Occupational welfare is a distinctive solution to contemporary social policy dilemmas. Though it plays a substantial role in many countries, especially in pension provision, occupational welfare and its subtle links to the welfare state have been largely neglected by social scientists. This book, a collaborative effort by a distinguished group of experts, offers in-depth studies of occupational welfare in the US and Scandinavia. These chapters are complemented by discussions of two partially contrasting cases (Canada and Japan), an introductory overview, and a concluding comparative analysis.

Human stories are the core of identity and meaning. This book is an invitation to the engaging and reforming power of telling stories. It is also an invitation to heal the story of health care for older adults by improving the communication between professionals in medicine, psychology, and religion.

At any age the process of genuinely listening and expressing hopes and fears is an intimacy rarely matched in human interaction. Life stories can be told, revised, and rewritten through psychotherapy and improved by a health care which integrates the best of medicine, religion, and psychology. This book invites health care reform by renewing old principles. Through clinical experience, research, and listening to seniors and their families, life stories can be retold to promote healthy treatment and healthy aging. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in psychology, medicine, nursing, religion, and social work.

Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially. Still, by some measures, income inequality has increased as well. This has been the subject of contested public policy and political discourse. The question still stands: How can we better articulate the nuanced changes in American incomes? It is difficult to have conversations about income inequality without an agreed-upon set of terms, metrics, and concepts. United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, edited by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, examines the trends in income growth in the United States and explores various measures of income, including market, post-tax, and post-transfer income. Within each chapter, distinguished experts explain how income and wealth-and the way we measure them-have changed in the United States, which demographic groups have benefited from these changes, and how mobility has changed over time and over generations. Specific chapters explain the roles of gender and race. The resulting book is relevant to modern international policy, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and addresses what can be done to increase economic mobility in the United States.

Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market; that children are unaffected by power and politics; and that teaching and learning are no longer linked to improving the world. Looking at childhood beauty pageants, school shootings, and the omnipresent nihilistic chic of advertising, Giroux paints a disturbing picture of the world surrounding our children. Ultimately, he turns to the work of Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire, and Stuart Hall for lessons on how we can reinstitute a realistic childhood for our children.

How do we respond to harm faced by young people beyond their front doors? Can practitioners keep young people safe at school, in their neighbourhoods or with their friends when social care systems are designed to work with families? The Contextual Safeguarding approach has transformed how policy makers, social care leaders, practitioners and researchers understand harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond. Since 2015 it has been tested across the UK and internationally. This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt on this journey. For anyone interested in how we safeguard young people beyond their front doors, this book shows how much we have achieved and raises big questions about what more we need to do to ensure young people are safe – whatever the context.

The Horn of Africa has suffered repeated disasters: wars, drought, famine, mass refugee movements and environmental decline. This book explains the historical and political background to these crises and outlines the prospects for development in the region. Experts on the Horn cover a broad range of topics, including ethnic conflict, gender and refugees, food security, the survival of pastoralism, the future of independent Eritrea, operations of intelligence agencies and the possibilities for regional cooperation.

