Social welfare and social services

This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s.

Central to a social worker's role is the ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds, but social workers can often feel anxious and unsure of how to approach anti-discriminatory practice.

Encompassing theory, research, and practice, this tenth edition provides an introduction to conflict communication and conflict management.

Single mothers caring for dependent children are an important and increasing population in industrialized countries.

Competency in Generalist Practice features an original and timely social work practice model that will transform the way generalist and evidence-based practice are taught.

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.

This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia.

Program evaluations are more relevant when conducted by the people directly involved in the programs and members of the communities they serve.

Are you smart, scattered, and struggling?

School cyberbullying, bullying and violence have reached epidemic levels.

Der Finanzmarkt und das Thema Nachhaltigkeit - das bedeutet einerseits Gewinnerwartung und hohe Renditen, andererseits ethisch-moralische Werte für eine gesellschaftliche Entwicklung.

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.

It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians.

A new way to think about ageing - for ourselves and the people we love.

Depression ranks as a leading mental health problem among Hispanic immigrants and their US-born children.

This book offers specific, easy-to-implement mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) tools for practitioners to use in schools at an individual, group, or classroom-wide level.

This unique volume advances the literature on sleep and health by illuminating the impacts of family dynamics on individuals' quality and quantity of sleep.

In At Risk, Karen J.

Since its beginnings after WWII, Counseling Psychology has grown to become an applied specialty within psychology with unique areas of emphasis.

The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine.

The lessons in Getting to Know Me aim to foster positive attitudes towards self and others.

This second edition of Ambulance Care Essentials offers a complete guide to the skills, knowledge and understanding required to work as a support worker or similar within the ambulance service.

Ayurveda is a holistic healing tradition from India whose history is linked to the development of yoga.

This book attempts to 'shake up' the current complacency around therapy and 'mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis; showing how changes to our social, discursive, and societal environments, rather than changes to an individual's 'mind', will reduce suffering from the 'mental health' behaviours.

Learn the public health implications of shifting drug-related risks among the inner city poorInner city drug use behavior shifts and changes, leaving past drug treatment programs, drug prevention efforts, health care provisions for drug users, and social service practice unprepared to effectively respond.

Co-published with At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success.

All social work students must undertake Practice Placements in the second and final years of their programme and the placement is a crucial area of assessment for passing the degree course.

This book addresses the central question of European solidarity in the face of a multitude of crises in Europe and focuses on its discursive manifestation in public debates.

Is abortion ethical?

Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: A Workbook for the 'No Kids in the Middle' Intervention Programme is an essential resource for reframing the divorce process to centre the child.

Knock down cultural walls to build a foundation for successful social group work!

Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below.

Adoption is not for the faint of heart.

A Call to Life aims to help veterinary caregivers increase self-efficacy, decrease unnecessary suffering, and increase sustainability in their mission to support animal health around the world.

The rapid expansion of doctoral education in social work is changing academia, and expanding the expectations of education for professional practice.

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This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare.

This book addresses how longitudinal research approaches are used to understand young people's lives.

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

Filling a huge vacuum of scholarship on the Japanese criminal justice system, The Politics of Police Detention in Japan: Consensus of Convenience shines a spotlight on the remand procedure for criminal suspects in Japan, where the 23-day duration for which individuals can be held in police custody prior to being indicted is the longest amongst developed nations, with the majority of countries stipulating 4 days or less.

This popular textbook gives students a practical understanding of the broad range of skills they will need during the course of their studies and throughout their youth work career.

Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care.

Location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar and increasingly significant parts of our everyday mobile-mediated experiences.

Challenging Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: A Game of Moves and Countermoves takes the unusual approach of exploring and describing how organized crime groups develop their capacities in response to heightened powers of law enforcement; and how law enforcement in turn responds, creating an ongoing dynamic interaction.