Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World

by John G. McNutt, Richard Hoefer

Overview

Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World is 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780197543832
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/05/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
Sales rank:	393,492
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

John McNutt is Professor in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. Richard Hoefer is Roy E. Dulak Professor for Community Practice Research in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to the Future: Your Many Roles as a Social Worker 2. Society and Social Welfare in Agrarian and Industrial Societies 3. Social Welfare History in Developmental Context 4. The Coming of Information Society 5. Values, Ideology, and Political Philosophy in Social Welfare Policy 6. Policy Analysis: Tools for Building Evidence-Based Social Policy 7. Theories of Policymaking 8. Advocacy in the Information Age World of Social Policy 9. Poverty, Inequality, and Income Maintenance Policy 10. Physical and Mental Health Care Policy 11. Social Services for Children and Families 12. Crime and Violence in an Information Society 13. Housing and Community Development 14. Aging and Social Policy

Editorial Reviews

"MuNutt and Hoefer's book is a fascinating introductory text for anyone interested in learning about social welfare policy. This book stands out as truly refreshing and engaging, not only because it offers a wonderful forward-looking perspective on the evolution of social welfare policy and its relationship with social policy and public policy more broadly, but also because of its strong emphasis on actually doing policy analysis and advocacy. A must read for aspiring and experienced social workers, nonprofit leaders, and public managers."
- Chao Guo, University of Pennsylvania

"McNutt and Hoefer's social welfare policy text should readily engage our students in learning and appreciating the relevance of policy to the practice of social work. The book grounds analysis of social welfare policy within contemporary forces driving change in the US and the world. It is truly unique among social welfare texts in its systematic integration of content on the information revolution, pressing environmental crises, and globalization across social welfare policy topic areas. The present and future are not afterthoughts in this book."
- Pamela C. Twiss, California University of Pennsylvania

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