This book tackles deep and enduring challenges that confront child protection and child welfare systems across international jurisdictions. Informed by universally applied concepts of child protection typology-building within a systemic framework, i...Loe edasi...
This Element maps the relationship between taxation and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. It reviews studies in fiscal sociology, history, political science, and political economy to highlight blind spots in the knowledge...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009565707)
This Element maps the relationship between taxation and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. It reviews studies in fiscal sociology, history, political science, and political economy to highlight blind spots in the knowledge...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108499194)
The settlement of the poor in England is about social change and about historys unintended consequences. It is also about the struggles and experiences of individuals and communities. The settlement of the poor that emerged in 1662 still resonates...Loe edasi...
Packed with practical tools, this manual presents DBT STEPS-E, a comprehensive social–emotional learning (SEL) program grounded in the proven skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Two complete curricula are designed to integrate seamle...Loe edasi...
Packed with practical tools, this manual presents DBT STEPS-E, a comprehensive social–emotional learning (SEL) program grounded in the proven skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Two complete curricula are designed to integrate seamle...Loe edasi...
This book revisits after about close to 20 years the East Asian Welfare Model when looked at from an ideal-typical perspective. Ideal-typical welfare regimes do not change, in general, quickly, they are stable, due to the higher level of observation...Loe edasi...
This volume examines how young creators learn, create, and share their visual art online. Drawing from a robust set of case studies gathered locally, nationally, and internationally over three years with young adults 16-24, this work comes together...Loe edasi...
How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt’s the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power...Loe edasi...
The definitive guide to implementing systemic social work, a pioneering relational model. Includes an introduction to the core theoretical concepts alongside reflective exercises and direct practice examples. This book equips social workers with the...Loe edasi...
A “riveting, deeply compassionate” (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness for decades and has s...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1932, this manual was intended mainly for the use of student’s and nurses, but it was the author’s hope that it would also prove useful to the increasing number of parents anxious to obtain a knowledge of the principles whi...Loe edasi...
The Foundling Hospital was established to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. This Element makes visible the uneasy tension between the perspe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009459914)
The Foundling Hospital was established to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. This Element makes visible the uneasy tension between the perspe...Loe edasi...
Are you a social work student looking to build your knowledge on child abuse? This is the book you need, offering contemporary insights into child abuse within the UK and beyond. It covers the evolution of child abuse co...Loe edasi...
Are you a social work student looking to build your knowledge on child abuse? This is the book you need, offering contemporary insights into child abuse within the UK and beyond. It covers the evolution of child abuse co...Loe edasi...
This open access volume analyses the conditions needed for greater participation of children in social change and development, focusing on Nordic countries. With the idea that citizens of future societies are best placed to envisage their ideal fu...Loe edasi...
Juvenile crime doesnt just happen-there is always a story behind it.Before Their Crimes: What Were Misunderstanding about Childhood Trauma, Youth Crime, and the Path to Healing is a ground-breaking book that sheds new li...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1961, when the NSPCC played a very real and important part in the Welfare State. This is Your Child, sketches the history of the Society and gives a moving account of the work it does in relieving neglect and cruelty...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking examination of how Vietnam’s legal system is evolving to protect and empower children. Combining theoretical foundations with comparative insights, the book navigates through critical issues such as juvenile justi...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking textbook offers an accessible, comprehensive guide to conducting clinical interviews and mental health assessments with children and adolescents. Designed for students and professionals in psychology, counseli...Loe edasi...
This edited volume investigates the complexities of child refugees and migrants from a global perspective. With millions of young migrants and refugees worldwide, there is a need for novel understandings and conceptualizations of the impact of nat...Loe edasi...
This book examines the complexities of OVCs in Zimbabwe, situated within the broader context of the Global South and the Southern African region. The global community has recognised the importance of protecting childrens rights and well-being, wi...Loe edasi...
First published in 1994, this book examines neglected area of stress and coping strategies of children and staff in residential settings who must function within contradictory expectations of the public and policy makers. It is particularly valuab...Loe edasi...
An argument for the abolition of corporate food aid Due to multiple political and economic crises, the demand for charitable food aid has increased enormously since 2020. Initially seen as an emergency measure, corpora...Loe edasi...
Anchored in a multidisciplinary approach, the book brings together insights from law, social work, psychology, education, and public policy to examine how various systems interact in India in addressing the issues related to protection of children...Loe edasi...
Anchored in a multidisciplinary approach, the book brings together insights from law, social work, psychology, education, and public policy to examine how various systems interact in India in addressing the issues related to protection of children...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on how youth work and music is measured and valued. The collection explores the landscape of youth work and music, music production and young people’s identities, and the opportunities and constraints within the measurement of th...Loe edasi...
