Social Work

America's incarceration rate was roughly constant from 1925 to 1973, with an average of 110 people behind bars for every 100,000 residents. By 2013...

From leading authorities, this volume presents a unique evidence-based group intervention for the 1015% of children who are challenged by peer diff...

From the Foreword by Marshall L. Smith: There is so much more to becoming a social work educator than just being prepared to walk into class. Caree...

Executive directors can often feel that the problems they face in working with their board are never ending, every day, and everywhere occurrences....

Pracademics and Community Change: A True Story of Nonprofit Development and Social Entrepreneurship During Welfare Reform presents the single unifi...

Interest in the Cuban health care model has grown over the years and despite ongoing changes in Cuban society, the pride and satisfaction Cuban cit...

A social worker's place within the hierarchy of a nursing home is not always clear, yet the responsibilities are tremendous. Using her almost 20 ye...

Lesbian and Gay Couples is an important addition to the literature on working with same-sex couples. Students and practitioners alike will find the...

What is poverty? Who is at risk? What myths about poverty are pervasive in the United States? This textbook, the first of its kind, explores the c...

Therapeutic Games and Guided Imagery is packed with tools for social workers, counselors, school professionals, students, and other helping profess...

The concept of recovery in mental health represents the radical shift from the reductive ideas of disease and cure to a holistic understanding of t...

Become an effective case manager with GENERALIST CASE MANAGEMENT: A METHOD OF HUMAN SERVICE DELIVERY! Realistic and relevant, this counseling text ...

Drawing on the latest research, theory and practice, this is the first book to provide social workers with an evidence-based, practical guide to sa...

This acclaimed work describes a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are g...

This book has been replaced by Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4698-5.

This handbook provides a succinct introduction to child mental health, covering the nature, prevalence, treatment and management of mental health p...

Mariana the Mermaid is not like the other mermaids. Abandoned by a careless mother on the ocean floor, she has never laughed or played, and can bar...

The world is now a global village, yet cultural diversity is at the forefront of social work practice within and across countries. Professional soc...

Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth highlights the approaches, tools, and techniques that are most useful for evaluating educational and s...

Using a bio-psychosocial framework, this popular textbook explains the wide basis of perspectives on which we build an understanding of people's be...

Praise for the first edition: The content of the book is excellent.... The strength lies in its detailed application of ideas to practice. The us...

An exploration of one of the most important topics debated across Western countries, this analysis challenges traditional attitudes toward immigrat...

It is estimated that there are some 140 million orphans world-wide, most of them in poorer regions. Joanne Bailey and the contributors to this ...

''''This searing debut from a retired social worker of 30 years could not be more timely - nor more true ... Harrowing, moving and written with a f...

Understanding how theory informs social work practice is an area that students can often find challenging.  This book will help students understand...

Exploring exactly how the provisions and principles of the Act are implemented in practice, The Care Act 2014 brings together the work of experts a...

Exploring exactly how the provisions and principles of the Act are implemented in practice, The Care Act 2014 brings together the work of experts a...

Following the lives of four fictional time-travelling characters, it examines the changing functions of social work by unpicking the changing socia...

This very practical book will support students to meet the requirements of the compulsory Readiness for Direct Practice assessment. Useful for soci...

All social work students must undertake Practice Placements in the second and final years of their programme and the placement is a crucial area of...

It has long been recognised that clients with addiction problems need a skilled and thoughtful response when they come into contact with social ser...