Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare
Volume 4: Social Policy and Policy Practice
Will be published approx. on 15. April 2008
Book
Hardback
412 pages
978-0-471-76998-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Volume 4: Social Policy and Policy Practice features contributions from leading international researchers and practitioners and presents the most comprehensive, in-depth source of information on the field of social work and social welfare.
Reviews / Votes
"The Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare is an outstanding contribution to social work literature. The Handbook offers a unique and practical view of social work. We recommend that all academic libraries adopt this volume. Social work professors need to review it. These volumes will make significant contributions to student learning." (Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, Spring 2009)More details
Product info
gebunden
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-76998-9 (9780471769989)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Karen M. Sowers | Catherine N. Dulmus | Ira C. Colby
Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Volume 4, Social Policy and Policy Practice
E-Book
04/2008
Wiley
€207.99
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Persons
Editors-in-Chief, Karen M. Sowers, PhD, is Professor and Dean at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Catherine N. Dulmus, PhD, is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the?Buffalo Center?for Social Research at the University of Buffalo, New York. She is coeditor of several social work journals and has authored or coedited a number of books, including Essentials of Child Welfare, Handbook of Preventive Interventions for Children and Adolescents, Handbook of Preventive Interventions for Adults, and The Social Work and Human Services Treatment Planner.
Volume Editor, Ira C. Colby, DSW, ACSW, LCSW, Dean and Professor of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Catherine N. Dulmus, PhD, is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the?Buffalo Center?for Social Research at the University of Buffalo, New York. She is coeditor of several social work journals and has authored or coedited a number of books, including Essentials of Child Welfare, Handbook of Preventive Interventions for Children and Adolescents, Handbook of Preventive Interventions for Adults, and The Social Work and Human Services Treatment Planner.
Volume Editor, Ira C. Colby, DSW, ACSW, LCSW, Dean and Professor of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Content
Handbook Preface
By Karen M. Sowers and Catherine N. Dulmus
Volume Prolusion
By Ira C. Colby
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Human Security Paradigm: Peace with Justice and Equality?
By Jody Williams
Chapter 2: Social Policy from a Global Perspective
By Robin Sakina Mama
Chapter 3: Social Justice for Marginalized and Disadvantaged Groups: Issues and Challenges for Social Policies in Asia
By Joseph Kin Fun Kwok
Chapter 4: Reconceptualizing the Evolution of the American Welfare
By Bruce Jansson
Chapter 5: Not by the Numbers Alone: The Effects of Economic and Demographic Changes on Social Policy
By Michael Reisch
Chapter 6: The U.S. Patriot Act: Implications for the Social Work Profession
By Stan Stojkovic
Chapter 7: Social Welfare Policy as a Form of Social Justice
By Ira C. Colby
Chapter 8: Policy Practice
By Rodney A. Ellis
Chapter 9: New Federalism, New Freedom and States Rights: The Uncertain and Fragmented Direction of Public Mental Health Policy in the United States
By King Davis
Chapter 10: Aging in the United States: Challenges to Social Policy and Policy Practice
By Inid Opal Cox
Chapter 11: Explanatory Legitimacy: A Model for Disability Policy Development and Analysis
By Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson
Chapter 12: Health Care Policy - Should Change Be Small or Large?
By Pamela Miller
Chapter 13: Social Determinants of Health - 21st Century Social Work Priorities
By Gary Rosenberg
Chapter 14: Urban Housing Policy and Practice in the Developing World
By Sunil Kumar
Chapter 15: Child Welfare Policy
By Richard J. Gelles and Carol Wilson Spigner
Chapter 16: Public Funding of Sectarian Organizations for the Provision of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care: Discriminatory Issues for Gay Males
By Sophia F. Dziegielewski and Christopher W. Blackwell
Chapter 17: Social Welfare Policy and Politics
By Richard Hoefer
Chapter 18: Social Welfare and Economics: Redefining the Welfare State in a Global Economy
By Howard Karger and Peter A. Kindle
Chapter 19: Digital Technology and Social Policy: Social Justice in a World of Anywhere Access?
By Paul Raffoul
Chapter 20: Welfare Reform: The Need for Social Empathy
By Elizabeth Segal