Contents:
Volume One: Welfare States and Societies in the Making
Part One

1. Asa Briggs (1984), 'The Welfare State in Historical Perspective', in (1985) The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs, Vol. 2, Brighton: The Harvester Press, pp. 177-211.
2. Christopher Pierson (1991), 'Origins and Development of the Welfare State 1880 Beyond the Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 102-140.
3. Jeremy Bentham (1789), An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, New York: Hafner, 1948, pp. 125 - 154.
4. Tom Paine (1791), 'Of Society and Civilization', Rights of Man, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969, pp. 357
5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848), 'Socialist and Communist Literature', Manifesto of the Communist Party, Edinburgh: Socialist Labour Press, 1909, pp. 429
6. John Stuart Mill (1859) 'Of the Limits of Society over the Individual', On Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 83-101.
7. De Toqueville, 'Government of the Democracy in America', Democracy in America, Everyman Edition, pp. 199-202.
8. De Toqueville, 'What are the Real Advantages which American Society Derives from a Democratic Government', Democracy in America, Everyman Edition, pp. 237-253.
9. Hubert Kiesewetter (1991), 'Competition for Wealth and Power: The Growing Rivalry between Industrial Britain and Industrial Germany 1815 Journal or European Economic History, 20: 2, pp. 271-299.
10. Alan Kidd (1999), 'The State and Pauperism' in State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 8-64.
11. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, (Ch 4)
12. William Booth (1976), 'Why Darkest England?' in P Keating (ed), Into Unknown England, Fontana (pp: 141-158).
Part Two
13. Helen Bosanquet (1973), 'The Poor Law and Local Government' in Social Work in London 1869-1912, Harvester Press. (Ch XIII, pp: 266-300.)
14. S and B Webb (1911), 'The Moral Factor', in The Prevention of Destitution, Longman Green (Ch X, pp: 293
15. J Tampke (1981), 'Bismark's Social Legislation: A Genuine Breakthrough?' in W J Mommsen (Ed), The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950, Croom Helm (Ch 4, pp: 71-83)
16. E P Hennock (1981), 'The Origins of British National Insurance and the German Precedent 1880 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950, Croom Helm (Ch 5, pp: 84)
17. Eve Rosenhaft (1994), 'The historical development of German social policy' in J Clasen and R Freeman (eds.), Social Policy in Germany, Harvester Wheatsheaf (Ch 1: pp: 21-40)
18. Werner Usdorf (1998), 'Global Topographies: The Spiritual, the Social and the Geographical in the Missionary Movement from the West', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp: 591-604.
19. Anna S Orloff (1988), 'The Political Origins of America's Belated Welfare State' in Weir, Orloff and Skocpol, (eds.), The politics of Social Policy in the United States, Princeton University Press (CH. 1, pp: 37)
20. Michael Rose (2001), The secular faith of the social settlements 'If Christ came to Chicago' in Ruth Gilchrist and Tony Jeffs (eds.), Settlements, Social Change and Community Action, Jessica Kingsley (pp: 18)
21. Political and Economic Planning (1937), Report on the British Social Services, (Summary and Conclusions, pp: 9)
22. Mutsuko Takahashi (1997), The Emergence of Welfare Society in Japan, Avebury (Ch. 2, Welfare policy in Japan before 1945, pp: 33)
23. Richard M Titmuss (1957), 'War and social Policy' in Essays on 'The Welfare State', George Allen and Unwin, (CH. 4, pp: 75)
24. C Barnett (1986), 'The Dream of New Jerusalem' in Audit of War, Macmillan (Ch 1, pp: 11)
25. William Temple (1942), 'Appendix', Christianity and Social Order, Penguin, (pp: 75-90.)
26. William Beveridge, (1942) Cm. 6404, Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services, HMSO (Part I), pp: 5-20.

