Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People

This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices…

Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia

In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries. It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian countries – Sweden, Norway and Denmark - that they have both a large public and voluntary sector. For decades, the dominant type of collaboration between the two s…

Sex-Work, Prostitution and Policy

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism. This antagonism is reflected in UK policy debates, which are further complicated by their enactment in spaces of neoliberal hegemony. This book analyses the plurality of narratives which contribute to Westminster sex-work/prostitution policy debates and subsequently …

Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life

This handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life. It addresses the new challenges of ageing from the paradigm of positive ageing (active, healthy and successful) for a better quality of life. It provides theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, including scientific knowledge as well as practical experiences about the good ageing and t…

Social Work at the Level of International Comparison

The book presents a theoretical and practical approach to international social work. It uses examples from Germany with a long tradition of social work and focuses on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which is in a pioneering phase in teaching social work while at the same time experiencing a highly explosive situation in global politics. Socio-political challenges such as violence, traumatization,…

Knowledge, Innovation, and Impact

This book provides researchers with a straightforward and accessible guide for carrying out research that will help them to combine good science with real-world impact. The format of this book is simple: concise chapters on key topics, examples and case studies, written in plain language that will guide researchers through the process of research-driven innovation. The book draws on the editors…

Electricity Access and Community Welfare in Indonesia

This book represents a synthesis of research findings on energy in remote rural areas in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, demarcating a localised understanding of electricity issues that are relevant to similar community profiles in other developing countries, which are facing similar challenges. The authors discuss several key issues relating to electricity access in the Indonesian context, su…

Openness in Practice

This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available. Based on interviews with practitioners, users and evangelists across three Australian-based case studies illustrating contemporary open data practices, this book discusses how open data has evolved, why certain barriers to openness e…

Voluntary Organisations and Rural Development in South Asia

This book examines the role of voluntary organizations (VOs) in rural development in the south Asian context. While addressing the existing knowledge gap for developmental task sharing with non-government social forces in developing nations; It provides evidence-based knowledge about the structure, functioning, effectiveness, community base, public image, GO-VO equation, strength, challenges, …

Working with Excluded Populations in HIV

This book, written decades into the HIV epidemic, reflects critically on the idea that the socially excluded populations often focused on in HIV research are in fact difficult to access and reach. The author broadly applies the concept ‘hard to reach’ to characterize populations that researchers find difficult to engage with. Social factors that produce marginalization and ultimately result…

The Importance and Value of Older Employees

This open access book makes a contribution to our understanding of one of the social challenges facing many western nations i.e. the challenge of an ageing population. It specifically addresses the issue of competence among older employees. Others have studied ageing populations in terms of the economic burden or the pressure on healthcare services and generally view the rising numbers of senio…

The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the…

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities. The authors draw on their diverse experiences in research, practice, and education to suggest interdisciplina…

Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, human relationships are under considerable threat. Despite the 1994 commitment to an inclusive and human-rights-based democracy, human relationships remain strained. Bearing in mind South Africa's tortuous and divisive past, this book brings to light many issues, prospe…

Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting from 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have provided global statistical standards for organization-based and direct volunteering which offer path-breaking opportunities. The global statistical standards on v…

COVID-19 and Social Protection

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction of people’s well-being has worsened poverty, and inequality worsened the situation of the already marginalized. At the same ti…

Life Expectations of the People

This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness. Based on large-scale survey data combined with the corresponding sociological theory for analysis, it presents detailed information, compelling arguments, and well-founded conclusions, offerin…

Early Identification and Intervention of Suicide Risk in Chinese Young Adults

This book presents a concise introduction to the contemporary research and practice of suicide prevention, and it addresses the cognitive and neurological aspects of suicide. With the inclusion of extensive thought-provoking material, this book is of great value to clinicians, researchers, educators, students, and anyone who are broadly interested in suicide assessments and interventions. The a…

Social Policy, Service Users and Carers

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers. While service user and carer involvement has become more and more prominent in social policy over recent years, it is rarely the case that the perspectives of service users and carers goes beyond consultation to truly meaningful involvement and co-production. This book is un…

Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities

This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities, social work education as a community development tool, and the empowerment of social workers in deprived communities. Inequality…

Ambivalences of Inclusion in Society and Social Work

This book represents the work of the European Research Network: Inclusive Society and the Role of Social Work, which comprises researchers from Barcelona, Spain; Koblenz, Germany; Maastricht, The Netherlands; and Zagreb, Croatia. The authors present research results and reflections from these four different European countries to provide a comprehensive introduction and discussion of the ambival…

Slum Development in India

This book is an earnest effort in understanding the slums and their needs by taking a case study of Kalaburagi, India. This study aims to contribute sustainable methodologies to advance the living conditions of slum dwellers and for better execution of slum policies. The core objectives are: 1) mapping the existing slums of Kalaburagi (formerly Gulbarga) city using slum ontology from very high-…

Child Development: A Practitioner`s Guide, THIRD EDITION

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-60623-909-4

Collation

494 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

362.7 Dav c

Gang Prevention in Schools

This book delves deep into the hidden population of former gang members who share their positive and negative experiences of being gang members. Their stories of violence, hopelessness, despair, and loneliness also offer a seed of hope – they contain the building blocks for prevention. By understanding why they each turned to gangs, how they turned to gangs, and what went wrong for some along…

TROUBLED RELATIONSHIPS: Families in Trouble Series, Volume 3

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-8039-2702-9

Collation

288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

362.8 Tro t

Social Work Practice & People of Color: A Process-Stage Approach, SECOND EDITION

Edition

2nd

ISBN/ISSN

0-534-17040-4

Collation

252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

362.84 Lum s 1992

Family Business Review: JOURNAL OF THE FAMILY FIRM INSTITUTE Special Issue: F…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0894-4865

Collation

iv, 435 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

361.765 05 Fam f

Family Business Review: JOURNAL OF THE FAMILY FIRM INSTITUTE, Volume V Number…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0894-4865

Collation

iv, 112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

361.765 05 Fam f

INTERACTIONAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE; Toward an Empirical Theory

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-87581-3550

Collation

xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

361.32 Shu i 1991

Clinical Social Work Practice with the Elderly: Primary, Secondary, and Terti…

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

0-534-17130-3

Collation

v, 280 p. : 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

362.6 Bea c

SOCIAL WORK AND HOUSING

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-333-44666-6

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

360 Ste s 1993