Social Welfare & Social Services

Disability and Impairment introduces professionals working with families to the everyday issues faced by disabled people of all ages in family life...

'It is a salutary thing to look back at some of the reforms which have long been an accepted part of our life, and to examine the opposition, usual...

Neighbourhood Houses draws on a five-year study to document and contextualize the neighbourhood house movement in Vancouver. Social disconnection h...

A detailed portrait of ideological consensus and conflict during the period that initiated the long decline of the welfare state.

Men are often invisible in the human services. As clients and as workers, men have largely been ignored in the efforts that have been made to comba...

A study of the politics of health care and unemployment policy at the national level and local level in French cities from the 1880s to 1940.

This book offers the first exploration into the development of social enterprises in the Greater China region, consisting of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiw...

Young people’s participation is an urgent policy and practice concern across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence...

The Four Books in this series; 'Introducing Advocacy', 'Rules and Standards', 'Listen Up!' and 'Advocacy in Action' are comprehensive, informative ...

Seminal essays by a pioneering criminologist, collected for the first time

With 1994 designated the United Nations Year of the Family, young children and their relationship with parents and carers is firmly back on the pol...

The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusio...

Contemporary attachment theory both enriches our understanding of human development and informs clinical practice. Examining the relational bonds b...

Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book written for researchers, students, academics, tec...

Social Security is now the federal government's largest, and probably its most popular, program. It has performed well and grown hugely over the tw...

Americans still build millions of dream houses in neighborhoods that sustain Victorian stereotypes of the home as 'woman's place' and the city as '...

In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse a...

A valuable guide to working with groups for a variety of purposes in the human services. Its distinctive strength is the focus on 'thinking group' ...

Women workers and the revolutionary origins of the modern welfare state In May 1790, the French National Assembly created spinning workshops (ateli...

Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field is a comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work persp...

This book brings together for the first time in a single volume a complete survey of the theoretical foundations of economic aid policies and a cri...

Social exclusion is a subject of major importance in contemporary social work and has been a core feature of social policy developments in the UK a...

The Social Workers' Toolbox aims to bring order to the diversity of tools which are so characteristic of social work: assessment tools, practice to...

A new strategy proposed for producing affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizations

Taking a new and innovative angle on social work, this book seeks to remedy the lack of holistic perspectives currently used in Western social work...

This book deals with the historical relationship between international trade liberalisation – one of the backbones of globalisation – and the devel...

Seminal essays by a pioneering criminologist, collected for the first time

This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disc...

Inclusive Child Development Accounts showcases the global context of emerging asset-building policies and programmes around Child Development Accou...

The experiences of widows and their children during the Progressive Era and the New Deal depended on differences in local economies and values. How...

Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World explores the opportunities and constraints that the dynamics of globalisation present for human dev...

The United Kingdom's Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government 2010–15 was responsible for some of the most radical changes to education p...

What does it mean to be poor in Britain and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused b...

A contemporary look at social work practice and the many career possibilities—with detailed coverage of important new and emerging trends As the pr...

Medical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war period. This textbook documents the historical development and evolution of the m...

Meeting the needs of children at the same time as promoting family life is more than a question of resources: it needs a culture change in social s...

Qualitative synthesis within the family of systematic reviews meets an urgent need to use knowledge derived from qualitative studies to inform prac...

The theme of Daniel Yankelovich's Zetterberg Lecture is timely and urgent: how do societies learn? We know that individuals can learn, but can coll...

The black ghetto is a byproduct of American social policy. It came into being within policies that were adopted - deliberately or inadvertently - a...

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice and education g...

This Handbook provides an authoritative account of international fieldwork education in social work. It presents an overview of advances in researc...

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the recent sh...

When it was originally published in 1986, this was the first book to deal simultaneously with several aspects of social welfare provision in a deve...

Early Child Care is about the very young child--infant, toddler, and early preschool--in today's world. It grew out of a series of conferences spon...

The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities...