Social Work articles from January 1998

Social Work archives from January 1998

Patterns, predictors, and situational contexts of HIV risk behaviors among homeless men and women.
January 1, 1998... An estimated 250,000 to 3 million Americans are homeless at any given time, and a significant number of homeless people regularly live on the streets because they lack stable shelter (Robertson & Greenblatt, 1992). For many years, an extensive...

Women at midlife. (success in midlife transformation)
January 1, 1998... With the exceptions of investigations of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT), menopause, the "empty nest," and other topics related to a woman's fertility or care of others, women's midlife aging experience has been understudied. The major studies...

Corporate strategic philanthropy: implications for social work.
January 1, 1998... Corporate charitable giving in 1994 totaled close to $6.9 billion (Murawski, 1996). However, according to research by the Conference Board, corporate contributions to health and human services as a percentage of total corporate philanthropy has...

Social workers' knowledge of and experience with sexual exploitation by psychotherapist.
January 1, 1998... Sexual contact with patients by those who are providing treatment is a problem that has long been identified as a concern. The Hippocratic Oath, which is more than 2,000 years old, "admonishes medical practitioners to refrain from the seduction...

Teenage peer sexual harassment: implications for social work practice in education.
January 1, 1998... Peer sexual harassment is a problem for both girls and boys in the educational environment, and the effects from this experience can affect students' lives negatively past high school. Many students report school performance difficulties as a...

Balancing the educational needs of students with school-based or school-linked services. (response to Cynthia Franklin and Calvin L. Streeter, Social Work, vol. 40, p. 773, Nov 1995)
January 1, 1998... Since their inception, public schools have striven to prepare the next generation for higher education and adulthood. Curricula reflect the academic challenges and social problems of the times. Many programs have been developed in schools to...

School-linked services as interprofessional collaboration in student education. (response to article by William Lee in this issue, p. 65)
January 1, 1998... William Lee wrote a thoughtful response to our article "School Reform: Linking Public Schools with Human Services" (November 1995, pp. 773-782). We are pleased Lee found the article of interest and thought it worthy of his time to develop a...

A response to "Social Work Professional Standards." (response to Siri Jayaratne, Tom A. Croxton and Debra Mattison, Social Work, vol. 42, p. 187, 1997)
January 1, 1998... I admire the intent and effort displayed by Jayaratne, Croxton, and Mattison (1997) for presenting research in such a potentially contentious area. In addition, I respect their presentation as merely exploratory and their identification of the...

In response to Brenda J. Duncan. (response to article in this issue, p. 70)
January 1, 1998... We have read Brenda J. Duncan's response to our article "Social Work Professional Standards: An Exploratory Study" (January 1997, pp. 187-199) with both interest and incredulity. The matter of context for the behaviors and beliefs we surveyed is...

The right to effective treatment and the effective treatment of rights: rhetorical empiricism and the politics of research. (response to L.L. Myers and B.A. Thyer, Social Work, vol. 42, p. 288, 1997)
January 1, 1998... Progress is the "grand narrative" of Modernism (for example, Gergen, 1991). According to one version of its story, systematic, empirical investigations and technological advances - the representative expressions of Western science - will lead to...

Who is to define effective treatment for social work clients? (response to L.L. Myers and B.A. Thyer, Social Work, vol. 42, p. 288, 1997)
January 1, 1998... Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flangrantior est. - Tacitus Myers and Thyer (1997) argue that social work clients should have the right to "effective" treatment and assert that the NASW Code of Ethics (NASW, 1996) should be amended to...

Supporting the client's right to effective treatment: touching a raw nerve? (response to article by Saul Raw in this issue, p. 81)
January 1, 1998... Saul Raw has prepared a thoughtful response to our earlier article (Myers & Thyer, 1997), in which we argued that social workers should have an ethical obligation to provide clients with empirically supported treatments in situations where these...

Homesteading in New York City, 1978-1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida.
January 1, 1998... With governments facing increasing pressures to privatize and commodify virtually every aspect of their services, social workers engaged in community practice need a sophisticated understanding of practical alternatives to market capitalism....

In a Day's Work: Four Child Welfare Workers in California.
January 1, 1998... In a Day's Work provides those interested in the field of child welfare with a realistic picture of its challenges and rewards. Although media hype and demagoguery make it difficult to get a sense of what child welfare social workers actually do,...