Social Policy for Social Work

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975), this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition wi...

Reducere. Christians in the United States are on a quest for good food. And yet, at every turn, they confront brokenness in the food system. Access to health...

Provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to non-directive play therapy, which is an effective method of helping troubled children a...

Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into in...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HarveyThroughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship be...

This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational b...

In this work, Amrita Narlikar argues that, contrary to common assumption, modern-day politics displays a surprising paradox: poverty - and the powe...

Teachers and leaders from curriculum areas across the sector will find scenarios and anecdotes that resonate in this book; timetabling, accountabil...

This perceptive collection explores ableism in academia from the viewpoint of academics' personal and professional experiences and scholarship. Thr...

Krumer-Nevo provides a new framework for people working with and for people in poverty: The Poverty-Aware Paradigm. This book details its extensive...

Drawing together a team of expert contributors from across the sector to offer contemporary descriptions and critical reflection of practice in hig...

DescriptionDisability Studies in Education (DSE) provides a useful and compelling framework for re-envisioning the possibility of education for all...

Contributor(s): Editor: Lois BraggTo many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited. Deaf World thus concerns itself less w...

DescriptionAmerica's criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. A preeminent legal scholar ar...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and ...

This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising a...

Reducere. Tools for Radical Democracy is an essential resource for grassroots organizers and leaders, students of activism and advocacy, and anyone trying to...

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex f...

Reducere. Since it first appeared in 1978, this seminal work by one of the foremost American legal minds of our age has dramatically changed the way the cour...

A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s):...

Reducere. This book is a testament to the power of collaborative, liberatory approaches to research, curriculum, and pedagogy. As scholars, educators, and ac...

Why should some have the right to pass power? What would happen without government? How much power should the state have? An ideal introduction for...

DescriptionCompassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human hist...

DescriptionIn a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressi...

An introduction to the diverse settings of social work, detailing the relevant policy context, methods and approaches.Publisher: Open University Pr...

This is the first book about the intermediary scheme, criminal justice's untold 'good news story'. It provides a comprehensive explanation of how i...

DescriptionProviding insight into current research, and comprehensive guidance on recent legislation and policy, this key text offers anyone workin...

Reducere. A Space for Race engages in a critical examination of some of the major discourses related to original/settler/immigrant and, particularly, raciali...

As many social inequalities widen, this is a crucial survey of local authorities' evolving role in health, social care and wellbeing. Health and so...

DescriptionIn Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground arguments advanc...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that ar...

Reducere. The present enquiry is an Indo-centric approach to study the extension of Copenhagen School related to Securitisation of the Cyber domain and Cyber...

This book describes version 4 of CATS CM(R). This methodology for contract managementcan be used in both private and public sector organizations, a...

Reducere. The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a high percenta...

DescriptionWhat is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many sex workers, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, ...

Aiming to help overcome difficulties arising from the lack of an agreed vocabulary, this reference work is useful for researchers, students and pol...

Reducere. The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to th...

Reducere. Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy--a form of what today might be called socia...

This book chronicles the evolution of women's participation in the labour force in Ireland over the last five decades. It will be a valuable resour...

Reducere. As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCB...

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdiscip...

Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, this book covers all the main topics in the first year of both the underg...

Reducere. How do ideas change practices and people? In Ideas That Changed Literacy Practices 32 influential scholars in literacy education get personal about...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionHospital Social Work introduces the reader to the world of medicine and social work as seen through the eyes of actual social workers. A...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Daniel WeismanAuthor: Joseph ZornadoThis invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a s...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Working the Planning Table, Ronald M. Cervero and Arthur L. Wilson offer a theory that accounts for planners' lived experience and pr...

This Handbook shows that Business History is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, producing compelling empirical data, which has sometimes con...

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass m...

In order to be well-governed, a democracy needs voters who are fluent in the language of economics and who can do some quantitative analysis of soc...

Transitions and the Lifecourse investigates and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions in late life. Amanda Grenier takes a cross-natio...

Written for the HNC in Social Care, this work covers the six mandatory units and three SVQ units. It focuses on supporting students with completing...

Reducere. Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadt...

Reducere. This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities, but it reverses the 'normal' causal process. That is, many chapters analyze h...

This accessible book provides an overview of trauma-informed care and related neuroscience research across populations. The book explains how traum...

Arts Integration and Special Education contributes to research, policy, and practice by providing a theory of action for studying how linguistic, c...

Reducere. How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, m...

Reducere. Emerging policy changes are encouraging adoption of a team-based approach to healthcare, yet most healthcare professionals receive little training ...

This new text illuminates the essential information about health and social work critical to understanding today's complex health care systems and ...

Reducere. Diversity, Oppression, and Change, Third Edition provides a culturally grounded approach to practice, policy, and research in social work and allie...

Reducere. This unique edited collection addresses issues impacting the well-being of LGBTQ individuals with diverse identities to help students, practitioner...

This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state...

Reducere. Clear, comprehensive, and accessible, this textbook presents an overview of the contemporary American mental health system and its impact on client...

Reducere. This clear and accessible guide√>=written by social workers for social workers√>=describes the most current developments in neuroscience and their ...

DescriptionThis book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public he...

Population Health: Management, Policy and Innovation, Second Edition builds upon the work in the First Edition. The institutions of healthcare and ...

Considered the classic source in its field, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: THEORY AND SKILLS prepares you for effective real-world practice. Packed w...

First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the...

This work offers a new interpretation of the United Progressive Alliance's (2004-14) radical agenda for the religious minorities. It uses an instit...

This is the first part of a two-volume work which will provide an authoritative UK-wide account from the initial settlement under New Labour in 199...