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Since publication of the first edition, awareness of, and interest in, adolescent-to-parent abuse has risen considerably. Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the latest research and developments in policy and practice, this second edition provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues and current responses to the challenges in dealing with this unique form of family abuse.

Exploring the experiences and impact of adolescent-to-parent abuse on individuals, families and communities, this book extends the field to include issues relating to neurodiversity, kinship care, trauma, adult-aged perpetration and fatal violence. Throughout the book, leading expert Amanda Holt challenges existing policy frameworks while offering practical insights for work with families, parents/carers and young people who are experiencing this problem.

A key text for academics, researchers, students and practitioners in psychology, sociology, criminology, social work and social policy, this book provides essential guidance for understanding and addressing this complex and pressing issue.

An insightful and contemporary review of current global health threats and their implications for security and stability

In the Handbook of Global Health, Security, and War, Professors Martin Bricknell and Richard Sullivan deliver a fresh, multidisciplinary take on the relationship between health and international affairs. The book explores the most relevant global health threats and their implications for security and stability, providing an up-to-date and authoritative perspective on these international challenges.

This practical guide addresses the unprecedented range of threats to health around the world and their potential to impact the security of populations, states, and the global system. It discusses the academic theories that form the foundations for analysis of global health and international relations. It also examines the impact of insecurity and war on health systems, clinical health services, and the health research and policy agenda.

Readers will also find:

• A thorough introduction to global health and the relationships between determinants of health, health systems, and health services
• Comprehensive explorations of the three dimensions of human security, state security, and global security and their relationships to health
• Practical discussions of the health impacts of war
• A summary of international humanitarian law and ethics as constraints on war and human barbarism

Perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in global health and security, the Handbook of Global Health, Security, and War will also benefit social scientists, researchers in global health, and humanitarian practitioners.

This volume provides a background to debates on definitional terms of subjective and objective wellbeing. Beyond that, it analyses discourse and policy practice relating to population-level and individual health and wellbeing promotion. The chapters in this volume illustrate salient aspects relating to health and wellbeing: how the post-pandemic world seems to be at a tipping point in terms of worsening outcomes for the social determinants of health and wellbeing, how health and wellbeing approaches in the educational sector can be seen as rhetoric devices to promote reform but also as a meaningful way to promote student flourishing; how holistic approaches to health and wellbeing, namely embedding arts and culture in a healthcare setting, can support enhanced wellbeing of frontline healthcare staff; and how specific health and wellbeing issues relating to women and their integration into the workforce remain fraught with difficulty. Finally, the volume analyses efforts to improve health and wellbeing in the face of political turmoil. This highly interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from senior academics and early career researchers in political science, social science, area studies and economics and is an important contribution to the SDG and broader literature on policies related to health and wellbeing.

The scourge of drug abuse remains a pressing concern, particularly in the Western world, where its impacts continue to escalate. In response to this growing crisis, nations worldwide are fervently developing prevention strategies, adapting policies, and spearheading research initiatives to substantiate their interventions.

This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the global drug abuse landscape, spanning three continents and multiple countries. Delving into the nuanced approaches of various nations, including Argentina, Australia, Colombia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and the European Union, it sheds light on diverse cultural, socio-economic, and political contexts that shape responses to substance abuse.

Beyond country-specific analyses, the book features two dedicated chapters of profound significance. The first delves into the implementation of pioneering drug prevention programs in Brazil and Argentina, offering invaluable insights into the challenges and successes encountered in real-world application. The second chapter underscores the criticality of evaluating prevention initiatives, advocating for evidence-based practices to inform future interventions effectively.

By synthesizing empirical evidence, policy analyses, and on-the-ground experiences, this book serves as a seminal resource for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and advocates vested in combatting the multifaceted issue of drug abuse. It offers a panoramic view of global efforts, illuminating pathways towards more effective prevention strategies and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue to address this complex and urgent societal challenge.

This handbook presents the latest information on all aspects of global aging, with a focus on Asia, including policies, age-associated diseases and conditions, health services, long-term care, living arrangements, income and social security, preventing abuse, and the impact of migration on the elderly. Furthermore, the book presents a synthesis of research on population aging, social protection policies, crimes against the elderly, new analyses of trends, and discussions of major social policy strategies. Written by academics, practitioners and policymakers in the field of gerontology, the book offers an informative resource for demographers, gerontologists, economists, anthropologists and other social scientists studying various facets of aging, as well as students in the social and health sciences.

