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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: genealogy of the good and critique of hubris
    sub title: a history of the discourse on social welfare in the United States
  title info:
    title: History of the discourse on social welfare in the US
  name:
    name part: Dybicz, Phillip
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 426 pages).
  abstract: ""Is this intervention effective?" This is a question that social workers have asked themselves since the birth of the profession and which social welfare agents have asked since the birth of our country. In our attempts at advancing the social welfare of the client and society, it is essential that we constantly evaluate the impact of our interventions. Over the years, however, the above question has yielded some surprising answers. During the Colonial era, those individuals suffering from mental illness who demonstrated a proclivity for aberrant and sometimes harmful behaviors were locked away in barns or small rooms. During the late 1800s in New York City, social welfare agents organized the orphan trains, sending poor immigrant children-many who were not orphans-out to the more "wholesome" environment of family farms in the Midwest. In the 1950s, social workers placed themselves in the role of social police by conducting midnight 'raids' (i.e. unscheduled visits at midnight) at the homes of welfare recipients to ensure that welfare mothers were not benefiting from a man's company in secret, and thus, disqualifying themselves from receiving aid. Looking upon these interventions with our present eyes, from a viewpoint firmly grounded in notions of self-determination and empowerment, our profession can easily see the moral failings of these interventions. From these examples, as a profession we are able to note that simply applying good intentions-by themselves-are not adequate to ensure effective and worthy interventions. We are also able to note that simply having an outcome measure is not enough to ensure the worthiness of an intervention, as the examples above contained easily measured outcomes"--
  table of contents: The Relationship between Discourse and Social Welfare -- The Colonial American Discourse on Social Welfare (c. 1620 -1820) -- Social Welfare Practices in Colonial America (c. 1620-1820) -- The Premodern Discourse on Social Welfare (c. 1820 -1920) -- Social Welfare Practices in the Premodern Era (c. 1820-1920) -- The Modern Discourse on Social Welfare (circa 1920 to present) -- Social Welfare Practices in the Modern Era (c. 1920-present) -- The Emerging Postmodern discourse on Social Welfare (c. 1990-present) -- Solutions, Narrative, and Strengths (c. 1990-present) -- Social Welfare at a Crossroads.
  note: Phillip Dybicz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Public welfare
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Social service
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Politique sociale
  subject:
    topic: Social Services & Welfare
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Human Services
  subject:
    topic: Public welfare
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Social service
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Social services & welfare, criminology
  subject:
    topic: Society
  classification: HV91 .D93 2023
  classification: 361.973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Genealogy of the good and critique of hubris
    name:
      name part: Dybicz, Phillip.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
    identifier: (DLC) 2022040658
  identifier: 9780197670132
  identifier: 019767013X
  identifier: 0197670113
  identifier: 9780197670118
  identifier: 9780197670071
  identifier: 2022040659
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220826
    record change date: 20260318164532.9
    record identifier: in00005697374
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng