Routledge Advances in Social Work
Social Work, The Americanization Movement and the Construction of Americans 1874-1930
1st Edition
By Yoosun Park, Michael Reisch
June 26, 2026
This book analyzes the role of social work in the Americanization Movement. It asserts that the emerging field of social work played a significant role in both the execution of the movement and the development and promulgation of theories and processes that rationalized its determination of the ...
Radical Hope in Social Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Carole Zufferey, Chris Horsell
May 05, 2026
This book broadens the concept of hope used in social work research, education, policy and practice. Moving beyond individualist analyses of hope that construct social workers as givers and holders of hope, it draws on intersectionality to argue that individualist articulations of hope in social ...
Social Work with Unmarried Mothers and Their Children: Learning from the Past
1st Edition
By Viviene E. Cree, Robert MacKenzie
January 23, 2026
This is a social work history with a difference. Written with and by a retired social worker and three former residents of a children’s home in Edinburgh, Scotland, it tells the story of one agency’s response to unmarried mothers and their children during and after the Second World War, and ...
AI and the Disruption of Welfare: Challenges for Social Work Education and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Goetz Ottmann, Carolyn Noble
December 08, 2025
This book with 22 chapters from eminent scholars focuses on the role of AI-enabled technology in surveillance and coercive ‘welfare’, bringing into view how advanced technology is used to shift the boundaries between welfare, penal, and carceral state and its very real impact on social work ...
The Foster Family in the Service of the Foster Child
1st Edition
By Lidia Pietruszka, Andrzej Łuczyński
October 20, 2025
This monograph shows the contribution of foster families to the system of social care for a child permanently or temporarily deprived of the biological family environment. Adopting a theoretical and empirical approach that draws on survey research conducted with 212 foster families, it shows their ...
Social Welfare Programs and Social Work Education at a Crossroads: New Approaches for a Post-Pandemic Society
1st Edition
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By Antonio López Peláez, Annaline Keet, Chung Moon Sung
September 29, 2025
This book explores a key phenomenon that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis, namely, the crossroads at which social welfare professionals find themselves. This is a crossroads where, on the one hand, there is an accelerated digitalization process and a reorganization of social programs, ...
Social Support of Young People in and after Residential Care: Is Someone There for You?: An International Perspective
1st Edition
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By Eunice Magalhães, Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz
May 21, 2025
Decades of research highlight the protective tole of strong, positive, and secure relationships for children and young people at risk, both in the community and in out-of-home care. This volume offers an in-depth exploration of social support among young people in residential care and after leaving...
Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Residential Care for Children and Youth: A Good Place to Grow
1st Edition
By Bruce B. Henderson
May 06, 2025
Is residential care 'inherently harmful'? This book argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong and is, itself, harmful to a significant number of children and youth. The presumptive view is based largely on overgeneralizations from research with infants and very young children raised in ...
Using Language, Fiction, and Story in Social Work Education
1st Edition
By Dara Sampson, Amanda Howard
May 06, 2025
This book provides an accessible, research-informed text for social work educators, students, and practitioners interested in the use of story to engender the connection of human experiences with ideas, theories, and skills. A broad lens is also taken to the ways in which fiction has been used as a...
Utopian Thinking and Social Work
1st Edition
By Chris Horsell
February 03, 2025
This book highlights the importance of employing imaginative sensibilities to thinking and action in social work and social policy practice. Exploring the question of how ideas about utopia and utopian method can be used in social work practice and policy practice to address social inequalities, it...
Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work: Reframing Philosophy for Professional Practice
1st Edition
By Tom Grimwood
December 18, 2024
This book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and practice in a complex and challenging world. Today, the social world is marked by deep-rooted complexities, tensions and challenges. Health workers and ...
International Perspectives on Parenting Support and Parental Participation in Children and Family Services
1st Edition
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By Carmel Devaney, Rosemary Crosse
December 18, 2024
This book provides an account of parenting support initiatives in children and family services from a number of jurisdictions, paying particular attention to their impact on both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ outcomes for participants and to the inclusion of parents in the design and delivery of these supports...