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Individualization and the delivery of welfare services : contestation and complexity / Anna Yeatman ; with Gary W. Dowsett, Michael Fine, Diane Gursansky.
LIBRA HV31 .Y43 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeatman, Anna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 279 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781403988089
- 1403988080
- OCLC:
- 144523458
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