Book description
A comprehensive overview of domestic and global social welfare policy
Written by a team of renowned social policy experts sharing their
unique perspectives on global and U. S. social welfare policy issues,
Social Work and Social Policy helps social workers consider
key issues that face policymakers, elected officials, and agency
administrators in order to develop policies that are both fair and just.
Designed as a foundational social welfare policy text, this important
book meets the Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational
Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS).
Encouraging readers' critical thinking on various issues, 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.
Recognizing that policy work requires practitioners to be as fully
versed as possible with the issue at hand, Social Work and Social
Policy thoroughly explores:
- Social welfare policy as a form of social justice
- The evolution of the American welfare state
- Human security and the welfare of societies
- Social policy from a global perspective
- Challenges for social policies in Asia
- Welfare reform and the need for social empathy
- The U. S. Patriot Act and its implications for the social work profession
- Human rights and emerging social media
Compelling and broad in scope, Social Work and Social Policy
is an indispensable text for students and a valuable resource for
practitioners concerned with creating social policy and governmental
action guided by justice for all.
IRA C. COLBY, DSW, is Dean of the Graduate College of Social
Work, University of Houston, in 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, evidence-based practice, and international
social work practice.
