Social Work

This book is designed to assist professionals working with youth who sexually offend. A distinguished panel of experts discusses the latest research and provides essential theory, techniques, and practical guidelines for the assessment and treatment of this challenging population...

This book is designed to assist professionals working with youth who sexually offend. A distinguished panel of experts discusses the latest research and provides essential theory, techniques, and practical guidelines for the assessment and treatment of this challenging population...

To provide immigrants with effective social services, it is essential to understand the situations that prompted them to uproot their lives and start over in a new country. Immigrants and Social Work: Thinking Beyond the Borders of the United States provides an unflinching look at many of these coun..

To provide immigrants with effective social services, it is essential to understand the situations that prompted them to uproot their lives and start over in a new country. Immigrants and Social Work: Thinking Beyond the Borders of the United States provides an unflinching look at many of these coun..

Social work practice can be positively or negatively impacted by the advance of technology. Advances and applications must be up-to-date as possible, yet they may be ineffective if not simple enough to easily learn and use. Information Technology and Evidence-Based Social Work presents leading socia..

Brings together a number of different research studies and accounts of institutional abuse from leading academics and researchers...

This much-needed exploration of the cognitive side of social work practice provides a framework for improving social work practice and education...

International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions, and community settings. This usef..

International Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy presents the latest available research on the various interpretations of  “welfare-to-work” in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong, and on the role social work plays in creating and implementing social welfare policies...

International Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy presents the latest available research on the various interpretations of  “welfare-to-work” in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong, and on the role social work plays in creating and implementing social welfare policies...

Gathering a range of international perspectives on how social workers highlight and engage with the struggles of those with whom they work, this book demonstrates the concerns of mental health social workers, and the ways in which major challenges are being confronted, in a range of different countr..

In Interprofessional Collaboration the benefits of collaboration for patients and carers are confirmed through theoretical models illustrated with case studies of existing examples...