2nd Edition
Social Policy for Social Work, Social Care and the Caring Professions Scottish Perspectives
Part 1: Context 1
1. What is social policy?
Steve J Hothersall
2. A history of social policy
Steve J Hothersall
3. Ideology: how theories and ideas influence policy, people, welfare and practice
Steve J Hothersall
4. People, policy and practice
Steve J Hothersall
5. From devolution to Brexit
Janine Bolger
Part 2: Themes and issues
6. Poverty, austerity and social exclusion
Janine Bolger and Alice Butler-Warke
7. Protecting people across the lifespan
Peter Connolly and Steve J Hothersall (with Mike Maas-Lowit)
8. Care and caring in Scotland: evolution, growth and development
Steve J Hothersall and Valerie Gant
9. Welfare rights
Janine Bolger
10. Social policy perspectives on empowerment
Linda Harms-Smith (with Rob MacKay)
Part 3: Policy for practice
11. Health and health inequalities
Janine Bolger (with Pedro Morago)
12. Mental health
Bill Cook (with Jackie Loxton, Mike Maas-Lowit and Rob Mackay)
13. Social policy for social work: a gerontological perspective
Lauren Henderson
14. Impairment and disability
Valerie Gant and Steve J Hothersall
15. Children and their families
Steve J Hothersall and Peter Connolly (with Patrick Walker)
16. Education and training in Scotland
Janine Bolger
17. Substance use and social policy in Scotland: the struggle to make sense of things
Neil Gibson (with George Allan)
18. Social policy in the criminal justice system
Kirstin Parkes
19. Asylum and immigration
Clare Hancock-Fraser
20. Housing and homelessness
Alastair Logan (with Pedro Morago)
21. Conclusions: policy and practice for an uncertain world in uncertain times
Steve J Hothersall and Janine Bolger
Biography
Steve J Hothersall is Head of Social Work Education at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK.
Janine Bolger is Head of Social Work at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.
