Social Welfare & Social Services

This book aims to open up discussion of research findings on ageing issues in Malaysia. The increasing ageing population is an issue across all nat...

With Lupus affecting more than 1.5 million Americans, predominantly women of childbearing age, there are many complex psychosocial challenges for t...

Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma. While oppression is an aspect of traumatic condit...

Jim Wallis, well-known justice advocate and author, has stated that the two great hungers in the world today are for spirituality and social justic...

The tenth instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children paperback series. A young girls life is shadowed by secrets and lies...When Willow arrives...

This is an Open Access book. The international political economy is confronted by a number of overlapping crises. These include the climate emergen...

This Handbook presents thorough literature reviews and detailed analyses on the development of Chinas social sciences research since the reform and...

This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that...

This edited volume covers issues related to educational research and practices for early childhood education and care (ECEC), highlighting interpro...

Though the words foster care are not in the Bible, the act of caring for the vulnerable is clearly important to God. Perhaps nowhere is that kind o...

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the social determinants of mental health and enhances our understanding of their impact on the de...

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across mul...

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across mul...

This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives. It focuses ...

This open access book examines disenfranchisement and voting barriers in ten self-governing and aspiring liberal democracies worldwide, before and ...