Volume Two: The Zenith of Western Welfare State Systems

27. Gunnar Myrdal (1972), 'The place of values in social policy', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 1. No. 1, pp: 1-14)
28. F A Hayek (1973), 'The Danger of Unlimited Government'. In Economic Freedom and Representative Government, (4th Wincott Memorial Lecture) Occasional Paper 39, IEA, London (Ch II, pp: 9)
29. Rodney Lowe (1990), 'The Second World War, Consensus and the Foundation of the Welfare State, Twentieth Century British History, (Vol. 1, No 2, pp: 152)
30. Alan Peacock (1991), 'Welfare Philosophies and Welfare Finance' in T Wilson and D Wilson, The State and Social Welfare, Longman (pp: 37)
31. R M Titmuss (1987), 'Social Welfare and the Art of Giving' in B Abel Smith and K Titmuss (Eds.), The Philosophy of Welfare, Allen and Unwin (pp: 113)
32. Jose Harris (1991), 'Enterprise and the Welfare State', in Gourvish and O'Day (Eds.), Britain since 1945, Macmillan (pp: 39)
33. Pierre Laroque (1969), 'Social Security in France' in S. Jenkins (Ed.), Social Security in International Perspective, Columbia University Press, pp. 171-189.
34. Henning Fris (1969), 'Issues in Social Security in Denmark', in S. Jenkins (Ed.), Social Security in International Perspective, Columbia University Press. (Ch. 5), pp. 129-150.
35. Peter Baldwin (1990), 'The Failure of the Solidaristic Welfare State', in The Politics of Social Solidarity, Cambridge University Press (pp: 158)
36. Martin Seelib-Kaise (1995), 'The Development of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in Germany and Japan', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 29, No. 3, pp: 269)
37. R Titmuss (1987), 'The Social Division of Welfare', in B Abel Smith and K Titmuss (Eds.), The Philosophy of Welfare, Allen and Unwin (pp: 39)
38. Arthur Seldon (1964), 'Welfare by Choice' in Rebirth of Britain, Pan, (Ch. 11, pp: 153)
39. Z Ferge (1979), 'The Emergence of Social Policy' in A Society in the Making: Hungarian Social and Societal Policy, Penguin, (pp: 50)
40. W G Runciman (1966), 'Reform and its Limits' in Relative Deprivation and Social Justice, Routledge and Kegan Paul, (Ch. XIV, pp: 285)
41. Brian Abel-Smith (1958), 'Whose Welfare State?' in N Mackenzie (Ed.), Conviction, Macgibbon and Kee, (pp: 55)
42. Peter Townsend (1962), 'The Meaning of Poverty', British Journal of Sociology (Vol. 13, pp: 212)
43. Jack Wiseman (1991), 'The Welfare State: A Public Choice Perspective' in Thomas Wilson and Dorothy Wilson (Eds.), The State and Social Welfare, Longman, (Ch. 3, pp: 55)
44. Frances Fox Piven and R Cloward (1971), 'The Welfare Explosion of the 1960s' in Regulating the Poor, Vintage, (pp: 183)
45. Theda Skocpol (1988), 'The Limits of the New Deal System and the Roots of Contemporary Welfare Dilemmas', in Weir, Orloff and Skocpol, (eds.), The politics of Social Policy in the United States, Princeton University Press (CH. 8, pp: 293)
46. Claus Offë (1984), 'Social policy and the theory of the state' in J Keane (Ed.), Contradictions of the Welfare State, Hutchinson, (Ch. 3, pp: 88)

Volume Three: Crisis of the Welfare States

47. Catherine J Jones (1980), 'Dismantling the British Welfare State The Hong Kong Journal of Social Work, (Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp: 28)
48. Digby Anderson (1981) 'Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State' in Digby Anderson, June Lait and David Marsland, Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State, Social Affairs Unit (Ch 2: pp: 11)
49. Peter Townsend, Margaret Whitehead, and Nick Davidson, (1992), 'Introduction to Inequalities in Health', Inequalities in Health, Penguin, pp: 1-27.
50. Jennifer Somerville, (1992), 'The New Right and family politics', Economy and Society, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp: 93-128.
51. Desmond S King, (1987), 'The state and the social structures of welfare in advanced industrial democracies', Theory ad Society, Vol. 16, pp: 841-868.
52. Desmond S King, (1988), 'New Right Ideology, Welfare State Form, and Citizenship: A Comment on Conservative Capitalism, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 30, pp: 793-799.
53. Ken Judge (1987), 'The British Welfare State in Transition', in Friedmann, R R, Gilbert, N and Sherer, M (Eds.) (1987), Modern Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects, Brighton, Wheatsheaf. pp: 1-43.
54. Nathan Glazer (1988), 'The American Welfare State: Incomplete or Different?' in The Limits of Social Policy, Harvard University Press (Ch. 10, pp: 168)
55. Christopher Pierson, (1991), 'Beyond the Welfare State?' and 'Defending the Welfare State', in Pierson, C, Beyond the Welfare State? The New political Economy of Welfare, Cambridge, Polity Press. pp: 179-222.
56. Mary McIntosh, (1981), 'Feminism and Social Policy', Critical Social Policy, Vol. 1, pp: 32-42.
57. Charles Murray, (1982), 'The Two Wars against Poverty', The Public Interest, No. 69, pp: 4-16.
58. Rudolf Klein (1995), 'Priorities and rationing: pragmatism or principles?', BMJ, Vol. 311: pp: 761-762 (Editorial).
59. Gerald F Gauss (1998), 'Why All Welfare States (Including Laissez-faire Ones) Are Unreasonable', Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 15, No: 2.
60. Commission on Social Justice (1994), 'What is Social Justice' in Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal, Vintage (Introduction, pp: 17)
61. M Grazia Rossilli (1999), 'The European Union's policy on the equality of women', Feminist Studies, Spring.
62. Paul Pierson (1996), 'The New Politics of The Welfare State', World Politics, (Vol. 48), pp. 143-179.
63. Zsuzsa Ferge (1997), 'The Changed welfare Paradigm: The Individualization of the Social', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp: 20-44.
64. Schulz B H (2000), 'Globalisation, unification and the German Welfare State', International Social Science Journal, Vol. 163: pp: 39-50.
65. George, V, Stathopoulos, P and Garcés, J (1999), 'Squaring the welfare circle and government ideology: Greece and Spain in the 1990s', International Social Security Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp: 47-67.
66. Powell, M and Hewitt, M (1998), 'The End of the Welfare State?', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp: 1-13.

