Social Work

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

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...

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

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...

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' ...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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 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...

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...

Developed specifically for the social work degree apprenticeship, this book guides apprentices through the unique requirements of this new qualifyi...

This textbook is both timely and significant when considering the continued significant rates of domestic violence both globally and domestically. ...

This textbook is both timely and significant when considering the continued significant rates of domestic violence both globally and domestically. ...

Using the way of storytelling, this book examines the petitions of the migrants of a dam in China. With the intensive and thorough analysis of the ...

Public Order and Private Lives is a radical examination of the political forces which shape the law and order debate in Britain. Mike Brake and Chr...

This book provides an accessible, research-informed text for social work educators, students, and practitioners interested in the use of story to e...

This book addresses a recurrent gap in social work literature by examining Ubuntu as an Indigenous African philosophy that informs social work beyo...

Mainstream gerontological scholarship has taken little heed of people ageing with disability, and they have also been largely overlooked by both di...

Since the 1980s, child welfare agencies and social work programs in more than 40 states have come together to address recruitment and retention iss...

‘Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences’ is one of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Grand Challenges f...

This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments...

Mainstream gerontological scholarship has taken little heed of people ageing with disability, and they have also been largely overlooked by both di...

Based on ethnographic observations of encounters between social workers and people with whom they do not have a shared language, this book analyzes...

Since the 1980s, child welfare agencies and social work programs in more than 40 states have come together to address recruitment and retention iss...

Africa has a long experience with reducing poverty and vulnerability. In the contemporary period, social development and social work are at the for...

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having ‘rights’ that social workers need...

Multiculturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been ...

First published in 1999. Family homelessness is one of the most profound and disturbing social problems of the 1990's and will be one of the most i...

Originally published in 1937, Aspects of a Changing Social Structure presents lectures delivered in 1936 on behalf of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust....

First published in 1999. Project Head Start, a federal child development program for low-income families, serves both the mother and her children. ...

Concise, empowering, and inspirational, this introduction to promoting change offers practical knowledge, and features more than 150 guidelines bro...

In the UK the number of people who came from a minority ethnic group grew by 53 per cent between 1991 and 2001, from 3.0 million in 1991 to 4.6 mil...

The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work presents and illustrates an anthropological model of child and youth care work and explores the assoc...

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having ‘rights’ that social workers need...

`This is an exciting and valuable book. In considering the role and importance of cultural competence in professional practice with diverse populat...