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Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future
The U.S. in Global Context
- Katherine S. van Wormer - University of Northern Iowa, USA
- Rosemary J. Link - Simpson College
April 2015 | 448 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Unique in its use of a sustainability framework, Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future goes beyond U.S. borders to examine U.S. government policies -- including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice -- within a global context. Guided by the belief that forces from the global market and globalization affect all social workers in their practice, the book addresses a wide range of relevant topics, including immigration by refugees, the impact of new technologies, war trauma, and restorative justice. A sustainability policy analysis model and an ecosystems framework for trauma-informed care are also presented in this timely text.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Foundations of Social Welfare Policy
1. Social Work and Social Policy: A Sustainability Framework
2. Historical Foundations of Social Welfare Policy
3. Purpose and Structure of Social Welfare Policy
4. Environmental Sustainability and the Social Work Profession
5. Poverty and Inequality by Suzanne McDevitt
6. Minority Groups and the Impact of Oppression
Part II. Policies to Meet Human Needs
7. Child Welfare
8. Sustainable Health Care Policies
9. Mental Health Care Policy
10. Sustainable Policy for Older Adults by Christina L. Erickson
11. Human Rights
12. Sustainability Policy Analysis and Policy Practice
Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix B: Relevant Internet Sites
Index
About the Authors
About the Contributors
Supplements
Instructor Teaching Site
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- A Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
- A Respondus electronic test bank is available and can be used on PCs. The test bank contains multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter and provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding. Respondus is also compatible with many popular learning management systems so you can easily get your test questions into your online course.
- Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
- Sample course syllabi for semester and quarter courses provide suggested models for use when creating the syllabi for your courses.
- Chapter summaries from the book summarize key concepts to help with preparation for lectures and class discussions.
- Lively and stimulating ideas for class activities can be used in class to reinforce active learning. The activities apply to individual or group projects.
- Discussion questions from the book help launch classroom interaction by prompting students to engage with the material and by reinforcing important content.
Student Study Site
The open-access Student Study Site includes the following:
- Mobile-friendly web quizzes allow for independent assessment of progress made in learning course material.
- EXCLUSIVE! Access to certain full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected for each chapter. Each article supports and expands on the concepts presented in the chapter. This feature also provides questions to focus and guide student interpretation. Combine cutting-edge academic journal scholarship with the topics in your course for a robust classroom experience.
- Video and multimedia links are designed to supplement key points within the text.
- Web exercises direct both instructors and students to useful and current web sites, along with creative activities to extend and reinforce learning or allow for further research on important chapter topics.
- Web resources are included for further research and insights.
A text with both critical thinking and sustainability focus.
[Van Wormer and Link] provide a timely examination of the impact of globalization on the social welfare state and conclude with a powerful section linking policy analysis to practice. I highly recommend this book for BSW and MSW programs seeking to significantly integrate sustainability content into their policy courses.
This excellent book is very relevant to twenty-first century social welfare policy. I highly recommend it.
Dr. van Wormer and Dr. Link have written the book those of us concerned with sustainable global policy have been longing to find. They present an inspiration, challenging the social work imagination to find creative solutions for sustainable future policymaking.
