Individualization And The Delivery Of Welfare Services: Contestation And Complexity
Author(s)
Anna Yeatman
Gary Wayne Dowsett
Michael Fine
Diane Gursansky
Anna Yeatman
Gary Wayne Dowsett
Michael Fine
Diane Gursansky
The conception of welfare services has changed radically. The focus has shifted from a paternalistic conception of what the state and professionals can do for, or to, needy clients to a post-paternalistic conception of services that respond to and develop self-determining capacities of individual service users or consumers. This book examines the contradictions and complexities of contemporary individualized welfare services, with special reference to service user groups who are deeply dependent in ongoing ways on service delivery for their quality of life.
| Name in long format: | Individualization-and-the-delivery-of-welfare-services-contestation-and-complexity |
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| ISBN-10: | 0230268463 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780230268463 |
| Book language: | en |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