This book tackles deep and enduring challenges that confront child protection and child welfare systems across international jurisdictions. Informed by universally applied concepts of child protection typology-building within a systemic framework, i...Loe edasi...
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This groundbreaking volume exposes the systematic violence embedded within the UKs asylum system as experienced by unaccompanied children and young people. Drawing on innovat...Loe edasi...
This Element maps the relationship between taxation and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. It reviews studies in fiscal sociology, history, political science, and political economy to highlight blind spots in the knowledge...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009565707)
This Element maps the relationship between taxation and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. It reviews studies in fiscal sociology, history, political science, and political economy to highlight blind spots in the knowledge...Loe edasi...
Laura Abbott, Jacynta S. Krakouer, Bachar Alrouh, Natalie Avlonitis, Ida Benedicte Juhasz, Katy Burch, Susan Burke, Kerri Cleaver, Laura Cowley, Kirsty Kitchen...
This book draws together leading scholars, practitioners and mothers with lived experience to confront the contentious and often hidden practice of infant removal at birth. The first edited collection of its kind, it offers a powerful examination of...Loe edasi...
Drawing on original qualitative research with Black and Brown mothers, this book introduces the SAWUBONA model – an Afro-centric, anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice framework that values indigenous knowledge, fosters cultural humility and centr...Loe edasi...
Practitioners and managers in child protection often struggle to focus on the needs of children and families in the face of ever-expanding bureaucracy. This book brings together authors from across Europe to explore the strategies and solut...Loe edasi...
Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios. Deviating from this is often deemed irresponsible and irrational. However,...Loe edasi...
This thoroughly updated second edition presents a comprehensive legal perspective on the inherently interdisciplinary field of children’s rights. Chapters provide an article-by-article analysis of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108499194)
The settlement of the poor in England is about social change and about historys unintended consequences. It is also about the struggles and experiences of individuals and communities. The settlement of the poor that emerged in 1662 still resonates...Loe edasi...
Packed with practical tools, this manual presents DBT STEPS-E, a comprehensive social–emotional learning (SEL) program grounded in the proven skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Two complete curricula are designed to integrate seamle...Loe edasi...
Packed with practical tools, this manual presents DBT STEPS-E, a comprehensive social–emotional learning (SEL) program grounded in the proven skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Two complete curricula are designed to integrate seamle...Loe edasi...
Alejandro de la Fuente, Samuel Freije, Miki Khanh Doan
Sari: International Development in Focus
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: World Bank Publications, ISBN-13: 9781464823145)
Climate hazards endanger progress in reducing poverty across Latin America and the Caribbean. New data, past and original research, alongside real-world cases, reveal the communities most at risk. The analysis shows how targeted policies can protect...Loe edasi...
This book revisits after about close to 20 years the East Asian Welfare Model when looked at from an ideal-typical perspective. Ideal-typical welfare regimes do not change, in general, quickly, they are stable, due to the higher level of observation...Loe edasi...
Katharina Fietz, Clement Joubert, Hugo Ñopo, Alberto Ocampo, Truman Packard, Josefina Posadas, Lourdes Rodriguez Chamussy
Sari: International Development in Focus
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: World Bank Publications, ISBN-13: 9781464822384)
This report aims to deepen our understanding of informality of work and employment outcomes in Latin American and Caribbean labor markets, focusing on the interplay between personal income taxation, social protection policies, and consequently firm a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: World Bank Publications, ISBN-13: 9781464823022)
Describes the approaches of the Sudan Family Support Program, which offers a valuable model for adaptive, inclusive, and resilient social protection in crisis-affected settings....Loe edasi...
This volume examines how young creators learn, create, and share their visual art online. Drawing from a robust set of case studies gathered locally, nationally, and internationally over three years with young adults 16-24, this work comes together...Loe edasi...
How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt’s the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035308187)
This insightful book examines the crucial role of social protection in development, with a particular focus on the Global South. Drawing on extensive empirical research and theoretical frameworks, internationally recognized social development scholar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035359875)
Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered. They explain the key principles in business and social science and are expertly written by some of the world’s leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint essential...Loe edasi...
The definitive guide to implementing systemic social work, a pioneering relational model. Includes an introduction to the core theoretical concepts alongside reflective exercises and direct practice examples. This book equips social workers with the...Loe edasi...
A “riveting, deeply compassionate” (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness for decades and has s...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1932, this manual was intended mainly for the use of student’s and nurses, but it was the author’s hope that it would also prove useful to the increasing number of parents anxious to obtain a knowledge of the principles whi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035371334)
This innovative book analyses the hurdles preventing Latin American governments from implementing universalist welfare regimes. Juan Cruz Ferre presents a unique quantitative analysis of the persistent inequalities in welfare policy across this regio...Loe edasi...
