Social Welfare & Social Services

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...

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

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world. ...

This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from diff...

This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from diff...

This open access handbook synthesizes the current research about the impacts of digital media on children across development. Drawing on the expert...

First Published in 1975, Use of Groups in Social Work Practice seeks to encourage caseworkers to use groups as an integral part of their profession...

The Pharmacy is an extended exploration of family, loss, and the indignities of British medical institutions. Building a landscape that is at once ...

Full of evidence-based, easy to understand information about CHD, Healing Hearts and Minds offers strategies for learning to thrive despite living ...

This book offers a comprehensive examination of trust and its relationship with mental illness and wellbeing.Engaging with a broad range of mental ...

This book offers a comprehensive examination of trust and its relationship with mental illness and wellbeing.Engaging with a broad range of mental ...

This book is a comprehensive study of the intersection of religion, Indigenous culture, and community life, featuring an in-depth examination of th...

One in five adults and one in six youth experience a mental health illness within a year. These common conditions are often managed within complex ...

This book provides an in-depth examination of how Filipina mothers, serving as migrant caregivers, and their children navigate the experiences of f...

The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western...

This trusted, authoritative reference for mental health clinicians and students is now in a thoroughly revised third edition. Using vivid case scen...

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughou...

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. Thi...

This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than from the perspective of car...

How can clinicians help vulnerable young families overcome barriers to secure, reciprocal, and joyful parentinfant relationships? This book provide...

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceResponsibilitywhich once meant the moral duty to help and support othershas come to be equated with an o...

This highly accessible book presents a new approach to treating men who use violence against their partners and/or children. The Fathers for Change...

This highly accessible book presents a new approach to treating men who use violence against their partners and/or children. The Fathers for Change...

The ambition of the Scottish Government is to create a wealthier and fairer nation. Following the devolution acts of 1998, 2012 and 2016, it has ex...

Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around t...

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every ...

Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare brings together an international group of artists, activists and scholars to explore precarity in th...

The rapid trend of globalization has brought with it a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, biodiversity loss, po...