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IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
Chapter 1: Socioeconomic Structure, Human Needs, and Mutual Responsibility
Chapter 2: Social Values and Social Welfare
Chapter 3: Social Values and Social Welfare: England from the Middle Ages Onward
Chapter 4: Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience I
Chapter 5: America and Poverty: Two Paths: The American Experience II
Chapter 6: Concepts for Social Welfare
Chapter 7: Examining a Social Welfare Program within the Context of Social Justice: Structural Components, Alternative Program Characteristics, and Evaluation
Chapter 8: The Welfare Society and Its Clients
Chapter 9: Current Social Welfare Programs—Economic Security
Chapter 10: Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life
Chapter 11: Nonprofit and Private Social Welfare
Chapter 12: Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession
Chapter 13: Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues
Chapter 14: Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare
Chapter 15: Toward the General Welfare and Social Justice
APPENDIX: Sources of Information and Timeline
Index
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
Chapter one
Socioeconomic Structure, Human Needs, and Mutual Responsibility
Overview
The Impact of Social and Economic Structures
Cascading Effects
Defining Social Welfare and Social Work
The American Myth of the Hero
Balancing Individual and Societal Responsibilities
Human Rights, Social Justice, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Beliefs about Social Justice
The Social Minimum: The Standard for Social Justice
The NASW Standard: Equal Access and Rights
Toward the Social Minimum
Equality of Opportunity
Views of Social Welfare
The Authors’ Perspective
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter two
Social Values and Social Welfare
Overview
Modern Views of Humanity
Self-Actualization versus Irritation Response Theories
Economics and Human Motivation
An Overview of History
Altruism and Mutual Aid
Ancient Cultures
Egypt
Hebrew and Judaic Societies
Greece and Rome
Early Christianity
Holy Poverty and Expectations of the Wealthy
Eastern Cultures
China
India
Islam
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter three
Social Values and Social Welfare: England from the Middle Ages Onward
Overview
The Early Middle Ages
The Middle Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages to Elizabethan Poor Laws
Work and Religion
The Poor Laws
The Poor Law Compilation of 1601
Speenhamland
The Workhouse
The Poor Law of 1834
Principles of the Poor Laws
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter four
Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience I
Overview
American Poor Law Mentality
Settlements, Labor, and Imported “Poor Laws”
The Early Spanish Influence, the Mexicans, and Other Hispanics
Voluntary Mutual Aid Efforts
Mutual Aid among African Americans
Voluntary and Public Responsibilities
The American Frontier: The Myth and Values
Mutual Aid among Immigrant Groups
Rugged Individualism and/or Cooperation?
American Indians and U.S. History
The Federal Role in Social Welfare
The Freedmen’s Bureau
Veterans and a Suspension of the Ethic
City, Town, and County: A Local Institution
Social Darwinism
The Coming of Social Insurance
Society, Social Values, and Modern Views of Human Nature
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter five
America and Poverty: Two Paths: The American Experience II
Overview
Three Discoveries of Poverty
First Discovery
The Fading of the First Discovery
Second Discovery
Third Discovery
The War on Poverty
Eight Outcomes
The “Skirmish” against Poverty
Families, Children, and Poverty
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (“Welfare”)
An Old-New Path
Social Security
Contrasting Values and Aims
The Paths Forward
Human Nature and the American Dream
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter six
Concepts for Social Welfare
Overview
What Is Social Welfare?
Social Policy, Social Services, and Social Work
Social Policy
Social Services
Social Work
Ideology, Social Policy, and Government Intervention
Five Routes to Social Policy
The Federal and Pluralist System
The Economic Sphere
Fiscal Policy
Monetary Policy
The Importance of Fiscal and Monetary Policy
A Tarnished Business Sector?
A Second Welfare System—Corporate and Individual Welfare
Globalization and Social Justice
The Bush Administration
Obama Administration: A Return to Federalization: Ideology or Pragmatism?
The Debt Commission
International and National Background Features and the Search for the Dream
International
The United States
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter seven
Examining a Social Welfare Program within the Context of Social Justice: Structural Components, Alternative Program Characteristics, and Evaluation
Overview
Structural Components
What Are the Needs and Goals to Be Met?
What Is the Form of Benefit That the Program Produces?
Who Is Eligible for the Program?
How Is the Program Financed?
What Is the Level of Administration?
Alternative Program Characteristics
Residual, Institutional, Developmental, or Socioeconomic Asset Development
Selective or Universal
Benefits in Money, Services, or Utilities
Public or Private
Central or Local
Lay or Professional
Evaluating the Program
Adequacy
Financing
Coherence
Latent Consequences
Testing for Social Justice
Whose Social Justice?
Views and Proponents
The Social Work Clinical Practice Sphere and Social Justice
Reader’s Choice
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter eight
The Welfare Society and Its Clients
Overview
Who Is a Client of Social Welfare?
