Social Welfare & Social Services

This book examines key sociological theories that have contributed to the understanding of the nature of social work, its organisation and delivery...

Field Education: Creating Successful Placements introduces students to the experiences of those involved in social work field education placements ...

Elaine Aspinwall-Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Social Care at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is a qualified social worker and wa...

Elaine Aspinwall-Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Social Care at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is a qualified social worker and wa...

Families, in whatever form they may take, are at the center of all our lives. In the absence of a comprehensive national family policy, any policy ...

What shapes human behavior? Christopher Hudson approaches this conundrum with an outstanding grasp of the theoretical underpinnings of the human se...

Using forty years of evidence-based research as its core, Family Engagement with Education: Strategies for School Social Workers and Educators is t...

Assessment and Intervention with Mothers and Partners Following Child Sexual Abuse provides child protection professionals with the guidance they n...

The first year of practice can be a particularly daunting and challenging time for newly-qualified social workers (NQSWs). This fully revised and u...

The first year of practice can be a particularly daunting and challenging time for newly-qualified social workers (NQSWs). This fully revised and u...

Understanding the way in which individuals develop before birth, as babies, children and adolescents through to young and older adulthood towards d...

All social work students must undertake Practice Placements in the second and final years of their programme and the placement is a crucial area of...

Service users often say that the traits they most value in social workers are their ability to be non-judgmental, their listening skills and their ...

Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, an...

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with ...