Social Welfare & Social Services

School cyberbullying, bullying and violence have reached epidemic levels. One in five school students report being bullied. Youth violence results ...

Social work is rooted in the values of service, social justice, and strong interpersonal relationships. But as the profession evolves, so must the ...

Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides innovative concepts and concrete strategies for ushering in an era of dec...

America's incarceration rate was roughly constant from 1925 to 1973, with an average of 110 people behind bars for every 100,000 residents. By 2013...

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many hav...

Private mental health practice is a vibrant and financially rewarding profession. And yet many who consider pursuing this path are misled by falseh...

From the Foreword by Marshall L. Smith: There is so much more to becoming a social work educator than just being prepared to walk into class. Caree...

Executive directors can often feel that the problems they face in working with their board are never ending, every day, and everywhere occurrences....

Pracademics and Community Change: A True Story of Nonprofit Development and Social Entrepreneurship During Welfare Reform presents the single unifi...

Interest in the Cuban health care model has grown over the years and despite ongoing changes in Cuban society, the pride and satisfaction Cuban cit...

A social worker's place within the hierarchy of a nursing home is not always clear, yet the responsibilities are tremendous. Using her almost 20 ye...

Lesbian and Gay Couples is an important addition to the literature on working with same-sex couples. Students and practitioners alike will find the...

Bullying is a rising point of concern in our culture, but a less-recognized aspect of this issue is workplace bullying. Nearly 50 percent of the Un...

What is poverty? Who is at risk? What myths about poverty are pervasive in the United States? This textbook, the first of its kind, explores the c...

Therapeutic Games and Guided Imagery is packed with tools for social workers, counselors, school professionals, students, and other helping profess...

The concept of recovery in mental health represents the radical shift from the reductive ideas of disease and cure to a holistic understanding of t...

Students often cannot relate to master clinicians in interviews, and short video clips appear rehearsed and do not provide much context for underst...

This book has been replaced by Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4698-5.

Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional ...

From leading authorities, this volume presents a unique evidence-based group intervention for the 1015% of children who are challenged by peer diff...

Become an effective case manager with GENERALIST CASE MANAGEMENT: A METHOD OF HUMAN SERVICE DELIVERY! Realistic and relevant, this counseling text ...