A Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy Analysis

This brief resource sets out a rights-based framework forpolicy analysis that allows social workers to enhance their long-term vision aswell as their current practice. It introduces the emerging P.A.N.E.(Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination, Equity) model for evaluatingsocial policy, comparing it with the traditional needs-based charity model interms of not only effectiveness and efficiency but also inclusion and justice. Recognizedstandards for human rights are used to identify values crucial to informing policygoals. Exercises, key documents, and an extended example illustrate both the processesof creating empowering social policy and its best and most meaningful outcomes.
Included in the coverage:

• Rights-based and needs-based approaches to social policy analysis.
Regional and international human rights instruments.
• Grounding social policies in legal and institutional frameworks.
• Conceptualizing social issues from a human rights frame.
• Measuring progress on the realization of human rights.
• Rights-based analysis of maternity, paternity, and parental leaves in the United States.

For social workers and social work researchers, A Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy Analysisgives readers a modern platform for achieving the highest goals of thefield. It also makes a worthwhile class text for social work programs. 

Table des matières

Understanding a Rights-based Approach to Social Policy Analysis.- Understanding Human Rights and Social Policy.- Measuring Progress on the Realization of Human Rights.- Bringing it All Together: Situating the Social Issue.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Shirley Gatenio Gabel
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 05.04.2016
• EAN: 9783319244105
• ISBN: 978-3-31-924410-5
• Pages: 85
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 7 mm
• Poids: 194 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 85 p. 1 illus.
• Thème: SpringerBriefs in Rights-Based Approaches to Social Work
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Pédagogie > Pédagogie sociale, travail social; C, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Human Rights, Social Policy, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Social & ethical issues, Social Work, auseinandersetzen, Political Economy, Human rights, civil rights