Canadian social policy : issues and perspectives

Westhues, Anne. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0889205043 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9780889205048 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: print
xv, 478 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Becoming acquainted with social policy / Anne Westhues -- Pursuing social policy ideals at the international level: an NGO perspective / Tim Wichert -- The Federal Government and social policy at the turn of the Twenty-first Century: reflections on change and continuity / John English and Wlliam R. Young -- Human rights legislation, court rulings, and social policy / Ailsa M. Watkinson -- Active citizenship, social workers, and social policy / Carol Kenny-Scherber -- Program and policy development from a holistic aboriginal perspective / Malcolm A. Saulis -- Citizen participation in social policy / Joan Wharf Higgins, John Cossom, and Brian Whart -- Evaluating social welfare policies and programs / Anne Westhues -- Child poverty and the Canadian welfare state / Garson Hunter -- Back to the present: rethinking risk assessment in child welfare / Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift -- Native peoples and child welfare practices: implicating social work education / Barbara Waterfall -- Mental health policy in Canada / Geoffrey Nelson -- Housing and homelessness / Lea Caragata -- Single motherhood in the Canadian landscape: postcards from a subject / Lara Lessa -- Workfare: ten years of pickin' on the poor / Linda Snyder -- Toward inclusion of gay and lesbian people: social policy changes in relation to sexual orientation / Brian O'Neill -- Immigration and refugee policy in Canada: past, present, and future / Usha George -- Universal health care: normative legacies adrift / Mike Burke and Susan Silver -- Caring and aging: exposing the policy issues / Sheila Neysmith -- Canadians with disabilities / Peter A. Dunn -- The challenges ahead / Anne Westhues.