Volume Four: Welfare Futures

67. Stephan Leibfried (2000), 'National Welfare States, European Integration and Globalization: A perspective for the Next Century', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 22)
68. Robert D Putnam, 'Bowling Alone: America's declining social capital', Journal of Democracy, (Vol. 6(1), pp: 65-78).
69. Peter Baldwin (1996), 'Can we Define a European Welfare State Model?' in Bent Greve (Ed), Comparative Welfare Systems: The Scandinavian Model in a Period of Change, Macmillan.
70. John Veit-Wilson (2000), 'States of Welfare: A Conceptual Challenge', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 1)
71. Greg Martin (2001), 'Social movements, welfare and social policy: a critical analysis', Critical Social Policy, (Vol. 21(3), pp: 361)
72. Robert E Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Henk-Jan Dirven (1999), The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Summarised in Pierson, C and Castles, D G (2000), The Welfare State Reader, Cambridge, Polity Press. pp: 170-189.
73. Julia Twigg (2002), 'The Body in Social Policy: Mapping a Territory', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 31, Part 3, pp: 421
74. Paul Hirst (1999), 'Associationist Welfare: a reply to Marc Stears', Economy and Society, (Vol. 28, No. 4, pp: 590)
75. Fiona Williams (1999), 'Good-enough Principles for Welfare', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 28, Part 4, pp: 667
76. Peter Taylor-Gooby (1994), 'Postmodernism and Social Policy: A Great Leap Backwards', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 23, Part 3, pp: 385)
77. Xinping Guan (2001), 'Globalization, Inequality and Social Policy: China on the Threshold of Entry into the World Trade Organization', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp: 242)
78. David Stoez (2002), 'The American Welfare State at Twilight', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 31, Part 3, pp: 487)
79. Claire Ungerson (2000), 'Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain: Does Gender Still Matter?', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 29, Part 4, pp: 623)
80. John Barry and Brian Doherty (2002), 'The Greens and Social Policy: Movements, Politics, Practice?' in Michael Cahill and Tony Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Environmental Issues and Social Welfare, Blackwell. (Ch. 9, pp: 119)
81. Tamsin Wilson (1995), 'Subject to Control: Lesbians and the State', in Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda, Routledge (Ch. 9, pp: 181)
82. Anthony Giddens (2002), 'What Kind of Society Should Britain Become?', in Where Now for New Labour, Polity (Ch. 4, pp: 38)
83. Stephen Rathgeb Smith and Daniel J Evans (2001), 'Privatization, Devolution and the Welfare State: Rethinking the Prevailing Wisdom' (forthcoming) in Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo, Restructuring Politics: Institutional Challenges of Modern Welfare States.
84. Peter Taylor-Gooby (2001), 'Sustaining state welfare in hard times: who will foot the bill?', Journal of European Social Policy, (Vol. 11(2), pp: 133)
85. Peng, I (2000), 'A Fresh Look at the Japanese Welfare State', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 87-114.
86. Tony Fitzpatrick (2002), 'In Search of a Welfare Democracy', Social Policy and Society, (Vol. 1, Part 1, pp: 11)
87. Rudolf Klein and Anne-Marie Rafferty (1999), 'Rorschach Politics: Tony Blair and the Third Way', The American Prospect, (Vol. 10, Issue 45, July)
88. Nicholas Deakin (2002), 'Public-Private Partnerships, Public Management Review, Vol. 4, Issue, 2, pp: 133
89. Christopher Pierson (1998), 'Contemporary Challenges to Welfare State Development', Political Studies, (Vol. XLVI, pp: 777-794)

