Social Welfare & Social Services

This book aims to open up discussion of research findings on ageing issues in Malaysia. The increasing ageing population is an issue across all nat...

With Lupus affecting more than 1.5 million Americans, predominantly women of childbearing age, there are many complex psychosocial challenges for t...

Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma. While oppression is an aspect of traumatic condit...

Jim Wallis, well-known justice advocate and author, has stated that the two great hungers in the world today are for spirituality and social justic...

The tenth instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children paperback series. A young girls life is shadowed by secrets and lies...When Willow arrives...

This is an Open Access book. The international political economy is confronted by a number of overlapping crises. These include the climate emergen...

This Handbook presents thorough literature reviews and detailed analyses on the development of Chinas social sciences research since the reform and...

This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that...

This edited volume covers issues related to educational research and practices for early childhood education and care (ECEC), highlighting interpro...

Though the words foster care are not in the Bible, the act of caring for the vulnerable is clearly important to God. Perhaps nowhere is that kind o...

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the social determinants of mental health and enhances our understanding of their impact on the de...

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across mul...

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across mul...

This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives. It focuses ...

This open access book examines disenfranchisement and voting barriers in ten self-governing and aspiring liberal democracies worldwide, before and ...

As governments struggle to adapt half-century-old income and social support programs to new needs and realities, some are calling for the introduct...

Get the Social Security benefits you've earned In the newly updated Social Security For Dummies, you'll find all the basics on Social Security, plu...

Accessible and affordable housing can enable community living, maximize independence, and promote health for vulnerable populations. However, the U...

A provocative critique of transnational, trans-racial adoption from a critical race and feminist perspective and a vision for reform

This book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particu...

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with ...

This popular and accessible introduction to mental health is written for students, mental health practitioners and non-qualified professionals. F...

Reflective Practice in Mental Health is the authoritative, definitive guide to psycho-social theory and practice in mental health.Featuring contrib...

What makes children happy, confident and successful? How can you help a child to flourish? Their environment is important, but the real difference ...

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

First Published in 1967, An Introduction to Administration for Social Workers argues that the tasks of social workers in our society cannot be unde...

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

How do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child? Do you k...

Kinship care the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that ...

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison Wandswo...

Originally published in 1961, when delinquency and its cure constituted one of the gravest problems facing modern society. The term delinquent had ...