Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach (Ebook PDF)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0367357062
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0367357061
• Author: Rosemary Kennedy Chapin (Author), Melinda Lewis (Author)

The fifth edition of Social Policy for Effective Practice offers a rich variety of resources and knowledge foundations to help social work students understand and contend with the continually evolving social policy landscape that surrounds them. The authors have continued their values-based approach and kept the focus on clients’ strengths to help students position themselves for effective engagement on new fronts where policy threats and outcomes affect clients’ lives in myriad ways.

The new edition comprehensively covers the process of defining need, analyzing social policy, and developing policy, and each chapter builds on the practical knowledge and skills forged from previous ones.

Table of contents:

• Social Work and Social Policy: A Strengths Perspective.
• The Historical Context: Basic Concepts and Early Influences.
• The Historical Context: Development of Our Current Welfare System.
• The Economic and Political Contexts.
• Basic Tools for Researching Need and Analyzing Social Policy.
• Social Policy Development.

Title tag

1. Maximizing Effectiveness in Social Policy Practice through Strengths Approach
2. Strengths Approach: A Revolutionary Method for Effective Social Policy Practice
3. Enhancing Social Policy Practice: An Insight into the Strengths Approach.