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The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers 7th Edition by Philip Popple, ISBN-13: 978-0134794297
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- Publisher: Pearson; 7th edition (March 2, 2018)
- Language: English
- 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 013479429X
- ISBN-13: 978-0134794297
Help students connect social policy to the everyday practice of social work.
The Policy-Based Profession provides students with a process for analyzing policies that will help them with their careers in social work. It offers a detailed foundation for policy analysis, including chapters on historical, economic, and social policy analysis. Students then learn to apply the analysis framework to representative policies and issues in the fields of public welfare, aging, mental health, substance abuse, health, child welfare, and immigration.
Correlated with the most recent Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Competencies, the 7th Edition includes the most recent research, theories, and political developments impacting the field. An entirely new chapter on immigration policy highlights this critical social justice issue, the health chapter delves into recent happenings in health care reform, and the mental health chapter includes material on the opioid epidemic and returning veterans.
Table of Contents:
Part One: Social Welfare Policy and the Social
Work Profession 1
1. The Policy-Based Profession 3
2. Defining Social Welfare Policy 20
Part Two: Social Welfare Policy Analysis 31
3. Social Welfare Policy Analysis 33
4. Policy Analysis from a Historical Perspective 54
5. Social/Economic Analysis 76
Part Three: The Framework Applied 95
6. Fighting Poverty: Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families 99
7. Aging: Social Security as an Entitlement 138
8. Mental Health and Substance Abuse 161
9. Health 192
10. Child Welfare: Family Preservation Policy 214
11. Immigration 246
Part Four: Taking Action 267
12. Politics and Social Welfare Policy 269
13. Taking Action: Policy Practice for Social Workers 285
14. Conclusion 307
Philip R. Popple earned a BS from the University of North Texas, an MSW from Washington University (St. Louis), and a Ph.D from Washington University (St. Louis). Dr. Popple has seven years social work practice experience as a child welfare worker, a program evaluator, child welfare training specialist, and training administrator. He began his academic career in 1976 and has served as an advanced standing program coordinator, a baccalaureate program director at two schools, a school director/chair at two schools, and is currently serving as Baccalaureate Program Director at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he served as Interim Dean in 2008/2009. Dr. Popple is co-author of three social work texts: Social Work, Social Welfare, and American Society, 9th ed., 2020 (with Leslie Leighninger); The Policy Based Profession, An Introduction to Policy Analysis for Social Workers, 5th ed., 2011; and Child Welfare Social Work: An Introduction, 2007 (with Francine Vecchiolla).
Leslie Leighninger is a Professor Emerita at the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She has degrees from Oberlin College, Syracuse University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Social Work: Search for Identity and Creating a New Profession: The Beginnings of Social Work Education in the United States. Her research specialty is social work and social welfare history. She was a Vice President of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Social Work and the Council of Social Work Education.
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