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Health service practice requires diverse approaches and wide-ranging knowledge. This fully revised and expanded third edition draws on the expertise of leading researchers and practitioners to provide a guide to the disparate settings in which social workers are engaged, and the conceptual frameworks needed for effective practice.

The book includes three new chapters on taking a human rights approach in restrictive settings; working with women and couples at the significant life stage of pregnancy, birth and infancy; and on working inclusively with families in mental health. Part I provides an overview of the social determinants of health and discusses compassion in healthcare, neoliberalism and indigenous approaches to health. Part II explores key areas of practice including trauma-informed practice, mental health and aged care. Part III looks at politicised issues, and key reform agendas in the field including suicidal distress and refugee health, concluding with a consideration of health social work in regional, rural and remote settings.

Underpinning this book is a clear guide to assessment procedures, case management, strengths-based practices and the development of effective partnerships and collaboration. All this makes Social Work Practice in Health a key reference tool for students and practitioners of social work.

The interplay between power, communication and change is the bedrock of what social work is, what it needs to contend with and what it seeks to achieve. This textbook draws on these foundational concepts in order to combine the worlds of theory and practice, aiming to connect the two often disparate sides of social work.

Drawing on the key concepts of power, communication and change throughout, the book shows that these essential elements are evident in the explanation and application of all theory and practice perspectives. Divided into three sections, this work delves into each of these underpinning concepts in turn, demonstrating how they permeate all aspects of social work. Chapters address dimensions of power and embedded social structures; the complexities of communication and approaches to difficult conversions; and how assessment skills, along with a range of practice models can help to challenge injustices and facilitate change. In doing so, these chapters get to the heart of social work, by iterating the foundational goals of dispersing power, fostering effective communication and supporting change.

Written in an accessible style that is both clear and engaging, this book will be of interest to all students of social work and social work professionals.

The Sage Handbook of Eco-Social Policy and Politics offers a bold and timely rethinking of how public policies and political action can address ecological challenges while simultaneously advancing a broad range of social goals-such as equity, wellbeing, inclusion, and democratic participation-through an integrated and transformative approach.

Moving beyond the traditional silos of environmental protection and social welfare, this handbook presents a comprehensive framework for understanding how ecological and social justice are deeply interconnected-and must be tackled together.

At the heart of eco-social thinking is the recognition that sustainability cannot be achieved without justice, nor justice without sustainability. From the uneven impacts of climate change to the structural inequalities embedded in environmental harm, this volume explores how power, politics, and policy shape our responses to ecological crises. It brings together leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to examine the theoretical foundations, political struggles, policy innovations, and transformative movements that define the eco-social landscape.

Structured into five thematic sections, the handbook begins with key theories, informing concepts and histories, then moves through political dynamics, policy design, grassroots activism, and future visions for eco-social transformation. It offers critical insights into how welfare systems, governance structures, and social movements can be reimagined to support both people and the planet.

The Sage Handbook of Eco-Social Policy and Politics is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and shape a just and sustainable future.

Section One: Theories, Concepts, and Histories
Section Two: Politics of Eco-Social Crises
Section Three: Eco-Social Policy
Section Four: Eco-Social Movements, Resistance, and Activism
Section Five: Eco-Social Futures and Transformations

This workbook-style primer guides students in translating the core principles of social work practice into observable professional action, including ethical decision-making, engagement, assessment, treatment planning, and intervention.

In addition to foundational theoretical material, the book includes more than 50 structured, practice-oriented, and experiential exercises designed to support skill development. Each chapter integrates informational content with explicit implications for practice, highlighting techniques that operationalize key concepts in work with clients and providing guidance on when and how those skills are appropriately applied. The exercises are intentionally designed to promote critical thinking, reinforce learning, and refine professional technique. Throughout the text, Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) core competencies are explicitly identified and paired with concrete practice behaviors that give those competencies visible form in real-world practice.

Social Work Education in Action is a comprehensive tool for graduate students in social work, aiding both classroom and field education and enhancing student engagement, professional readiness, and lifelong learning.

Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

How do older women use art and media to resist ageist and sexist norms that regulate their intimacy and sexuality?

This book brings the subversive aesthetic strategies of older women to the forefront, using the concept of 'unruliness', understood as a failure or unwillingness to conform.

Drawing on critical age studies, feminist theory and allied critical approaches, the book develops a new conceptual model that positions ageing women's aesthetic interventions as a source of insight and social change.

Combining theory with close readings of art and media, this book is a bold framework for rethinking ageing, sexuality and empowerment.

For millions with Long Covid and energy-limiting conditions, pacing is not self-care; it is survival. While most research focuses on causes and treatments, this book examines the overlooked long of Long Covid and its many temporal disruptions.

