Social Welfare & Social Services

Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific a...

How do you uncomplicate the subject of program evaluation for students without being too simplistic? David Royse focuses on what readers really nee...

The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century B...

This book outlines the key findings from the ADVOST project and other international projects that examine how educational practitioners have utilis...

The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood...

In the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression...

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobss ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobss First ...

The Holistic Care and Development of Children from Birth to Three provides students and practitioners with the knowledge and understanding they nee...

In-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in the Global South: Brazil, China, India, and South Afric...

This book addresses the concept of parental alienation the belief that when a child of divorced parents avoids one parent, it may be because the p...

Excel in Adult Care with the ideal companion for the Level 2 Diploma, published in association with City & Guilds and written by expert author,...

When we allow ourselves to embrace both ordinary and extraordinary experiences, we can feel the divine anywhere.No matter where we areon a walk in ...

With contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the expe...

Child Protection in the Church investigates whether, amidst publicised promises of change from church institutions and the introduction of safe chu...

This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal...

This volume explores questions about narrative frameworks in disability research. Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form i...

Emergency managers and public safety professionals are more frequently being called on to address increasingly challenging and complex critical inc...

As the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent....

The field of geriatric rehabilitation is constantly changing due to the discovery of new evidence-based evaluation and treatment strategies, as wel...

A guide to enable social work practice educators to be more creative in the teaching, supervision and assessment of students. Practice educators, ...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organise...

This book explores the lived experience of unemployment from a critical social psychological perspective. It connects the condition of unemployment...

In a time of increasing social and economic inequality, this book illustrates the precarity experienced by millennials facing both rising rents and...

This book takes a strengths-based approach to focus on different aspects of mental health. It summarizes the complex intertwining of illness and cu...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book...

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by chall...

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by chall...

The Islamic Welfare State explains the relationship between government legitimacy, everyday security, and lived Islam in Pakistana major Muslim-maj...

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Li...

Das Studienbuch bietet eine ebenso verständliche wie fachlich fundierte Einführung in Grundlagen der sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Gender-, ...

Current social policy recognises that older people should be treated as experts in their own lives and be actively involved in their care. This boo...

The public inquiry that followed the death of Maria Colwell had profound implications for the developing profession and practice of social work in ...

At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the...

This book focuses on the role mainstream humanitarian organizations have in the functioning of the border management system on the southern Europea...

Radioactive sources such as nuclear power installations can pose a great threat to both humans and our environment. How do we measure, model and re...

This book traces the changing fortunes of radical and critical social work, and examines the theory, context and application of such approaches. Ra...

This concise guide introduces the importance of executive function for social and emotional well-being and effective learning. It clearly explains ...

The third volume in this comprehensive study of social security in the Balkan states. Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a m...

This concise guide introduces the importance of executive function for social and emotional well-being and effective learning. It clearly explains ...

With cross-cultural perspectives from contributors in nine countries, this book showcases much-needed research on current issues around migration a...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

In this timely analysis, Rich Moth assesses mental health services in a period of major change. Based on extended fieldwork in community mental hea...

Bread from Stones, a highly anticipated book from historian Keith David Watenpaugh, breaks new ground in analyzing the theory and practice of moder...