Selling Points

• Unlike other texts, which tend to supply and reinforce one framework, presents multiple frameworks and approaches to understanding policy analysis and teaching it in the classroom.
• Provides exceptional balance linking historical policy contexts and analysis, with major policies today and possible frameworks in the future.
• Integrates examples of actual social work students who engaged in policy practice to demonstrate how policies affect individual clients.
• Includes detailed cases on www.routledgesw.com give students the opportunity to put the skills they learn into practice. Website now supplemented and updated with two static and downloadable case studies for added accessibility
• Features an updated package of instructor resources (exams, syllabi, EPAS grids, links and teaching tips, lecture slides, extra readings) that are even easier to integrate into course learning and support lecturers use the text in traditional, online, and or blended formats.
• Incorporates the strengths perspective, making policy issues less about problems and more about recognizing how to use the strengths of any set of circumstances to combat the issue.