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Canadian social policy : issues and perspectives
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Canadian social policy : issues and perspectives

Author: Anne Westhues
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 4th ed
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anne Westhues
ISBN: 0889205043 : 9780889205048
OCLC Number: 70777869
Description: xv, 478 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Becoming acquainted with social policy / Anne Westhues -- 2. Pursuing social policy ideals at the international level: an NGO perspective / Tim Wichert -- 3. 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 -- 4. Human rights legislation, court rulings, and social policy / Ailsa M. Watkinson -- 5. Active citizenship, social workers, and social policy / Carol Kenny-Scherber -- 6. Program and policy development from a holistic aboriginal perspective / Malcolm A. Saulis -- 7. Citizen participation in social policy / Joan Wharf Higgins, John Cossom, and Brian Whart -- 8. Evaluating social welfare policies and programs / Anne Westhues -- 9. Child poverty and the Canadian welfare state / Garson Hunter -- 10. Back to the present: rethinking risk assessment in child welfare / Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift -- 11. Native peoples and child welfare practices: implicating social work education / Barbara Waterfall -- 12. Mental health policy in Canada / Geoffrey Nelson -- 13. Housing and homelessness / Lea Caragata -- 14. Single motherhood in the Canadian landscape: postcards from a subject / Lara Lessa -- 15. Workfare: ten years of pickin' on the poor / Linda Snyder -- 16. Toward inclusion of gay and lesbian people: social policy changes in relation to sexual orientation / Brian O'Neill -- 17. Immigration and refugee policy in Canada: past, present, and future / Usha George -- 18. Universal health care: normative legacies adrift / Mike Burke and Susan Silver -- 19. Caring and aging: exposing the policy issues / Sheila Neysmith -- 20. Canadians with disabilities / Peter A. Dunn -- 21. The challenges ahead / Anne Westhues.
Responsibility: edited by Anne Westhues.

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