Social Work

This book brings together contributions from a range of social welfare settings, including child welfare, unemployment, mental health and substance...

Social work has often been described as the fifth emergency service. When disaster strikes, long after our colleagues from health, fire and police ...

Sexual Misconduct in any environment is a gross abuse of trust and this is no different within the sport world. Examining and Mitigating Sexual Mis...

Teaching about Sex and Sexualities in Higher Education argues that much more can be done in teaching about sex and sexuality in higher education. T...

Self-neglect covers a wide range of behaviours, from neglecting to care for one's personal hygiene and health to one's surroundings; this can inclu...

This book conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries and outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for h...

This volume examines the transformation of subjectivities following contemporary societal trends with regulatory and administrative authorities tar...

First published in 1998, this book is a fully revised and updated edition of Social Work Practice, first published in 1993 as a training manual.The...

Mental Health and Wellbeing is a timely new book that explores these increasingly important subjects from an intercultural perspective. This is ess...

This book introduces social practitioners - community development workers, social workers, organisational change facilitators, social, ecological, ...

New thinking is needed on the age-old conundrum of how to connect research and policymaking. Why does a disconnect exist between the research commu...

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century. Despite myriad programs of deradicalization and preventi...

Tracing the origin of work with the ‘impotent poor’ under the Poor Laws, to social workers’ current responsibilities towards vulnerable people, thi...

Using international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context ...

Social work educators and practitioners are grappling with many difficulties confronting the profession in the context of an increasingly neolibera...

This teacher education textbook invites preservice and beginning teachers to think critically about the impact of rurality on their work and provid...

Case-Based Learning for Group Intervention in Social Work provides essential information on planning and facilitating groups in a clear and easy-to...

Grounded in contemporary social work practice approaches such as trauma-informed practice, cultural competency, and systems theory, this book provi...

This book offers a complete account of Contextual Safeguarding theory, policy, and practice frameworks for the first time. It highlights the partic...

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on iss...

In this much-needed text, leading international experts explore crucial aspects of people’s experience of long-term recovery from substance use. Ce...

What is the social cost of privatising public services? And what effect has the failure of previous privatisations had on their provision? This bo...

Tracing the origin of work with the ‘impotent poor’ under the Poor Laws, to social workers’ current responsibilities towards vulnerable people, thi...

Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner’s Handbook, now in its third edition, provides a proven methodology, grounded in the current...

Ideologies in Action: Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas explores how political ideas move across geographical, social and chronological ...

This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.Throughout its three part...

Addressing the social problems associated with trauma and mental health amongst African Americans in urban environments, this book uses an African-...

Recognizing microaggression as an often unseen, yet pervasive issue in schools globally, this book offers critical examination of instances of aggr...

Inuit have among the highest suicide rates in the world - ten times the national average. Inuit narratives of suicide provide clues as to what can ...

This book examines psychological theory such as development, social learning, humanistic, mental health and counselling in the context of social wo...

Ideologies in Action: Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas explores how political ideas move across geographical, social and chronological ...

This completely rewritten and updated new edition of a practical text continues to provide a firm introduction to law and legal processes and their...

Community Psychology Theory and Practice Jim Orford, University of Exeter, UK Community psychology is a comparatively new area within psychology. I...

The last two decades in social work have seen tremendous strides in field research, from the development of improved research designs to more accur...

Covers clinically effective treatments for over twenty of the major mental, behavioral, and emotional diagnoses in the DSM-IV The last two decades...

The process of interviewing a child can be a daunting experience for both the child and the interviewer. Interviewing Children offers practical adv...