An Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine

David L. Armstrong

An Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, Third Edition provides an understanding of the origins, nature, and context of illness in society. This book discusses the relationship between health care and the society in which it occurs. Organized into 15 chapters,...

European Social Policy, Today and Tomorrow

Michael Shanks

European Social Policy, Today and Tomorrow discusses the future of theEuropean Community focusing on nine member-countries. The book discusses that if the members of theEuropean Community were to survive and prosper, they should develop a viable social policy focusing...

The Meaning of Care

Bernhard Weicht

Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original...

The Core of Care Ethics

S. Collins

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical slogan: dependency relationships generate responsibilities. It uses this slogan to unify,...

Contracting-out Welfare Services

Mark Considine , Siobhan O'sullivan

Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment...

Democracy, Civil Society and Health in India

Madhavi Gupta , Pushkar

India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule. The authors address the key issues that emerge from the country's health situation, speculating on what it will take...

Culture and the Politics of Welfare

J. Hudson , N. Jo , A. Keung

This text offers an in-depth examination of the influence of culture on welfare states. It suggests new ways in which cross-national differences in culture might be measured and, using a range of approaches, utilizes these measures to explore the role culture plays in...

Applying Theory to Generalist Social Work Practice

Carol L. Langer , Cynthia Lietz

The social worker's guide to integrating theory and practice Applying Theory to Generalist Social Work Practice teaches aspiring social workers how to apply theory in real world practice. Fully aligned with the Council on Social Work Education's 2015 Educational Policy...

Decarceration

Andrew T. Scull

Case Studies in Child, Adolescent, and Family Treatment

Elizabeth K. Anthony , Craig W. Lecroy

A detailed look at how to apply clinical theories to social work practice Thinking through real-life cases to make connections between theory and practice is a crucial element of social work education. Now in its Second Edition, Case Studies in Child, Adolescent, and...

Brazil Under the Workers' Party

K. Koonings , M. Wiesebron

This edited collection interprets and assesses the transformation of Brazil under the Workers' Party. It addresses the extent of the changes the Workers' Party has brought about and examines how successful these have been, as well as how continuity and social change in...

First World Hunger Revisited

G. Riches , T. Silvasti

Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited investigates the rise of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as effective and sustainable responses to...

Sexually Abused Children & Their Families

C. H. Kempe , P. B. Mrazek

This volume of 18 articles provides information about a diversity of issues - recognition, legal codes, evaluation, psychodynamics, treatment, prognosis and outcome. Included are reports on an extensive survey of professional recognition in England and an examination...

Sasakawa

P. Daventry

Ryoichi Sasakawa's avowed goal in life is the pursuit of world peace and the betterment of mankind. He is one of the world's greatest philanthropists - the biggest individual donor to the United Nations and the World Health Organization - and his humanitarian interests...

Social Services

Colin F. Padfield , Tony Byrne

Social Services provides an introduction to the social services in Great Britain. This fourth edition aims to take account of a number of important changes in British social services since 1984 and to generally up-date the whole text. This volume was substantially...

Consumer Education in the Human Services

Colin Greer , Frank Riessman , Alan Gartner

Consumer Education in the Human Services: A Social Policy Book focuses on the trends in consumer education and inclusion of the human services sector, aside from budgeting and purchase of goods, among the considerations in consumer education. The selection first offers...

Residential Care

Dorren Elliott , Ronald G. Walton

Residential Care: A Reader in Current Theory and Practice is a collection of papers that tackles the various issues and concerns in residential care. The title examines the practice and theory in relation to different client groups and models of working. The text first...

Social Work Research and the Analysis of Social Data

A. E. Philip , J. W. Mcculloch , N. J. Smith

Social Work Research and the Analysis ofSocial Data is a research book that describes both methodology and data analysis in logical sequence as a basis in order to begin the application of scientific method to psycho-social problems. Organized into 13 chapters, this...

Process and Action in Work with Groups

Ken Heap

Process and Action in Work with Groups: The Preconditions for Treatment and Growth focuses on the development and dynamics of the work group method, taking into consideration worker-client relationships, interchanges between clients, and the role of social workers in...

Casework in Context

D. E. F. Tilbury

Casework in Context: A Basis for Practice discusses the methodologies and techniques utilized in social case studies. The book also covers the specific applications of caseworks, along with some issues that can be encountered while in the practice. The text first...