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British Journal of Social Work 2006 36(5):789-806; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch324
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Social Policy for Social Work: A Teaching Agenda

Idit Weiss, John Gal and Joseph Katan

Idit Weiss and Joseph Katan are at the Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel

John Gal is at the Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Correspondence to Dr Idit Weiss, Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, POB 39040, Israel. E-mail: iditweis{at}post.tau.ac.il

Though social justice is a central goal of the social work profession, the actual involvement of social workers in social change is very limited. Moreover, training in social policy and policy practice in schools of social work is minimal. As such, practitioners lack the tools needed to analyse existing social problems and policies and to enable them to intervene in the policy process in order to better serve the needs of service users. This article seeks to further social policy teaching within social work education by engaging in a survey of the existing literature on the subject and by offering a detailed programme for integrating this subject into the social work training system. The literature survey that serves as a basis for this programme includes a review of studies on the dilemmas linked to social policy teaching, on the goals and content of social policy courses in social work and on preferred teaching methods in this field.

Keywords: Social policy, policy-practice, social work education


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