Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States

A History

Philip R. Popple (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-060732-6 (ISBN)

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The first new social work history to be written in over twenty years, Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States presents a history of the field from the perspective of elites, as well as service providers and recipients. A particularly unique feature of the book is that it chronicles and analyzes the development of social work practice theory. As with other parts of the book, this is done on two levels: from the top down, looking at
the writings, conference presentations, and training course material developed by leaders of the profession, and from the bottom up, looking at case records for evidence of techniques that were actually applied by social workers in the field. The data for the "bottom up" content in the book was obtained from
archival records of agencies including the Philadelphia Almshouse, the Green Bay Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare, Minneapolis Family and Children's Services, the New York Charity Organization Society, the Boston Children's Aid Society, and the Boston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

This text also places social work practice in its institutional context. It is argued that social work has had a significant role in three social institutions: public assistance, mental health, and child welfare. With this in consideration, the author argues that social work has completely lost its place in public assistance; has achieved its major professional goal of becoming a fully licensed and privileged provider of mental health services, but is at risk of losing its dominance in this
institution due to the emergence of competing mental health professions; and maintains dominance only in child welfare. He concludes that the profession needs to reengage with public assistance (TANF); develop strategies to regain dominance in mental health (expansion of the DSW as a practice degree is
suggested); and continue to emphasize child welfare as a central professional concern.

Philip Popple is Professor and BSW Program Director at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work. He holds the Ph.D. and MSW degrees from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. He has professional experience as a child welfare worker and training specialist, and as a public social service administrator.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Social Welfare in the New Nation, 1776-1865
Chapter 3. America Confronts Poverty, 1776-1860
Chapter 4. Modern America-Modern Problems, 1860-1900
Chapter 5. Scientific Charity, 1850-1900
Chapter 6. Progress in Social Welfare, 1895-1929
Chapter 7. The Birth of a Profession, 1898-1930
Chapter 8. Crises: The Great Depression and World War II
Chapter 9. The Depression-A Crisis for the New Profession, 1930-1945
Chapter 10. America's Welfare State Experiment, 1945-1974
Chapter 11. Social Work Practice, 1945-1974
Chapter 12. Ending Welfare As We Know It
Chapter 13. Social Work in the Conservative 21st Century Welfare State
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 254 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-060732-7 / 0190607327
ISBN-13	978-0-19-060732-6 / 9780190607326
Zustand	Neuware