Understanding Social Welfare - Couverture rigide

Dolgoff, Ralph; Feldstein, Donald

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0205360068 ISBN 13 : 9780205360062

Editeur : Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

Understanding Social Welfare introduces students to the issues, historical influences, trends, methods of operation, and unresolved conflicts of American social welfare.

This well-organized, comprehensive, and scholarly text is accessible to social work students and helps them acquire the basic tools for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating social welfare policies and programs. The text 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.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This readable, well-organized, comprehensive, and scholarly text is accessible to social work students and helps them learn about, understand, analyze, and evaluate social welfare policies and programs.

The text focuses on the impact of social structure on people’s lives, emphasizing human rights and the search for social justice based on the current concerns of a diverse client population, and incorporating the latest contextual factors and social welfare legislation.

What Reviewers Are Saying

“The approach [of Understanding Social Welfare] is among the best. . . . I would not use another text.”
–George T. Patterson, New York University

“I consider it a great strength that this text incorporates the diversity component throughout the text, which is so essential to the social work curriculum. . . . An awareness of this diversity affords the student a valuable perspective and a broader context to evaluate our own state of social policy.”
–Sheli Bernstein-Goff, West Liberty State College

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Understanding Social Welfare introduces students to the issues, historical influences, trends, methods of operation, and unresolved conflicts of American social welfare.

This well-organized, comprehensive, and scholarly text is accessible to social work students and helps them acquire the basic tools for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating social welfare policies and programs. The text 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0205360068
• ISBN 13: 9780205360062
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 6
• Nombre de pages: 410
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible