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Author: Jessica M. Kahn (, Lehman College) ,
Joy Pastan Greenberg ,
Norma Kolko Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 20.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.794kg
ISBN: 9780197559239
ISBN 10: 0197559239
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 17 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
"<""…A well written and engaging textbook on social welfare that highlights important and historical significant events that have helped to shape our approach to social work as related to early social problems and policies, discrimination, impact of history on current vulnerable populations, current social policy and how our history has shaped these policies.>"" - Daniel Platt, Instructor, Social Work, Appalachian State University <""The organization and content of [The Power of Policy] is phenomenal, because it is chronological, starting from the beginning of social welfare towards today's social welfare state…Such an approach is the best...because before we embark on today's policy issues, we must know when such issues started, how and why, and the evolving nature of the historical contexts.>"" - Charles M. Birore, Assistant Professor of Social Work at Norfolk State University <""[The Power of Policy] takes American history and reviews it via recurrent themes, connecting policies and events to modern times in a way that students will be able to easily grasp.>"" - Sofya Bagdasaryan, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Cal State LA"
Author Information
Jessica M. Kahn worked in child welfare, mental health, and healthcare settings focusing on vulnerable and marginalized populations and saw the power that policy has to affect people>'s daily lives. Initially focusing on child welfare and foster care, she recognized the need for comprehensive, preventative social welfare programs, including high quality early childhood education and care. Her research and writing have addressed family policy, social work pedagogy, and implementation of evidence-based practices, among other topics. For 18 years, she taught across the social work curriculum at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is currently the Associate Dean at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Jessica earned her BA from Davidson College, her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis, and her PhD from Columbia University. Joy Pastan Greenberg earned her MSW degree from New York University in 1994. After running parenting groups for new parents and caregivers for many years, she returned to school and earned her PhD from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 2007 with a concentration in Social Policy, Planning, and Policy Analysis. Upon graduation, she joined the Social Work faculty at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She has taught policy, research, and administration courses. In addition to her teaching, she has served as Director of the MSW Program since 2014. Her research experience, both qualitative and quantitative, focuses on early childhood education and care policy, immigrant children, and school social work. She is the co-author of Early Childhood Education and Care: History, Policy, and Social Work Practice and has published in social work journals. Norma Kolko Phillips earned her MSW degree from the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City amid the exciting and social welfare policy-rich decade of the 1960s. Through the course titled
