Social Work

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime...

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private univers...

This book is unique in its presentation of social protection scenarios in four different continents: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. It has speci...

This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imag...

This book outlines both the theory and application of regulation intervention strategies for children with complex trauma history. National statist...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a critical juncture in the development of the welfare state affirming its importance for its citizens economic, he...

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which...

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of prison ecologies a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a product of hu...

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing m...

This book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and pract...

This book provides an account of parenting support initiatives in children and family services from a number of jurisdictions, paying particular at...

The steady increase in economic, social, environmental and political hardships experienced by many around the globe has led, in recent years, to a ...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch rückt die Bedeutung von Religion(en) für die Praxis und die Theorie der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe in den Mittelpunkt und frag...

Critical time intervention (CTI) is a time-limited, evidence-based model of care coordination for people that is delivered during a critical period...

Practitioners, organisations and policy makers in health and social care settings are increasingly recognising the need for trauma-informed approac...

This invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a successful career. Actual examples drawn from all arenas of s...

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

This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand a...

This book focuses on how to provide social work services for elderly people living in poverty. Divided into eight chapters, the book first outlines...

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for ...

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a therapeutic approach that uses attachment theory to support children and families who have experience...

In diesem Open-Access-Buch entwickelt Julian Sehmer einen Ansatz, mit dem sich die (Re)Produktion von sozialen Normen und ethisch-normativen Ordnun...

Anna Kristina Sailer nimmt auf Basis einer narrativen Analyse die Identitätskonstruktionen junger Erwachsener in der Aktivgesellschaft in den Blick...

This open access handbook provides the most current overview of the discussion on diversity competence, with a focus on Europe. Diversity competenc...

Child Protection systems across the globe are developing at pace, each reflecting their unique economic, social and cultural contexts. This book ...

This book addresses the critical question of whether social work as an universal discipline is able to respond to new social challenges that arise ...

When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details...

This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from diff...

This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from diff...

First Published in 1975, Use of Groups in Social Work Practice seeks to encourage caseworkers to use groups as an integral part of their profession...

This book offers a comprehensive examination of trust and its relationship with mental illness and wellbeing.Engaging with a broad range of mental ...

This book offers a comprehensive examination of trust and its relationship with mental illness and wellbeing.Engaging with a broad range of mental ...

This book is a comprehensive study of the intersection of religion, Indigenous culture, and community life, featuring an in-depth examination of th...