Social welfare and social services

What is social work?

How do identity and social circumstances affect experiences of the criminal legal system in the US?

This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world.

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration.

This book contrasts and compares the different application of the law relating to the welfare interests and rights of children in France and Germany.

This book examines how the shift to remote teaching in March 2020 due to the global pandemic created new opportunities for innovation and creativity and shaped how social work classes were taught, with many temporary changes now part of permanent, standard practice.

This book contrasts and compares the different application of the law relating to the welfare interests and rights of children in France and Germany.

Developmental norms and expectations for young people aged 18-25 have diverged from previous generations, creating a new stage in the life course called Emerging Adulthood.

Descubre cómo la videovigilancia comunitaria se convierte en la clave para proteger nuestras comunidades en un mundo lleno de preocupaciones.

Learn how family caregivers of people with dementia can be supported by psychotherapyProvides step-by-step guidance for face-to-face or remote therapyIllustrated with therapeutic dialogs from real casesIncludes downloadable intervention handoutsThis handbook addresses the extremely challenging situation that family caregivers of people with dementia face and is informed by the use of evidence-based psychotherapeutic strategies to support them.

Fundraising experts Karen Brooks Hopkins of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Carolyn Stolper Friedman of the Contemporary Museum of Art in Chicago offer important insights into today's best fundraising strategies for arts and cultural organizations of all sizes.

This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown - or unknowable -  genetic ancestries.

What is social work?

Die Zahl der Kindeswohlgefährdungen in Deutschland bleibt konstant hoch.

The world of senior care provision and care work is changing rapidly.

With 50 percent new material, this third edition breaks this complex topic into key elements, examining the roots of the problem, programs that address it, current research, and public perceptions of homelessness.

Emotionen zu verstehen ist zentral für das professionelle Agieren von Sozialarbeitenden.

«Esta obra es el resultado de la investigación académica desarrollada por el autor, durante su permanencia en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Georgetown, como académico visitante.

Originally published in 1977 and based on a survey of 1,000 retired people in two 'retirement resorts' - Bexhill and Clacton - the book also quotes extensively from interviews with local government officials, doctors, and social workers.

This book will assist health and social care professionals to improve and open up further awareness of the characteristics of self-neglect.

Most objections to state intervention in social life are made on overtly political or moral grounds.

Originally published in 1974, this book provides a critique of official policy towards families with young children living on low incomes and looks in detail at some of the myths prevalent in the public debate - both political and academic - about the 'cycle of deprivation', a phrase coined by Sir Keith Joseph (British Politician, 1918-1994).

Every police force in England and Wales uses the same national application form and assessment centre.

This book reveals the hidden treasures of your kitchen, where untapped therapeutic treasures lie.

Die scheinbar selbstverständliche Verbindung von Einsamkeit und Alter ist ein Mythos.

The topic of housing is central to urban history as well as to social policy.

Informed by research and grounded in critical discussions of theory and practice, Optimizing Therapy Dog-Handler Team Welfare challenges readers to explore the complexities inherent in, and arising from, practices that optimize welfare for therapy dog-handler teams.

Presenting new, challenging solutions to the severe problem of inequality in the UK, Making Equal brings together a wide range of senior respective figures across the fields of politics, academia and the voluntary sector to outline their visions of how a less unequal Britain could be created and why doing so now is an economic and moral imperative for the nation.

Alter könnte so schön sein.

In dem hier in fünfter, überarbeiteter und erweiterter Auflage vorliegenden Lehrbuch gibt Carola Kuhlmann einen Überblick über die sozialgeschichtlichen Hintergründe, theoretischen Diskurse und fachlichen Entwicklungen von der Armenfürsorge über die Wohlfahrtspflege zur Sozialen Arbeit.

In highly unequal Britain, poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services.

When a physician driven by compassion takes to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to anonymously live among the homeless community he has been treating for years, he unexpectedly learns lessons beyond his imagination while making relationships that shape him as both a doctor and a human being.

Serving Military and Veteran Families introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life.

Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance.

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration.

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration.

The world of senior care provision and care work is changing rapidly.

This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology.

This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology.

Der Sammelband verfolgt das Ziel, eine erste umfassende Bilanz zur Rezeption und Wirkung der "Fridays for Future"-Bewegung vorzunehmen.

Ismael es un hombre de familia y un exitoso empresario que tuvo que lidiar con duros eventos desde la niñez.

Der Sammelband verfolgt das Ziel, eine erste umfassende Bilanz zur Rezeption und Wirkung der "Fridays for Future"-Bewegung vorzunehmen.

Schluss mit negativen Gedanken.

Wolfgang Ayaß zeichnet die Geschichte des Begriffs "asozial" nach: von seiner Genese um 1900 über den Fürsorgediskurs der Weimarer Republik, seine Verwendung im Kontext nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen, Kontinuitäten und Distanzierung in DDR und Bundesrepublik bis hin zu seiner Umdeutung in aktuellen Diskursen.

A one-stop guide for social work students that offers extensive study support and skills development.