Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice - Couverture souple

Dolgoff, Ralph; Feldstein, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0205179703 ISBN 13 : 9780205179701

Editeur : Pearson, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Ralph Dolgoff Donald Feldstein

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Focuses on values and the historical impact of socio-economic structures

 

Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice is presented in an organized, comprehensive, and scholarly manner, including social policy concepts. It is accessible to students and helps them acquire the basic tools for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating social welfare policies and programs. This text focuses on the impact of social structure on people’s lives, emphasizing the current concerns of diverse client populations and the search for social justice. It places U.S. welfare in philosophical, political, economic, and international contexts, and includes the latest discussion of policy issues related to gay men and lesbians.

  

A better teaching and learning experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience--for you and your students.  Here's how:

• Improve Critical Thinking – Challenges readers to make their own decisions as they encounter policies and programs with enhanced knowledge and analytic skills.
• Engage Students – Presents the historical evolution of social welfare and focuses on issues, trends, and conflicts in the context of influential societal developments and values.
• Explore Current Issues – Includes the latest discussion of policy issues related to gay men and lesbians.
• Support Instructors – An Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank (MyTest), Blackboard Test Item File, and PowerPoint presentations are included in the outstanding supplements package.

 

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ralph Dolgoff is a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore where he also served as Dean. Previously he served as acting dean and associate dean at the Adelphi University School of Social Work, and as Senior Program Specialist at the Council on Social Work Education. Dr. Dolgoff is the author of Introduction to Supervisory Practice in the Human Services and con-author (with Donna Harrington and Frank Loewenberg) of Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice (9th edition), two editions of which have been translated into Korean and Chinese. He has published widely on social and welfare services, ethics, social policy, and social work education.

Dr. Donald Feldstein is the former executive vice-president of the Council of Jewish federations. He had a distinguished career in Jewish Communal Services and in social work education. He is the author of numerous monographs and articles in the previously mentioned fields.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0205179703
• ISBN 13: 9780205179701
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 409