James Midgley, PhD, is Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

Amy Conley, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Contributors

Introduction

James Midgley and Amy Conley

PART I: THE DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL WORK

1. The Theory and Practice of Developmental Social Work

James Midgley

PART II: SOCIAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND SOCIAL WORK FIELDS OF PRACTICE

2. Social Development, Social Investment and Child Welfare

Amy Conley

3. Productive Aging and Social Development

Nancy Giunta

4. Social Investment and Mental Health: The Role of Social Enterprise

Mary Ager Caplan

5. Developmental Social Work and People with Disabilities

Jennifer Knapp and James Midgley

6. Poverty, Social Assistance and Social Investment

James Midgley

7. Crime, Social Investment and Correctional Social Work

Will C. Rainford

8. Social Development, Social Enterprise and Homeless Youth

Kristin Ferguson

9. Community Practice and Developmental Social Work

James Midgley

PART III : CONCLUSION

10. Limitations and Prospects of Developmental Social Work

James Midgley and Amy Conley