Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in Social Work

This books fills a gap in the existing literature by providing analysis of international practice methods which can be used by developing countries to develop their own professional and educational infrastructures.

This book studies welfare systems in Europe and beyond from the standpoint of women in vulnerable positions in society. These systems are under major transformations with new models of service delivery and management, austerity measures, requirements for cost-effectiveness, marketization, and the prioritization of services.Divided into three parts:Welfare service systems (not) responding to vulnerable situations of womenWomen's encounters with the welfare service systemContradictions of informal supportthis book considers the experiences and encounters with the service system of women in poverty, homeless women, women with substance use problems, women sentenced of crime, girls and young women in care, and refugees and asylum-seeking women.Drawing upon research and critical discussions from Finland, Canada, Israel, Slovenia, Spain and the UK, this book provides new empirical findings and critical insights, and a valuable resource for the academics and students in social work, social policy, sociology and gender studies, but also for policy makers and professionals in social and health care.

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia's child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children's homes inherited from the Soviet era and an increase in fostering and adoption.Divided into four sections, this book details both the changing role and function of residential institutions within the Russian child welfare system and the rapidly developing form of alternative care in foster families, as well as work undertaken with birth families. By analysing the consequences of deinstitutionalisation and its effects on children and young people as well as their foster and birth parents, it provides a model for understanding this process across the whole of the post-Soviet space.It will be of interest to academics and students of social work, sociology, child welfare, social policy, political science, and Russian and East European politics more generally.

This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential school where the author worked over the course of the 1980s.

This book provides an account of the experience of a multifaceted system-change programme to strengthen the capacity of Ireland¿s statutory child protection and welfare agency in the areas of prevention, early intervention and family support.

In this book, social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programmes within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours.

This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. It will be of interest to scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including those in social work and social policy, sustainability, economics, agriculture and environmental studies.

The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in 'advanced' welfare states - countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP.

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. It enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens.

International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict provides an important basis for readers to recognise and understand the unique and specialist role that social workers have played and continue to play in international contexts of political conflict.

This book studies welfare systems in Europe and beyond from the standpoint of women in vulnerable positions in society. These systems are under major transformations with new models of service delivery and management, austerity measures, requirements for cost-effectiveness, marketization, and the prioritization of services.

This book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be seen as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience.

This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Containing an international selection of contributions, it is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives.

This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual clarification as well as distinct reflections on its practical directions. The book will be of interest to scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including those in social work and social policy, sustainability, economics, agriculture and environmental studies.

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, Malaysia, Israel and Turkey, it highlights the challenges as well as the opportunities this new perspective can open up for theories and strategies in social work. Intended for students, researchers and social workers interested in migration, social care, poverty and cultural competency in health and social care.

This book explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It not only demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender but also how feminist social work practice can transform areas of social work not specifically concerned with gender, through its emphasis on relationships and power.

Social Work in a Global Context engages with, and critically explores, key issues that inform social work practice around the world. It is the first truly international book for all those interested in comparative and cross-cultural understandings of social work.

This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Containing an international selection of contributions, it is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives.

This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - that which perpetuates human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise, which challenge human exceptionalism.

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system.

Nationalist populism poses direct attacks on social tolerance, human rights discourse, political debates, the survival of the welfare state, impacting on the roles of social work. This book demonstrates how nationalist populism can and must be countered.