Social Work

This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social chang...

This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to peoples wellbeing and mental health in the c...

This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to peoples wellbeing and mental health in the c...

With overseas deployment scaling down in recent years, helping professionals need practical tools for working with servicemen and women returning f...

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disability law....

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neur...

In this edited collection, leading scholars seek to disrupt Eurocentric research methods by introducing students, professors, administrators, and p...

The thoroughly updated third edition of Strong Helpers' Teachings skillfully illustrates the importance of Indigenous knowledges in the human servi...

'This detailed and informative textbook's articulate, precise and accessible style allows students to grasp the basics of social work law. As such,...

This book offers a personal insight into the experience of Alex Jelly, a professional fundraiser who developed a rare brain tumour, a papillary men...

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly sha...

The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health c...

The definitive Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice brings together the work of leading international trauma experts to provide a detailed ov...

Radicalisation, Extremism and Social Work Practice is the first book to explore cultural identity, acculturation and perceived discrimination of Mu...

A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated in...

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the worlds largest p...

This book identifies specific changes to bring U.S. social policy in accord with the Information Age of the 21st century, in contrast to the policy...

This book will help prepare the reader to work across disabilities by providing knowledge and training grounded within the ecological framework in ...

This text infuses the field of social work with dynamic and evidence-based active learning, offering fresh ideas to increase students abilities to ...

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the mai...

Residential care and treatment for children and youth remain ubiquitous across Canada in spite of frequent critiques and an ideology of constructin...

Social Work: An introduction to contemporary practice has quickly established itself as a leading and uniquely comprehensive introduction to the fi...

Wo etablierte Akteure aus Markt, Staat und auch Zivilgesellschaft an ihre Grenzen zu stoßen scheinen, gewinnen Sozialunternehmen dadurch, dass sie ...

Wo etablierte Akteure aus Markt, Staat und auch Zivilgesellschaft an ihre Grenzen zu stoßen scheinen, gewinnen Sozialunternehmen dadurch, dass sie ...

Coaching hat sich als Beratungsformat für persönliche und berufliche Veränderungen weltweit etabliert. Fragen der Wirksamkeit und Wirkung von Coach...

Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so import...

This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Through working the Twelve Steps and by attending ...

The behaviour and safety of children and young people in and around schools is a topic of world-wide concern. From school shootings and deaths on s...

This book demonstrates that alternative approaches to criminal rehabilitation succeed in developing pro-social attitudes and in improving mental, p...

This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised,is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with childr...

With a focus on how to improve the effectiveness and cultural competence of clinical services and research, this authoritative volume synthesizes c...

Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book sh...

This acclaimed work--now in an extensively revised second edition--provides an up-to-date conceptual framework and hands-on strategies for cultural...

Metropolitan Detroit is America's most segregated metropolitan area, but amidst segregation, there is also growing diversity, including increasing ...