Drawing on complex realism and thousands of social media posts, the authors reframe pacing as temporal labour: exhausting, invisible work where limits only become visible once crossed. They introduce polyrhythmic biographical disruption, where disruption is not a single event but ongoing, and the uncanny-not-yetness: the eerie limbo of post-exertional malaise.

This book advocates for temporal justice, because pacing is always, irreducibly social.

This book provides a comprehensive overview to the science of happiness research. It discusses scholarly definitions and measurements, and factors-personal, social and cultural-that reliably increase happiness throughout the life-span. Anchored in psychology, philosophy, economics and public health, the book distils hundreds of peer-reviewed studies into one lucid, teachable framework. Part I?traces the idea from classical eudaimonia to modern positive psychology, then untangles more than thirty related terms-well-being, flourishing, thriving, life satisfaction and others-into a working map of key distinctions. The discussion shows why happiness remains one of the most diversely interpreted phenomena in the social sciences and why no single definition yet commands unanimous agreement. Part II?presents a multilevel map of determinants, starting with personality and health, then progressing to relationships, income, culture, and the built and natural environments. The final chapter in this part evaluates evidence-based interventions, showing how current research can inform realistic, context-sensitive pathways to greater well-being-from gratitude practices and mindset trainings to policy levers aimed at housing affordability, neighborhood quality, institutional fairness, and life-course support. Each chapter weighs competing findings, flags methodological caveats and pinpoints areas of empirical convergence. Written for graduate students, researchers and reflective practitioners, this book offers conceptual rigour without sacrificing readability. Readers will finish equipped to design stronger studies, craft data-driven policies and pursue personal well-being grounded in evidence rather than myth.

This volume provides a comprehensive examination of social policy approaches across the African continent, critically engaging with both theoretical foundations and practical implementations. It brings together diverse perspectives that challenge conventional social policy paradigms while proposing contextually appropriate alternatives rooted in African realities and epistemologies. The volume looks at social policy from multiple dimensions: from theoretical debates and historical trajectories to sectoral innovations and emerging challenges. In so doing, it showcases transformative pathways for inclusive development through effective policies and practical implementation.

The volume discusses both persistent structural constraints and innovative opportunities for transformation, resilience, and sustainability in social provisioning. Through case studies spanning healthcare, education, food security, resource governance, land reform, informal economies, and youth development, it highlights how locally grounded approaches can deliver meaningful outcomes despite significant constraints. It advances the Transformative Social Policy (TSP) framework as a paradigm that views social policy as a multidimensional instrument for societal transformation through production enhancement, social protection, redistribution, reproduction, and social cohesion functions. It provides foundational perspectives into the underpinnings of Africa's social policy landscape, the lingering impact of colonial legacies, and opportunities for transformative change that centres African agency and knowledge systems.

This volume is of interest to researchers, social policy scholars, development practitioners, civil society organisations, and policymakers committed to reimagining and implementing more effective, equitable, and contextually appropriate social policy solutions across the African continent.

The edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.

The One Health (OH) approach recognizes that the health of humans, animals, plants, and the wider environment are closely linked and interdependent. This holistic framework aims to improve health outcomes by promoting collaboration among various sectors, including public health, veterinary medicine, environmental science, agriculture, and ecology. But what contributions can sociology provide for the implementation of One Health initiatives? As global health threats such as COVID-19, Zika virus, and Ebola have increasingly demonstrated the need for an integrated approach, this text breaks fresh ground by demonstrating the policy, research projects, educational interventions, and institutional communications that sociology can offer to the OH approach. Written by a medical sociologist and expert researcher in One Health, this practical book provides a focused approach to the sociology of health in One Health research and highlights the most recent advances in this field. Aimed at researchers interested or involved in OH research, as well as academics and social scientists in organizational studies, sociology and anthropology with a passion for interdisciplinary learning, this powerful study offers a new agenda for the role of social sciences in One Health.

This book covers the use of digital technologies to improve human health and wellbeing. Included are policy trends in Japan, innovative examples, and recommendations for future directions, providing references not only for Japan but for other countries as well.

In Japan, digital technologies have been introduced in health and wellbeing services over the past 20 years. These technologies have expanded the scope of healthcare from simply treating illness to promoting health and preventing disease.

Early adopters, both providers and recipients of the digitally enabled services, have reaped the advantages of their introduction; however, these technologies have not yet been adopted by the country as a whole. For that reason, and especially with the decline in the working-age population, the government has adopted measures to promote and facilitate the use of digital technologies for health and wellbeing. Those and other steps are being taken to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health and wellbeing services.

This book introduces the current status of the use of digital technologies to promote the health and wellness of recipients. It also explains the improvement of healthcare institutions using digital data as evidence. Additionally, for comparison, the book shows trends in international standardization activities.

