Social Policy, Social planning 

Notes:
Includes index.  

Contents

I. The Scope and Functions of the Case Studies 1
The Planner’s Point of Entry and Scope
Task
Boundaries
Programming
Horizons
Other Concepts
Classification

II. The Anti-Poverty War as a Social Strategy: Problem - Focused Planning on a National Level 10
How Much Poverty
“The Culture of Poverty”
Options in Coping with Poverty
The Economic Opportunity Act as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
The Anti-Poverty Program in Context
Anti-Poverty in Action
The Interdependence of Policy Instruments
Choices
Lessons for Planners

III. Children in Trouble: Problem-Focused Planning on the Local Level 68
Task and Policy
Prevention Through Law Enforcement
The Limitations of Delinquency-Specific Primary Prevention
Non-Delinquency-Specific Secondary Prevention
Non-Delinquency-Specific Case Service Network
Juvenile vs. Family Courts
The Planning and Coordination Base
A Final Note

VI. Income Security: Definitions of the Task 105
Components, Coverage, and Gaps
“Having the Power…,” Public Welfare in Transition
Income Through Social Insurance
Negative Income Tax
Children’s Allowances
Comprehensive Income Security

V. The Social Planner and the City: The “Task” in Perspective 157
Problems, Needs, and Trends
Accomplishments and Failures
Physical Planning, Socially Informed
City Renewal as Social Planning
Model Cities
Parallel Proposals and Dilemmas
System and Task

VI. Community Psychiatry: Boundaries and Intergovernmental Relations in Planning 194

PART ONE: BOUNDARIES
Social Psychiatry and Community Psychiatry
The Search for Boundaries
Community Mental Health
“Non-Medical” Models

PART TWO: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND PLANNING
The Joint Commission Defines the Task
State Planning as Community Organization
Mental Health Centers and Hospital Improvement:
Initiative at the Top
Intergovernmental Relations and Planning
Comprehensive Health Planning Changes the Frame
Final Comments

VII The Delivery of Social Services at the Local Level:
Boundaries in Programming 243

The Problems Addressed
Child Welfare and the Welfare of the Children
American Family Services as Casework
The Marriage Counselling Movement
Related Social Service Developments
Family Life Education and Social Utilities
Social Sciences at the Local Level-The Task
The Case for Decentralization
The Major Options
Emergency Services
Social Sciences as Ancillary or Autonomous
The “Costs” of Choices
VIII Social Planning Horizons 295

Planning for the Development of Poor Countries
Social Facets and Social Concerns

Index