Critical Social Welfare Issues Tools for Social Work and Health Care Professionals
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An increasing number of policy learning studies have provided practical suggestions for the direction of welfare developments and reforms in East Asia. However , these have been carried out without a solid theoretical basis. This article aims to analyse the issues of existing policy learning...
- Welfare: Guide to Critical Analysis. // Points of View: Welfare;3/1/2016, p4
This article offers a critical guide to the controversial issue of welfare in the U.S. The article discusses criteria in understanding the issue, such as distinguishing between fact and opinion and recognizing point and counterpoint arguments. Also presented are exercises that help the reader...
- The Simon Heng column. // Community Care;8/17/2006, Issue 1636, p22
The article expresses the author's concern over the social service policy in Great Britain. He discovered that people older than 65 who develop his sort of condition - paralysis caused by damage to the nervous system - are not eligible for the same kind of support, rehabilitation, care, social...
- How are cities meeting families' needs? // American City & County;May2004, Vol. 119 Issue 5, p12
Presents survey charts on how cities are meeting the needs of the households in their communities. Higher-income families; Middle-income families; Families on public assistance.
- STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. // Community Care;3/2/2006, Issue 1612, p5
The article focuses on the Stand Up for Social Care campaign that will be launched by Community Care magazine in Great Britain in 2006. It mentions the aim of Community Care to promote social work and social care. It offers information on the importance of promoting social work and social care...
- The welfare mess. Cheralier, Lois // Saturday Evening Post;5/11/1963, Vol. 236 Issue 18, p15
Examines the failures of the welfare system in the U.S. Assertion that many welfare recipients whose attempts to get off relief and make their own way are being frustrated by the welfare system; Budget allocated by the federal, state and local government for the welfare system; Reform in the...
- Innovation in Social Policy: Collaborative Policy Advocacy. Sherraden, Margaret S.; Slosar, Betsy; Sherraden, Michael // Social Work;Jul2002, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p209
In a time of policy devolution, social workers have a unique opportunity to develop a significant voice in constructing state social welfare policy. This article examines a method of collaborative policy advocacy led by social work researchers, practitioners, advocates, and students. It is...
- Chapter 5: From Paper to People: An Analysis of Critical Welfare Reform Issues Affecting the Black Community. Crewe, Sandra Edmonds; Bent-Goodley, Tricia B. // African-American Social Workers & Social Policy;2003, p69
This chapter presents an analysis of critical welfare reform issues affecting the Black community in the U.S. It presents an overview of welfare reform from the black perspective and the person-in-environment framework. It also examines three issues of particular importance to black communities...
- Rethinking Social Work's Role in Public Assistance. ALTMAN, JULIE COOPER; GOLDBERG, GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER // Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare;Dec2008, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p71
This article presents an argument for revisiting social work's relationship to public assistance in the wake of 10 years of welfare reform. Three case studies drawn from a mixed-method study of the quality of life of former TANF recipients illustrate the range, depth and complexity of the needs...