Given the increasing number of international older migrants in Europe and the UK, Ageing Migrants' Sense of Home addresses a critical gap in understanding the conditions that facilitate or impede positive ageing in the context of migration, enhancing scholarly knowledge on how processes of identification and sense of belonging to places are experienced by people ageing away from their home countries.

Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork with a community of older Italians in Northeast England, Palladino explores experiences of ageing across borders, feelings of embeddedness in local communities, negotiation of belonging and perceived vulnerability. Highlighting how participants experience private and public spaces, their transnational lifestyles, and relationships with objects of affection, memory, and identity, chapters underscore the importance of affective bonds with places. Place attachment and identity impact health and well-being in later life, and insights into older migrants' subjectivities and life stories stress the social aspects of the environment and the importance of having places to call 'home' in the context of migration.

Drawing critical attention to the diversity of ageing experiences among older migrants and the need for research, practice and policy to respond to their needs both locally and internationally, this is a significant resource for researchers in social sciences, social gerontology, and human geography.

A sobering assessment of the systematic failures of mental health work.

The United States is in the midst of a mental health crisis that cannot be ignored. Its effects are visible in overcrowded emergency rooms, homeless encampments, and frequent police encounters responding to people with serious mental illness. And yet, the many ways we attempt to support people with mental illness-from medical care to housing support to basic hygiene-seem to never take meaningful hold. All this despite the tireless work of professionals who attempt to help people bring together the pieces of a life. The problem is not in any individual effort to ameliorate the problem; it's the many ways these programs fail to work together. For those with serious mental illness, and those who work to ameliorate it, there is no system. There is only mess.

In A Mad Mess, sociologist Owen Whooley uncovers the exasperating barriers, bureaucratic mismatches, and threadbare resources that have made a mess of what should be a supportive system. Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico-a city whose struggles echo communities nationwide- the book reveals the challenges mental health workers face daily, from tedious paperwork to occasional violence. Whooley interviewed mental health workers at two local mental health services organizations, the specialized behavioral health division of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD), and a psychiatric emergency department at the University of New Mexico Hospital. Despite mostly good intentions and sometimes heroic efforts, he shows why this important work so often ends in failure.

Written with deep sympathy and unflinching honesty, A Mad Mess reveals how the lack of a cohesive mental health system obstructs critical care and places roadblocks before front-line mental health workers at every turn. Most critically, for those who suffer from severe mental illness, these setbacks are a constant reminder that the institutions charged with helping them have left them on their own.

Drinking and drugs have long led to a multitude of problems within families. Given the availability of various forms of substances, and the potential harm to families, it is essential that greater research be focused upon substance use and addiction. This edited volume offers a broad examination of substance use and the family.

Featuring a broad variety of chapters across the many issues pertaining to substance use and addiction, topics include those such as spousal addiction and marital quality, parenting and substance use, financial tolls of addiction upon families, coping with adolescent substance use and addiction, multi-generational patterns of substance use in families, substance use and family violence, child neglect and substance addiction, family interventions, addiction concealment within families, role modeling among siblings, gender differences in parental substance use, and child abuse, among others.

Substance Use and the Family is appealing reading for scholars of family sociology, the sociology of health, and childhood and youth alike.

Examining the emergence of international public health policy between the 1930s and 80s, this book sheds light on the role that rural community health initiatives in South and Southeast Asia played in the movement towards 'primary health care' and 'health for all,' articulated ultimately at the 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. The author argues that the movement was not directed exclusively from the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, but also by institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division in rural Southeast Asia, and through local community initiatives including the Bandung Plan for Health in Indonesia. The book illustrates how an exclusive association of global health with the emergence of the WHO in the 1950s fails to account for the local, national, or regional contexts that shaped the evolution of primary health care in South and Southeast Asia.

How the financialization of healthcare has eroded the quality of care, driven up prices, and worsened health inequalities

Financial actors and healthcare leaders increasingly view healthcare organizations as financial assets to be bought, sold, and managed for maximum profit, regardless of the effects on patient care. Healthcare in the Age of Finance Capital reveals how the federal government enables financial opportunism in healthcare and offers bold ideas for overhauling a failed system.

Rosemary Batt and Eileen Appelbaum provide a unique analysis of the financialization of healthcare, a process in which a growing proportion of the healthcare economy is owned and controlled by the financial sector. Healthcare organizations increasingly depend on financial machinations and the earnings derived from them rather than revenue generated from patient care.

The extent to which financial calculations overshadow the healthcare mission depends importantly on institutional legacies, reimbursement rules, and the failure of regulatory oversight. Batt and Appelbaum show how differences in regulations and financing rules shape whether financial actors can penetrate distinct healthcare segments-from hospitals, nursing homes, and ambulatory care to physician specialties, home health, hospice, and autism services. Nonprofit healthcare is not immune from this financial logic.

