Social Welfare & Social Services

Every day ten thousand baby boomers turn 65, and by 2030 more than 20% of US residents will be 65 or older. Mental health professionals must become...

Disciplining the Poor lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governa...

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opp...

This book examines how the rapid acceleration and interconnection of globalization comes with the need for more flexible and adaptable solutions to...

Coming from a working-class background, Paul Besley knew the worst and best of life in a Yorkshire steel town. He had always been drawn to the soli...

This open access book unveils the hidden elite of Italy's third sector, offering a rare glimpse into the lives and minds of civil society's most in...

This important book introduces the basics of prenatal psychology and works through the current scientific findings in the psychology and psychosoma...

In the first edition of A Country Called Prison, Mary Looman and John Carl presented persuasive data calling for downsizing of America's prisons. T...

This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage...

Social policy, as executed in western civilization, is apparently at a crossroads, with forgotten contradictions between the rich and the poor havi...

Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice w...