This compendium provides an orientation to basic issues of child and family policy. It includes an overview of the recent history of child and family policy in the United States; an exploration of several political economic conditions underlying changes in these policies; a historical survey of policies toward dependent children; and case studies of selected local, state, and federal policies. The case study approach helps to discern patterns in successful and unsuccessful policies, clarify assumptions and values that underlie them, and develop evaluation criteria. Policy formation is the focus in analyses of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act; family support initiatives in Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland; and municipal policies for homeless families in Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle. Examinations of the federal Baby Doe regulations and AIDS education policy in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, public schools highlight policy implementation. An account of the Massachusetts Day Care Partnership Project concentrates on the third phase of policy analysis: policy evaluation. The concluding chapters stress the importance of considering race, class, and gender in defining social problems, setting policy agendas, and structuring and evaluating policies and programs. They then provide an analytic framework for assessing future responsibilities for U.S. child and family policy.

This volume is the only book which focuses on the impact of judicial review in the social welfare field. It comprises a selection of essays by academics and practitioners who have an interest in the operation, impact and future development of judicial review in a number of social welfare areas: homelessness, housing benefit, mental health, health care, social security, the discretionary social fund, immigration, prisoners, education and gypsy site provision. Two contributions address issues relating to the supervisory jurisdiction in the Scottish Court of Session and the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland.

Each contributor outlines the background and development of judicial review in their particular field followed by commentary on the operation of the judicial review remedy and various theoretical and practical concerns such as the impact of judicial review on organizational behaviour and its effect on the exercise of discretionary powers. The essays deal with the political and policy context of judicial review challenge, and the shifting balance of advantage offered to social welfare campaigners. The limitations of judicial review and the comparative merits of statutory appellate schemes are also examined. The contributors attempt to identify future areas for research and a concluding chapter draws together the common themes.

Families need child care more in the 1990s than ever before. Those hours surrounding school time are particularly troublesome for working parents. In this new edition of a pioneering work, Seligson and Allenson explore the challenges that child care providers will encounter as the 21st century approaches. The authors skillfully balance a practical business operations text with an investigation into the meaning of social obligation. The central theme of partnership in offering care underscores each of the 12 chapters. These general planning elements form guidelines designing and managing a caring program for children aged 5-12.

Topics covered include administration, curriculum, legal issues, budgeting, and assessment. Careful consideration is given to an outline for human resources development. The authors take an in-depth look at the day-to-day operation of a center--detailing concerns from behavioral and medical to scheduling and transportation. The concept of a child care professionalism which reflects respect, partnership, and caring, is sustained throughout this practical manual. An important contribution to the research and practice of child care, this volume draws providers and practitioners together in a process of self-reflection in order to effectively respond to the needs of today's--and tomorroW's--families.

Use your social work skills to advocate for more effective health care Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective, Second Edition updates this comprehensive introduction to social work practice and policy issues in the health field. An easy-to-use textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses and a practical guide for social work practitioners, the book will help you meet the demands of the growing population of clients in nursing homes or hospice care and for the decline of traditional hospital-based social work. Complete with an instructor's manual to help you facilitate lectures, class discussions, and tests, this new edition this new edition focuses even more strongly than the first on prevention and health promotion at the community level as well as the individual client level, the relevance of social environmental conditions to the health of populations, and the growing importance of social work in the health field. Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective, Second Edition is an introduction to social work practice in various health care settings. The book addresses the historical background of social work in health care, theoretical perspectives, organizational considerations, theory and practice of interdisciplinary teamwork, client problems, skill and knowledge requirements, values and ethics considerations, and recent developments in hospital social work. New material in this edition includes: an update on primary health care-how social workers can modify communities and social environmental conditions to reduce social inequities and enhance social supports and integration within populations an updated critique of the health care system in the United States-what social workers need to know and the changes they need to make to advocate effectively updates on research findings and statistical data