What Is Poverty?
Understanding Poverty
Absolute Poverty
Relative Comparison Poverty
A Description of the Poor
Income and Wealth Inequality
Causes of Rising Inequality
Housing Wealth
Counterintuitive Statistics
Intergenerational Mobility
The Effect of Some Government Programs
The Near-Poor and Expectations
Other Views of Poverty
Relative Inequality
Lack of Power, Access, and Inclusion
The Underclass/Culture of Poverty Thesis
Strategies for Fighting Poverty
Social Utilities
Investment in Human Capital
Income Transfers
Rehabilitation
Aggregative and Selective Economic Measures
Participation and Organization
Ideology Revisited
The Second Bush Administration
Tax Cuts
Faith-Based Initiative
Social Security
Medicare
No Child Left Behind
Starve the Beast
The Obama Administration
Ideology Once Again
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter nine
Current Social Welfare Programs—Economic Security
Overview
Social Insurance Programs
Social Security (OASDI)
Unemployment Insurance
Temporary Disability Insurance
Workers’ Compensation
Income Support Programs
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Supplemental Security Income
General Assistance
Earned Income Tax Credit
Socioeconomic Asset Development
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter ten
Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life
Overview
Managed Care: A Radical Change
Major Organizational Types
Strategies to Achieve Savings and Profits
Public Criticism, Courts, and Legislation
Health Care Programs
Medicare
Medicaid
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”)
Nutrition Programs
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
Housing
Veterans’ Benefits
Employment Programs
Personal Social Services
Social Services Block Grant (Title XX)
Defense Department Social and Mental Health Services
Services to Families
Services to Children
Mental Health Services
Corrections
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter eleven
Nonprofit and Private Social Welfare
Overview
Early Patterns
The Nonprofit Sector
Types of Nonprofit Agencies
The Proprietary Private For-Profit Organization
Services of the Nonprofit and Private Sectors
Getting and Spending
Privatization
Private and Nonprofit Agencies as Social Welfare Programs
Finances, Recessions, Budgets, and Mergers
A Point of View
Leadership, Class, and Gender
Private and Public Spheres
Uses of Public Funds and Power
Tax Laws and Policy
Accountability
National Policy: Church and State
The Marketplace and the Nonmarket Domain
Family and Friends
Toward the Future
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter twelve
Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession
Overview
The Workers of “Good Works”
The Process of Professionalization
A Brief History of Practice and Methods
Development of the Professional Association
Social Work with Groups
Community Organization and Social Planning
Toward a Unified Profession
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter thirteen
Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues
Overview
The Purposes of Social Work
The Professional within Complex Organizations
Complex Organizations and Professional Culture
Complex Organizations and Authority
The Profession and Professional Autonomy
Alternative Roles and Settings
Society, the Functions of Social Work, and Services for People
The “Bottom Line”
The Two Tracks of Social Work: Cause and Function
Generic–Specific Social Work
Professionals and Volunteers
The Number of Social Workers
Issues Confronting the Profession
Multiculturalism
Technologies
Managed Care
Religion and Spirituality
Leadership
Sufficiency of Qualified Social Workers and Other Resources
Accountability
2010 Social Work Congress
Proposed Imperatives
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter fourteen
Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare
Overview
National Society
Individual and Shared Goals
The International Economy
Population Growth and Resources
Food Security
The Downside of the Upside
A Human/Nature Crisis and Worldwide Emergency
The United States: A Changing Population, a Selected Social Welfare Agenda, and Social Justice
Productivity and the Service Economy
Ethnicity and Pluralism
Gender
Gay Men and Lesbians
The Place of Social Welfare in a Changing Context
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
Chapter fifteen
Toward the General Welfare and Social Justice
Overview
Children and Poverty
Adverse Effects
Universal Services Are Needed
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Health outcomes
Social outcomes
Resources
Education
Employment and Training
Transition Assistance Programs
Criticisms
What Should Be Done?
What will it cost?
Social Workers, Services, and Policy Choices
Elder Abuse
What Are the Major Types of Elder Abuse?
What is Known About Interventions?
Social Policy
Implications for Social Work
Globalization, Privatization, Socially Just Services, and the Future of Social Welfare
The State of the Welfare State
Privatization: The Strategy of Choice
Managed Care
Drug Abuse Services
The Roles of Social Work
Issues for Social Workers
A Second Welfare System: Corporate and Taxpayer Welfare and Social Justice
Two Welfare Systems
Evaluation Criteria
The Choices Before Us: Social Justice and the Baby-Boomer Generation
Retirement
Health Care
Technology and Social Action
Where We Are
Coda: Two Views of the Future
Summary
Questions for Consideration
MySearchLab Connections
Notes
APPENDIX: Sources of Information and Timeline
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