This book is a comprehensive guide designed for health professionals, educators, policymakers, and community leaders who seek to foster a culture of holistic well-being. The book addresses crucial topics such as mental health challenges, health inequities, workplace wellness, and community-based health initiatives, while also exploring the impact of technology and policies on health outcomes. These topics are relevant because health disparities and barriers to accessing resources continue to pose significant challenges. By taking a multidimensional approach that integrates mental, physical, social, and environmental aspects of health, the book aims to go beyond traditional healthcare practices to address underlying factors that affect well-being. It offers practical strategies and evidence-based insights that can be applied across various sectors to promote sustainable wellness. The book seeks to solve the problem of disjointed health efforts by presenting an inclusive framework that encourages collaboration and proactive health management. It aims to empower its audience to implement effective wellness strategies, ultimately driving positive changes that support health equity and resilience for individuals and communities alike.

How do our beliefs about living with chronic illness shape the way we approach treatment and care?

Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resistance and radical transitions in lifestyle, type 2 diabetes care is infused with individual blame and attempts to foster biomedical control. This book moves the focus away from blame and stigma towards the ways people with this chronic illness foster care, resilience, and well-being in their daily lives. Rather than centring diabetes management solely on diet and personal responsibility, this book explores how individuals and communities support one another through shared meals, therapies, and other forms of practical care.

Drawing on rich ethnographic research, editors and anthropologists Jessica Hardin and Emily Mendenhall illuminate how people respond creatively to a diabetes diagnosis, developing nourishing practices that prioritize relationships, friendship, and mutual care from around the world. Blending compassionate storytelling with accessible analysis, Savoring Care critiques dominant models of health, which frame diabetes as a failure of willpower or lifestyle, and instead highlights the alternative logics available as well as the diverse, meaningful ways people adapt to live well, understand their bodies, and thrive.

A century after the state's foundation, Ireland faces an acute homelessness crisis with families and children increasingly affected. This book uncovers how decades of housing policy, financial decisions and social factors have shaped today's housing insecurity. It is the first to take a historical approach, tracing the roots of homelessness back to key policy decisions taken over the past century.

By understanding how we got here, it offers crucial insights into breaking the cycle. Essential reading for policy makers, scholars and anyone concerned about Ireland's housing future, with lessons for other jurisdictions, this book reveals why solving homelessness requires rethinking how we build and fund housing.

This book explores the challenges facing third-sector groups in Italy after changes such as the professionalization and commercialization of non-profit groups and their increased role as suppliers of public services in local welfare systems, as well as partners in recent governance arrangements. These changes have sparked debates about the general role of third-sector groups and the potential decline of their role as civil society actors. The book focuses on three major changes and associated debates, exploring their everyday implications to ask the question 'What are the consequences of shifts in action approaches, civic participation, and relations with public authorities?' Backed by four years of ethnographic empirical data, it reveals that the meaning of these changes varies even within a single organization, depending on the observed scenes of its everyday life. By introducing five "scene styles," interaction patterns shaping exchanges between professionals, volunteers, and activists, the book analyses third-sector organizations and reveals unexpected political functions that take shape underneath that which is openly declared.

Welfare has long been a divisive issue in Canada, sparking debates across the political spectrum.

In her latest text, political studies scholar Rebecca Wallace explores how Canadian media frames social assistance recipients. Revealing how race and identity shape public perceptions of welfare and redistribution, Who Deserves Welfare? presents a comprehensive analysis spanning several decades, from the 1990s to the 2020s, demonstrating how immigrant and Indigenous welfare recipients are framed differently.

Drawing on a media analysis, a custom-designed survey, and a news framing experiment, Wallace shows how identity plays a crucial role in the media's representation of welfare recipients and public perceptions of deservingness. Immigrant recipients are often portrayed positively for their economic potential, while Indigenous recipients face negative stereotypes about work ethic. However, Wallace finds that the relationship between media framing and public attitudes is complex when it comes to immigrant and Indigenous recipients, and, troublingly, that positive coverage does not necessarily yield positive sentiment toward redistribution.

Who Deserves Welfare? offers a critical examination of how media framing influences public opinion about welfare and identity, shedding light on the quiet but persistent resentment targeting immigrant and Indigenous communities. By exploring these media portrayals, Wallace invites readers to reconsider the assumptions that underlie both support for and opposition to assistance programs in Canada.

For author Janna Klostermann, reaching her limits and resigning from care work felt like a crisis of self. In the aftermath of this upheaval, this is the book she needed to write. At the Limits of Care will change how you think about care work and about the women who provide it.
Now an assistant professor in sociology and a radical care scholar, Klostermann interrogates women's counter-stories of reaching their limits, crossing ethical lines, and stepping back from paid or unpaid care work roles. She uncovers gendered power dynamics and their constraining effects on women's lives, transforming the ways we think about ourselves and our relationships.
The book makes a major contribution in how and what constitutes care research. Drawing on in-depth life history interviews with women ages twenty-seven to seventy-eight in Ontario, Canada, Klostermann enacts a "counter politics of care" approach that centres untold and lesser-told stories of care work. She pushes readers to rethink gendered power dynamics, question prevailing tropes of care, and imagine more equitable, emancipatory futures.
At the Limits of Care challenges dominant narratives around women and care through a blend of feminist sociological analyses and memoir.