Use your social work skills to advocate for more effective health care Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective, Second Edition updates this comprehensive introduction to social work practice and policy issues in the health field. An easy-to-use textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses and a practical guide for social work practitioners, the book will help you meet the demands of the growing population of clients in nursing homes or hospice care and for the decline of traditional hospital-based social work. Complete with an instructor's manual to help you facilitate lectures, class discussions, and tests, this new edition this new edition focuses even more strongly than the first on prevention and health promotion at the community level as well as the individual client level, the relevance of social environmental conditions to the health of populations, and the growing importance of social work in the health field. Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective, Second Edition is an introduction to social work practice in various health care settings. The book addresses the historical background of social work in health care, theoretical perspectives, organizational considerations, theory and practice of interdisciplinary teamwork, client problems, skill and knowledge requirements, values and ethics considerations, and recent developments in hospital social work. New material in this edition includes: an update on primary health care-how social workers can modify communities and social environmental conditions to reduce social inequities and enhance social supports and integration within populations an updated critique of the health care system in the United States-what social workers need to know and the changes they need to make to advocate effectively updates on research findings and statistical data

This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving, analyzing how societies can promote relationships in which individuals can give and receive 'care'.

s your gerontological social work program as comprehensiveand as well attendedas it could be? Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education will help you develop courses that effectively prepare social work students and practitioners to work with the ever-increasing older population. It clearly presents the rationale for geriatric/gerontological preparation and defines the current status of geriatric/gerontological education. With fascinating case studies, detailed curricula, and a review of the skills and knowledge competencies necessary for effective geriatric social work practice, this book also describes a variety of courses and teaching programs in detailnoting the problems that other educators have encountered and offering practical suggestions to help in replicating the programs in other institutions. This book is especially useful because it not only examines the issues surroundingand need forincreased gerontological education for social workers, but because it follows this with specific, concrete descriptions of educational approaches and curricula. It provides you with both the framework and the specifics to develop your own gerontological social work education program at the graduate or undergraduate level. Helpful charts and tables make the information easy to access and understand. Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education is divided into three sections, each of which will increase your knowledge and understanding of this vital area of social work education. The first section examines: the historical development of gerontological social work education the CSWE/SAGE-SW Competencies Project the importance of interdisciplinary teamworkand the educational basis for interdisciplinary team training, highlighting organizational context, team structure, team process, and team outcomes ways to increase students' interest in this vital area of social work In the second section of this well-referenced book, you will examine school-based initiatives, focusing on: the development and implementation of the John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Social Work Initiative the recruitment of students into geriatric social workwith an examination of a fellowship program the relationship between the aging population of the United States and the growing demand for geriatric social workers-and how that need can be met through graduate-level social work training developing a field training rotation model a doctoral fellowship program and its dissertation support, mentorship, and leadership development The third section of Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education features: an empirical study exploring the potential for a limited curriculum module to enhance MSW and BSW students' gerontological practice-related knowledge, attitudes, and interest an overview of the history and rationale of service learning in elder care a description of the varied service learning in elder care programs an experiential exercise that was used successfully to assist graduate students in integrating and applying their knowledge about geriatric assessment the results of interviews with MSW students about the appropriateness of their preparation for medical social work with an aged populationconducted at the beginning, midpoint, and end of their field placements a report on incorporating intergenerational service learning into an undergraduate introductory gerontology course the use of the family study, which exposes teams of students for 20 weeks to a family that includes an older adult

The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the experiences of people over eighty years old in three important areas: disability, family life and health care. Using the life-course approach to research, it reveals rich data about the contributions of formal and informal care and how life expectancy and experiences of disability interact with experiences of care.

The reader is invited to conceptualise these phenomena as processes in continuous time - processes that are sometimes long and complex, sometimes short and simple - and learns about the four types of disability career before death. At the same time, the author presents a three-stage model of informal care and examines the main patterns of formal service use.

The Last Years of Long Lives presents a new way of looking at old age for students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers and gives a comprehensive picture of what has been called 'the fourth age'.

