Social Welfare & Social Services

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley is a troubled 13-year-old...

With today's availability of Social Security and Medicare, we typically think of the older years as a stage in life where people are supported fina...

Provide your students with a strong and distinctive case study approach which will contextualise key issues with the Student Textbook for BTEC Firs...

This is a welcome contribution that introduces the important aspects of advocacy and social work practice. It will be particularly useful to reader...

For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders ...

This book explains the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families and helps the reader develop their o...

Claire Barcham is a registered social worker with over 20 years experience, including practicing as an ASW/AMHP since 1996 and regularly providing ...

A really positive and timely text, which contributes to the evidence base and prepares and supports the health and social care student for the chal...

Three forms of development finance - aid, remittances, and philanthropy - have the potential to transform the developing world. Individually and co...

'Invisible social security' is a term coined by Jos Berghman in his early work to draw attention to those aspects of social security that easily te...

Some kids get all the breaks. Some dont. This book is about the ones who ended up in prison the ones who had been abused or taken away from their f...

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is p...

Preface This book is written for those who do not yet share a Green world view, but who do have stirrings of unease that we are not looking after t...

Reflective practice is at the heart of becoming a competent and confident social work professional. This book demystifies the reflective process an...

After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and work...

A framework of ethics and values forms the foundation of social workers' professional identities. Ethics and values should shape the way that socia...

Some people have always had to find ways of living with long term conditions such as diabetes or coeliac disease, but as people live longer, increa...

A celebration of the work of Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) in Alberta, this collection of essays describes the agency`s bold new model t...