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Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy
by Neil Gilbert, Harry Specht, Paul Terrell, Paul Terrell
from Prentice Hall
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Much too american for the Canadian Social Worker 
I purchased this very expensive, yet thin paperback text for a social policy University course. The book is well written, but the perspectives are so American that I question the usefulness for a Canadian student of the subject.The text is certainly updated, including a lot of glowing statistics about work-for-welfare programmes. The authors also use the words "unwed mother" and "Out of wedlock". These terms were thankfully exiled from the common social work language about 20 years ago, on this side of... more info
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Great Book 
Given the history of this book, it is almost a classic. No course on Welfare policy could not refer to it.
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On of the best introductions to social work policy ever.
This is an excellent book. I've used it in undergraduate (and graduate) courses here at the University of Chicago and have been VERY pleased with the result. Colleagues at Berkeley (where Professors Terrell and Gilbert teach) use it as well. It is quite possibly the most complete text on the subject I've ever used
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