Social work

This ground-breaking text offers a comprehensive and penetrating account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and family support.

This book offers a clear and comprehensive guide to youth justice practice based on a solid grounding of academic research and in-depth understanding of how the youth justice system operates.

This book offers a comprehensive and critical account of the changes introduced into the UK youth justice system by the 1998 Crime and Disorder legislation, and its implications for youth justice managers and professionals.

This major text addresses the relevance of sociological concepts to social work practice, arguing that lack of understanding of the ways in which social work fits into society's structures and is informed by its relationship with these can lead to impoverished social work practice.

This important textbook offers clear and concise discussion of the key theoretical and practical issues that sexuality raises for social work.

With the changing political economy of social welfare, evaluation has become prevalent in the personal social services and voluntary sector organisations.

Adopting an interdisciplinary framework in recognition of the range of domestic and institutional settings in which elder abuse can occur, this book both explains the nature of this under-reported and little understood problem and addresses the vital question of how practitioners can best work towards its prevention.

This book offers a practical approach to maximising quality in social work that is based on developing a working culture that empowers key stakeholders in the delivery of services, whether these are managers, practitioners, service users or carers.

A set of essays critically assessing aspects of the state's involvement in caring in modern societies, with particular reference to Britain, Japan, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Recognising the centrality of the practice placement in preparing students to become effective social workers, this book offers practical guidance to both students and their practice teachers regarding how to enhance learning on placement in social work agencies.

More and more Third World countries are providing development assistance to other developing countries.

This study looks for avenues of collaboration between peacekeepers and humanitarian relief workers.

Structured Literacy (SL) approaches are increasingly recognized as the gold standard for teaching struggling readers.

Learn the causes ofand consequences fromelder abuse of men For the most part, often only women are considered the victims of elder abuse.

Learn the causes ofand consequences fromelder abuse of men For the most part, often only women are considered the victims of elder abuse.

Youth workers and other helping professionals regularly find themselves in situations where, despite their experience and education, they simply do not know what to do or how to respond to the circumstances facing them.

Youth workers and other helping professionals regularly find themselves in situations where, despite their experience and education, they simply do not know what to do or how to respond to the circumstances facing them.

This book provides fresh perspectives on the state of policy practice.

This book provides fresh perspectives on the state of policy practice.

These timely intervention strategies make your school safer for everyone!

These timely intervention strategies make your school safer for everyone!

Learn how to focus your ministry's programs and services on the elderlyBy 2030, 20% of the people living in the United States will be age 65 or older, with unique spiritual needs that can affect their physical and mental well-being.

Learn how to focus your ministry's programs and services on the elderlyBy 2030, 20% of the people living in the United States will be age 65 or older, with unique spiritual needs that can affect their physical and mental well-being.

This diverse collection of articles by group work professionals who work in the classroom and in the field captures not only the art and science of social work with groups but also its soul, highlighting practice, teaching, and writing ideas that promote the power of group work - and the people who do it.

This diverse collection of articles by group work professionals who work in the classroom and in the field captures not only the art and science of social work with groups but also its soul, highlighting practice, teaching, and writing ideas that promote the power of group work - and the people who do it.

Backs Against the Wall: Battered Women's Resistance Strategies tackles several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV)-namely the approaches many victims use when resisting their oppressors.

Backs Against the Wall: Battered Women's Resistance Strategies tackles several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV)-namely the approaches many victims use when resisting their oppressors.

Foster well-being in an institutional setting Human services workers are consistently discovering more about how important adult well-being is as a foundation of positive human development.

Foster well-being in an institutional setting Human services workers are consistently discovering more about how important adult well-being is as a foundation of positive human development.

This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students struggling with substance abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviors.

This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students struggling with substance abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviors.

This book presents respected experts, researchers, and clinicians providing the latest developments in social work knowledge and research.

This book presents respected experts, researchers, and clinicians providing the latest developments in social work knowledge and research.

Leading clinicians discuss the latest evidence-based approaches to working with families that have an addicted or substance abusing member Family Intervention in Substance Abuse: Current Best Practices gathers together in one easy-to-read volume the most effective family-based clinical approaches to work with families and the difficult issues of substance abuse.

Leading clinicians discuss the latest evidence-based approaches to working with families that have an addicted or substance abusing member Family Intervention in Substance Abuse: Current Best Practices gathers together in one easy-to-read volume the most effective family-based clinical approaches to work with families and the difficult issues of substance abuse.

The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around.

The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around.

Probation and Parole Departments must provide for the protection of society as well as the rehabilitation of the offending individual.

Probation and Parole Departments must provide for the protection of society as well as the rehabilitation of the offending individual.

Best Practices in Residential Treatment is a detailed examination of the latest information on empirically tested, evidence-based interventions and procedures across the many dimensions of residential treatment practice.

Best Practices in Residential Treatment is a detailed examination of the latest information on empirically tested, evidence-based interventions and procedures across the many dimensions of residential treatment practice.

This book provides a "e;work-in-progress"e; that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying evidence for practice within the practice domain of public child welfare.

This book provides a "e;work-in-progress"e; that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying evidence for practice within the practice domain of public child welfare.