of neoliberal reform that swept across Latin America in the early 1990s focused on economic policies favoring structural adjustment,...

The workings of multi-level governance -- institutional choices concerning centralisation, decentralisation and subsidiarity -- are widely debated ...

This book offers the first systematic assessment of income redistribution in Eastern Europe, within a comparative European perspective, and it demo...

This volume provides an in-depth look at the people who staff assisted living facilities, the tasks they perform, and the environments in which the...

There has been exponential growth in use of the Internet to deliver therapeutic and supportive human services. Online interventions are known by a ...

This book describes and quantifies the major socioeconomic changes that have occurred in four new member states of the EU (Slovenia, Hungary, Roman...

The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, is the first international agreement tha...

Well-Being of Older People in Ageing Societies poses answers to the question of how we can measure and conceptualize the well-being of older people...

This book is about the ways digital technology can contribute to the welfare of older people. The Internet, mobile phones and other technologies ha...

For much of the twentieth century, professional social work sought to distance itself from its religious origins with the consequence being that th...

The first wave of neoliberal reform that swept across Latin America in the early 1990s focused on economic policies favoring structural adjustment,...

Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in welfare state...

Very little is known about why and when African American elders seek formal long-term care, or about the characteristics of assisted living environ...