Social Work articles from April 2002

Social Work archives from April 2002

Using knowledge about knowledge utilization. (Editorial).(Editorial)
April 1, 2002... Social work practitioners have many resources for building practice knowledge. In this period of explosive growth in information and technology, the journal Social Work presents only one of a multitude of information resources available to...

Older Americans and AIDS: some guidelines for prevention.
April 1, 2002... It has become increasingly apparent that social workers who provide services to elderly people (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] as 50 years or older) must pay greater attention to HIV/AIDS prevention with this...

Reducing depression in pregnancy: designing multimodal interventions.
April 1, 2002... Epidemiological and clinical evidence indicates that women have one-year prevalence rates of major depression estimated at 10 percent compared with 4 percent among men, and a lifetime risk of major depression of 20 percent to 25 percent in...

Showing results in community organization.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... Nearly 70 years ago, Dr. Richard Cabot, in his presidential address to the National Conference of Social Work, made an impassioned appeal to social workers to evaluate their work: I appeal to you.... Measure, evaluate, estimate, appraise...

Iowa case management: innovative social casework.
April 1, 2002... The burgeoning interest in managed care financing structures in human services has resulted in an explosive growth in case management as a strategy for effective outcomes. Not only an issue in the United States, case management has become a...

Do public neighborhood centers have the capacity to be instruments of change in human services?
April 1, 2002... In recent years public officials have shown renewed interest in neighborhood centers as vehicles of innovation in social planning and locality development. Part of the attraction comes from the need to replace fragmented, centralized systems...

Telehealth: implications for social work practice.
April 1, 2002... The first reference in medical literature to "telemedicine" described the 1948 transmission of radiological images by telephone (Field, 1996). The first use with social work implications was interactive video therapy, performed at the...

Ensuring the stability of welfare-to-work exits: The importance of recipient knowledge about work incentives.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... Research on designing incentives to make low-wage work a more viable alternative to public assistance has played an important role in the development of state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs (Bane & Ellwood, 1994; Edin &...

Issues in implementing TANF in New York: the perspective of frontline workers.(Temporary Assistance to Needy Families)
April 1, 2002... With the passage of the new welfare law, the Personal Responsibility and Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was abolished and replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families...

Native Hawailan traditional healing: Culturally based interventions for social work practice.
April 1, 2002... Cultural competence is an emerging focus of social work practice that is encouraged by both major social work professional organizations, NASW and the Council on Social Work Education, and reflects the reality of America's multicultural...