Social welfare and social services

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and registers, this book investigates social capital in relation to health and health inequalities in European welfare states.

The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history.

This convenient and easy-to-use pocket-sized reference provides gerontology nurses with the foundational knowledge they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective care to older patients.

This book offers a unique focus on the well-being of Chinese and South/Southeast Asian students in the context of Hong Kong, and in particular the experience of integrating these young people into its schooling system.

This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

Interaktionsdiagnostik als Spezialfall der Verhaltensbeobachtung von Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen wird inzwischen im Rahmen vieler Untersuchungen, Beratungen und Therapien angewandt.

A bold manifesto by two business leaders, A Billion Bootstraps shows why microcredit is the world's most powerful poverty-fighting movement-and an unbeatable investment for your charitable donations.

Social work practice with children, young people and families is complex, highly skilled - and fascinating.

'Insightful and refreshing.

Wie ist es um die Mundgesundheit Ihrer Senior:innen bestellt?

The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families.

Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy shows mental health professionals how the blending of expressive arts, psychotherapy, and metaphorical communication can both support and enhance clinical practice.

Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline is the first book written to provide school psychologists and other K-12 mental health professionals with knowledge and strategies intended to help them disrupt the criminalization of historically oppressed learners in today's classrooms.

This book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare.

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Explores practice theories and demonstrates how these can be understood and enacted by practitioners.

This title was first published in 2003.

Shortlisted for the SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2011Governing, Independence and Expertise tells the story of the not-for-profit housing sector in England, focusing on its representative body, the National Housing Federation.

The way in which dementia is understood and treated is changing, with a growing focus on the individual's experience and person-centred approaches to care.

This is a must-have companion for those on placement or in professional practice or indeed anyone who is being encouraged to reflect more deeply on what they do.

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies.

Louis Lowy (1920-1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

Parenting a child who doesn't know how to be parented is the most difficult job in the world.

Attachment theory has become a key focus of both research and practice in understanding and treating psychological and social risk for marital and relationship problems, parenting and clinical disorders.

Managers in social work and social care contexts are required to manage a wide range of projects: long-term and short-term, on large and small scales, in partnership with other agencies, and covering a broad range of issues and contexts.

Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day.

This book offers an applied approach to criminology suitable for prospective police officers.

Examining a range of countries, periods and policy areas, this book provides an original explanation of market reforms in the industrialized world.

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement.

This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality in modern societies, particularly in Europe.

Poetry is an engaging and inclusive activity for older people that can help develop memory, imagination and identity.

Writing is intellectual, solitary work, and mothering too often seen as its antithesis.

This in-depth case study of a mid-sized police department captures the dynamics, struggles, and successes of police change, revealing the positive organizational and community outcomes that resulted from a persistent drive to reinvent public safety and community relationships.

This book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood.

This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on 'family' and 'kinship' but also looking beyond these categories.

Significant shifts in community violence have created a need for greater awareness of character development and violence prevention in schools.

Communication in Social Work focuses on the role of communication in social work.

This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for elevating a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults.

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communitiesThe word "e;peacebuilding"e; evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse.

In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.

Elementary School Counseling is a resource guide for graduate-level elementary school counselors-in-training and for practicing elementary school counselors.