Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States: A History
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190607326
ISBN-10: 0190607327
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 180 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190607327
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 180 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Descriere
The
first
new
social
work
history
to
be
written
in
over
twenty
years,
Social
Work
Practice
and
Social
Welfare
Policy
in
the
United
States
presents
a
history
of
the
field
from
the
perspective
of
elites,
as
well
as
service
providers
and
recipients.
A
particularly
unique
feature
of
the
book
is
that
it
chronicles
and
analyzes
the
development
of
social
work
practice
theory.
As
with
other
parts
of
the
book,
this
is
done
on
two
levels:
from
the
top
down,
looking
atthe
writings,
conference
presentations,
and
training
course
material
developed
by
leaders
of
the
profession,
and
from
the
bottom
up,
looking
at
case
records
for
evidence
of
techniques
that
were
actually
applied
by
social
workers
in
the
field.
The
data
for
the
"bottom
up"
content
in
the
book
was
obtained
fromarchival
records
of
agencies
including
the
Philadelphia
Almshouse,
the
Green
Bay
Wisconsin
Department
of
Public
Welfare,
Minneapolis
Family
and
Children's
Services,
the
New
York
Charity
Organization
Society,
the
Boston
Children's
Aid
Society,
and
the
Boston
Society
for
the
Prevention
of
Cruelty
to
Children.
This
text
also
places
social
work
practice
in
its
institutional
context.
It
is
argued
that
social
work
has
had
a
significant
role
in
three
social
institutions:
public
assistance,
mental
health,
and
child
welfare.
With
this
in
consideration,
the
author
argues
that
social
work
has
completely
lost
its
place
in
public
assistance;
has
achieved
its
major
professional
goal
of
becoming
a
fully
licensed
and
privileged
provider
of
mental
health
services,
but
is
at
risk
of
losing
its
dominance
in
thisinstitution
due
to
the
emergence
of
competing
mental
health
professions;
and
maintains
dominance
only
in
child
welfare.
He
concludes
that
the
profession
needs
to
reengage
with
public
assistance
(TANF);
develop
strategies
to
regain
dominance
in
mental
health
(expansion
of
the
DSW
as
a
practice
degree
issuggested);
and
continue
to
emphasize
child
welfare
as
a
central
professional
concern.
Recenzii
Dr.
Popples
compelling
history
moves
gracefully
from
tightly-focused
stories
to
sweeping
overviews.
Readers
will
be
drawn
in
by
his
brief
micro-histories
of
poor
Americans
encountering
the
welfare
state
in
different
eras
and
places.
His
overviews
make
the
big
story
he
has
to
tell
understandable
to
students
and
general
readers
alike.
Based
on
an
impressive
synthesis
of
secondary
and
primary
sources,
this
book
is
not
merely
an
institutional
history
of
social
welfareapparatuses.
Popples
history
ranges
from
big
changes
in
political
economy
to
the
experiences
of
individual
Americans
in
need.
Most history texts in social work focus exclusively on either social policy or social work practice, rarely both. Even rarer are textbooks with a deep appreciation for the interconnection between policy and practice and an impressive familiarity with the historical literature in social welfare and social work written by both social historians and social work academics. Philip Popple's Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States doesall of this, making a significant contribution to social work education and to our understanding the value of historical analysis.
Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States is a graceful and knowledgeable rendering of social context, societal responses to emergent problems, pre-social work activities that address social and economic issues, proto-social work formulations, and social works growth as a profession that is intimately linked with the social welfare systems evolution and devolution. The book is a pleasure to read.
Most history texts in social work focus exclusively on either social policy or social work practice, rarely both. Even rarer are textbooks with a deep appreciation for the interconnection between policy and practice and an impressive familiarity with the historical literature in social welfare and social work written by both social historians and social work academics. Philip Popple's Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States doesall of this, making a significant contribution to social work education and to our understanding the value of historical analysis.
Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States is a graceful and knowledgeable rendering of social context, societal responses to emergent problems, pre-social work activities that address social and economic issues, proto-social work formulations, and social works growth as a profession that is intimately linked with the social welfare systems evolution and devolution. The book is a pleasure to read.
Notă biografică
Philip
Popple
is
Professor
and
BSW
Program
Director
at
the
University
of
Texas
at
Arlington
School
of
Social
Work.
He
holds
the
Ph.D.
and
MSW
degrees
from
the
George
Warren
Brown
School
of
Social
Work
at
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis.
He
has
professional
experience
as
a
child
welfare
worker
and
training
specialist,
and
as
a
public
social
service
administrator.