Social Welfare & Social Services

The thoroughly updated third edition of Strong Helpers' Teachings skillfully illustrates the importance of Indigenous knowledges in the human servi...

'This detailed and informative textbook's articulate, precise and accessible style allows students to grasp the basics of social work law. As such,...

This book offers a personal insight into the experience of Alex Jelly, a professional fundraiser who developed a rare brain tumour, a papillary men...

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly sha...

The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health c...

'Sometimes, a person's brain gets sick with a disease called dementia.'What does dementia do to the brain? What changes might we notice if a parent...

This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critica...

When youre new to the fire service, you always assume that your careers momentous events will center around raging fires and dramatic rescues. This...

A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Tru...

A powerful and honest account based on three decades of true-life experienceIn 1992, Linda and David long to have a child. They decide to adopt a b...

Dieses Buch bietet eine vergleichende Untersuchung islamischer Wohlfahrtsaktivitäten in städtischen Gebieten sowohl in der Schweiz als auch in Ital...

The definitive Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice brings together the work of leading international trauma experts to provide a detailed ov...

Resources designed to support learners of the 2010 BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care specification. Grading tips accompany each assess...

In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins i...

Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunis...

Radicalisation, Extremism and Social Work Practice is the first book to explore cultural identity, acculturation and perceived discrimination of Mu...

A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated in...

Written by researchers and experienced health professionals from Hong Kong, China, Chiu and Law identify and examine important issues of healthy ag...

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the worlds largest p...

This book identifies specific changes to bring U.S. social policy in accord with the Information Age of the 21st century, in contrast to the policy...

This book will help prepare the reader to work across disabilities by providing knowledge and training grounded within the ecological framework in ...

This text infuses the field of social work with dynamic and evidence-based active learning, offering fresh ideas to increase students abilities to ...

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the mai...

Residential care and treatment for children and youth remain ubiquitous across Canada in spite of frequent critiques and an ideology of constructin...

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go...

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go...

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state in...