Family Policy Matters: How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can DoRoutledge, 21 gen 2014 - 464 pagine This best-selling text integrates the latest research and cutting-edge practice to make an evidence-based case for family policy. It uses examples from around the globe to explain how families support society and how policies support families. The book also moves beyond analysis to action with pragmatic processes and procedures for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of policies by viewing them through the lens of family impact. Highlights of the new edition include:
Part 1 highlights what family policy is and why it’s important and how family life in the U.S. differs from other countries. Part 2 examines the contributions family considerations can bring to issues such as early childhood education, health care, juvenile crime, long-term care, and welfare reform. Part 3 explains why polarization has stymied progress in family policymaking and guidelines for fostering compromise. Insights are drawn from the history of family policy over the last century. Part 4 provides strategies for getting involved in family policymaking. It reviews: the processes policymaking institutions use to enact legislation; new techniques for assessing the family impact of policies and programs; strategies for building better public policies; and various professional roles and careers for building family policy. The book concludes with a summary of how and where we go from here. Intended for advanced undergraduate and/or graduate courses in family or social policy taught in human development and family studies, psychology, counseling, social work, sociology, public policy, home economics, consumer science, and education, researchers and practitioners alike appreciate this book’s integration of theory, research, and practice. |
Sommario
Foreword by Theodora Ooms | |
Acknowledgments | |
Why We Should Focus on Families in Policymaking and Why We Dont | |
An Identity of Its | |
Policies and Practices Biased Toward Individual Rights Over Family | |
A U S View | |
Yesterday and Today | |
How Current Policy Issues Can Benefit From the Family Impact Lens | |
The Theory of Paradox | |
Lessons From the History of Family | |
Policy | |
Impact Seminars | |
Education | |
References | |
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