Social Welfare & Social Services

As governments struggle to adapt half-century-old income and social support programs to new needs and realities, some are calling for the introduct...

Get the Social Security benefits you've earned In the newly updated Social Security For Dummies, you'll find all the basics on Social Security, plu...

Accessible and affordable housing can enable community living, maximize independence, and promote health for vulnerable populations. However, the U...

A provocative critique of transnational, trans-racial adoption from a critical race and feminist perspective and a vision for reform

This book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particu...

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with ...

This popular and accessible introduction to mental health is written for students, mental health practitioners and non-qualified professionals. F...

Reflective Practice in Mental Health is the authoritative, definitive guide to psycho-social theory and practice in mental health.Featuring contrib...

What makes children happy, confident and successful? How can you help a child to flourish? Their environment is important, but the real difference ...

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

First Published in 1967, An Introduction to Administration for Social Workers argues that the tasks of social workers in our society cannot be unde...

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

How do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child? Do you k...

Kinship care the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that ...

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison Wandswo...

Originally published in 1961, when delinquency and its cure constituted one of the gravest problems facing modern society. The term delinquent had ...