Social Workers Affecting Social Policy
An International Perspective
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
215 pages
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2 figures, 6 tables
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6 x 9
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© 2013
Social Workers Affecting Social Policy is the first book to undertake a cross-national study of social worker engagement in social-policy formulation processes. At its core, it asks how social workers influence social policy in various national settings. It offers insights into social worker involvement in policy change, the social work discourse, and education in different countries. It will be of interest to social work practitioners, students, educators, and researchers, as well as to social-policy scholars.
Jonathan Dickens, University of East Anglia
“Social Workers Affecting Social Policy is original, topical and informative. . . . For anyone wanting a book on social work policy practice in different countries, this will be the one.”
Contents
List of tables and figures
Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Policy practice in social work: an introduction
John Gal and Idit Weiss-Gal
2. Social workers affecting social policy in Australia
Philip Mendes
3. Social workers affecting social policy in England
Graeme Simpson
4. Social workers affecting social policy in Israel
Idit Weiss-Gal
5. Social workers affecting social policy in Italy
Annamaria Campanini and Carla Facchini
6. Social workers affecting social policy in Russia
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov
7. Social workers affecting social policy in Spain
María-Asunción Martínez-Román
8. Social workers affecting social policy in Sweden
Katarina H. Thorén and Tapio Salonen
9. Social workers affecting social policy in the US
Richard Hoefer
10. An international perspective on policy practice
Idit Weiss-Gal and John Gal
Index
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