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Frontmatter -- contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Good Citizen and American Social Welfare -- 1. The Programmatic Precursors to the War on Poverty -- 2. The War on Poverty: Programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity -- 3. Other War on Poverty Programs -- 4. The Social Insurances and Welfare -- 5. Charity and Community Organization -- Conclusion: The Iron Sculpture -- Tables -- References -- Index

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abstracts -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I Psychotherapy -- 2 Psychotherapy and Tests of Effectiveness -- The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy -- References -- 3 Psychotherapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder -- References -- 4 Psychotherapy for Depression and Addiction -- Depression -- Drug Addiction -- References -- 5 Psychotherapy and Society -- Psychotherapy Versus Care -- References -- Part II Clinical Social Work -- 6 Precursors to Modern Social Work -- The Orphan Trains -- Social Work and the Institution -- Charity Organization Societies -- Settlement Houses -- The Social Clinic in Social Work -- The Social Clinic, Social Work and the Bribe to Indolence -- References -- 7 Contemporary Social Work and the Social Clinic -- The Social Work Therapist in the Social Clinic -- References -- 8 Clinical Social Work in Child Foster Care, Family Preservation, and the Schools -- Child Foster Care, Family Preservation, and Family Reunification -- The Social Work Therapist in the Schools -- Clinical Social Work Considered -- References -- Part III Other Practices of the Social Clinic -- 9 Community Psychological Practice and a Note on Rehabilitation in Corrections -- Community Psychological Practice -- A Note on Rehabilitation in Corrections -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Mind and Spirit on the Fringes of the Social Clinic -- Spiritual Interventions -- Mindfulness and Meditation -- Centers for Positive Living -- Past Life Regression Therapy -- "Beam Me Up, Scotty" -- Ho'oponopono -- Aspiration and Reality -- References -- Part IV Clinic and Society -- 11 Soothing Fictions -- The Dream and the Promise -- References -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

"In the current political climate of the U.S., there are noeasily apparent solutions to the social problems we face.William M. Epstein claims that people in need have been poorly served and misled by the American system of social welfare. This is one of those rare works emanating from a social welfare expert that does not offer easy placebos or simplistic claims based on more money.The Dilemma of American Social Welfare argues against the idea that there are inexpensive cures for serious societal sicknesses. Epstein takes on an immense literature in psychotherapy, social work, and welfare, all offering simple answers to complex problems. Two of the largest social experiments ever undertaken in the U.S. are evaluated in depth. The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1960s and early 1970s tested the feasibility of an income guarantee; and the Evaluation of State Work/Welfare Initiatives employed a variety of programs to stimulate welfare recipients to find jobs. Epstein also analyzes social services associated with social work and examines approaches to juvenile delinquency and drug addiction.Epstein is blunt in his denial that traditional welfare can readily resolve major social and economic questions of the times. His work, addressed to the malaise in thesocial welfare or helping professions, should serve asan early warning signal that easy solutions are hard for recipients to identify and harder still for donors to put forth. Although it was originally published in the early 1990s, the book remains relevant to political and social questions of the day, which makes it of interest to sociologists, political scientists, policymakers, researchers, and others interested in policy and urban studies."--Provided by publisher.

The Masses are the Ruling Classes proposes the radical, yet seemingly innocuous view that social policy in the United States is determined by mass consent. Contemporary explanations of decision making in the US typically attribute power over policy making to a variety of hidden forces and illegitimate elites holding the masses innocent of their own problems. Yet the enormous openness of the society and near-universal suffrage sustain democratic consent as more plausible than the alternatives -- conspiracy, propaganda, usurpation, autonomous government, and imperfect pluralism. Contrary to prevailing explanations, government is not either autonomous or out of control, business and wealthy individuals have not usurped control of the nation, large segments of the population are not dispossessed of the vote or of a voice in public affairs, and the media has not formed a conspiracy with Hollywood and liberals to deny Americans their God-given freedoms. Despite the multitude of problems that the nation faces, its citizens are not oppressed. In this pithy yet provocative book, Epstein argues that Democracy in the United States is not progressive but is instead populist, and that the core of the populist ideology is romantic rather than pragmatic. --

Observation is key and it is generally supported in the literature that many social problems are caused less by the unborn and more by people below 18 years of age. It is certainly undeniable that the widespread recourse to abortion, usually by pregnant women, has saved taxpayers in the United States many billions of dollars. Had some of the nation's youths also been aborted before birth, many billions more would have been saved. While certain lasting inconveniences and blemishes borne by parents are irremediable, it is yet possible to prevent stress from continuing on to grandparents and the future society. This paper explores the possibility of correcting many of these oversights through corrective abortions and psychotherapeutic interventions. It also draws out some implications for social policy.