Social Welfare & Social Services

This book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood. It provides an exa...

Find out how evaluators, mediators, and judges deal with the issues of relocation in divorced familiesIn the past, the relocation of a parent or ch...

Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues t...

At the heart of every marriage union among the Igbo people of Nigeria is the desire to have one’s own children, preferably male ones who will perpe...

This book analyses the types of and possibilities for care in social work with families in situations where evidence-based programmes, standardised...

This book is an important tool for any mediator who works with divorce and couples in understanding the impact domestic violence can have on the me...

This essential guide to commissioning and purchasing in social care provides case studies, guidelines, and checklists to help readers to assess nee...

"The Columbia University School of Social Work: A Centennial Celebration" covers the full 100-year history of one of the premier schools of social ...

What is environmental justice? Why is it important to social work? Social work has a long history with the term "environment" as part of our guidin...

Women have always played an important, and dominant, role in social work. Originally published in 1975, their special contribution to the professio...

Originally published in 1983 Social Work Values is a sustained enquiry about the present situation of social work. It describes the treatment of so...

Written in a friendly, how-to manner, Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how t...

The image of society is rapidly changing, challenging the social worker to adjust to a more culturally diverse clientele. Social workers are deali...

The world of senior care provision and care work is changing rapidly. Across Europe, brokering agencies for live-in care workers have become powerf...

Combining academic housing specialists, researchers for non-profit housing organizations, and housing practitioners, this collection emanated from ...

Early prevention of child maltreatment is most commonly delivered through home visitation services, with the goal of promoting a positive start in ...

While the EU legitimacy crisis and the Great Recession prevail, certain European Union principles and policies have to be implemented in the member...

Early prevention of child maltreatment is most commonly delivered through home visitation services, with the goal of promoting a positive start in ...

Drawing on the legacy of Paulo Freire and the insights of Antonio Gramsci, this book provides new ways of working with communities which put people...

Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communica...

The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge’s writing over a period of more than four decade...

This book offers a practical and straightforward approach to understanding how the law protects, empowers and regulates young people′s lives. The ...

For centuries, residential child and youth care systems worldwide have provided homes for vulnerable children and adolescents. The implementation o...

This book is an important tool for any mediator who works with divorce and couples in understanding the impact domestic violence can have on the me...

An important study on the impact of poverty on health and the effect of poor health on national economies and human developmentThis is a fascinatin...

Focused and timely. . . . Chapters on special issues highlight marital rape, legal factors, the recovery process, and prevention. Important factual...

Combining academic housing specialists, researchers for non-profit housing organizations, and housing practitioners, this collection emanated from ...

Social Work students often find research an intimidating and complex area of study, with many struggling to understand the core concepts and their ...

A sense of participation and opportunities to share and participate in activities or groups that are important to them are crucial factors in human...

As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand...

A leading African American intellectual, Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885–1954) was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. Jones...

An examination of the dilemmas of integrating America's suburbs

Why are women such prominent workers in the global marketplace? Why do so many perform jobs that involve carework? What political forces have made ...

Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from the author’s many...

Kinship care is part tradition and part social welfare policy. Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care examines the balance of the two pe...

Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state. What happens when natural disasters add to their misery? This book looks at...

This book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a significant need for the use of empiric...

Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be tha...

Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump,...

Learn how gardens and parks can be beneficial to residents Mounting evidence reveals that nature and outdoor environments provide individuals with ...

Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking a...

This book offers a study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and French crime fictions covering a fifty-year period from 1965 to the present, during whic...

Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not...

"Reinventing Cities" emphasizes the extraordinary accomplishments of eleven urban planners who work for the needs of low income and working class p...

Star Trek is an enduring icon in American popular culture. For many viewers, the science fiction series represents the bold exploration of the unkn...

As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand...