Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need"Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need, Sixth Edition" describes and analyzes the ideas that have shaped the history of social welfare from the Colonial Period to the present day. Using original documents from each respective period through the current Bush Administration, this classic text examines the history of events and ideas that have shaped American social welfare policy. Coverage of economic developments, the impact of voluntarism, the impact of privatization helps students to understand the context of social welfare movements and policies, while material on trends in the justice system include the immigration debate New To This Edition
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... agencies directly or by family agency workers on loan to public agencies . This realization stimulated a reconsideration of align- ments between voluntary family and public welfare agencies . In effect , the Depres- sion had created a ...
... agencies responding , eighty - nine agreed that " it would be folly for private agencies . . . to attempt to meet any appreciable part of the unemployment relief burden . . . being abandoned by the Federal Government . " They agreed ...
... agencies moved to the further development of highly skilled " casework treatment to assist individuals in removing their own handicaps . " 102 The Freudian symbiotic tie of parent to child suggested family , rather than individual ...