Social Work

How can someone determine whether to implement an evidence-supported intervention? What can be done to make sure any intervention is implemented we...

Edited by Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz, Philosophies of Adoption: Perspectives and Reflections explores the philosophical analysis of adoption by p...

Distilling decades of research, this practical manual presents an innovative intervention for families of 6- to 10-year-olds (grades 15) with atten...

Distilling decades of research, this practical manual presents an innovative intervention for families of 6- to 10-year-olds (grades 15) with atten...

A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights.Whoever wants to assuage their doubts t...

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple...

Disability and Disaster adds disaster research to the expanding area of disability studies. The book includes writings by international scholars an...

Transnational civil society is often seen as an important contributor to the democratization of global governance. In their engagement with the Wor...

Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...

Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Cam...

This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms wit...

Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts o...

This book weaves together service users' lived experiences of mental health recovery and ideas about how creative activities such as art, music, an...

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argue...

Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment caree...

Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...

Social workers regularly make high-risk, high-impact decisions: determining that a child has been abused; that an individual may take their own lif...

It is said that men are 'in crisis', blighted by the adverse effects of corrosive masculine norms ranging from emotional disconnection to aggressio...

Domestic Violence, Family Law and School discusses the ways in which family law disputes in cases of domestic violence can impact on children's liv...

This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community dev...

This edited collection uses the concept of 'displaying families' as a new way to understand contemporary family and personal life, addressing how, ...

Welche Anforderungen werden an eine robuste und gesellschaftlich anerkennenswerte Soziale Arbeit gestellt, die in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Diszipli...

This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of mothe...

This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child sponsorship practi...