In Basic Social Policy and Planning, Burch presents a generic
process for professional intervention and social work leadership
that is required of those who desire to achieve improvements in the
lives of those they serve. Burch developed this text and guide so
that even persons with no prior formal training in social planning
can apply these principles in their practices. Because few social
workers are content with simply repairing the damages caused by
inequities, inadequacies, and injustices in society, Basic Social
Policy and Planning offers a usable set of guidelines on how to
change lives for the better, in small and occasionally large ways,
from within any setting--agency, community, and public
policy.Social workers, nurses, teachers, and other human service
professionals spend their lives relating to the social and
emotional needs and problems of people. Burch converts
sophisticated policy and planning concepts and techniques into a
form which experts and non-experts can understand, relate to, and
apply in their practices. He supplies these workers with
approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques for
planning. He covers: VIBES (Values, Interests, Beliefs, Ethics, and
Slants): Understanding where you and others are coming from and
toward what destination you and they are heading Systems theories
and worldviews: Understanding how these affect planning Logical
analysis of all ways of thinking--scientific and experiential,
bounded and nonbounded Different approaches to
planning--comprehensive rational analysis; disjointed
incrementalism and satisficing; mixed scanning; strategic,
decentralized, contingency, transactional, and advocacy planning
Global, strategic, tactical, and project management levels of
planning Needs assessment and participation of those who will be
affected Quantitative and economic planning approaches:
Understanding basic ideology and assumptions Quantitative and
economic approaches--measurement, pricing, cost-effectiveness and
cost-benefit analysis, decision analysisWhen used as a text, the
first priority of this book is to give BSW and MSW students the
training which they will need and want later in their careers. This
training is consistent with Council on Social Work Education's
required BSW/MSW foundation courses as well as advance practice
courses in most programs. When used as a guidebook for the many
practitioners who have learned, since graduation, that they need
more skill in setting and achieving policy, agency, and community
goals than they learned in school, Basic Social Policy and Planning
can enhance the "left brain" in social workers, who as a group tend
to be stronger in the "right brain" direction with chapters that
walk the reader step-by-step through a generic rational planning
model and tell why, whom, when, and how to involve others in
planning. Because the substance of the book is rooted in advance
interdisciplinary planning theory and practice, this book is just
what the doctor ordered for a doctoral first course in policy and
planning--it provides the "hard" background in planning for
professors of policy and macro practice. It is also highly
appropriate for new PhDs who are assigned to teach such courses
with limited background with its chapters on foundations of policy
and planning, various approaches to planning, and quantitative
techniques related to costs, benefits, and uncertainties in
planning.
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