Social welfare and social services

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions.

This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies.

This book draws on empirical work to examine the debates surrounding domestic violence disclosure schemes (also known as Clare's Law), focussing on England and Wales with comparisons to similar jurisdictions.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research.

The book deals with urban reactivation, a particular form of regeneration intervention which in addition to the physical-spatial dimension of the places also-and above all-considers the social and relational dynamics that the intervention is able to activate.

This book examines the emotional, micro-situated dynamics of status inclusion/exclusion that people produce while caring for others by focusing, in particular, on non-conventional families.

This book explores the role of scientific evidence within United Nations (UN) deliberation by examining the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed by Member States in 2015.

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces.

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era.

This easy-access guide summarizes the dynamic specialty of rehabilitation psychology, focusing on real-world practice in the medical setting.

This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development.

This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare.

This book analyses the policies of recognition that were developed and implemented to improve the autonomy and socio-economic well-being of Maori in New Zealand and of indigenous and Afro-descendent people in Colombia.

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This text provides a background of scientific evidence to understand the complications that occur after bariatric surgery for all providers responsible for care after surgical intervention.

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work.

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers.

This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time.

This book illustrates how global economic progress has reached its upper limit under the current economic paradigm, and how the next major revolution in global progress will rely on our ability to tap into the collective knowledge of the "e;everyday genius"e; to drive innovation, free market competition, artistic influence, and other advances that will allow humanity to overcome its greatest challenges.

This book offers the first ever book-length treatment of the topic of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood with autism and the attendant ethical, legal and social issues for the individual as well as caregivers and professionals.

This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices in community quality of life indicators.

This book analyzes non-democratic legitimacy during the Arab Spring.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.

This book explores the educational experiences of young male Somali students in British schools.

These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings.

This book discusses preventive actions that have led to reduction in the prevalence of child labor across the world over the 21st century.

This contributed volume reflects on the collective wisdom and ongoing efforts of the social work profession that has been in the forefront of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

"e;Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.

This book focuses on the variety of subsequent consequences that may follow the conclusion of the immediate emergency response effort, consequences that require multi-disciplinary efforts and most likely may require a revamping of the historical interplay of national and other political authorities.

This book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts.

Much has been written about policy efforts to achieve 'Health in All Policies': an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts.

This book introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.

This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present the latest psychosocial and developmental criminological research on cyberbullying, cybervictimization and intervention.

The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

This book examines research using anti-oppressive, arts-based methods to promote social change  in oppressed and marginalized communities.

This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings.

This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.

This book responds to the needs that arise at the intersection of people and animals, focusing on human-animal interaction, human-animal studies, the emotional work of caring for animals, and animal-assisted interventions and therapies.

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every topic of discussion.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake.