Pearson eText for Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice -- Instant Access (Pearson+)

This title is available via Pearson+ and includes an eTextbook with audio on most titles. Pearson+ also offers expert videos, notes, and flashcards so you can learn anyway you like. Focuses on values and the historical impact of socio-economic structures   Understanding Social Welfare: A Search for Social Justice is presented in an organized, comprehensive, and scholarly manner, including social policy concepts. It is accessible to students and helps them acquire the basic tools for understanding, analyzing, and evaluating social welfare policies and programs. This text focuses on the impact of social structure on people’s lives, emphasizing the current concerns of diverse client populations and the search for social justice. It places U.S. welfare in philosophical, political, economic, and international contexts, and includes the latest discussion of policy issues related to gay men and lesbians.    A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience--for you and your students.  Here's how: Improve Critical Thinking – Challenges readers to make their own decisions as they encounter policies and programs with enhanced knowledge and analytic skills. Engage Students – Presents the historical evolution of social welfare and focuses on issues, trends, and conflicts in the context of influential societal developments and values. Explore Current Issues – Includes the latest discussion of policy issues related to gay men and lesbians.