Social Work

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families. St...

This empowering text for human services students covers the skills and behaviors essential for leaders to manage themselves, their teams, and the o...

This unique resource is perfect for all professionals who wish to understand witchcraft branding as a contemporary form of child abuse.  Witchcr...

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and...

This book explores contemporary debates on decolonisation and indigenisation of social work in Africa and provides readers with alternative models,...

This book rigorously examines police voices when people are reported missing, through empirical research. It explores the international literature ...

This textbook presents an innovative educational and training protocol for treating mental health patients in primary care: the Multimodal Brief Sy...

This title was first published in 2000: The second edition of Social Work as Community Development is thoroughly revised and updated taking into ac...

This title was first published in 2002: After outlining the origins and development of family mediation on a world-wide basis, this book assesses f...

This title was first published in 2002: After outlining the origins and development of family mediation on a world-wide basis, this book assesses f...

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline phil...

First published in 1999, this book focuses on the process of failure, when necessary with DipSW students on assessed placements. It addresses some ...

First published in 1999, this book focuses on the process of failure, when necessary with DipSW students on assessed placements. It addresses some ...

Critical Hospital Social Work Practice sheds light on the fast-paced, high pressure role of the hospital social worker. At a time of public concern...

Civil Society Engagement: Achieving Better in Canada examines the process and outcomes of a particular series of civil society activism and establi...

Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic ...

This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research...

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spani...

In the helping professions, codes of ethics and decision-making models have been the primary vehicles for determining what constitutes ethical prac...

Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers,...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

This title was first published in 2000: Community care stands as an example of a complex policy, failing to be implemented as intended. Using resea...

Online and Distance Social Work Education: Current Practice and Future Trends provides a comprehensive presentation on the evolution, current statu...

Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe cons...

Children in immigrant families represent nearly one-fourth of all children living in the United States. As this population of children has increase...

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

How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and educat...

Parenting adolescents is a challenging task for parents. Professionals offer a range of support and parenting programmes to support parents. Howeve...

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

Participatory Development (PDev) has been embraced by Third World governments and international organizations such as the World Bank as a means to ...

While blatant forms of racism and discrimination have largely been condemned in our society, systematic oppression and racism can be manifested in ...

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the multiple meanings of empowerment. Rather than seeking to define and critique this term, ...