Book description
Invaluable guidance and advice for creating positive change in
social policy
Edited by a team of renowned experts, Connecting Social Welfare
Policy to Fields of Practice features contributions from leaders
in this field providing a variety of perspectives on different topics.
This visionary guide equips social workers to proactively engage in
policy practice to influence specific policies.
Designed as a social welfare policy practice text for undergraduate
and graduate students in social work programs, this book meets the
Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational Policy and
Accreditation Standards (EPAS).
Each chapter begins with an overarching question and "what
if" scenarios, and ends with a set of suggested key terms, online
resources, and discussion questions.
Connecting Social Welfare Policy to Fields of Practice
addresses specific populations within a wide variety of practice
arenas, including:
- Social welfare policy and politics
- Aging in the United States
- Public mental health policy in the United States
- Disability policy development
- Health-care policy
- Urban housing policy
- Child welfare policy
- Redefining the welfare state in a global economy
Global in context, Connecting Social Welfare Policy to Fields of
Practice encourages those in the social work profession to
become directly engaged with individuals, families, groups, and
communities in the crafting of impartial public policies for
marginalized members of society.
IRA C. COLBY, DSW, is Dean of the Graduate College of Social
Work, University of Houston, Texas. Dr. Colby has served on, chaired,
or held elective positions in a number of national social work
associations, including past president of the Council on Social Work
Education, and serves on a number of journal editorial boards.
CATHERINE N. DULMUS, PhD, LCSW, is Professor, Associate Dean
for Research, and Director of the Buffalo Center for Social Research
in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and
Research Director at Hillside Family of Agencies in Rochester, New York.
KAREN M. SOWERS, PhD, is Dean and Beaman Professor in the
College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her
research interests include juvenile justice, sexuality, social work
education, child welfare, evidenceÂ-based practice, and international
social work practice.
