Social policy for effective practice : a strengths approach
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Social policy for effective practice : a strengths approach
（New directions in social work）
Routledge, 2020
5th ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Selling Points
Unlike other texts, which tend to supply and reinforce one framework, presents multiple frameworks and approaches to understanding policy analysis and teaching it in the classroom.
Provides exceptional balance linking historical policy contexts and analysis, with major policies today and possible frameworks in the future.
Integrates examples of actual social work students who engaged in policy practice to demonstrate how policies affect individual clients.
Includes detailed cases on www.routledgesw.com give students the opportunity to put the skills they learn into practice. Website now supplemented and updated with two static and downloadable case studies for added accessibility
Features an updated package of instructor resources (exams, syllabi, EPAS grids, links and teaching tips, lecture slides, extra readings) that are even easier to integrate into course learning and support lecturers use the text in traditional, online, and or blended formats.
Incorporates the strengths perspective, making policy issues less about problems and more about recognizing how to use the strengths of any set of circumstances to combat the issue.
Table of Contents
1: Social Work and Social Policy: A Strengths Perspective 2: The Historical Context: Basic Concepts and Early Influences 3: The Historical Context: Development of Our Current Welfare System 4: The Economic and Political Contexts 5: Basic Tools for Researching Need and Analyzing Social Policy 6: Social Policy Development 7: Civil Rights 8: Income- and Asset-Based Social Policies and Programs 9: Policies and Programs for Children and Families 10: Health and Mental Health Policies and Programs 11: Policies and Programs for Older Adults 12: The Future References Index
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