Social Work articles from April 2009

Social Work archives from April 2009

Qualitative and mixed methods in social work knowledge development.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Report)
April 1, 2009... Providing guidelines on qualitative and mixed methods in social work knowledge development is a daunting task. Quantitative methods also require careful consideration, but they rarely entail the degree of epistemological self-searching and...

Restorative justice as social justice for victims of gendered violence: a standpoint feminist perspective.(Report)
April 1, 2009... Because of an increasing awareness of inadequacies in the criminal justice system in meeting the needs of victims of crime, there is a growing movement to use alternative, more informal forms of instituting justice for victims, offenders, and...

Older adult inmates: the challenge for social work.(Report)
April 1, 2009... Truth-in-sentencing laws, mandatory minimums, and three-strikes-and-you're-out rules established over the past several decades are keeping more offenders confined in prison for longer periods of time (van Wormer & Bartollas, 2007; Yorston &...

Social workers' and service users' causal attributions for poverty.(Report)
April 1, 2009... A major portion of social work practice worldwide consists of the provision of services to people with needs and problems associated with living in poverty (Elliott, 1997; Healy, 2001; Hokenstad, Khinduka, & Midgley, 1992; Jones, 2002). These...

Maltreated children's thoughts and emotions as behavioral predictors: evidence for social work action.(Report)
April 1, 2009... Despite more than 40 years of key federal legislation addressing child abuse and neglect, ranging from the 1974 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (P.L. 93-247) to the more recent amendment, Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003...

Risk and protective factors for HIV/AIDS in Native Americans: implications for preventive intervention.(Report)
April 1, 2009... There are 4.1 million American Indian and Alaska Natives who self-identified on the 2000 U.S. census. This is a highly heterogeneous group representing over 500 federally recognized tribes and speaking over 300 distinct languages (Duran &...

Innovative service or proselytizing: exploring when services delivery becomes a platform for unwanted religious persuasion.(Report)
April 1, 2009... Since passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), including section 104 (also known as Charitable Choice), social work scholars have responded by increasing their attention to...

Social work practice with Latinos: key issues for social workers.(Report)
April 1, 2009... As Latinos become a larger proportion of the U.S. population, there is a greater need for social work education to provide culturally sensitive training to social work students (Furman, Bender, Lewis, & Shears, 2006; Iglehart & Becerra, 1995)....

A reflection on reasons, preconditions, and effects of implementing evidence-based practice in social work.(COMMENTARY)(Report)
April 1, 2009... Over the past decade, there has been an increasing recognition that social work should be evidence based. The potential contribution of evidence-based practice (EBP) to the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of social work education...

Discretion in direct practice: new perspectives.(COMMENTARY)(Report)
April 1, 2009... The study of clinical decision making in social work has focused on various areas over the years, such as diagnosis, treatment planning, crisis intervention, and evidence-based practice. Major concerns over accountability and legal liability...

Removing gender identity disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: a call for action.(COMMENTARY)(Report)
April 1, 2009... In 2012, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) plans to release the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). In July 2007, APA named a 27-member task force to oversee development of the new...