Social Welfare & Social Services

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of prison ecologies a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a product of hu...

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing m...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

This book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and pract...

This book provides an account of parenting support initiatives in children and family services from a number of jurisdictions, paying particular at...

Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the commu...

The steady increase in economic, social, environmental and political hardships experienced by many around the globe has led, in recent years, to a ...

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian soc...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch rückt die Bedeutung von Religion(en) für die Praxis und die Theorie der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe in den Mittelpunkt und frag...

Populations are growing older in a public health climate where brittle public services are struggling to cope with the demands associated with agei...

For anyone studying childhood or families, a consideration of the state may not always seem obvious, yet a good critical knowledge of politics, soc...

Practitioners, organisations and policy makers in health and social care settings are increasingly recognising the need for trauma-informed approac...

Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the P...

This invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a successful career. Actual examples drawn from all arenas of s...

Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and the pandemic have forced over 117 million people to abandon their homes and heritage. Surging push...

This volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver soci...

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline phil...

This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand a...

This book focuses on how to provide social work services for elderly people living in poverty. Divided into eight chapters, the book first outlines...

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for ...

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a therapeutic approach that uses attachment theory to support children and families who have experience...

Four decades ago, faced with a series of economic, political and social crises, business and government leaders in Australia and many other nations...

In diesem Open-Access-Buch entwickelt Julian Sehmer einen Ansatz, mit dem sich die (Re)Produktion von sozialen Normen und ethisch-normativen Ordnun...

Anna Kristina Sailer nimmt auf Basis einer narrativen Analyse die Identitätskonstruktionen junger Erwachsener in der Aktivgesellschaft in den Blick...

This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years. Compiled by leading Korean scholar...

This open access handbook provides the most current overview of the discussion on diversity competence, with a focus on Europe. Diversity competenc...

Child Protection systems across the globe are developing at pace, each reflecting their unique economic, social and cultural contexts. This book ...

This book addresses the critical question of whether social work as an universal discipline is able to respond to new social challenges that arise ...

This edited book was produced through a transnational and transdisciplinary UNESCO Chair Project on Gender and Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduc...

When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details...

This Cambridge Element aims to advance theory by investigating the nature of participation in public service delivery. It situates itself under the...

What contributions can LGBT activists make to eliminating the inequities that drive the HIV epidemic in countries that are hostile to sexual and ge...