Evidence based, accessible, and informed by real-world examples, Healthcare in the Age of Finance Capital sheds critical light on how financial deregulation coupled with the relaxation of health, tax, anti-trust, and labor laws have allowed financially driven actors to exploit public funds for private gain at the expense of healthcare organizations, patients, communities, labor, and taxpayers.

This book examines why Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) young people continue to face homelessness and intersectional disadvantages, even as legal and social attitudes appear to improve. Drawing on seventeen years of ethnographic research and frontline work in England, it offers an intimate and rigorous account of how young people navigate housing precarity, family rejection and uneven access to state support. It shows how sexuality, gender, race, class, disability and religion shape encounters with welfare systems, revealing how well-intentioned policies can reproduce harm and how celebrated progress in LGBTQ+ rights can obscure the structural conditions that leave many behind. Tunaker argues for a deeper understanding of the "paradox of progress" and its consequences for those at the sharpest edges of marginalisation. The book speaks to scholars and practitioners in socio-legal studies, legal anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, homelessness and housing research, and anyone concerned with state power and meaningful social change.

This compact book is a guide for social workers and social work students to integrate climate resilience and adaptation into their work in order to cope with a degenerating climate and increasing vulnerability. It is a forward-looking, practical, and ethically grounded manual designed to prepare social workers for the escalating challenges posed by climate change and societal instability. It explores how climate breakdown reshapes both the profession and its foundational mission -- supporting the most vulnerable.

Drawing on climate science, social work theory, and frontline practice, the book addresses how warming, extreme weather, resource scarcity, and even societal collapse could transform who is considered vulnerable, how services are delivered, and what new roles social workers may need to adopt. It guides readers through understanding the most realistic future scenarios, and what those mean for practice on the ground.

The book emphasizes building both personal and professional resilience, helping social workers not only survive but also lead with clarity and care in a world of uncertainty. Chapters include practical tools for assessing local risks, cultivating emotional and psychological strength, ensuring food and service continuity, and acting ethically in crisis conditions. Among the topics covered are:

• Reimagining Prevention: Integrating Climate Adaptation into Everyday Social Work Practice
• How the Natural World Fits into Social Work Climate Resilience
• Risk Assessment in Practice
• Practising Social Work Amid Societal Breakdown
• Maintaining Mental Health amid Ongoing Eco-Anxiety and Climate Grief: Being the rock in the stream

With a focus on justice, community care, and adaptive thinking, Climate Resilience Guide for Social Workers ultimately empowers social workers to act as stabilizing forces and advocates in their communities -- prepared not just to respond to climate-driven disruption, but also to shape a more compassionate and resilient future. The book is an essential resource for social work practitioners, students, and educators.

Families in the United States experience child abuse investigations, the removal of children from their homes, and the termination of parental rights at higher rates than peer countries. Yet this does not make them safer and comes at a cost. As a historian and practicing doctor, Mical Raz asks how American society came to accept punitive interventionist policies that prioritize termination of parental rights. These practices "free" children for adoption, which leads to the devastation of families and communities and the creation of "legal orphans"-children who have no legal ties to their families of origin.

Drawing on original archival sources, legislative documents, and oral histories, Raz argues that adoption is not the inevitable solution to a child welfare system in crisis, maps the political history of this shift in child welfare policymaking-exemplified in the passage of the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act-and proposes future reforms.

This open access book provides a multidisciplinary examination of the governance of the human body in the post-pandemic public health landscape. It delves into how the body is regulated, policed, protected, and politicized in times of emergency, drawing on the expertise of a wide range of scholars-including experts in public, health, and comparative law, as well as philosophers, sociologists of law, and specialists in biopolitics, complexity theory, systems theory, and the history of medicine. At its core is the idea of the body as a contested site, subject to legal control, political intervention, and societal scrutiny during public health emergencies. Through the examination of issues like consent, surveillance, the marginalization of vulnerable groups, and the intersections of gender and health, the book critically assesses how emergency measures have not only challenged but reshaped our understanding of freedom, citizenship, and social norms. It interrogates the state's role in governing health and bodies, analyzing contemporary legal debates and philosophical inquiries about the boundary between "normality" and "crisis", and how this impacts democracy, rights, and the rule of law.

By grounding its analysis within historical and theoretical frameworks, the book traces the evolution of health crisis governance and reflects on lessons for present and future challenges. Its interdisciplinary approach offers both deep theoretical insights and timely analysis of the current health landscape. Ultimately, the book challenges readers to rethink how we address health crises, the legal frameworks that emerge, and their broader societal implications.