Social welfare and social services

Career and student counselling is a complex task that requires a high level of professionalism.

In this edited volume, scientists from different disciplines discuss modern biotechnological processes and a knowledge-based bioeconomy.

Don't trade your 40-hour workweek for an 80-hour a week side hustle.

The book  establishes a philosophical base for the economic principles of Irish republicanism in the 21st century.

This book addresses issues related with researching sensitive topics in social work, focusing on marginalized, vulnerable and hard to reach people.

This book highlights the reality of malnutrition among school-age children in India and relates it with dietary adequacy, diversity and choice.

This book presents the epidemiology of birth defects and their public health and social implications in India.

This is an all-embracing reference that offers analyses and discussions of contemporary issues in the field of PTSD.

This book explores key factors long-term care recipients have identified as impacting their quality of life and offers programmatic and policy recommendations to enhance well-being within long-term care communities.

This book presents new research on gender-based violence in Southeast Asia, bringing together varied scholarly work in law, policy, and practice.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19.

This book explores the experiences and emotional expression of 30 people Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) using qualitative research methods such as "e;illness narratives,"e; and analyzes the dilemmas of "e;sicknesses of the society"e; including "e;Acquired Needs Deficiency"e; Syndrome, "e;Acquired Expectation Insufficiency"e; Syndrome, and "e;Acquired Punishment"e; Syndrome at the micro, meso and macro levels, so as to investigate higher-intensity negative emotions.

Demenz ist mehr als eine Krankheit, aber es gibt Hoffnung …Alle 100 Sekunden erkrankt in Deutschland ein Mensch an Demenz.

This is the first book length study of performance activism.

In diesem essential beantworten Experten*innen  die Frage, wie Gesellschaft und Kritische Infrastruktur bei neuen Anpassungen an den Klimawandel, an Pandemien oder die fortschreitende Digitalisierung interagieren.

This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects.

There are no laws in social science that parallel the laws in the natural science.

This guide which, for years, has prepared military, emergency, and first responders to face psychological, social, and physical challenges of leading in dangerous contexts has been updated.

Originally published in 1980 when about a third of all British children found to be in need of statutory care were living at home 'on trial' with parents or relatives.

Is higher education preparing our students for a world that is increasingly complex and volatile, and in which they will have to contend with uncertainty and ambiguity?

This book provides an insightful overview of the social-economical trends in modern China, their global influence, and the disrupting consequences for businesses and countries all over the world.

Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning.

This book examines the landscape of sustained investment in research and innovation in Africa, which are critical for development.

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Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe.

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities.

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.

This handbook explores the rapid growth in childhood developmental disabilities (DD) treatments.

Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for children and young people.

This book aims to apply state-of-the-art advanced computational intelligence frameworks in healthcare.

This book addresses a range of key issues concerning social work education, research and practice in India and Australia from a cross-cultural perspective.

The Second Edition of this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the concept of accessibility and its application to the design and implementation of instruction and tests with all students.

This innovative text explains child development from a cross-cultural perspective.

The new edition of this well-known text addresses the plurality of family life today, and considers the way in which the changeable 'theory of family' has influenced the approaches of those working with families.

Assessment is a core component of social work.

Counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK are required to have a supervisor to support them in their work.

This book provides social workers with the theoretical and practical knowledge they need to effectively deal with courts and legal issues, which includes presenting evidence, supporting vulnerable service users in the legal system and developing good professional relationships.

Combatting mental health stigma and discrimination has moved from a radical idea in the 1990s to mainstream policy today.

This essential new textbook meets the challenges faced by those who work with children in order to provide safe and effective practice.

The second edition of Our Voices is a ground-breaking collection of writings from Aboriginal social work educators who have collaborated to develop a toolkit of appropriate behaviours, interactions, networks, and intervention.

From time to time all families face predicaments, and use their own resources to overcome them.

Spirituality is a multifaceted speciality; anyone who wants to understand it must look across a range of disciplines, which can often make it seem overwhelming and incomplete.

Taking account of the political, economic and cultural changes that have impacted on social work over recent years, this book explores the challenges and presents the realities of practice.

This textbook offers the perfect introduction to the complex world of social work theory, giving a concise yet comprehensive overview of how practice is influenced by each theoretical approach described.

Living with serious illness can have profound emotional effects both on patients themselves and on those close to them.

What are the concepts and principles that underpin the design and delivery of social policies?