Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World, Second Edition offers an engaging, student-friendly approach that links policy and practice, while employing 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, 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 a brief foundation in history, the policy process, and theory, while primarily helping students understand how policy shapes their lives, communities, and clients. Connecting description, theoretical analysis, and advocacy, this text challenges readers to critically assess policy development, its consequences, and future implications. Students will come away with a newfound understanding of how to use the political process to address social justice issues and advocate for meaningful policy change.
Table of Content
1. Social Work A Value-Based Profession in Historical Context
Policy Practice and Me: Values, Ethics, and History of Social Work
A Brief History of US Social Welfare Policy
2. The Making of Race and Structural Oppression in the United States
Oppression
Social Construction of Race and Racism
US History, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, and Oppression
Policies to Address Racial Discrimination
3. How Policy is Created and Influenced
The Policy Process
Current Structure of US Government
Political Parties and Ideologies
Intervention Methods: How to Engage with the Policy Process
4. Practical Theories for Understanding and Analyzing Policy
Background on Vaccines
Policy Analysis Theories
Interest Group Politics
Using Frameworks for Analysis
Application of Theories
5. Environmental Policy
The History and Social Construction of US Environmental Policy
Current Environmental Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
6. Family Policy
History and Social Construction of US Family Policy
Current Family Policy
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
7. Child Welfare Policy
History and Social Construction of US Child Welfare Policy
The Modern Child Welfare System
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
8. Early Childhood Education and Care Policy
History and Social Construction of US Early Childhood Education and Care
Current Child Care and Early Education Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
9. Education Policy, Kindergarten Through High School
History and Social Construction of US Education
Current Education Policy
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
10. Higher Education Policy
History and Social Construction of US Higher Education
Current Higher Education Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
11. Work and Employment Policy
History and Social Construction of US Work and Employment
Current Work and Employment Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
12. Policy for Older Adults
History and Social Construction of US Policy for Older Adults
Current Policies for Older Adults
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
13. Health Policy
History and Social Construction of US Health Care
Current Health Policy
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
14. Disability Policy
History and Social Construction of US Disability Policy
Current Disability Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
15. Criminal Legal Policy
History and Social Construction of US Criminal Legal Policy
Current Criminal Legal Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
16. Housing and Homelessness Policy
History and Social Construction of US Homelessness
History and Social Construction of US Housing
Current Housing and Homelessness Policy
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
17. Immigration Policy
History and Social Construction of US Immigration Policy
Current Immigration Policies
Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses
Opportunities for Advocacy
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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