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1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
ch. 1 Understanding the Complexities, Costs, and Benefits Surrounding Immigration Policy: Tough Decisions for Families and Policy Makers -- ch. 2 Community Organizing Concepts and Principles: Rebuilding Holyoke From the Ground Up -- ch. 3 Achieving Racial Equality: Education, Housing, Health, and Justice ... A Long Way to Go -- ch. 4 End-of-Life Care, Costs, Concerns, and Conflict: Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Care? -- ch. 5 Mental Illness: Community Supports and Community Dilemmas / Dr. Mandy Fauble -- ch. 6 Perplexing Challenges in Child Protective Services: Life on the Front Line / Dr. Katie Clemons -- ch. 7 Society's Evolving Understanding of Chemical Addiction and the Subsequent Changes in Policy and Treatment Approaches: The Struggle to Stay Clean -- ch. 8 Understanding the Draw of Gangs, Consequences for Neighborhoods, and Determining an Effective Response: The North Side Crew -- ch. 9 Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal, and NIMBY: Is There a Win-Win Solution? -- ch. 10 Homelessness and the Housing First Debate: Wrestling With the Issues. |
| Summary |
Enables students to increase their knowledge base about specific social issues while at the same time increasing their sense of efficacy in fulfilling their role in addressing complex social justice issues. The case method approach will be used to cover a range of topics such as immigration, homelessness, education, health care, mental health, eminent domain, poverty, gangs and community development. Students will be challenged to think critically about vital issues, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of competing solutions, explore policy alternatives, and grapple with the unintended consequences of any decision. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social service -- United States.
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Social service. |
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United States. |
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Social service -- Practice -- United States.
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Social service -- Practice. |
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Social justice -- United States.
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Social justice. |
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United States -- Social policy.
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Social policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lewis, Laura. Social Workers as Game Changers : Confronting Complex Social Issues Through Cases. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, ©2018 9781506317052 |
| ISBN |
9781071800607 (electronic book) |
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1071800604 (electronic book) |
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9781506317045 (electronic book) |
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1506317049 (electronic book) |
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9781506317038 (electronic book) |
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1506317030 (electronic book) |
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9781506317052 (paperback) |
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1506317057 (paperback) |
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