Social welfare and social services

This book explores Orlando Fals Borda's trajectory as a pioneering Latin American sociologist, highlighting how his life, political commitments and methodological inventions helped to re found social science from the standpoint of peasants, popular sectors and the Colombian Caribbean.

Supporting Autistic Individuals During Crises presents a first-person exploration of living with autism while experiencing a mental health crisis, offering mental health professionals, individuals with lived experience, and their families guidance for providing effective support.

In the past thirty years, it has become evident that the U.

During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before.

Supportive psychotherapy is widely practiced but poorly defined, often misunderstood, and unfairly disparaged.

Supportive psychotherapy is widely practiced but poorly defined, often misunderstood, and unfairly disparaged.

Coercive control is a severe form of domestic violence experienced by millions of children worldwide.

Coercive control is a severe form of domestic violence experienced by millions of children worldwide.

The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work.

Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies.

When Americans conceptualize freedom, they often disproportionately focus on negative freedom, or freedom from government constraint-being told what they cannot say, which religion they cannot practice, where they cannot move, etc.

When Americans conceptualize freedom, they often disproportionately focus on negative freedom, or freedom from government constraint-being told what they cannot say, which religion they cannot practice, where they cannot move, etc.

Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies.

Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals is a unique collection of personal narratives that chronicle the journeys of doctors and other healthcare professionals who have been personally impacted by life-altering losses.

Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals is a unique collection of personal narratives that chronicle the journeys of doctors and other healthcare professionals who have been personally impacted by life-altering losses.

There is no one way to be transgender.

There is no one way to be transgender.

UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks.

Children in Police Custody shines a light on the hidden experiences of children in police detention in England and Wales.

The Juvenile Justice Anger Management (JJAM) Treatment for Girls is a manualized anger management and aggression reduction treatment designed for adolescent girls and young women placed in residential juvenile justice facilities.

Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimers disease, the medical profession continues to advance distinctions of various types of other dementias.

Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed.

Children can struggle to engage with and articulate certain emotions, which can have a profound impact on their behaviour, confidence and ability to form relationships, follow instructions and perform tasks.

This book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainable development within social economies.

This book introduces an innovative, experiential and participatory approach to social work education and community transformation.

Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its third edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.

The Definitive Guide to Theraplay(R) for Practitioners, officially endorsed by the Theraplay(R) InstituteTheraplay is an intervention that focuses on enhancing the connection, trust and joy between a child and a parent.

Current knowledge about the public social welfare sphere is vast, but fragmented.

This essential book brings together leading criminology researchers from across the globe to explore the critical role of the 'evidence base' in crime and criminal justice.

This book analyzes the role of social work in the Americanization movement.

Privatization of education has become a prevalent global trend, representing a significant shift from viewing education as a public good to considering it as a private commodity.

At its founding, social workers were human rights defenders who advocated for societal reforms and fought against social exclusion and discriminatory practices that violated human rights.

At its founding, social workers were human rights defenders who advocated for societal reforms and fought against social exclusion and discriminatory practices that violated human rights.

This second volume of Online Resilience and Wellbeing in Young People explores online resilience and safety from a new perspective, by drawing extensively upon the youth voice.

First published in 1988, Living Skills for Mentally Handicapped People describes the relevant theory, practical skills, likely problems and possible solutions involved in developing an integrated approach to the teaching of independent living skills.

This book examines the various systems, processes, and agencies responsible for overseeing police conduct across Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, the United States, and Republic of Ireland.

The second edition of The Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide is a completely re-envisioned resource for today's prevention professional, reflecting the field's rapid evolution, the latest 2024 IC&RC Prevention Specialist Certification blueprint, and the expanding role of prevention in public health, equity, and community well-being.

First published in 1988, Living Skills for Mentally Handicapped People describes the relevant theory, practical skills, likely problems and possible solutions involved in developing an integrated approach to the teaching of independent living skills.

The second edition of The Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide is a completely re-envisioned resource for today's prevention professional, reflecting the field's rapid evolution, the latest 2024 IC&RC Prevention Specialist Certification blueprint, and the expanding role of prevention in public health, equity, and community well-being.

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change.

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change.

Once considered Sigmund Freud's designated heir, Otto Rank was an interdisciplinary thinker and prodigious author of twenty-two books.

Once considered Sigmund Freud's designated heir, Otto Rank was an interdisciplinary thinker and prodigious author of twenty-two books.

A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions helps clinicians develop effective therapeutic skills and provides guidelines for delivering trauma-focused and empowering interventions.

Assessment in Counseling takes a different approach to assessment courses, which students often experience as a statistics-heavy class accompanied by a wide variety of assessments.

Using Statistical Methods in Social Science Research, Third Edition is the user-friendly text every student needs for analyzing and making sense of quantitative data.

Crimes against children are some of the most serious, demanding investigations that the police and their partner agencies can be involved with.

The Power of Policy: The Past, Present and Future is a historically organized core textbook that identifies thematic connections between the history of U.

This book examines the serious dysfunction of the nation's family courts--a dysfunction that too often results in the courts' failure to protect the people they were designed to help.

Crimes against children are some of the most serious, demanding investigations that the police and their partner agencies can be involved with.