Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Critical social welfare issues : tools for social work and health care professionals
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
Critical Social Welfare Issues is a collection of lectures by noted social welfare experts that addresses paramount issues facing society and suggests recommendations for positive change. It is a u...
Critical Social Welfare Issues is a collection of lectures by noted social welfare experts that addresses paramount issues facing society and suggests recommendations for positive change. It is a useful handbook for social workers, psychologists, educators, health professionals, and human service administrators and a valuable text for students studying social welfare policy and social work in health care.The result of the Distinguished Lecturers Series instituted at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Critical Social Welfare Issues brings nationally recognized and outsta
Details
- Creator
- Arthur J. Katz, Abraham Lurie, Carlos Vidal, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2013
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781135407339, 1135407339, 9781315043418, 1315043416, 9781135407261, 1135407266, 0789001616
- OCLC
- ocn897453948
- First published 1997 by the Haworth Press, Inc.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1. Class War and Welfare Reform; Work and the New Class War; Welfare and the New Class War; Reinforcing Work Norms and the New Class War; Chapter 2. Revisiting the Unseen: Some Unresolved Issues in Homeless Advocacy and Research; Introduction; The Limits of Special Pleading; A Legacy of Disregard; Conclusion: Queuing for Justice?; Chapter 3. The Crisis in American Child Welfare; Introduction; How Children View Their Welfare Moms
- Denying Housing to Mothers with NewbornsCutting Off Income Support from Stressed-Out Parents; Young Parents: Key Players in the War Against Crime; Child Welfare Implications of the Transformation of the Welfare System; Accountability: A Moral Imperative; Unintended Consequences of Social Policy Changes; Predicting a Major Rise in Young Women Seeking Abortions; Inviting a Social Disaster; From Poverty to Misery; Chapter 4. Mandatory versus Voluntary HIV Testing of Newborns; HIV Principles of Care; HIV and AIDS in New York Women and Children; Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing
- Current HIV PolicyChapter 5. The Changing Structure of African-American Families; Family Structural Diversity; Social-Class Diversity; Conclusion; Chapter 6. From the Tenement Class to the Dangerous Class to the Underclass: Blaming Women for Social Problems; Moral Contagion; Genetic Transmission; Psychological Internalization; Cultural Dissemination; Conclusion: What the Future Holds; Chapter 7. Health and Human Services for Profit; Purpose; The Caring Society; Privatizing Social Care; The Decline of America's Welfare State; Value-Critical Analysis; Summary and Conclusions
- Chapter 8. Legal Regulation and Accreditation: Obstacles to PracticeTriangular Models of Relationships; Crises in the Field of Social Work; Homelessness, HIV/AIDS, and Violence; Managed Health Care; Accreditation, Licensing, and Certification; Research; Chapter 9. Challenges of Managed Care for Health Professionals: Implications for Social Work Practice; Chapter 10. The Substitution Phenomenon of Professionals in the Health Care Industry; The Changing Health Care Environment; The Organization of the Medical Care Sector; State-Professional Relationships; Strategies to Minimize the Challenges
- The EnvironmentProfessionalism; Credentialing Issues; Scientific Knowledge Base; Health Care; Chapter 11. Troubled Preschoolers Making Trouble Later: Is There a Solution?; Introduction; Who Are the Children?; Blaming the Mothers; Feelings of Powerlessness Are Pervasive; Is There a Professional Response?; Promising Interventions Require Enhancement of the Empowerment Process; A Clinical Example: The Home/School Collaborative Model; The Family-Friendly, Open School System; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 12. Cultural Diversity Among Hispanic Families: Implications for Practitioners
- Hispanics and the Social Work Profession