Understanding Social Problems, Policies and Programs (Social Problems and Social Issues) - Softcover

Ginsberg, Leon H.

9780872499980: Understanding Social Problems, Policies and Programs (Social Problems and Social Issues)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872499987 ISBN 13: 9780872499980

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1994

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Understanding Social Problems, Policies, and Programs offers a comprehensive analysis of policies used in the United States to address social problems and to develop social programs. Leon Ginsberg, a respected authority in the field of social work policy, provides a framework for understanding some of the most controversial issues facing the nation, including welfare assistance, food stamps, and health care reform. In this timely volume, he defines the components of social welfare policy and illuminates the complex issues encountered by helping professionals.
Intended for practitioners, educators, administrators, and students, Understanding Social Problems, Policies, and Programs focuses on the history and analysis of social welfare policies as well as the political process of policymaking. Ginsberg describes social problems as their inevitable result of people living together in complex societies, and he traces society's desire to help its most vulnerable members - the children, the elderly, the homeless, and the poor. By explaining how policies and programs are developed, Ginsberg offers insight into the ways that individuals and groups might initiate, modify, and implement improved programs for the disadvantaged.

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Review

The importance of this book is that there is nothing else quite like it - a text that attempts to lay and define the field of social policy. - David P. Fauri, Virginia Commonwealth University