Social Policy
Reform, Research, and Practice
Introduction
PART I: SHIFTING GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Social Work in an Era of Diminishing Federal Responsibility: Setting the Practice, Policy, and Research Agenda
Patricia L. Ewalt
Articulating a "New Nationalism" in American Social Policy
Bruce S. Jansson and Susan Smith
Social Work Management in an Era of Diminishing Federal Responsibility
Richard L. Edwards, Philip W. Cooke, and P. Nelson Reid
Community Building: Building Community Practice
Marie O. Weil
Multicultural Community Organizing: A Strategy for Change
Lorraine Gutierrez, Ann Rosegrant Alvarez, Howard Nemon, and Edith A. Lewis
Interorganizational Community-Based Collaboratives: A Strategic Response to Shape the Social Work Agenda
Darlyne Bailey and Kelly McNally Koney
PART II: WELFARE AND WORK
Taking New Directions to Improve Public Policy
Susan Hoechstetter
Welfare Reform
Martha N. Ozawa and Stuart A. Kirk
Welfare Reform: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Maybe Not Too Awful
Dennis L. Poole
Poverty, Work, and Community: A Research Agenda for an Era of Diminishing Federal Responsibility
Claudia J. Coulton
State Welfare Reform for Employable General Assistance Recipients: The Facts behind the Assumptions
Anthony P. Halter
Confronting Welfare Stereotypes: Characteristics of General Assistance Recipients and Postassistance Employment
Julia R. Henly and Sandra K. Danziger
Predictors of Employment and Earnings among JOBS Participants
Peter A. Neenan and Dennis K. Orthner
Work and Automobile Ownership among Welfare Recipients
Paul M. Ong
PART III: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
The New Politics of Child and Family Policies
Sheila B. Kamerman
The Impact of Federal Policy Changes on Children: Research Needs for the Future
Lynn Videka-Sherman and Pamela Viggiani
Effects of Assets on Attitudes and Behaviors: Advance Test of a Social Policy Proposal
Gautam N. Yadama and Michael Sherraden
The Relative Importance of Economic and Cultural Factors in Determining Length of AFDC Receipt
James P. Kunz and Catherine E. Born
Family Support as an Intervention with Female Long-term AFDC Recipients
Catherine F. Alter
How Safe Is the Safety Net for Poor Children?
Martha N. Ozawa and Yat-sang Lum
Welfare Reforms and Services for Children and Families: Setting a New Practice, Research, and Policy Agenda
Edith M. Freeman
Mothers' Views on Child Care under the JOBS Program and Implications for Welfare Reform
Jan L. Hagen and Liane V. Davis
Is Shelter a Private Problem?
Elizabeth A. Mulroy and Patricia L. Ewalt
Affordable Housing: A Basic Need and a Social Issue
Elizabeth A. Mulroy and Patricia L. Ewalt
Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts? Interaction Effects of Three Nonincome-tested Transfers for Families with Children
Rebecca Y. Kim, Irwin Garfinkel, and Daniel R. Meyer
Empowering Battered Women Transnationally: The Case for Postmodern Interventions
Linda Mills
The Ideology of Welfare Reform: Deconstructing Stigma
Frederick B. Mills
PART IV: HEALTH
The Governors' Dangerous Medicaid Endgame
Sharon M. Keigher
Keeping Managed Care in Balance
Dennis L. Poole
Speaking of Personal Responsibility and Individual Accountability. . .
Sharon M. Keigher
The Emerging Health Care World: Implications for Social Work Practice and Education
Barbara Berkman
NAFTA, American Health, and Mexican Health: They Tie Together
Dennis L. Poole
Use of Health Insurance in County-Funded Clinics: Issues for Health Care Reform
Cynthia J. Rocha
The Changing Scene of Social Work in Hospitals: A Report of a National Study by the Society for Social Work Administrators in Health Care and NASW
Candyce S. Berger, Jay Cayner, Greg Jensen, Terry Mizrahi, Alice Scesny, and Judith Trachtenberg
Medicaid Managed Care and Urban Poor People: Implications for Social Work
Janet D. Perloff
Confidentiality and Managed Care: Ethical and Legal Concerns
Jeanette R. Davidson and Tim Davidson
Social Work and Health Care Practice and Policy: A Psychosocial Research Agenda
Kathleen Ell
Shaping the Policy Practice Agenda of Social Work in the Field of Aging
Roberta R. Greene and Ruth I. Knee
PART V: MENTAL HEALTH
Managing Mental Health: Whose Responsibility?
Susan J. Rose and Sharon M. Keigher
Are Mental Illnesses Biological Diseases? Some Public Policy Implications
Philip D. Arben
Primary Health Care and Severe Mental Illness: The Need for National and State Policy
King E. Davis
Managed Care and People with Severe Mental Illness: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Work
Wes Shera
PART VI: EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS
President Clinton and the 104th Congress: The Nightmare on Capitol Hill
Edith M. Freeman
The New Federal Role in Education and Family Services: Goal Setting without Responsibility
Paula Allen-Meares
Appropriate versus Least Restrictive: Educational Policies and Students with Disabilities
James C. Raines
School Social Worker Certification in a Climate of Educational Reform
Gary L. Shaffer
Regulating School Social Work Practice into the 21st Century
Isadora Hare
Index
The Editors
The Contributors
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