Social Welfare & Social Services

The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institut...

Elder Abuse and Its Prevention is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Preventi...

Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book examines the relation between two ways of forming familiesthrough nature (by procrea...

At its founding, social workers were human rights defenders who advocated for societal reforms and fought against social exclusion and discriminato...

During recent decades a strong interest has grown in actively involving service users in social work education, research and policy development. Dr...

This book explores contemporary debates on decolonisation and indigenisation of social work in Africa and provides readers with alternative models,...

Social work education has developed internationally over the past 50 years as part of wider processes of economic and cultural globalization. Diver...

Management and Practice in Health and Human Service Organisations is an authoritative, evidence-based, relevant and practical resource for undergra...

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Gefährdung des Körpers von Kindern in Wohlstandsgesellschaften. Die körperliche Unversehrtheit ist ein wichtiger T...

The spread of democracy across the global south has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a system of elect...

Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853 1920, is the first comprehensive examination of a workhouse in the United States, offering a critical his...

This book addresses several fundamental aspects of social work practice. From a qualitative and exploratory perspective, the book analyses pre-prof...

Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring profes...

When a child cannot live with their parent or parents, they may become part of a Kinship Family, cared for by a Kinship Carer, a family member or f...

Discover a geographic approach to defense and intelligence.Mission-Critical Mapping: GIS for Defense and Intelligence explores a collection of real...

This book provides a picture of the abuse of older adults, organized by World Health Region and locating the problem within an areas historic and p...

Es bestand bis heute eine Forschungslücke innerhalb der Staatstätigkeitsforschung, da stets angenommen wurde, dass einzig Regierungsparteien Polici...

Housing has always had a close association with the lives refugees lead in exile and the settlement of refugees is, at its core, a housing issue. R...