Social welfare and social services

This expansive reference examines the many types of Family Life Education (FLE) programs being offered around the world, reflecting a myriad of cultures and contexts.

This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action.

This book aims to provide the clinicians with details of online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to facilitate care delivery for patients struggle with depression and anxiety.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This scoping review furnishes the reader with a contemporary overview of research about employment conditions related to persons on the autism spectrum.

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

This book is an introduction to the biological basis of behavior, broadly defined, with practical applications for higher education programs that focus on advances in neuroscience.

This book provides a view into the multi-dimensional and multi-contextual nature of community policing.

Short-term study abroad experiences are on the rise across social work programs.

In recent years child protection issues have dominated media and public discourse in the UK.

This book examines disability hate crime.

The rise of hybrid ventures is proof that another way of doing business is possible.

This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system.

This edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical examples where fieldworkers have attempted to negotiate the complexities and risks of field research.

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that victims do not unanimously stand for punishment.

Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims' experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences.

This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants.

The book presents the multi-faceted opus of Danilo Dolci within the framework of Environmental Education, focusing on his work as a grassroots community educator, nonviolent activist and poet.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

This book offers a variety of outlooks and perspectives on the constitutive values and formative norms of a society, reflected by discourses on ethical-political education.

This lucidly written textbook covers the historical background of clinical sociology as a field and its developing trends around the world.

Juvenile Delinquency, Eleventh Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youths family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment.

This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old).

This book sets out to provide context for innovating counseling for self- and career construction.

This textbook presents a practical guide for new and experienced health or social care staff, helping them promote the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the meaning of the term 'incapable of work' over a hundred years (1911-present).

This crucial volume provides a concise overview of the conceptual foundations and clinical methods underlying the rapidly emerging subspecialty of integrative mental healthcare.

This volume brings together multiple diverse perspectives from around the globe on quality of life and community well-being from a place-based perspective.

This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present.

Applying Occupational Psychology in the Fire Service: Emotion, Risk and Decision-Making provides readers with an overview of the latest research informing the policies, procedures and practices of those working on the ground in the UK Fire Service.

The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community.

This stimulating volume examines the many faces of Australia's ageing population, the social and health issues they contend with, and the steps being taken-and many that should be taken-to help ensure a more positive and productive later life.

Compassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present.

This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization?

Exploring sensitive issues often hidden to outsiders, this engaging study traces the transformation and economic development of a south China village during the first tumultuous decade of reform.

This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course.

This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia.

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus.

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, Switzerland and Lithuania.

This book analyses the private provision of rescue and emergency services, and focuses on the emergence of the world's largest rescue company, Falck.

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization.

Practical, step-by-step strategies for helping your own family, first responders and vulnerable community members during any emergency situation.

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth.

This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people's health and well-being.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former 'terrorists'.