Social Work

Since the late 1960s, community work had emerged in its own right as an occupation with an increasingly important contribution to make both to ways...

Group work is central to social work, whether it be work with individuals and families, residential care, community work, management or social work...

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to...

This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising a...

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train...

The Care Act 2014 has been criticised for the lack of a clear process for professionals to follow. With its emphasis on the personal individual app...

Originally published in 1979, Ends and Means in Social Work was the first book to provide research-based evidence on what social workers actually d...

Originally published in 1968, Language of Social Casework considers the way in which social workers commonly neglect language. It is suggested that...

First published in 1997, this volume examines why, while mature welfare states are being trimmed and privatised, new social welfare arrangement are...

Originally published in 1981 Social Welfare and the Failure of the State looks at how the 1980s have ushered in an intensification on the debate of...

This book will help prepare the reader to work across disabilities by providing knowledge and training grounded within the ecological framework in ...

The effectiveness of the U.S. social safety net continues to be an important national issue. Societal changes such as population diversification, p...

Originally published in 1972 Recording in Social Work looks at how recording has always been claimed as one of the necessary activities of social w...

Originally published in 1978, Philosophy in Social Work is a collection of papers that invites reflective consideration of the philosophical issues...

Rooted in a lively, critical approach to social work education and practice, Social Work and Common Sense challenges readers to think critically an...

Published in 1998, the book provides a useful contribution to current debates on social exclusion, the regeneration of communities and the refocusi...

This open access book tells the story of eight youth service organizations in the USA, using the voices of the impacted youth and the staff who acc...

Originally published in 1987, Sociology and Social Welfare looks at the relationship between state and welfare in the context of a wider sociologic...

This book studies the ideological nature of mainstream scientific psychology. It raises critical questions about the dominant forms of psychologica...

Rooted in a lively, critical approach to social work education and practice, Social Work and Common Sense challenges readers to think critically an...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a critical juncture in the development of the welfare state affirming its importance for its citizens’ economic, h...

Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare has established itself as the essential text to prepare students for the wide-ranging challenges they wi...