Health and Social Care Books

New and Published Books

1. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

   Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

   By Maureen M. Donaghy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Trafficked Young People

   Breaking the Wall of Silence

   By Jenny J. Pearce, Patricia Hynes, Silvie Bovarnick

   Series: Adolescence and Society

   Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. Contemporary Drug Policy

   By Henry Brownstein

   Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology

   This book focuses on the use of drugs in our lives and how we respond to them. Whereas drug policy typically centres on the problems of illicit drugs or licit drugs used in illicit ways or circumstances, Contemporary Drug Policy instead considers the wide variety of substances we call drugs as a...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition

   By Samuel Mullen

   An increase in major natural disasters—and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities—has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety. Due to today's complex, compliance-based environment, utility managers and planners often...

   Published January 21st 2013 by CRC Press
5. The Essence of Play

   A Practice Companion for Professionals Working with Children and Young People

   By Justine Howard, Karen McInnes

   A unique companion to professional play practice! All play professionals are united in their belief that play is important for children’s development – and there are inherent characteristics of play that underpin professional play practice across contexts. Providing an overarching concept of play,...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Bullying

   Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender

   Edited by Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. Out of the Mainstream: Helping the children of parents with a mental illness

   Edited by Rosemary Loshak

   Out of the Mainstream identifies those aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children’s development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively. With chapters from professionals working primarily with children or adults, in different agencies and...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India

   Edited by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash

   Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
9. The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man

   Coping with Stigma

   By Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Progress or Collapse

    The Crises of Market Greed

    By Roberto De Vogli

    Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on the horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision course against the limits of the ecosystem. Modern societies are consuming,...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge