Collection: Bristol University Press and Policy Press comprehensive eBook and Journals collection
If you are an institution that prides itself on having a comprehensive bank of the latest social science research, then access our entire eBook and journals list. It is a wonderful opportunity to provide a truly unique collection of award-winning research from one of the UK's leading social science publishers.
You can have instant access to over 2,000 eBooks and 8,000 journal articles from our incredible range of 22 journals including 50 years of Policy & Politics. This collection gives you full DRM-free access to a vast range of the research we have been publishing since 1996 and is a truly premium collection with access to the full Policy & Politics archive (1972–present).
Journals included in this collection include: Consumption and Society; Critical and Radical Social Work; Emotions and Society; European Journal of Politics and Gender; European Social Work Research; Evidence & Policy; Families, Relationships and Societies; Gender and Justice; Global Discourse; Global Political Economy; International Journal of Care and Caring; Journal of Gender-Based Violence; Journal of Global Ageing; Journal of Poverty & Social Justice (2002–present); Journal of Psychosocial Studies; Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice (2018–present); Justice, Power and Resistance; Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Policy & Politics (2000–present); Voluntary Sector Review; Work in the Global Economy.
Within our eBook collection, you will find a complete range of our monographs, muti-authored and edited works including peer-reviewed, original scholarly research across the social sciences and aligned disciplines. We publish long- and short-form research and you can browse the complete Bristol University Press and Policy Press archive of over 2,000 titles. Policy Press also publishes policy reviews and polemic work which aim to challenge policy and practice in certain fields. These books have a practitioner in mind and are practical and accessible in style, as well as being academically sound and referenced.
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Bristol University Press and Policy Press Complete eBooks and Journals Collection
The recovery movement has gained significant traction in both the mental health and addictions field in the last 20 years, as a strengths-based approach to building long-term wellbeing. From this transition has come a need for process and outcome measures that are strengths-based and that has resulted in the development initially of the concept of recovery capital and more recently, the operationalisation and quantification of this approach.
This book provides a clear and accessible history of the development of this concept, and then looks at how the concept has been operationalised and used for a range of purposes. The first main theme is around the conceptual origins of the term and its relationship to strengths-based approaches to addressing behavioural health issues. The second is around the idea that recovery, previously regarded as a subjective concept hard to quantify and capture, can be operationalised effectively through the concept of recovery capital. The third core theme will be the progress to date in mapping and measuring recovery capital – reviewing the multiple scales that have been developed and published in this area and the underlying evidence base for each of these. The final section will review the impact this has had on the field in terms of changing practice and improving the quality of services that are available to people at different stages of their recovery journey.
The core aim of the book is to bring all of the existing evidence on recovery capital measurement and its application together, and to become the definitive and ‘go to’ book on this topic for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and people in recovery.
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex offenders and sex crimes. Its accessible style and use of practice based learning exercises will help readers to reflect on theory, practice and developing emotional resilience.
