Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Assault on Social Policy.\u3c/em\u3e William Roth. Reviewed by Larry Nackerud.

Book review of William Roth, The Assault on Social Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. $49.50 hardcover,$22.50 paper cover

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Revival of Labor Liberalism.\u3c/em\u3e Andrew Battista. Reviewed by Larry Nackerud.

Book review of Andrew Battista, The Revival of Labor Liberalism. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. $45.00 hardcover

Review of \u3cem\u3eUnequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success.\u3c/em\u3e Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne Groves. (Eds.). Reviewed by Larry Nackerud.

Book review of Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne, (Eds.), Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. $35.00 hardcover

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Future of the Welfare State: Social Policy Attitudes and Social Capital in Europe.\u3c/em\u3e Heikki Ervasti, Jorgen Goul Andersen, Torben Fridberg and Kristen Ringdal (Eds.). Reviewed by Larry Nackerud.

Book review of Heikki Ervasti, Jorgen Goul Andersen, Torben Fridberg and Kristen Ringdal (Eds.). The Future of the Welfare State: Social Policy Attitudes and Social Capital in Europe. Edgar Elgar Publishing Limited (2012). $110.00 (hardcover)

Review of \u3cem\u3eRepackaging the Welfare State.\u3c/em\u3e Pranab Chatterjee. Reviewed by Larry Nackerud, University of Georgia.

Book review of Pranab Chatterjee, Repackaging the Welfare State. Washington, DC: NASW Press, 1999. $32.95 paperback

The Disease Model of Alcoholism: A Kuhnian Paradigm

Despite the fact that the disease model of alcoholism has lost its status as paradigm in international circles, the alcoholism research and treatment community in the United States maintains steadfast allegiance to the tenets of the disease model. The disease model and the related treatment goal of abstinence continue to overwhelmingly dominate the treatment of alcoholism in the U.S. Critics have suggested that financial and political motives have served to maintain the dominance of the disease model, despite findings that violate its basic tenets. This paper presents an alternative explanation of the reluctance of the alcoholism treatment community to relinquish the disease model by utilizing Kuhn\u27s (1996) model of scientific progress in an historical analysis of the disease model. To support this position, evidence of the emergence of the disease model as a paradigm, alcoholism research as normal science, and the appearance of anomaly followed by crisis in the alcoholism research and treatment community are presented

A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Medicaid), but in this paper it refers specifically to Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or its contemporary Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In an attempt to calibrate the accuracy of this long held stereotype, the authors surveyed a representative stratified random sample of individuals who received TANF in the state of Georgia. The resulting profile led to the identification of four distinctive groups on the welfare rolls. These groups or groupings, as they are referred to in the paper, show that only some families fit the traditional stereotype while others are accessing the welfare system because of health problems, child abandonment, limited retirement assets, poor education, and fluctuating labor markets

Welfare Reform and Unitended Consequences: Its Impact on a Local Child Protection Program

On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. The Act represents a fundamental shift in the relationship between the federal government, the fifty states, and persons living in poverty. A shift of this magnitude cannot be analyzed properly without considering the significant impact of unintended consequences that may result from the new policy. Often, unintended consequences occur when two different policies, in this case, public welfare and child protective services, collide. One such possible unintended consequence of this policy shift may be to reduce the effectiveness of a successful child protection program in Walton County, Georgia. The kinship care program in Walton County has considerably reduced the number of children in foster care, altered foster roles, and resulted in savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, without careful planning, the current welfare reform effort will limit the ability of extended family members to offer care for abused and neglected children via the kinship care program. This paper explores the complexity of such a major shift in federal welfare policy by analyzing its impact on a successful county-based child protection program

Session 2: “The Unafraid” Documentary Viewing and Facilitated Discussion

The Unafraid is a feature length documentary that follows the personal lives of three DACA students in Georgia, a state that has banned them from attending their top state universities and disqualifies them from receiving in-state tuition at any other public college. Shot in an observational style over a period of four years, this films takes an intimate look at the lives of the students as they navigate activism, pursuing their right to education, and fighting for the rights of their families and communities. The unafraid shows us what it means to grow up both American and undocumented in the United States. Dr. Nackerud, faculty member at UGA\u27s School of Social Work facilitates discussion following the viewing, drawing on his experience and interests in public policy in the area of U.S. immigration and refugees