Social Work articles from April 2001

Social Work archives from April 2001

The Measure of Things.
April 1, 2001... While you and i have lips and voices which are for kissing and to sing with who cares if some oneyed son for a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with? --e. e. Cummings Measurement is everywhere. Its myriad applications are...

Correction.(correction to article in Jan 2001 issue, p. 9)(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2001... In the authors' blurb for the article "Nature of Work and Future of the Social Work Profession" by Michael Reisch and Stephen H. Gorin (January 2001, pages 9-19), Dr. Reisch's affiliation and address should have read: School of Social Work,...

Valediction.(appreciation for Howard Goldstein)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Editor-in-Chief, Families in Society, 1998--2000 February 12, 1922-November 1, 2000 Professor Emeritus, Mandel School of Applied Social Services, Case Western Reserve University I first got to "know" Howard through his...

Reporting Client Violence.
April 1, 2001... Much has been written about client violence against social workers; however, little attention has been given to reporting behavior of social workers who have been the target of such violence. The study discussed in this article documents the...

Crimes against People with Mental Illness: Types, Perpetrators, and Influencing Factors.
April 1, 2001... The current emphasis on studying why people with severe mental illness are potentially violent has overlooked the effect of violence committed against these individuals. To balance the understanding of the person-in-environment...

Improving Pregnancy Outcome during Imprisonment: A Model Residential Care Program.
April 1, 2001... The female prison population has increased dramatically in recent years. Most women prisoners are involved with drugs, and as many as 25 percent are pregnant or have delivered within the past year. Reproductive health and drug treatment...

Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Their Reported Experiences with Professional Help.
April 1, 2001... This article analyzes the self-reports of 384 adults who responded to a survey of people abused physically, sexually, or emotionally by family members in childhood. Most of the respondents sought help as adults from social workers and other...

Gay and Lesbian Adoptive and Foster Care Placements: Can They Meet the Needs of Waiting Children?
April 1, 2001... Although the number of children in need of adoptive homes is growing, the number of prospective adoptive parents is decreasing. On the basis of an extensive review of relevant literature, the present study explored a potentially viable although...

Challenges of Parenting for Families Living with HIV/AIDS.
April 1, 2001... Given the continual rise of HIV infection in our communities and the improved life span for many who are HIV-positive, social workers in all fields of practice have clients whose lives have been touched by HIV/AIDS. This article reviews...

Effect of a Changing Health Care Environment on Social Work Leaders: Obstacles and Opportunities in Hospital Social Work.
April 1, 2001... The health care system is undergoing dramatic change in auspice, structure, and services delivery in response to an emphasis on market-driven, cost-containment strategies. Consequently, many hospital social work directors either have lost some...

The Diagnostic Strengths Manual?
April 1, 2001... As influential as it is, the DSM-IV (the DSM-IV-TR has just been published and has approximately 100 additional pages of text on disorders--primarily because of the increased enumeration of criteria and specifiers) of the American Psychiatric...

Letters.
April 1, 2001... Speciesism I can think of only one reason why thoughtful social workers or social science researchers would insist on limiting or prohibiting the development of a formal inquiry into the politics of institutional animal abuse. Complicity....