Contemporary Social Problems in the UK: A Comprehensive Overview

ISBN-13: 9780367764227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Selwyn Stanley

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.