Social Work

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...

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of...

This title was first published in 2001. Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers responses ...

This title was first published in 2002: Throughout the book reflexive accounts of practice gathered from qualitative research in four different typ...

This title was first published in 2003.Funding for pupils with special educational needs has created resource management difficulties for schools a...

This title was first published in 2000: Equity and Efficiency Policy provides a completely new perspective on post-reform community care, analyzes ...

This title was first published in 2000: Caring for Older People provides a unique insight into the world of community care in the 1990s. It present...

The terms wellbeing, empowerment and agency are common parlance in policy and practice with children, young people and families (CYPF), yet are oft...

This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards gl...

This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political ...

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of ...

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity. As transitional healthcare be...

Global Social Work: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries is a collection of ideas, debates and reflections on key issues concerning social work as...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...