Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

Rowena Fong, James E. Lubben, Richard P. Barth (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780190858988 (ISBN)

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The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI was modeled after the National Academy of Engineering, which aimed to identify some of the most persistent engineering problems of the day and then put the attentions, energies, and funding of the entire field to work on them for a decade. The GCSWI does the same for social issues, tackling problems such as homelessness, social isolation, mass incarceration, family violence, and economic inequality.

Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is an edited book that will present the foundations of the GCSWI, laying out the start of the initiative and providing summaries of each of the twelve challenges. The 12 main chapters that form the core of the book, one on each of the dozen Grand Challenges, are written by the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.

Rowena Fong, EdD, MSW is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Social Work. A Fellow of SSWR and AASWSW, she is the Treasurer of AASWSW, co-principal investigator of a $23M grant for the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation, and has authored over 100 publications, including 10 books. James Lubben, PhD/DSW, MPH, MSW, is the Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor of Social Work at Boston College and Professor Emeritus at UCLA. He has edited 5 books and authored over 100 articles and chapters. He has been principal investigator of over $35M of extramural grants. He is a Fellow in the AASWSW and the Gerontological Society of America. Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW is Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and Past-President of AASWSW. He has written more than 10 books and 200 articles and chapters about children's services. He has twice served as a Fulbright Scholar, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SSWR, and is a Fellow of APA, SSWR.

GRAND CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL WORK and 2017 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chapter 1: Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
James Lubben, Richard P. Barth, Rowena Fong, Marilyn Flynn, Michael Sherraden, and Edwina Uehara

Chapter 2: Grand Challenge # 1: Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth
Jeffrey M. Jenson and J. David Hawkins

Chapter 3: Grand Challenge #2: Close the Health Gap
Michael S. Spencer, Karina L. Walters, Heidi L. Allen, Christina M. Andrews, Audrey Begun, Teri Browne, John Clapp, Diana DiNitto, Peter Maramaldi, Darrell Wheeler, Brad Zebrack, and Edwina Uehara

Chapter 4: Grand Challenge #3: Stop Family Violence
Richard P. Barth and Rebecca J. Macy

Chapter 5: Grand Challenge #4: Advance Long and Productive Lives
Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ernest Gonzales, Jacquelyn B. James, Christina Matz-Costa, and Michelle Putnam

Chapter 6: Grand Challenge #5: Eradicate Social Isolation
James Lubben, Elizabeth Tracy, Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Erika L. Sabbath, Melanie Gironda, Carrie Johnson, Jooyoung Kong, Michelle R. Munson, and Suzanne Browne

Chapter 7: Grand Challenge #6: End Homelessness
Deborah K. Padgett and Benjamin F. Henwood

Chapter 8: Grand Challenge # 7: Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
Susan P. Kemp, Lawrence A. Palinkas, and Lisa Reyes Mason

Chapter 9: Grand Challenge # 8: Harness Technology for Social Good
Stephanie C. Berzin and Claudia J. Coulton

Chapter 10: Grand Challenge # 9: Promote Smart Decarceration
Matthew W. Epperson, Carrie Pettus-Davis, Annie Grier, and Leon Sawh

Chapter 11: Grand Challenge # 10: Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
Julia Henly, Laura Lein, Jennifer Romich, Trina Shanks, Michael Sherraden, Amanda Tillotson, and Raven Jones

Chapter 12: Grand Challenge #11: Build Financial Capability For All
Jin Huang, Margaret S. Sherraden, Mathieu Despard, David Rothwell, Terri Friedline, Joanna Doran, Karen A. Zurlo, Julie Birkenmaier, Christine Callahan, and Robin McKinney

Chapter 13: Grand Challenge # 12: Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice
Rocio Calvo, Martell Teasley, Jeremy Goldbach, Ruth McRoy, and Yolanda Padilla

Chapter 14: Conclusion
Richard P. Barth, Rowena Fong, James Lubben, and Sarah Christa Butts

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 157 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780190858988 / 9780190858988
Zustand	Neuware