Contemporary Social Problems in the UK (eBook, ePUB)

A Comprehensive Overview
Redaktion: Stanley, Selwyn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores a wide range of social problems in the UK using a range of psychosocial theories to generate an understanding of various causal factors and to examine the linkages between different social problems. Government policy and legislation, remedial measures, preventive approaches, and strategies of intervention are also considered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000652741
• Artikelnr.: 65486072

Autorenporträt

Selwyn Stanley is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Edge Hill University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of mental health, alcohol misuse, informal caregiving in chronic illness and family life dynamics. He is the editor of Social Problems in India: Perspectives for Intervention (Allied Publishers, 2004) and Social Work Education in Countries of the East: Issues & Challenges (Nova Science, 2011). His research orientation is in quantitative methods and areas of research interest include stress, resilience, coping, wellbeing, and quality of life issues in different populations. His recent publications have explored occupational stress and its correlates in social work practitioners and students in India. He is currently involved in studies that look at family caregiving issues for people with cancer and children with learning disabilities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Social problems: exploring the landscape 2. Understanding and making
sense of social problems 3. Poverty: the social problem of all time? 4.
Fractured families: causes and consequences of family breakdown 5. A
domestic violence pandemic: outlining victim and perpetrator perspectives
6. Teenage pregnancy - a social problem or public health issue? 7. Child
abuse, child neglect and safeguarding children: an overview 8. Youth
offending: nature, causes and implications 9. Alcohol misuse: one too many?
10. A bitter pill to swallow: exploring and understanding drug misuse in
the UK 11. Constructing and conceptualising suicide and self-harm 12.
Exploring homelessness 13. Multicultural societies: diversity,
discrimination and social inclusion