This book explores the merging of technological clinical care and research as part of the changing paradigm in global healthcare delivery. Featuring selected contributions presented at the 2025 International Conference on Demographic Transition, Health, and Technologies (ICDTHT25) held in Salinas, Ecuador, the contents of this book offer innovative insights into health-oriented technologies and examines their demographic challenges. It describes future technological advances towards the aging, health, and wellbeing of various communities. Presenting topics such as artificial intelligence in medicine and health sciences; health robotic assistance, security of medical systems, eHealth, gamification for the aging, health tourism, and entrepreneurship, among many others, this book provides an interdisciplinary contribution to healthcare management, technology, and demographics.

Youth and community work is a long-contested profession which has been challenged and required to adapt in order to address social and political priorities. 'Open access' youth work - which is informal, youth-centred and open-ended - has faced the most criticism in favour of target-driven approaches.

This book assesses the impact of a unique youth and community space in East London, part of the 2012 Olympic legacy, created specifically to support local young people in addressing the challenges and difficulties in their lives. It gives clear and practical evidence of the significant benefits of open access youth work, with guidance on replicating best practice in similar urban environments.

The updated second edition of this textbook focuses on understanding and addressing the criminality and victimization experienced by the elderly population globally. It offers insights into the prevalence of elderly crime and victimization through international comparisons and explores effective strategies to tackle this issue.

The book covers a wide range of topics, including the types of crimes committed by the elderly, the characteristics of older offenders, and the responses of the criminal justice system, such as diversion programs and community-based treatments. It also delves into specialized programs providing health and mental health services for older prisoners.

Furthermore, the new edition expands on processing and rehabilitation approaches for elderly offenders, along with services aimed at preventing, protecting, and caring for elderly victims. It also includes comparative international research on crime prevention methods and legislative measures, making it a valuable resource for students in criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and gerontology.

Building on the work of the previous volumes in the Sex and Intimacy in Later Life series, this book explores how resexualisation may take place in later life.

Drawing on transdisciplinary and international content, it provides a theoretically and experientially informed overview and discussion of resexualisation, highlighting important areas of research in a nascent area of study.

This volume covers a range of sexual identities and ageing populations, blending cultural representations and current research to highlight the possible forms and practices that can lead to the creative enabling of pleasure.

This edited book focuses on the social aspects and impacts of Long COVID from an international perspective, including contributions from researchers in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands. USA and Australia. The book highlights how Long COVID affects people's identities, social relationships, life opportunities and inclusion in society. Long COVID, like COVID itself, is a social and political as well as a medical phenomenon. People with Long COVID, from young children to older adults, are confronting ableism, social stigma, exclusion, invisibility and gaslighting. The book throws a spotlight on the struggles over the legitimacy of lay expertise versus medical authority and addresses how people with Long COVID are supporting and learning from each other and engaging in activism and advocacy initiatives. Crucially, most of the authors are themselves living with or caring for someone with Long COVID or work closely with Long COVID patient communities and others with lived experience.

Chapters 1 and 14 are available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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 structures. Bringing together scholars from the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Finland, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it explores alternatives for addressing issues such as child protection, mental health, violence against women, drug use, violent extremism, homelessness and Indigenous sovereignty.

Essential reading for academics, researchers, students, human service practitioners and social activists, this book interrogates the implications of social work's complicity with systems that perpetuate oppression and social injustice.

Discussions on children who have experienced domestic abuse often focuses on trauma and risks, and little is known about their lives beyond abuse. This risks pathologising children and reinforcing colonial and patriarchal social norms.

This groundbreaking book challenges dominant narratives by drawing on an 18-month multimodal ethnography with children in an inner London borough.

Offering a radical and holistic perspective on children's personhood, this book situates their everyday lives within broader global debates on childhood, decolonisation and social justice. It engages with the works of Black feminist, decolonial and Indigenous scholars, calling for a fundamental rethinking of how we support and understand children who have experienced domestic abuse.

Emotions are central to our humanity and yet, when it comes to social work, the experiences of joy are often forgotten or overlooked, while 'difficult' emotions like shame, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness are often dismissed as unprofessional.

This groundbreaking book challenges the taboo around emotion in social work. The first of its kind, it uses international research and hundreds of practitioner interviews to explore emotions in social work, and to demonstrate how embracing all emotions can enhance practice, prevent emotional burnout, and strengthen motivation.

