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  • Abolition in Social Work and Human Services

    Visions, Possibilities and Challenges

    by Peter Choate, Kerri Cleaver, Alan J. Detlaff, Aiofe Donohue, Ida Drury, Paul Michael Garrett, Anna Gupta, Emily Keddell, David McKendrick, Lisa Merkel-Holguin, Sophie Shall, Bindi Bennett, Peta Phelan, Donna Baines, Mohamed Ibraham, Dorothy E. Roberts, Chris Maylea, Emma Tseris, John Fox, Sacha Jamieson, Lobna Yassine, Mimi Kim, Kris Clarke, Mwendza Blell ...
    Globally, social workers are committed to human rights and challenging unjust social structures. However, their close ties to the state often reinforce such systems of oppression.The first to apply abolitionist theory from international perspectives to social work, this book examines this contradiction, exploring whether social work can embrace radical change while operating within state ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Social Work with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants

    Theory and Skills for Practice

    by Suryia Nayak, Lucy Mort, Rebecca Yeo, Natalia Farmer, Jen Ang, Anna Gupta, Jude Boyles, Anna Turner, Katy Tolman, Hannah Berry, Rachael Bee, Elaine Ortiz, Annemarie Morsch, Joanne Vincett, Lynn King, Mark Doidge, Colin Turbett, Durani Rapozo, Ana Draper, Dan Tucker ...
    Mass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world. This reference book for social workers and service providers offers constructive ideas for practice within an inter-disciplinary framework.Each chapter speaks to a skill and knowledge area that is key to this work, bringing together myriad voices from across disciplines, interspersed with the vital ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Future of Children’s Care

    Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform

    by Avery Bowser, Taliah Drayak, Brid Featherstone, Anna Gupta, Isobel Drew, Joe Hanley, Rebekah Pierre, John Radoux, Paul Shuttleworth, June Thoburn, Carolyne Willow ...
    Over the last decade there has been a series of Government policy initiatives in respect of children’s services and social work education in England, many of which aim to de-regulate or privatise aspects of these services. Critically considering the impact of the MacAlister Review, this book explores the past, present and future of children’s services in the UK from a range of perspectives – lived ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Protecting Children

    A Social Model

    by Brid Featherstone, Anna Gupta, Kate Morris, Susan White ...
    The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection.Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices have become part of the problem, rather than ensuring children’s well-being and safety.Building on the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Unaccompanied Young Migrants

    Identity, Care and Justice

    by Sandra M Gifford, Hilde Liden, Luis Enrique González-Araiza, Louise Drammeh, Sheona York, Kim Robinson, Lucy Williams, Richard Warren ...
    Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.Arriving with little agency, what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen?Through international studies and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Developing World of the Child

    by Anna Gupta, Gillian Schofield, David Quinton, Hedy Cleaver, Brigid Daniel, Janet Seden ...
    This important text shows how child development theory applies to professionals' working practice. Considering theories of development throughout the lifespan from the early years through to adolescence, and transitions to adulthood, this resource is essential reading for a range of professionals including social workers, teachers, and health and mental health professionals. The authors build up ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Safeguarding Black Children

    Good Practice in Child Protection

    by Claudia Bernard, Perlita Harris, Ravinder Barn, Danielle Turney, Anna Gupta, Joanne Westwood, Prospera Tedam, Elizabeth Lewinson, Jonathan Scourfield, Jean Clarke, Derek Kirton, Carlene Firmin, Jenny Pearce, Stefan Brown, Frank Keating ...
    Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need.With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural and social issues that affect black children in relation to child protection. It highlights how race and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Capability-Promoting Policies

    Enhancing Individual and Social Development

    by Xavier Rambla, Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Franziska Felder, Sharon Bessell, Anna Gupta, Brid Featherstone, Paolo Graziano, Susan C Seifert, Mark Stern, Ann Mitchell, Severine Deneulin, Emilio J. Morales-Fernandez, Guillermo Bornemann-Martínez, Indira Mahendravada, Paola Ballon, Elise Klein, Reiko Gotoh ...
    How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • Welfare Words

    Critical Social Work & Social Policy

    by Paul Michael Garrett ...
    ‘Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies’ - Niels Rosendal Jensen′A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.′ - Lel Meleyal‘An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform…get reading, get angry, get ready’. - Gargi BhattacharyyaWelfare Words analyses the keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets ... Read more

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  • White Benevolence

    Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

    by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean, Verna St. Denis ...
    When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions —education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White Benevolence, leading anti-racism scholars reveal the ways in which white settlers working in these institutions shape, defend and uphold institutional racism, even while professing to support Indigenous people. White ... Read more

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  • Social Work, Law and Ethics

    by Jonathan Dickens ...
    Series series Student Social Work
    Law and ethics are two vital aspects of social work – all social workers need to practise according to the law and their codes of ethics and conduct. However, the relationship between the law and social work values and ethics is not without its tensions and this book takes a problem-based approach to explore the dilemmas and challenges that can arise.The first part of the book sets out frameworks ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Against Decolonisation

    Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West

    by Doug Stokes ...
    Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across universities, fringe theories became the new orthodoxy, with a cadre of activists backed by university technocrats adopting a binary worldview of moral certainty, sin and deconstructive redemption ... Read more

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