Recipient of a 2022 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)
Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World is an approachable and student-friendly text that links policy and practice and employs a critical analytic lens to U.S. social welfare policy. With particular attention to disparities based on class, race/ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and gender, authors Shannon R. Lane, Elizabeth S. Palley, and Corey S. Shdaimah assess the impact of policies at the micro, meso, and macro levels. The authors provide students with a brief foundation in history, the policy process, and theory, while primarily focusing on helping students recognize the many ways that policy affects their lives and the lives of their clients and communities. Connecting description, theoretical analysis, and advocacy, this new text challenges readers to examine the development, consequences, and future implications of core policies. Students will come away with a newfound understanding of how to use the political process to address social justice issues and enact meaningful policy change.
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Table of Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1 • Social Work: A Value-Based Profession in Historical Context
Policy Practice and Me: A Social Work Perspective
A Brief History of U.S. Social Welfare Policy
Current Context
Chapter 2 • How Policy is Created and Influenced
The Policy Process
Intervention Methods: How to Engage with the Policy Process
Chapter 3 • Practical Theories for Understanding and Analyzing Policy
Background on Vaccines
Policy Analysis Theories
Interest Group Politics
Using Frameworks for Analysis
Application of Theories
Chapter 4 • Family Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Family Policy
Current Family Policy
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 5 • Child Welfare Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Child Welfare Policy
The Modern Child Welfare System
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 6 • Early Childhood Education and Care Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Early Childhood Education and Care
Current Child Care and Early Education Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 7 • Education Policy, Kindergarten Through High School
History and Social Construction of U.S. Education
History of Education in the U.S.: Timeline of Federal Education Actions
Current Education Policy
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 8 • Higher Education Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Higher Education
Current Higher Education Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 9 • Work and Employment Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Work and Employment
Current Work and Employment Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 10 • Policy for Older Adults
History and Social Construction of U.S. Policy for Older Adults
Current Policies for Older Adults
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 11 • Health Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Health Care
Current Health Policy
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 12 • Disability Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Disability Policy
The Early U.S. History of Disability
Social Security Act and Disability Rights Movements Begin
Current Disability Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 13 • Criminal Justice
History and Social Construction of U.S. Criminal Justice Policy
Current Criminal Justice Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 14 • Housing and Homelessness Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Homelessness
The Progressive Era: Homelessness and the “Married Vagabond”
History and Social Construction of U.S. Housing
Current Housing and Homelessness Policy
Defining Homelessness
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 15 • Immigration Policy
History and Social Construction of U.S. Immigration Policy
Current Immigration Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Chapter 16 • Environmental Policy
The History and Social Construction of U.S. Environmental Policy
Current Environmental Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
Glossary
References
Index
About the author
Corey Shdaimah, LL.M., Ph D is the Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Academic Coordinator for the MSW/JD and MSW/MPP dual degrees at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work. Her work focuses on how policies unfold on the ground, with a special interest in how people charged with implementing policy work in and around policies that they believe are unjust or inefficient. She is also interested in how people who are targeted by policies work around them. In the past ten years she has focused on prostiution policy, including prostitution diversion programs that target street-based sex work, dependency court reforms, and child care policy (often with Elizabeth). Because Corey is interested in learning from people who are most affected by policy but least often heard, her research methods almost always include participatory components ranging from input in research design, engaged qualitative techniques including ethnographic research and photovoice, and work with community groups about how and where to disseminate knowledge that will be of practical as well as academic use. Corey is the author and co-author of many articles, three books including Change Research: A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates (with Sanford Schram and Roland Stahl, Columbia University Press) and co-editor (with Katie Hail-Jares and Chrysanthi Leon) of Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work (Temple University Press).
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