Social Work

The Managing Stress Practice Manual, 2nd ed, provides the ideal stress management tool for practitioners across the public sector and professionals...

This book, featuring acclaimed research articles on cyber, childhood, and workplace bullying from the peer-reviewed journal Violence and Victims, p...

There are dozens of ways to be emotionally abusive: unwarranted criticism, sighs, a condescending tone of voice, disgusted looks, and the cold shou...

In 2013, the International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference was held in Winnipeg, Canada, with Indigenous and non-Indigenous participant...

Whilst the number of people currently experiencing homelessness cannot be precisely estimated due to varying definitions across countries and cultu...

Dr Godfred Boahen is a Policy and Research Officer at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), UK.Dr Fran Wiles is a qualified social work...

Emphasizes the different techniques needed for successful social work practice. This title is also available as a more affordable e-book with embed...

Officially supported and endorsed by the Theraplay Institute, this handbook provides concrete assistance from international experts on deepening Th...

How do we understand the tendency for Latinos to underutilize certain social services and what types of outreach and intervention strategies are be...

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities opera...

Dieses Buch will auf die Situation der Pflegebedürftigen, insbesondere auf die dementen Senilen in den Familien, Heimen und Tagesstätten aufmerksam...

Eine Soziale Arbeit, die für sich 'Kritik' bzw. 'kritisch' als konstitutive Bestandteile ihrer Selbstbeschreibung reklamiert, muss sich der nie ab...

Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the per...

Das überarbeitete Hand- und Lehrbuch bietet in zwei Bänden einen breiten empirischen Überblick über die Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschl...

Prior to the implementation of the Equal Opportunity program in the 1960s, most New Brunswickers, many of them Francophone, lived with limited acce...

Field education is considered by social workers to be the most crucial part of their professional preparation, as it allows students to engage with...

Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der Steuerung von sozialwirtschaftlichen Organisationen und von Unterstützungsarrangements der Sozialen Arbeit. De...

Drawing on more than 150 in-depth interviews, Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence explores the diverse effect...