Social Work and Social Policy

By examining community development stories as experienced on the ground, Westoby is able to show how the poor are organising themselves using various forms of community development as well as demonstrating how the state and non-state actors are attempting to organise, engage or accompany the poor th..

By examining community development stories as experienced on the ground, Westoby is able to show how the poor are organising themselves using various forms of community development as well as demonstrating how the state and non-state actors are attempting to organise, engage or accompany the poor th..

Using strong theoretical discourse, alongside new empirical research within a Scandinavian context, this cutting-edge book calls for a new theoretical paradigm to enable us to better understand the shape of the world we inhabit and to translate this understanding into the domain of social work...

This ground-breaking work addresses the central question of the nature of professional judgement and deliberation that has recently come to the fore in the academic literature of profession and professionalism. It proposes a marked shift away from technical-rational approaches to professional decisi..

Drawing on original research, this theoretically grounded book offers important insight into the experiences of vulnerable youth at a critical time in their personal and educational lives. It sets its analysis of policy and practice in full international context and redresses the balance between nee..

This book challenges the idea of the nation state as a given entity and argues that globalization, new media as well as an increasing number of people crossing borders must have an impact on the theories and strategies of social work. With cases covering China, France, India, UK, Germany, Morocco, M..

Treating Addictions: The Four Components offers a unique and coherent understanding of addiction. The book begins with a chapter discussing the framework of addiction and the four essential components of treatments--the fundamentals of addiction, co-occurring disorders, quality of life, and macro fa..

Vulnerability has traditionally been conceived as a dichotomised status, where an individual by reason of a personal characteristic, physical and mental disability, age, politics or religion is classified as vulnerable. Contemporary literature argues that vulnerability is not static, and that most, ..

This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation from a social justice perspective. It argues that the consequences of wars, in both their old and new forms, and the exercise of symbolic violence for the p..

This concise text provides a wide-ranging account of welfare conditionality as a policy mechanism for changing people’s behaviour. It charts the rise of conditionality in welfare systems across the developed and developing world and assesses its political appeal and practical application to a host o..

This concise text provides a wide-ranging account of welfare conditionality as a policy mechanism for changing people’s behaviour. It charts the rise of conditionality in welfare systems across the developed and developing world and assesses its political appeal and practical application to a host o..

Written by senior practitioners who are all still working in the front line, this book puts complex practitioner experiences into words, to help the social worker become a more effective practitioner. It demonstrates a way of thinking for the social work practitioner that can be used in all situatio..