Social welfare and social services

This book expands the concept of homeplace with contemporary Black homeschooling positioned as a form of resistance among single Black mothers.

This book provides researchers with a straightforward and accessible guide for carrying out research that will help them to combine good science with real-world impact.

This book explores human well-being in South Asia from a policy dimension.

Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context examines challenges of "e;institutionalizing"e; community-based health care.

Focusing mainly on case studies from  Australia and the United States of America, this book considers how people with dementia represent themselves and are represented in 'theatre of the real' productions and care home interventions, assessing the extent to which the 'right kind' of dementia story is being affirmed or challenged.

Through a critical analysis of theory, policy and practice, The Public and Private Management of Grief looks at how 'recovery' is the prevailing discourse that measures and frames how people grieve, and considers what happens when people 'fail' to recover.

This book addresses the issue of de-spiritualization in education through an interdisciplinary lens.

Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites-London, Casablanca and Beirut-and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content.

This book draws together for the first time some of the most important international policy practice and research relating to education in out-of-home care.

This book presents an in-depth look at the state of transnational education and comparative perspectives on education systems between Germany and other nation states.

This book provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the 50-year development of the personal social services in England, located throughout the changing ideological, political and relevant professional contexts of the period.

This book  discusses  the importance of culture and diversity within society through multicultural, cross-cultural, and intercultural encounters  while applying psychological effectiveness to manage core competencies.

This book provides an important, critical, feminist perspective on desistance theory and practice.

This book examines the global phenomenon of school violence and its wide range of behaviours, from school shootings to minor theft, bullying and sexual harassment.

Sitting at the nexus of labor migration and health care work, this book examines the dynamic relationship between nurses' cross-border movement and efforts to regulate their migration.

This book considers the practical management of sudden death and offers first-hand reflections of how emergency physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals cope.

This textbook offers a foundation for understanding adolescents' rights by articulating the complexity, breadth, and challenging nature of laws regulating adolescents.

This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections.

This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.

This book addresses the ways in which clinical psychologists ought to conceptualize and respond to the prejudice and oppression that their clients experience.

This textbook provides an introduction to digital forensics, a rapidly evolving field for solving crimes.

This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe.

The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups.

This book describes numerous projects which shed light on some of the most persistent issues of the day in health and social care.

This volume adopts a context-informed framework exploring risk, maltreatment, well-being and protection of children in diverse groups in Israel.

This book reflects on theoretical developments in the political theory of care and new applications of care ethics in different contexts.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of of the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl and delves into the spiritual depths of an inherent search for meaning in life.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the diffusion process of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America and the role played by experts and international organizations.

From Neil  Schneiderman's Foreword:Because behavioral medicine has been constructed based on the understanding of relationships among behavior, psychosocial processes, and sociocultural contexts, the field is well positioned to take a leadership role in informing future health care policies.

This handbook addresses the issues and challenges of the delivery of social work education in the contemporary world.

This textbook presents an integrative approach to thinking about research methods for social justice.

This book explores the place of the body and embodied practices in the production and experience of grace in order to generate transformative futures.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment.

This timely handbook provides in-depth overviews of the myriad and multi-faceted issues surrounding sexual assault and its pervasiveness in today's culture.

Mihalyi and Szelenyi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies, and considering several policy options to reduce inequality in order to preserve the meritocratic nature of liberal democracies.

This book provides a guide for planning, providing, and documenting effective early interventions for infants and toddlers and their families.

In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger 'generation rent,' to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom.

This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region.

This book examines the development and adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Polish businesses and social and environmental organizations, and analyzes the corresponding impact at the strategic and operational level in these fields.

This book explores the politics behind "e;de-liberalization"e;, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms.

The second edition of the handbook examines advances in therapeutic approaches for behavioral, developmental, and emotional problems in children.

This book reviews the social role of universities in their local urban contexts and describes a number of initiatives of major interest in terms of the impact achieved, the range of stakeholders involved, and the significance of the university campus and teachers as agents of change.

Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives.

This book is a quick guide to the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care.

This book discusses Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism from the early 1950s to the present.

This book examines how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted.

This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and maintain resilience.

The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the 'welfare' industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity.

This book aims to explore the evidence supporting the therapeutic community (TC) modality as a uniquely effective approach to care of individuals living with opioid use disorder and other addictions, and also to identify salient mediators of improved outcome, including long-term treatment and removal from the opioid-associated environment.