Social work

This book provides rare insight into how real children/adolescents' lives unfold as a result of health inequity.

This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled "e;A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"e; ("e;Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"e;), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian philosophy.

'This book isn't just a guide; it's a lifeline' Shirley Ballas, head judge, Strictly Come Dancing, and ambassador for CALM and Suicide&CoWorldwide, suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people, and numbers continue to increase.

This book explains the causes, process, and results of group disputes in urban communities (the empirical experiences from Shanghai) in China.

This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents.

This volume combines approaches from three disciplines - economics, sociology, and demography - and empirically analyzes the key aspects of the labor market and social demography processes in post-Soviet transitional societies while focusing on the gender perspective.

This book presents an analysis of how the grassroots movement of Guangchang Wu or 'square dance' in China has become a national phenomenon.

This book focuses on various aspects of gender and mental health.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to psychodrama, including the underlying philosophy, methodology, theory and applications.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

This book examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation.

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts.

The book brings to the reader a set of political and social narratives woven around people's resistance against big dams, mining and industrial projects, in short, displacement and dispossession in Odisha, India.

This book explores how students in China vary in their understanding of careers upon arrival at college and how these initial differences develop into distinctive career preparation pathways.

This book explores the affective and relational lives of young people in diverse urban spaces.

This book, as the first exploration of suicide in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), illustrates the scarcity of suicide research in the discipline and argues that the leading cause of violent death worldwide is a multifaceted phenomenon that needs to be fully comprehended as a significant and often preventable form of world-wide violence.

This book addresses a timely and compelling emerging issue related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of the coastal community.

This book discusses approaches used by NGOs in formulating and implementing mental health care in the community in the context of high treatment gap, insufficient public expenditure on health, human resource shortages, heterogeneity of communities as well as cultural beliefs in India.

This book examines the mechanisms and strategies farmers in North Australia adopt to manage the setbacks and challenges they face.

This book is devoted to offering a new concept of non-employment caused by social exclusion.

This book is about the institutional disrespect experienced by refugee immigrants at the hands of the state and its institutions.

This book brings together leaders in the field of community practice and social development in social work.

  Exploring archaeology, community engagement and cultural heritage protection in South Asia, this book considers heritage management strategies through community engagement, bringing together the results of research undertaken by archaeologists, heritage practitioners and policy makers working towards the preservation and conservation of both cultural and natural heritage.

This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone.

This book offers a comprehensive and critical guide to research and practice in the field of arts education and conflict management.

The dramatically increasing aging population of Hong Kong has elicited new risks and opportunities to facilitate a positive life for older adults.

This book offers a much-needed critical overview of the concept of social justice and its application in professional social work practice.

This book critically discusses the psychology of Chinese gambling from a cultural perspective.

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This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity and difference.

This book offers a broad overview of transition practices for incarcerated youth, shaped by local culture, politics, ideologies, and philosophies.

This collection examines a broad spectrum of natural and human-made disasters that have occurred in Japan and New Zealand, including WWII and the atomic bombing of Japan and two recent major earthquake events, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Christchurch Earthquake, which occurred in 2011.

Medical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war period.

This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today's societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies especially through community resilience and responses.

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP), an event held annually in Singapore.

This book aims to equip mental health professionals to integrate discussions of sexual identity, health, wellness, and intimacy into the scope of their client's mental health, ensuring they are well-prepared to incorporate sexual functioning into core assessment, interventions, and treatment.

This book aims to equip mental health professionals to integrate discussions of sexual identity, health, wellness, and intimacy into the scope of their client's mental health, ensuring they are well-prepared to incorporate sexual functioning into core assessment, interventions, and treatment.

This book examines the process of population aging in China and its unique features, considers the social progress implied in China becoming a society with an aging population, and assesses the tremendous risks and challenges involved.

This book discusses health care issues related to domestic violence, using extensive case studies from India.

This book systematically reviews the experiences and problems encountered in the development of China's rural areas over the past three decades since the start of the country's economic reform.

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions.

This book demonstrates the central role of ethical character in effective social work practice.

This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China.

This pivot examines non-governmental organization (NGO) interventions in two community development initiatives, namely social capital and community empowerment, and their role in funding and formulating development frameworks in developing countries like Bangladesh.

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion.

This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics.

This book critically examines the psychology of gambling in Hong Kong and Macao.

This book draws on contemporary theory and recent findings to provide researchers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students with essential resources, allowing them to better understand and support children, youth and adults with autism and significant communication impairments.