Accessibly written and with a strong practical element, this book is an invaluable tool for turning complex and emotionally charged situations into rich opportunities for learning, enhancing resilience, and developing personal and professional growth.

This book gives voice to an indispensable yet often overlooked group of care workers in China's eldercare industry. Drawing on rich, first-hand accounts from frontline care workers and interwoven with a wealth of sociological insights, the author offers a critical yet nuanced analysis of how statutory norms, cultural values, institutional standards, and interpersonal dynamics shape the experiences, motivations, and coping strategies of professional care workers. The book compellingly illustrates the stark contrast between the high expectations and demands placed upon these workers and the low pay and status they receive in return. A key strength of the book lies in its holistic approach, which not only contextualizes the challenges faced by care workers but also explores their search for meaning within an increasingly marketized and rapidly evolving cultural landscape. By shedding light on the intersection of care work, policy, economy and socio-cultural values, the book offers a fresh analytical lens on the precariousness and resilience of care workers. It provides critical insights into how these workers navigate structural constraints, drawing on personal agency and cultural resources to find purpose and dignity in their roles. In doing so, the book makes a significant contribution to debates on labor, aging, and care in contemporary China, offering valuable implications for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners alike.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges?

This groundbreaking book delves into conditions for ageing and caring, asking how they could be improved for different communities living in high-income welfare states.

Emphasising that equitable ageing depends on equitable care conditions, the contributors draw on extensive empirical research.

Packed with actionable policy and practice insights, this compelling volume charts a path toward a more just and inclusive future for ageing populations alongside all those providing care, whether as family members, friends or as paid workers.

Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

When people are forced to flee their homes - due to armed conflict, persecution, or human rights violations - continuity of care for those living with chronic illnesses becomes a critical concern. Yet, across the full migratory journey - from displacement and transit, through resettlement, and into possible onward movement such as return or circular migration - access to consistent, appropriate healthcare is often disrupted or fragmented.

Responding to the WHO's global research agenda on health, migration, and displacement, this edited volume brings together international research spanning diverse geographical settings, chronic conditions, population groups, and methodological approaches. It offers evidence and insights from across the entire continuum of mobility, identifying different types of work or strategies that are central to the evolving needs of forcibly displaced people living with chronic diseases.

This book provides a description of what a good human service organization is, and what it does. The author relies on a broad framework to define "good" and offers a fictional account as a methodology, using his considerable consulting and research experience in human service organizations as a content enriching approach to the case examples he presents in this volume. The book details the fictional story of Fifth Street, a non-governmental organization nested in a high-need community, which itself is hypothetical but reflects what is occurring within communities whose residents are struggling with poverty. The content of this fictional account leans on a synthesis of multiple case examples. This approach will appeal to faculty and students as well as practitioners who are seeking a grand example of how human service organizations can work effectively in high need contexts. Students will also gain from the ethical perspective the author presents in this monograph. This is a project of hope: one that can inspire us all practicing in human services to strive for the best in novel and innovative ways.

Loneliness is one of the most pressing social challenges of the twenty-first century, and its impacts are particularly negative for people with chronic illnesses. This book details the complex and, often overlooked relationship between loneliness and chronic illness. The authors take a social perspective to show how loneliness is shaped by illness experience, life histories, and broader social factors such as stigma, social networks, healthcare systems and social inequalities. Drawing on rich qualitative interviews and centring the voices of people with chronic illness and those who care and support them, the chapters in this book show how loneliness unfolds across everyday lives, relationships, and places. The authors argue that loneliness is not an individual problem to be 'fixed', calling for inclusive approaches to loneliness grounded in the experiences of those who are most impacted. For researchers, professionals and community members, this book offers powerful insights into what makes social connection meaningful and how we might reimagine support for those living with both chronic illness and loneliness.

With the revolutionary technology advancement and the global population aging, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of the use of information and computer technology (ICT) among older people, and the need for ICT inclusivity to ensure that all older individuals can benefit equally from the modern technology. ICT use is also considered to has the potential to promote healthy longevity by telehealth and health monitoring, social connections, cognitive stimulation, access to information, and lifelong learning, among others.

Although there are growing empirical studies on ICT use at older ages, a good summary and review of the current findings, especially from those of non-Western societies, is largely absent. Based on a wide range of evidence-based analyses and real-world examples and a more refined scheme of measures, this book presents the most updated findings in the field, conducts analyses from cross-national and multicultural lens, and offers multidisciplinary and comprehensive insights on how individual, cultural, societal, and institutional factors shape ICT use and healthy aging across nations.

The wide scope and the holistic approach of the book makes it a timely and valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, healthcare professionals, other stakeholders, and anyone interested in understanding the role of ICT in promoting healthy aging and improving the lives of older adults.