The volume is divided into three parts: A: Economic Growth and Related Problems (covering international trade and economic integration, including a comparative study between Europe and America) B: Theoretical Welfare Economics (welfare propositions in economics, profit maximization and its implications and the Theory of Tariffs) C: Practical Welfare Economics (the price of economic progress, equity and international payments).

Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force. It should be no surprise that child care is one of the most serious and widespread concerns of parents today. They worry constantly, wondering if they can afford a particular arrangement, dreading that their favorite provider will quit, and, mostly, questioning whether or not they're doing the best they can for their children. Although these concerns are usually considered a private headache, William Gormley argues that child care is a social problem of critical importance, aggravated by weak institutional supports, and that there are compelling reasons for government intervention.

In this important new book, Gormley offers a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the market, government, and societal failures to ensure available, affordable, high-quality child care in the United States. Unreliable child care, he says, contributes to family stress and undermines efforts to achieve educational readiness, welfare reform, and gender equity. Neither regulators nor family support agencies distinguish sharply enough between good and bad child care facilities. Meanwhile, government and businesses provide inadequate financial and logistical support. Children suffer as a result, as does society as a whole.

Gormley presents evidence on how different states and communities have responded to child care challenges and he prescribes the roles to be played by federal, state, and local governments, for-profit and non-profit child care providers, churches, schools, and family support agencies. Gormley recommends a number of reforms, including information sharing, flexible enforcement, targeted subsidies, and family-friendly workplaces. He contends that different levels of government and societal institutions must work together to achieve the goals of efficiency, justice, choice, discretion, coordination, and responsiveness.

Learn how computer technology is helping school social workers collect information and synthesize it into meaningful data! Technology-Assisted Delivery of School Based Mental Health Services: Defining School Social Work for the 21st Century explores the many technological advances in school social work practices. This book also illustrates the ways technology is being used to manage and evaluate services provided by school social workers. This vital book contains: ways to use new technology to prevent and treat mental health issues in children through safe and effective learning experiences information on how biofeedback can be used to empower children to become more aware of their physical and emotional reactions to environmental stimuli an annotated bibliography of Internet sites covering topics and issues frequently encountered by social workers examinations of exciting software applications, including BARN, From Mad to Worse, Conflict Management, and Smart Team methods of online data collection for use in school social work practices and more!

The work-family policies of Sweden and France are often held up as models for other nations to follow, yet political structures and resources can present obstacles to fundamental change that must be taken into account. Patricia Boling argues that we need to think realistically about how to create political and policy change in this vital area. She evaluates policy approaches in the US, France, Germany and Japan, analyzing their policy histories, power resources, and political institutions to explain their approaches, and to propose realistic trajectories toward change. Arguing that much of the story lies in the way that job markets are structured, Boling shows that when women have reasonable chances of resuming their careers after giving birth, they are more likely to have children than in countries where even brief breaks put an end to a career, or where motherhood restricts them to part-time work.

This book assesses Ecological Migration and Precision Poverty Alleviation Measures, based on research conducted in Ningxia. "Resettling residents currently living in poor areas" is an important measure for "precise poverty alleviation." China's central government has provided extraordinary support for these areas, so as to help with "removing poverty nests," "changing poverty industries," and "pulling out the roots of poverty."This book is mainly based on research conducted in Ningxia, one of the earliest areas in China to achieve poverty alleviation and development through immigration and relocation. Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, Ningxia's ecological migration has been integrated into the process of new urbanization and industrialization. Poverty alleviation and relocation not only involves regional transfer, industrial transformation, and changes in livelihood, but also the social adaptation and integration of migrant groups. In addition to examining these aspects, the book shares stories of how impoverished individuals have succeeded in changing their fates.

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and systematic conceptualization of Deservingness and shows how it can serve as a prime and integrative conceptual prism to ethnographically explore transforming welfare states, regimes of migration, as well as capitalist social reproduction and relations at large.

Are Welfare States in crisis? Forty years after Gunnar Myrdal's seminal Beyond the Welfare State it is still little grasped in the 'reform' debate that the whole structure and economies of our societies are being transformed. This book reasserts the importance of a new employment and productive model - that of the 'associative economy' - which integrates social solidarity with economic planning.