Subject(s): Social service in United States. -- Social change, technology, bureaucracy, blaming the victim, social justice -- basic concepts- Social welfare, social work and social service, values, residual and institutional social welfare, social agencies historical development- English backgrounds, American development -- Social problems and social services : Public welfare and income maintenance, poverty, antipoverty programs, proposal for income maintenance reform, services to families and children in the home, need for social services to familes and children, supportive social service, primary prevention services, services to families and children outside the home, social work in school, social services in the health care field, trends in American health care system, health care financing, social work practice in health care settings, social work in health care, metal health and social work, social services and disabilities, normalization, deinstitutionalization, restrictive environment, Americans with disabilities act of 1990, social services and substance abuse, criminal and juvenile justice, aging and social work, social work services to the elderly and their families, government funding for aging people, occupational social work, welfare capitalism and occupational social work, social work practice and world war II, growth of occupational social services, service delivery, future of occupational social work, emerging and less traditional contexts of social work practice -- Methods of social work practice : Newer approach in social work practice, generalist, working with individuals and families, social work with groups, working with communities, social service organizations- administration and management, social work research -- Special groups, issues and trends : Human diversity and empowerment, tides and tensions of women's and men's movements- entering a new millennium, housing, homelessness and social welfare, social development- an international perspective, professionalism, education and personnel in the social services, social work- future perspective