Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World [Paperback]

Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing Worldis a topical, comprehensive introduction to social welfare policy. It uses a contemporary framework that explicitly addresses three forces that have redefined the social policy arena: the growth of the information economy, the rise of globalization, and our current environmental crisis. This framework is applied to the six traditional arenas of policy--child and family services, health and mental health, poverty and inequality, housing and community development, crime and violence, and aging, and explores how to find solutions to both long enduring and brand new problems.Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing Worldis a topical, comprehensive introduction to social welfare policy. It uses a contemporary framework that explicitly addresses three forces that have redefined the social policy arena: the growth of the information economy, the rise of globalization, and our current environmental crisis. This framework is applied to the six traditional arenas of policy--child and family services, health and mental health, poverty and inequality, housing and community development, crime and violence, and aging--and explores how to find solutions to both long-enduring and brand-new problems. John McNutt and Richard Hoefer's introductory text represents a move forward in social welfare policy thinking that is built on the latest scholarship and teaches students that the time to create social policies for the future is in the present.1. Welcome to the Future: Your Many Roles as a Social Worker2. Society and Social Welfare in Agrarian and Industrial Societies3. Social Welfare History in Developmental Context4. The Coming of Information Society5. Values, Ideology, and Political Philosophy in Social Welfare Policy6. Policy Analysis: Tools for Building Evidence-Based Social Policy7. Theories of Policymaking8. Advocacy in the Information Age World of Social Policy9. Poverty, Inequality, and Income Maintel“9