Social Welfare & Social Services

A gentleman called Joan lands in a subdued, suburban care home like a colourful, combustible cocktail. A veteran of Gay Lib, he dons battle dress a...

A dual biography of unruly activism that spans national and racial boundariesDemanding liberation, advocating for the oppressed, and organizing for...

Born in Tayport, Fife, on 5 June 1913, Douglas Young was one of the most charismatic and distinguished Scots of his day. Described by Nigel Tranter...

Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies ...

Adoption has changed hugely in the past few decades. These days, most children placed with adoptive families are not babies; by the time they meet ...

What do we actually mean by attachment? How do different caregiving styles impact attachment in children? How do early caregiving experiences impac...

This book will inspire the next generation of social work and human service practitioners to integrate research into their everyday social justice ...

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes f...

Practitioners working within the people professions have a legal and moral responsibility to promote equality wherever possible. This insightful bo...

This book is based upon experiences from the Stop Youth Suicide Campaign (SYS), a community-based youth suicide prevention program, led by the Di...

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 exposed the severe consequences of breakdowns in emergency comm...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a social insurance program that provides benefits to insured workers under the full retirement age w...

Federal agencies provide a range of assistance to individual victims; state, territorial, and local governments; and non-governmental entities afte...

Societal research has shown that there is a direct correlation between income disparities and health disparities. In other words: the poorer the po...

A diagnosis of dementia can be frightening for those affected by the syndrome, their family members, and caretakers. Alzheimer''s disease (AD) is t...

In any society a small proportion of people with mental disorder present with behaviour that transgresses norms and violates the rights of others. ...

Chris Becketts new book on assessment and intervention in social work practice covers the core topics for qualifying social work students. The book...

This book explores the law relating to the right to liberty of people with mental illness and international human rights standards. It is also a ma...

Socially Just Practice in Groups: A Social Work Perspective comprehensively covers all aspects of group practice in social work settings, integrati...