Social Work articles from April 2008

Social Work archives from April 2008

A social worker's reflections on power, privilege, and oppression.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Personal account)
April 1, 2008... The pursuit of social justice is a core social work value (NASW, 2007). Social workers promote social justice by engaging in activities that promote equality of opportunity, challenge injustice, and advance social change, particularly on behalf...

Demographic trends in social work over a quarter-century in an increasingly female profession.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Social work has long been concerned with issues of diversity. According to the NASW Code of Ethics (2000),"Social workers should obtain education about and seek to understand the nature of social diversity and oppression with respect to race,...

Has social work met its commitment to Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders? A review of the periodical literature.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (NHOPIs) contribute to the panoramic landscape of racial diversity in the United States. In 2000, NHOPIs were recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau (2001a) as a distinct racial group, along with other...

Race, resistance, and restructuring: emerging skills in the new social services.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Since the introduction of the first neoliberal federal budget in the mid-1980s (Cohen, 1997; Teeple, 1995), cuts in funding, restrictions on entitlements, the introduction of private sector management schemes, and ongoing waves of workplace...

Openness in adoption: what we know so far--a critical review of the literature.(Report)
April 1, 2008... As many as 100 million people in the United States have adoption within their immediate families--a third of the nation (Pertman, 2000).Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation (2000), explained how adoption was once a clandestine process...

Sexual trafficking in the United States: a domestic problem with transnational dimensions.(Report)
April 1, 2008... The social work profession is committed to social justice, particularly on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals. This commitment is enumerated in the profession's Code of Ethics (NASW, 2000) and its educational standards (Educational...

The growing admissibility of expert testimony by clinical social workers on competence to stand trial.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Psychiatric, psychological, and legal observers have noted persistent shortcomings in the quality of evaluations for competence to stand trial since at least 1965 (Vann, 1965). Recent reviews by Nicholson and Norwood (2000) and Wettstein (2005)...

Social workers and the NASW Code of Ethics: belief, behavior, disjuncture.(National Association of Social Workers)(Report)
April 1, 2008... The major purpose of the study was to examine the NASW Code of Ethics and the problems it causes social workers in terms of the discrepancies between belief in its tenets and behaviors in implementing it. If belief in the tenets of the code is...

Negotiating with antisocial clients.(PRACTICE UPDATES)(Report)
April 1, 2008... Despite widespread pessimism about the responsiveness of such individuals toward traditional therapeutic approaches (Hare, 1999), individuals with this disability have been noted to respond positively to sanctions and incentives when presented...

Strengths-oriented family therapy for adolescents with substance abuse problems.(PRACTICE UPDATE)(Report)
April 1, 2008... Adolescent substance abuse continues to be a societal problem for which we need high quality, cost-effective treatments. That is, substance use and abuse by adolescents is associated with a more rapid progression into addiction, delayed entry...