This book seeks to provide a broad overview of the field of social development and the way
it contributes to improving people's well-being throughout the world. Although social …

This paper explores how young people of diverse genders and sexualities share information
about sex, sexualities and genders. Formal approaches to education often fail to consider …

People are increasingly part of a complex landscape of financial transactions, services, and
institutions across nearly all realms of everyday life. They face an often confusing array of …

This paper presents the empirical interrogation and development of the concept of coping
strategies through the findings of a piece of qualitative research which used this concept to …

There is a significant body of scholarship on the settlement and integration of immigrants in
Canada. However, most knowledge in this domain comes from government and …

Social enterprise has been introduced as a new framework to help resolve socioeconomic
problems in South Korea. The reason why the Korean government was in a hurry to enact …

Sense of Community (SOC) has been the theoretical underpinnings of practice models with
veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Amdur et al. 2011; Bowen, Martin …

Abstract “Things have a price and can be for sale, but people have a dignity that is priceless
and worth far more than things”. These words by Pope Francis (Pinterest nd) accurately …

The developmental approach to mental health aligns social workers' commitment to the
services they provide with the need to promote a fairer and more inclusive society. The 2030 …

Over the past several decades, earned income from commercial sources such as service
fees, investment earnings, and product sales, has surged in human service nonprofit …