Social Work

This is a superbly practical book about group treatment for adults who suffered childhood trauma. It reminds us that physical abuse and sexual abus...

The fourth edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work continues to teach students to apply micro, macro, and mezzo social work skills. This ...

This essential text presents a "task-centered" methodology-a structured, short-term problem-solving approach-applicable across systems at five leve...

This is a superbly practical book about group treatment for adults who suffered childhood trauma. It reminds us that physical abuse and sexual abus...

The Handbook of Psychology for Forensic Practioners discusses some of the ways in which psychological research and methods can be applied by a wide...

Answers to Questions Most Frequently Asked About Organization Development is a compact, practical book for students and managers who want an overvi...

It is vital for social work students and practitioners to understand the complexities of the youth justice system. This fully revised second editio...

Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sex...

This well-written book covers both practical aspects of investigation and the theoretical underpinnings. Starting with ideas for team building, the...

This book offers a new approach to help students to understand problematic substance use across a range of social work practice settings. Written f...

Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sex...

Childrens Services: Working Together brings together contributions from a number of authors in the field. The book covers policy, theory, research ...

By age 30, between 68 and 75 percent of young men in the United States, with only a high school degree or less, are fathers. This volume provides p...

Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in commu...

First published in 1997, this timely examination of allowances paid to foster carers demonstrates clear evidence that the nature of foster care is ...

"This is a key text that provides a well-rounded introduction to anti-discriminatory social work, placing this underpinning concept within the cont...

Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It demonstrates how gender-...

Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the...

"The timing of the publication with the revised Working Together guidelines could not be more advantageous. This book is a unique and important con...

Originally published in 1989, Self Help in Health and Social Welfare looks at the current World Health Organization policy that encourages self-hel...

For over a decade and with the best of intentions, the U.K. government has spent millions attempting, but largely failing, to improve personal, soc...

Performance Evaluation in the Human Services is a practical, specific book for managers on how to conduct performance evaluations. The book moves b...

First published in 1998, this is the first definitive text on single-case evaluation in Britain. This is a method of evaluation research which enab...

"The timing of the publication with the revised Working Together guidelines could not be more advantageous. This book is a unique and important con...

This book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a significant need for the use of empiric...

Originally published in 1965, Professor Marjorie Smith’s classic little book traces the story of professional education for social workers in this ...

Kinship care is part tradition and part social welfare policy. Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care examines the balance of the two pe...

This book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood. It provides an exa...

Find out how evaluators, mediators, and judges deal with the issues of relocation in divorced familiesIn the past, the relocation of a parent or ch...

This book analyses the types of and possibilities for care in social work with families in situations where evidence-based programmes, standardised...

This book is an important tool for any mediator who works with divorce and couples in understanding the impact domestic violence can have on the me...

This essential guide to commissioning and purchasing in social care provides case studies, guidelines, and checklists to help readers to assess nee...

"The Columbia University School of Social Work: A Centennial Celebration" covers the full 100-year history of one of the premier schools of social ...

What is environmental justice? Why is it important to social work? Social work has a long history with the term "environment" as part of our guidin...