Social Work

This title was first published in 2000: This volume offers international comparative perspectives and critical analyses of the interconnections bet...

Offering a focus that is lacking (or not clearly evident) in most spirituality books, Dudley addresses specific ways of incorporating spirituality ...

This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation fro...

This title was first published in 2002: The rise of New Public Management and the fragmentation of agencies that resulted, created unprecedented ne...

There has been a marked rise in global migration with many former countries of emigration becoming immigration destinations. As a result of this, s...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

Introduction to Human Development and Family Studies is the first text to introduce human development and family studies (HDFS) as inextricably lin...

At a time when inequalities are growing globally, when the pace of socio-economic transitions is rapid, and when traditional ties of community are ...

Published in 1999. British cross-cultural counselling practice issues are examined through a survey of the attitudes of white British Counsellors a...

This title was first published in 2001. This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe...

First published in 1999, The Management of Child Protection Services is not about child abuse but about child protection. It is about the arrangeme...

Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just, diverse and inclusive...

In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic margin...

Bringing together contributions from institutions such as the OECD, the WHO, the World Bank and the European Disability Forum, as well as policy ma...

This book is aimed at employers, managers and staff in social work agencies. Historically there has been a slowness to acknowledge the risks which ...

This title was first published in 2000. An up-to-date overview of the systems of social protection for the elderly in the fifteen EU states and Nor...

Teaching Social Work Practice is a lively, practical guide to developing your knowledge and skills as a teacher of social work practice in an agenc...

This highly successful book on groupwork practice, first published in 1979, has become a standard introductory text on most social work training co...

Modern Social Work Practice is an interactive book designed to provide readers with an opportunity to engage with key aspects of current social wor...

First published in 1992, this volume responds to the importance of management has been increasingly recognized in the personal social services but ...

This title was first published in 2001. Making decisions about the care and protection of children who appear before the courts is complex. Attenti...

Nurturing Strangers focuses on loving nonviolent re-parenting of children in foster care. This book is a jargon-free mix of narrative and real-life...

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...

Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the rea...