Social Policy for Social Work, Social Care and the Caring Professions

Scottish Perspectives
Herausgeber: Hothersall, Steve J; Bolger, Janine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This revised second edition analyses social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999 and reflects the nascent and distinctively Scottish policy agenda. Along with updated chapters, there are two new inclusions: a chapter analysing post-devolution Scotland and a chapter on the likely impacts of Brexit on and within Scotland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9780367340582
• ISBN-10: 0367340585
• Artikelnr.: 60006984

Autorenporträt

Steve J Hothersall is Head of Social Work Education at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK. Janine Bolger is Head of Social Work at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Context 1. What is social policy? 2. A history of social policy 3.
Ideology: how theories and ideas influence policy, people, welfare and
practice 4. People, policy and practice 5. From devolution to Brexit Part
2: Themes and issues 6. Poverty, austerity and social exclusion 7.
Protecting people across the lifespan 8. Care and caring in Scotland:
evolution, growth and development 9. Welfare rights 10. Social policy
perspectives on empowerment Part 3: Policy for practice 11. Health and
health inequalities 12. Mental health 13. Social policy for social work: a
gerontological perspective 14. Impairment and disability 15. Children and
their families 16. Education and training in Scotland 17. Substance use and
social policy in Scotland: the struggle to make sense of things 18. Social
policy in the criminal justice system 19. Asylum and immigration 20.
Housing and homelessness 21. Conclusions: policy and practice for an
uncertain world in uncertain times