Social work

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 showcases current thinking on social work in the field of mental health and illness from a bio-ecological and spiritual framework reflecting the transition in mental health care from institution to community.

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.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of local governance in China, and offers original analysis of key factors underpinning trends in this field drawing on the expertise of scholars both inside and outside China.

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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 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.

This volume provides acritical and reflexive view into the counselling profession in India.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women's experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need for a radical paradigm shift in how women's distress and experiences are understood.

Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.

Este libro es una exploracion acerca del interes que mostraron los radicales, masones en su mayoria, por impulsar y promover proyectos de beneficencia, de asistencia social y medica, como politica publica, en el Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca durante el Olimpo Radical.

La presente publicación expone los resultados de la más reciente investigación sobre los call center (o contact center) en Colombia.

Producto de las investigaciones de cada uno de los autores sobre el Trabajo Social en América Latina, en este libro se suman los esfuerzos por entender y conocer las bases de la perspectiva teórico-metodológica-histórico-crítica, inédita en la formación de la mayoría de paises de habla hispana.

Este libro se inserta en un campo novísimo de la investigación sobre familias en Colombia: mitos y secretos familiares.

El libro constituye una "acción colectiva" promovida inicialmente desde el seminario permanente en el 2004, que un grupo de estudiantes y profesores de la Escuela de Trabajo Social y Desarrollo Humano de la Universidad del Valle llevó a cabo con el propósito de discutir colectivamente conceptos como sujetos, sujetos colectivos, acciones colectivas, identidad, identidad colectiva y desarrollo.

La Reconceptualización, tema recurrente en Trabajo Social, es para el autor asunto no debidamente investigado y cuya comprensión es necesaria para construir un sólido proyecto profesional.

¿Cómo generar competencias en aquellos que conviven con niños y niñas para que construyan entornos de protección y cuidado para éstos?

Esta obra expone lo relacionado con la prueba ilícita desde un punto de vista teórico, abordando la realidad dentro de la casuística en derecho comparado.

"El programa "Atención al adulto mayor privado de la libertad en Colombia" se construyó con base en los resultados de una investigación sobre este aspecto particular, realizada en el año 2014, en la que participaron hombres y mujeres de diez Establecimientos de Reclusión del Orden Nacional –ERON–, aportando consideraciones sobre sus condiciones de vida y experiencias en prisión, desde la perspectiva de la adultez mayor.