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Understanding Social Welfare
ISBN: 9780801317019 | 0801317010
Edition: 4thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: ADDISON WESLEY LONGMAN INC
Pub. Date: 1/1/1997
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Understanding Social Welfare introduces readers to the issues, historical influences, trends, methods of operation, and unresolved conflicts of American social welfare. This well-organized, comprehensive, and scholarly book is accessible to social workers and helps them acquire the basic tools for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating social welfare policies and programs. The book focuses on the impact of social structure on people's lives, emphasizing the current concerns of a diverse client population, and incorporating the latest social welfare legislation. For those involved with social welfare and policy.
| Preface | |
| Self-Reliance, Dependence, and Responsibility | p. 1 |
| Social Values and Social Welfare | p. 19 |
| Social Values and Social Welfare: England from the Middle Ages Onward | p. 41 |
| Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience | p. 65 |
| America, Poverty, Two Paths, and American Dreams | p. 91 |
| Concepts for Social Welfare | p. 111 |
| Examining A Social Welfare Prog... MORE | p. 131 |
| The Welfare Society and Its Clients | p. 155 |
| Current Social Welfare Programs - Economic Security | p. 187 |
| Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life | p. 233 |
| Non-Profit and Private Social Welfare | p. 273 |
| Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession | p. 295 |
| Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues | p. 317 |
| Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare | p. 341 |
| Alternative Programs to Meet Social Welfare Needs | p. 373 |
| Appendix A: Sources of Information | p. 413 |
| Index | p. 417 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
