Includes bibliographical references.

1: An introduction to social welfare policy and the practice of policy -- Why study social welfare policy and the practice of policy, anyway? -- 2: Analytic skills in policy practice -- Analytic skills in policy practice: defining, measuring, and conceptualizing social problems -- Policy analysis: recurring policy options in the human services -- Thinking analytically: from trade-offs to policy proposals -- 3: Nonrational components of policy practice: political, interactional, and value-clarification skills -- Political skills in policy research: power and assertiveness -- Developing political strategy -- Interactional skills in social welfare policy -- Value clarification and moral reasoning -- 4: Social welfare policy in action: a framework and six policy practice tasks -- The policy practitioner in action -- Social welfare policy in action -- An extended policy practice case: child development and daycare -- 5: Social welfare policy in the postenactment phases of implementation and assessment -- Implementing policies -- Assessing policies -- 6: Mainstreaming policy practice into professional practice -- Integrating the practice of policy with the professional pole.

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