Social Work and Social Policy

Social workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for both the worker and the client. This classic text provides a framework to help social workers develop..

Cynthia Moniz and Stephen Gorin’s Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopyschosocial Perspective is a new mental health policy textbook that offers students a model for understanding policy in a framework that addresses policy practice. Edited to read like a textbook, each chap..

Written by leading authorities in international social work, this book addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination. The contributors focus on innovative theories and practice designed to promote an emancipatory social work which sets itself the goal of eradicating social injusti..

Written by leading authorities in international social work, this book addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination. The contributors focus on innovative theories and practice designed to promote an emancipatory social work which sets itself the goal of eradicating social injusti..

This is the first book to analyze the experiences of British-Indian adult children of divorce and contextualize their experiences within the larger multi-cultural polity of the UK. It also discusses the value and implications of understanding the divorce phenomenon and how it is experienced within t..

This engaging and informative volume fills both a theoretical and a practice gap in the literature on tackling social work problems on a global scale. Drawing on a range of international exchange projects, it discusses the experiences of academics, practitioners and students involved in internation..

For decades, social work policy has been geared around checklists, maximizing throughput of cases, and responding to scandals. In this ground-breaking work, Judy Foster makes the case that such biases promote neither efficiency nor client satisfaction. Instead, she urges a complete overhaul, based o..

Whilst the body has assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work in the context of wider debates about v..

Whilst the body has assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work in the context of wider debates about v..

This is a guide to commissioning and purchasing in social care providing case studies, guidelines, and checklists to help readers to assess need, develop care plans and select suppliers of care...

First published in 1998,  the aims of this book are: the comparison of community care service and financing systems, the comparison of reform arguments and history over the last decade, the comparison of who uses how much of what services, and with what impact on their needs and the probability of h..

Compassionate Communities: Case Studies from Britain and Europe provides the first major volume describing and examining compassionate community experiments in end of life care from a highly practical perspective. Focusing on community development initiatives and practice challenges, the book offers..