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This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society
by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the
culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look at
'the social clinic,' defined here as a ubiquitous organizational
arrangement that includes clinical and community psychology,
counseling, clinical social work, psychiatry, much of the self-help
industry, complementary and alternative medicine and others.
Epstein's analysis concludes that the social clinic lacks credible
evidence of effectiveness and its continued popularity expresses
popular but predatory American values such as romantic
individualism, the triumph of the subjective, a sense of personal
and political chosenness, persistent bigotry, and a preference for
tribal as opposed to civic identities. This careful examination of
American society through the lens of psychotherapeutic practice
characterizes the social clinic as a soothing fiction of the United
States. The book offers caring services as the unrealized
alternative to clinical treatment, capable of achieving greater
personal adjustment as well as social and economic equality. It
will appeal to readers with an interest in social welfare, public
policy, and public administration, as well as to students and
scholars of psychotherapy, counseling, social work, rehabilitation,
and community psychology.
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Good Night Bills
Brad M Epstein; Illustrated by Curt Walstead
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R346
R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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This book is based on a series of lectures on mathematical biology,
the essential dynamics of complex and crucially important social
systems, and the unifying power of mathematics and nonlinear
dynamical systems theory.
The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United
States over the past several decades have put liberal defenders of
poverty relief and social insurance programs on the defensive. In
this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy
since World War II, William Epstein argues that this defense is not
worth mounting--that the claimed successes of American social
programs are not sustained by evidence. Rather than their failure
being the result of inadequate implementation or political
resistance stemming from the culture wars, these programs and their
built-in limitations actually do represent what the vast majority
of people in this country want them to be.
However much people may speak in favor of welfare, the proof of
what they really want is in the pudding of the social policies that
are actually legislated. The stinginess of America's welfare system
is the product of basic American values rooted in the myth of
"heroic individualism" and reinforced by a commitment to social
efficiency, the idea that social services need to be minimal and
compatible with current social arrangements.
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The Planets 101 (Board book)
Brad M Epstein, Alexandra Lee-Epstein, Michael Lee-Epstein
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R230
R215
Discovery Miles 2 150
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