i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to take this opportunity to thank my committee for all of your help in contributing to the final product of this research paper. Dr. Velazquez, thank you so much for believing in my work and in me as a student. When I started the MPA program, I did so just in hopes of taking a shot at gaining one more tool to create a path for a better life. Because of your help ...

Wherever we undertake the task of ministering not only to the body but to the mind, our working basis must be psychology. In social work this psychology must be more particularly social psychology, for we are dealing with human beings as members of society. We are considering the physical welfare of individuals merely as a contributory factor to their social welfare. All social work, then, shou...

one of the necessary preconditions to provide people's active participation in performance of development plans and the most basic of preparation to pave the way for the successful implementation of the plan is selection of appropriate theory in the field of justice and welfare for this plans. in this research, while reviewing development plans of the islamic republic of iran, because the ...

Andrea Hetling, PhD, Kirk Tracy, PhD, and Catherine E. Born, PhD, are affiliated with the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. Address correspondence to: Andrea Hetling, PhD, Family Welfare Research and Training Group, School of Social Work, University of Maryland, 525 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 (E-mail: [email protected]). The authors would like to thank the Of...

This paper uses the framework of an OLG economy for an analysis of the dynamic interaction between the precision of information about individual skills, investment in education, human capital accumulation and social welfare. The human capital of an individual depends on both his (subjectively) random ability and his investment in education. Individual investment in education is financed through...

DARWIN’S LITTLE KNOWN DISCUSSION OF SYMPATHY reveals a facet of his thinking unknown to many, which is contrary to the competitive, ruthless, and selfish view of human nature that has been mistakenly attributed to a Darwinian perspective. In 1871, 11 years before his death, Darwin’s greatest unread book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, was published. In the fourth chapter,...