Social Work

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, ...

Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals over the last two decades in the face of an intensification o...

Sociological social work is a lifelong social work practice which is animated by a sociological perspective. Social workers 'shorthand' orientation...

First published in 1975, this book compiles a number of studies concerning institutional care and children, which address the question of why insti...

Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness offers a comprehensive look at family housing distress related to the homelessness epidemic in the United Sta...

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

Child sexual abuse by clergy within the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a social and political discourse over the last three decades. The anal...

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

A comprehensive guide to social work praxis, this book provides a clear conceptual understanding of fieldwork supervision in India. It elaborates o...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System presents an overview of the criminal justice system for social workers, exploring the networks ...

The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments a...

Originally published in 2005. The primary focus of this work is the relationship between family, work and the welfare system. Focusing on Denmark, ...

All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book f...

Therapeutic Approaches for Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention is about the value of observation and close attention for b...

How can we develop a comprehensive understanding of the research process in community, health and social care settings? Covering all stages of the ...