Social Work

This book sets out the current state of knowledge about what works in reducing impairments to childrens health and development. Little and Maughans...

The growing focus on performance review and monitoring means that awareness and use of performance indicators has increased throughout a number of ...

A robust infrastructure for education and training is vital for the development of an emerging social work education in developing countries. This ...

Suicide and Social Justice unites diverse scholarly and social justice perspectives on the international problem of suicide and suicidal behavior. ...

First published in 1992, this volume responds to the importance of management has been increasingly recognized in the personal social services but ...

This title was first published in 2000: Community care stands as an example of a complex policy, failing to be implemented as intended. Using resea...

This title was first published in 2002. The field of child and youth care is under increasing pressure to optimize its mission: to deliver high qua...

In Philip K. Dicks short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed ...

First published in 1998, this volume represents the outcome of a seminar as part of the continuing efforts of the Convocation of the University of ...

Social Work and Social Welfare: An Invitation is a best-selling text and website for introductory courses in social work. It provides students with...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

This book is a complete guide to Forest School provision and Nature Pedagogy and it examines the models, methods, worldviews and values that underp...

A perennial issue in social work is the lack of clear evidence showing how to be a successful advocate and how to create enthusiasm among students ...

This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation. As well as mediators, this work will be indispensable for practitioners and scholars across...

First published in 1998, this volume responds to child-prostitution being recognised as a major social problem in modern capitalist Taiwan. It is d...

First published in 1999, this book responds to the meaning given to the welfare principle attracts a great deal of controversy and explores the rea...

First published in 1999, this book is based on social policy research, taking a particular view of the nature of social policy, one that focuses on...

First published in 1999, this second edition of Values in Social Work has been extensively revised from the first edition, incorporating new case s...

Originally published in 1983 Social Work Values is a sustained enquiry about the present situation of social work. It describes the treatment of so...

First published in 1998, this insightful volume aims to explore how 90 Indian and African single mothers in 1993 London resolve the dual challenges...

This title was first published in 2000: This book is based on selected papers from a major international congress of the same name that was held at...

Social Work and the Courts is a collection of important and cutting-edge court decisions in the field of human services, now in its third edition. ...

First published in 1999, this volume is a collection of essays focused on the theme of partnership with parents in social work practice with childr...

In its new edition, The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides in-depth understanding of the knowledge, skills, values, and affective and cogn...