Issues In Welfare Administration

Leading practitioners address the important challenges facing professionals in this area. Each chapter represents the most current thinking in analyzing and projecting developments in professional practice during the last decade. All who are concerned with and hold responsibility for policy development, program design, and implementation will find a wealth of valuable information on changing strategies that are called for to meet changing direction and priorities in the political and economic systems that serve to constrain or liberate and support social welfare programs.

A compendium of every aspect of social welfare management and the ultimate reference book, this volume: introduces the field of social welfare management; examines the organizational background of social welfare; discusses the various tasks and roles of the social welfare manager; and considers specific fields of care such as mental health, families and children, and older people.