Social Work

Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexiti...

This acclaimed work has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for depression, an 8-week program ...

The actions social workers take are aimed at helping people, communities, and societies attain a sense of mastery, become or remain competent, and ...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003108436, has been made available under a Creative Com...

Practical Social Work Law: analysing court cases and inquiries presents legal issues associated with social work in an accessible format. It approa...

This pack includes twelve sets of the color-coded coding sheets plus two sets of blank sheets for use when constructing your own sets of toys. The ...

Originally published in 1983, The Making of Community Work is the outcome of a two-year study of community work in the United Kingdom. The main pur...

This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy and addresses its historical, ...

When it comes to talking to children and young people about sex and relationships, it is difficult to know what to say. How do you answer their que...

This title was first published in 2000: This book provides an exploration of the link between individualized project evaluation and policy analysis...

This highly accessible work, now thoroughly revised, has shown thousands of students and clinicians how to assess and treat children's emotional an...

This open access edited volume focuses on fairness issues concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for social service provision in nation...

Over recent decades an increasing amount of attention has been paid to identifying and meeting the individual support needs of mental health servic...

Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incor...

Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westobys ground-breaking monograph moves a...

This fully updated new edition of From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step how to guide to the developmental...

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high? What factors in school, community, fami...

Throughout the developed world, public and private pension schemes face major challenges that are creating irresistible pressures for reform. Major...

Social work research is concerned with complex social issues closely connected to communities of people who are marginalized and oppressed. This vo...

A missing person is an individual whose whereabouts are unknown and where there is some concern for his or her wellbeing. In the UK, around 250,000...

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'...

In its new edition, The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides in-depth understanding of the knowledge, skills, values, and affective and cogn...