Social Work

Single Parents and Child Support Systems

Edited by Kay Cook, Thomas Meysen, Adrienne Byrt

Taking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutiona...

Hardback (February 2024)

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A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy

Edited by Kai Leichsenring, Alexandre Sidorenko

Foreword by Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as...

Hardback (February 2024)

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A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare

Edited by Femke Roosma, Tijs Laenen

Bringing together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare draws upon past and contemporary research methods used to study citizens’ attitudes to welfare. It highligh...

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Teaching Social Work

Neil Thompson

There are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the key elements of the knowledge base; there is also the need to equip students to be able...

Hardback (2022)

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Paperback (2023)

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Care Homes in a Turbulent Era

Edited by Pat Armstrong, Susan Braedley

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care ho...

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The Future of Social Care

Peter Beresford, Colin Slasberg

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care polic...

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Research Handbook on Disability Policy

Edited by Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher

Examining how policy affects the human rights of people with disabilities, this topical Handbook presents diverse empirical experiences of disability policy and identifies the changes that are necessary to achieve social justice.

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Home Care for Ageing Populations

Martha Doyle, Virpi Timonen

This book presents an up-to-date comparative analysis of domiciliary care policies for the older populations of Denmark, the United States and Germany with a particular focus on similarities and differences between these care regimes.

Hardback (2008)

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Regulating Aged Care

John Braithwaite, Toni Makkai, Valerie Braithwaite

This book is a major contribution to regulatory theory from three members of the world-class regulatory research group based in Australia. It marks a new development in responsive regulatory theory in which a strengths-based pyramid comp...

Hardback (2007)

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THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR, THE STATE AND SOCIAL WORK IN BRITAIN

Jane Lewis

The Voluntary Sector, the State and Social Work in Britain offers a different perspective which shows that Britain has always had a mixed economy of welfare with the voluntary sector playing a major role. This book traces the ideas and ...

Hardback (1995)

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Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy

Ann-Mari S. Åhlander

Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy is one of the first books to analyse environmental disruption under the Soviet economic system. Using original Soviet data the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the envi...

Hardback (1994)

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