The Foundling Hospital was established to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. This Element makes visible the uneasy tension between the perspe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009459914)
The Foundling Hospital was established to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. This Element makes visible the uneasy tension between the perspe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035375431)
This timely book showcases a new approach to social investment that links investments to evidence-based interventions and clear effectiveness criteria. This approach makes welfare policies more efficient, equitable and sustainable, and moves beyond t...Loe edasi...
Children remain among the most vulnerable members of society, and the responsibility of protecting their rights requires ongoing intellectual, legal, religious, cultural and social engagement. Since the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights a...Loe edasi...
Children remain among the most vulnerable members of society, and the responsibility of protecting their rights requires ongoing intellectual, legal, religious, cultural and social engagement. Since the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Canadian Scholars, ISBN-13: 9781773384894)
Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is a practical text designed to help students learn essential interviewing and counselling skills through a practical action-oriented approach and scenarios situated in common professi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Canadian Scholars, ISBN-13: 9781773385105)
We Were Not Built to Break: Racially Affirming Care for Black Children, Families, and Communities provides Child and Youth Care workers with a critical understanding of the ways in which race and racism influences the experiences and...Loe edasi...
The permanent removal of children from their families of origin to place with another family for adoption is coming under greater critical scrutiny across the world. Policy debates and media discourse focus on the benefits of providing children wi...Loe edasi...
The permanent removal of children from their families of origin to place with another family for adoption is coming under greater critical scrutiny across the world. Policy debates and media discourse focus on the benefits of providing children wi...Loe edasi...
Are you a social work student looking to build your knowledge on child abuse? This is the book you need, offering contemporary insights into child abuse within the UK and beyond. It covers the evolution of child abuse co...Loe edasi...
Are you a social work student looking to build your knowledge on child abuse? This is the book you need, offering contemporary insights into child abuse within the UK and beyond. It covers the evolution of child abuse co...Loe edasi...
This open access volume analyses the conditions needed for greater participation of children in social change and development, focusing on Nordic countries. With the idea that citizens of future societies are best placed to envisage their ideal fu...Loe edasi...
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: United Nations, ISBN-13: 9789211543698)
Social protection systems in the Arab region tackle life cycle risks and economic shocks that fuel deep inequalities. The report analyzes evolving responses for vulnerable groupsinformal workers, women, youth, the elderly, disabled persons and migra...Loe edasi...
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: United Nations, ISBN-13: 9789211596090)
Tracking 135 policy reforms, the analysis reveals a marked transition in the Arab world from reactive emergency measures to enduring, systematic social protection strategies. This evolving approach reflects governments deep commitment to refining we...Loe edasi...
Juvenile crime doesnt just happen-there is always a story behind it.Before Their Crimes: What Were Misunderstanding about Childhood Trauma, Youth Crime, and the Path to Healing is a ground-breaking book that sheds new li...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9781779401045)
An urgent examination of Canada’s legal, cultural, and historical acceptance of corporal punishment and the children it continues to failIn Spare the Child: Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment, author Ailsa Watkinson exposes a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9781779401052)
An urgent examination of Canada’s legal, cultural, and historical acceptance of corporal punishment and the children it continues to failIn Spare the Child: Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment, author Ailsa Watkinson exposes a...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1961, when the NSPCC played a very real and important part in the Welfare State. This is Your Child, sketches the history of the Society and gives a moving account of the work it does in relieving neglect and cruelty...Loe edasi...
Child and family social work faces pressing challenges, from high care rates – particularly among marginalised communities – to limited family involvement in decision-making. How can social work evolve to better empower children and families? ...Loe edasi...
Child and family social work faces pressing challenges, from high care rates – particularly among marginalised communities – to limited family involvement in decision-making. How can social work evolve to better empower children and families? ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Institute of Economic Affairs, ISBN-13: 9780255368513)
The book presents a powerful and controversial argument: that ever more tax and spend might not actually lead to higher social welfare. ...Loe edasi...
Richard P. Barth, Jill Duerr Berrick, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Antonio R. Garcia, Johanna K.P Greeson, John R. Gyourko, Brett Drake
Sari: Understanding series
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035359110)
Co-authored by eminent scholars in the field, this book surveys the processes and outcomes of child welfare services in the US, drawing global parallels in order to capture the challenges, tensions, and opportunities facing child welfare services....Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking examination of how Vietnam’s legal system is evolving to protect and empower children. Combining theoretical foundations with comparative insights, the book navigates through critical issues such as juvenile justi...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking textbook offers an accessible, comprehensive guide to conducting clinical interviews and mental health assessments with children and adolescents. Designed for students and professionals in psychology, counseli...Loe edasi...
This edited volume investigates the complexities of child refugees and migrants from a global perspective. With millions of young migrants and refugees worldwide, there is a need for novel understandings and conceptualizations of the impact of nat...Loe edasi...
