Social welfare and social services

Interviewing and communication are central to the work of the social worker, the psychotherapist, and to that of many other specialists, yet little attempt has been made to explore their interrelationship and complexity.

Low-carbon energy transformations to support carbon-neutral societies is an important and urgent topic and subject to current national priorities and socio-economic planning.

This book critiques the traditional practice of community organization, change and development, and concludes that the present practice of Community Development (CD) and Social Policy and Planning (SP&P) is no longer capable of meeting the current challenges at the local or national level.

This is the first interdisciplinary collection to analyse the place of Romanies and Travellers within contemporary Europe through the lens of gender and violence.

The care of elderly people, particularly those who are frail, is a major task facing society.

Community-oriented policing (COP) is the ideology and policy model espoused in the mission statements of nearly all policing forces throughout the world.

This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women's experiences.

Using ACT and CFT for Burnout Recovery: The Beyond Burnout Blueprint introduces an innovative approach to navigating burnout by integrating evidence-based strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT).

Policing the UAE is the first textbook designed specifically for students, officers, and educators working within the unique legal, cultural, and operational context of the United Arab Emirates.

First published in 1975, Action-Research in Community Development discusses experiences of people who worked on the central government sponsored Community Development Project (CDP).

The twentieth century saw twin developments in Britain: changes in the pattern of employment, producing the institution of retirement; and demographic changes resulting in an ageing population.

Was nineteenth-century British philanthropy the "e;truest and noblest woman's work"e; and praiseworthy for having raised the nation's moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission likely to cause the defeminization of its practitioners as they became "e;public persons"e;?

Intimate partner violence leaves long-term effects.

The book covers: Burawoy's Holistic Sociology and Sorokin's Integralism; A Post-Empiricist Reconstruction; Social Justice and Critical Public Sociology; The Possible, Probable and Preferable; The Scientific System of Public Sociology; Establishing and Perfecting the Model; Teaching and Public Sociology; The Practice of Organic Public Sociology; An Integrated Public and Professional Project and Importance of Social Security System

Social psychologists are trained in rigorous experimental methods within the academic discipline of psychology.

Social work has its roots in the struggle of society to deal with poverty and the resultant problems.

In this thought-provoking text, a collection of respected authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience come together to challenge some of the prevailing ideas serving as the foundation for the current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) structure.

Social work has its roots in the struggle of society to deal with poverty and the resultant problems.

Now going into its fifth edition, Alan Twelvetrees' invaluable guide to the theory and practice of community work has been educating students and practitioners alike for over three decades.

Social psychologists are trained in rigorous experimental methods within the academic discipline of psychology.

The book covers: Burawoy's Holistic Sociology and Sorokin's Integralism; A Post-Empiricist Reconstruction; Social Justice and Critical Public Sociology; The Possible, Probable and Preferable; The Scientific System of Public Sociology; Establishing and Perfecting the Model; Teaching and Public Sociology; The Practice of Organic Public Sociology; An Integrated Public and Professional Project and Importance of Social Security System

When searching for someone to help them reflect upon and improve their lives, people tend to be drawn towards those who are compassionate, committed and wise.

Disability and Impairment introduces professionals working with families to the everyday issues faced by disabled people of all ages in family life.

Listening to children' is one of those feel-good phrases that always features in childcare literature as if it were self-evidently a good thing.

The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.

Professional Risk and Working with People provides advice on assessing and managing risks for all those employed to take risks with or on behalf of other people.

This pocket-sized guide can be taken conveniently to meetings, interviews and visits, to be used as a quick reference point for information about the practical application of restorative justice.

This fully updated second edition of Grief in Children provides an accessible overview of children's understanding of death at different ages and gives a detailed outline of exactly how the adults around them can best help them cope.

Praise for the first edition:'Ann Cattanach writes with enormous empathy and warmth, and with a refreshing lack of sentimentality.

This collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities.

People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of `coping' with problems or stresses in the their life.

This book is full of the techniques that we have used successfully over the years.

Listening to children' is one of those feel-good phrases that always features in childcare literature as if it were self-evidently a good thing.

Since the Munro report (2011), a greater emphasis has been placed on the value of child-centred practice in social work with children, young people and families.

This concise and instructive guide outlines the specific challenges faced by the Latinx population in US health care, including language barriers, unfamiliarity with the medical system, lack of insurance, access issues, monetary factors, and most importantly the fears surrounding undocumented immigrants.

This expert guide to working with transgender and gender variant youth offers ways to make positive change to service provision for practitioners working with this group.

In this thought-provoking text, a collection of respected authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience come together to challenge some of the prevailing ideas serving as the foundation for the current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) structure.

Now going into its fifth edition, Alan Twelvetrees' invaluable guide to the theory and practice of community work has been educating students and practitioners alike for over three decades.

The Life of an Activist is a non-fiction narrative that describes key steps on how to become and evolve into an effective activist and community leader.

Civic Work, Civic Lessons explains how and why people of all ages, and particularly young people, should engage in public service as a vocation or avocation.

As a punishment for our most serious crime-the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way-the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

This book identifies the barriers between social work intervention in education and government-funded programs that impact African American students.

Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development.