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Human Services | Ratonga Tangata: Books

Finding Books for Human Services

As human services is interdisciplinary, material may be shelved in many areas of the library including HV (social work), HM (sociology), HQ (gender) and J (political science). 

Recommended reading may be in the High Demand collection.

Most of the recent books are in electronic format and can be found by searching MultiSearch

Relevant Call Numbers

HV Social service. Social and public welfare. Criminology (level 8)
1 - 4 Periodicals
10-11 Social work as a profession, study & teaching, social work education, research methods for social work
16 - 28 Philanthropy
29 Writing and communication skills
40-41 General works & textbooks - theory, policy, management
43 Social case work
45 Social group work
72 - 525 Social service by country
515.5 Social service - New Zealand
551 - 639 Social service - disasters
640 - 645 Refugees
687 - 696 Medical/clinical social work
697 - 700 Families
701 - 1420 Children
1421 - 1441 Youth
1442 - 1448 Women
1449 - 1493 Older people
1551 - 3024 People with disabilities
4023 - 4470 Poverty
4480 - 4630 Homelessness
4708 - 4943 Animal rights, ethics and welfare
4997 - 5000 Substance abuse
5001 - 5722 Alcoholism
5800 - 5840 Drug abuse
HV Criminology (level 8)
6250 - 6250 Victims of crimes
6251 - 6773 Crimes and offences
6543 - 6548 Suicide
6556 - 6593 Sex crimes
6570 Sexual abuse
6626.5 Child abuse
6708 - 6722 Gambling
HV Criminal justice and administration (level 8)
7428 Social work in criminal justice
7431 Prevention of crime
7551 - 8280 Police
8301- 9960 Penology. Prisons. Corrections.
9051 - 9230 Young offenders
9261 - 9430 Corrections reform
BF Psychology (level 11)
636 - 637 Applied Psychology
637 .C Counselling
712 - 724 Developmental Psychology
HM Sociology (General and theoretical) (level 8)
401 - 417 Periodicals
425 Dictionaries. Encyclopedias
435 - 477 History of sociology
478 - 479 Biography
481 - 538 Theory. Method.
548 Economic sociology
554 War. Conflict resolution
571 - 586 Study and teaching. Research
621 - 656 Culture
661-691 Social control
701 Social systems
706 Social structure
708 Social capital
711-753 Social groups
756-781 Community
786-806 Organizational sociology
811-817 Deviant behaviour. Social deviance
821 Social stratification. Social inequality. Equality
826 Social institutions
831-886 Social change
851 Information society
881 Social movements
886 Violence
1011-1281 Social psychology
HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform. (level 8)
1 Periodicals
8 - 19 History
17.5 Social reform literature 1945-
25 Statistics. Social indicators. Quality of life
28 Theory. Method. Relation to other subjects
29 Study and teaching. Research
49 .C6 Community development. Rural development
930.5 New Zealand
930.7-939 Pacific 
978 - 981 Developing countries
HN Social history and conditions (level 8)
930.5 Social history and conditions - New Zealand
HQ The Family (level 8)
503 - 1064 The family
755.5 - 759 Parenthood
768.8 - 792 Children
793 - 799.2 Adolescence
799.95 - 799.97 Adulthood
809 - 809.3 Family violence
1060 - 1064 Older people
1088 - 1090 Men
1101 - 2030 Women
 
 

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