Social welfare and social services

To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption.

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations in four parts and from the perspective of how this has evolved in the UK.

Supervising work that takes place outside your view is a challenge, as is making the best use of the supervision you receive.

This book offers both theoretical and practical examinations of the psycho-criminology of criminal justice in Asia, with particular emphasis on the Hong Kong and Singapore contexts.

Corinna Ehlers führt in ihrem Buch in die stärkenfokussierte Zielarbeit für die Sozial- und Bildungsarbeit ein.

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

First published in 1990, Alcohol, Social Work and Helping provides coherent and imaginative advice on how to counsel the growing number of clients whose use of alcohol causes of problems.

Drawn from a decade of refugee studies, this book offers a wealth of insights on arts-based methodologies.

This unique book celebrates a long-term, interracial relationship and details the everyday struggles of a surviving partner trying to carry on in a radically changed world.

Dai primi anni 2000, i giovani del villaggio di Diobakane, situato nella regione della Casamance (Senegal meridionale), percorrono rotte irregolari per arrivare in Europa.

Analysing US immigration and deportation policy over the last twenty years, this book illustrates how US immigration reform can be conceived as a psychological, legal, policy-driven tool which is inexorably entwined with themes of American identity, national belonging and white nativism.

The world is on the brink of ecological crisis.

A specialist book for mental health professionals, sex therapists and educators to develop and improve their clinical work with trans clients with regards to their sexual relationships and sexuality.

This comprehensive text thoroughly reviews the theories and history of racism, the sociology of and the psychology of racism, intergroup relations and intergroup conflict, and how racism is manifested institutionally, between groups, and between people, providing a unique view of the connections between these multiple perspectives.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relationship between industrial clusters and poverty, which is analyzed using a multidimensional framework.

This book examines Irish Poor Law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State.

This state-of-the-art clinicians guide describes Perinatal ChildParent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by traumatic stress and adverse life experiences.

Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "e;women"e; in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social.

Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience.

This book illustrates the current findings of interpersonal neurobiology that inform knowledge building and clinical practice.

What happened next?

This book provides analyses of many aspects of mother-daughter relationships, starting from the premise that daughters and mothers both take an active part in shaping their relationship.

This book presents current scholarship designed to decolonize, reform and confront the Euro-centric dominance in social work education and practice.

All countries aim to improve housing conditions for their citizens but many have been forced by the financial crisis to reduce government expenditure.

Most objections to state intervention in social life are made on overtly political or moral grounds.

Social protection is now considered a development milestone and an important tool in combating poverty.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book explores and analyses the evolution of social insurance in Cyprus from 1878, beginning with the arrival of the British after 300 years of Ottoman occupation.

America's foster care system has a noble goal - to care for children that for various reasons can no longer be cared for by their families - but years of inattention and inadequate funding have left many foster youth in a precarious state.

This handbook addresses universal developmental and cultural factors contributing to child and adolescent mental health and well-being across the globe.

Justice for All identifies ten central flaws in the criminal justice system and offers an array of solutions - from status quo to evolution to revolution - to address the inequities and injustices that far too often result in courtrooms across the United States.

In this book, depression is explored as a form of loss that manifests itself as an inability to connect with others, to narrate one's own existence, to derive meaning from life experiences, and ultimately, to symbolically represent one's inner world.

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation.

This collection brings together insightful chapters which explore diverse student success initiatives and programs in response to challenges faced by community colleges.

Human trafficking is a crime that undermines fundamental human rights and a broader sense of global order.

This engaging and accessible introduction to social work encourages reflective learning in preparation for practice.

Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success examines established intergenerational programs and provides the training methods necessary for activity directors or practitioners to start a similar program.

International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict provides an important basis for readers to recognise and understand the unique and specialist role that social workers have played and continue to play in international contexts of political conflict.

Die Neubearbeitung des Buches liefert einen fundierten und praxisorientierten Leitfaden für die Durchführung zieloffener verhaltenstherapeutischer Gruppentherapien im stationären und ambulanten Setting.

Papers presented at the National Conference on Risk Factors for Youth Suicide, held at Bethesda in 1986.

The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected.

Certain types of crime are increasingly being perpetrated across national borders and require a unified regional or global response to combat them.

Counselling is a practical activity.

Working with families, carers, groups and communities is something all social work students must prepare for.

How to live a full and rewarding life after a dementia diagnosis.

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

Pro(se)letariets documents through memoir, poetry, and fiction a two year conversation held between working class writers in Syracuse, New York, and the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, United Kingdom, on how class background affected their education and career goals.