Social Work

Diagnosis in Social Work argues for the reinstatement of social diagnosis to its former place as an essential concept in social work intervention. It shows how the concept of diagnosis in social work has been misunderstood and given a negative, narrow definition in commonly used texts, and how this ..

Examines current theories and practices relating to disability. The focus of the work is not disabled people as 'objects' of study but rather an analysis of disability as it has been historically and culturally constructed...

Examines current theories and practices relating to disability. The focus of the work is not disabled people as 'objects' of study but rather an analysis of disability as it has been historically and culturally constructed...

This single source is designed to help social service professionals provide effective services to America's vastly diverse and rapidly growing elderly population. Diversity and Aging in the Social Environment explores the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and geographic location ..

This single source is designed to help social service professionals provide effective services to America's vastly diverse and rapidly growing elderly population. Diversity and Aging in the Social Environment explores the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and geographic location ..

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been, and where, especially in the Western world, they are going...

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been, and where, especially in the Western world, they are going...

The numbers of women offenders involved in the correctional system are quickly growing. Drugs, Women, and Justicegathers a distinguished group of researchers and policy analysts into one volume to explore the broad social and individual implications of current policy and practice pertaining to women..

Death is inevitable in life. It knows no boundaries. It knows no skin color, no financial or social standing. It knows nothing but itself. The paradox of Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer is in its warm affirmation of life through the 'dying declarations' of patients who are peering..

Death is inevitable in life. It knows no boundaries. It knows no skin color, no financial or social standing. It knows nothing but itself. The paradox of Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer is in its warm affirmation of life through the 'dying declarations' of patients who are peering..

This book researches and highlights struggles for economic justice and new models of community organization that achieves it._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Community Practice...

This book recognises the organisational, professional and emotional challenges of social care training, and provides a theoretical framework for training and professional development...