Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families

Building Secure New Lives

By Liza Bingley Miller, Arnon Bentovim

Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives helpful guidance...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40945-2 (Routledge)

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Managing the City

Edited by John Diamond, Joyce Liddle, Alan Southern, Alan Townsend

Taking a problem based approach to regeneration management, this exciting new book, authored by renowned academics and practitioners, examines how issues of ethics, equality, sustainability,...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38258-8 (Routledge)

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Family Life and Youth Offending

Home is Where the Hurt is

By Raymond Arthur

The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending....

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40844-8 (Routledge)

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Social Work and Child Abuse

Still Walking the Tightrope?

By Dave Merrick

While social work practice with child abuse is a well-documented topic, this revised edition of Social Work and Child Abuse actually challenges and changes the...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35415-8 (Routledge)

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Europe and Asia beyond East and West

Edited by Gerard Delanty

This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37947-2 (Routledge)

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The State of Feminist Social Work

By Vicky White

Social work is currently undergoing major change in its policies, organization and day-to-day practice and much has been written about the feminist presence in social...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32844-9 (Routledge)

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Children, Place and Identity

Nation and Locality in Middle Childhood

By Jonathan Scourfield, Bella Dicks, Mark Drakeford, Andrew Davies

In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35127-0 (Routledge)

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International Encyclopedia of Social Policy

3-volume set

Edited by Tony Fitzpatrick, Nick Manning, James Midgely, Huck-ju Kwon, Gillian Pascall

This milestone work is the first to offer in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a...

2006 | : 978-0-415-25896-8 (Routledge)

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Community and Everyday Life

By Graham Day

'Community' continues to be a persistent theme in political, philosophical and policy debates. The idea of community poses fundamental questions about social inclusion and exclusion,...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34074-8 (Routledge)

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Nurturing Future Generations

Promoting Resilience in Children and Adolescents Through Social, Emotional and Cognitive Skills

By Ed.D., Rosemary A. Thompson

The statistics are pretty grim - young people face an ever increasing tide of poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, violence, suicide, and family dysfunction. Society's...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95097-8 (Routledge)

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