A01=William Epstein
AFDC Mother
AFDC Recipient
American Social Welfare
Anorexia Nervosa
Antisocial Behavior
Antisocial Youths
Author_William Epstein
biases
Category=JKS
Category=JP
Educational Tutoring
efficiency
empirical research on welfare programs
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
evidence-based practice
expectancy
Expectancy Biases
GGI
Human Service Research
human services effectiveness
Income Maintenance Experiments
Intensive Casework
Juvenile Delinquency
MDRC
Multiple Illicit Drugs
National Academy
Nit Experiment
Nontreatment Controls
policy analysis methods
poverty alleviation strategies
Problem Solving Skills Training
Randomly Assigned
Scientific Enterprise
Single Subject Designs
Social Efficiency
social intervention evaluation
Social Work Research
welfare policy critique
Welfare Reform
William M. Epstein
Product details
- ISBN 9781412845861
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
In the current political climate of the U.S., there are noeasily apparent solutions to the social problems we face.William M. Epstein claims that people in need have been poorly served and misled by the American system of social welfare. This is one of those rare works emanating from a social welfare expert that does not offer easy placebos or simplistic claims based on more money.The Dilemma of American Social Welfare argues against the idea that there are inexpensive cures for serious societal sicknesses. Epstein takes on an immense literature in psychotherapy, social work, and welfare, all offering simple answers to complex problems. Two of the largest social experiments ever undertaken in the U.S. are evaluated in depth. The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1960s and early 1970s tested the feasibility of an income guarantee; and the Evaluation of State Work/Welfare Initiatives employed a variety of programs to stimulate welfare recipients to find jobs. Epstein also analyzes social services associated with social work and examines approaches to juvenile delinquency and drug addiction.Epstein is blunt in his denial that traditional welfare can readily resolve major social and economic questions of the times. His work, addressed to the malaise in thesocial welfare or helping professions, should serve asan early warning signal that easy solutions are hard for recipients to identify and harder still for donors to put forth. Although it was originally published in the early 1990s, the book remains relevant to political and social questions of the day, which makes it of interest to sociologists, political scientists, policymakers, researchers, and others interested in policy and urban studies.
