Social Work articles from January 2000

Social Work archives from January 2000

Taking Social Work into the New Millennium.
January 1, 2000... Welcome to the new millennium! I hope the fact that you are reading this editorial (by electric light?) means that Y2K doomsday predictions did not befall you. Of personal significance for me is that with this issue I pass the halfway point of...

Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women Who Stay: Toward a Constructivist Model.
January 1, 2000... This article examines the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women who stay, constructed in the professional...

Women and Human Services Giving.
January 1, 2000... The first decades of the new century are expected to witness a dramatic increase in charitable giving. And women will be more influential than ever before in determining the beneficiaries of this giving. The purpose of the research reported in...

Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy: A Review of Programs and Practices.
January 1, 2000... This article reviews literature on the programs and practices available for the primary prevention of adolescent pregnancy. Using the outcomes from research studies, the review defines some of the "best practices" available for the purpose of...

Understanding Suicide Attempts by Adolescent Hispanic Females.
January 1, 2000... This article presents integrative model to aid clinicians in understanding suicide attempts by adolescent Hispanic females. On the basis of knowledge accumulated through clinical and research experience, the model describes a convergence of...

Tax Reform for Low-Wage Workers.
January 1, 2000... As a result of the recent implementation of work-oriented antipoverty programs, more welfare recipients can be expected to be working in low-wage jobs. With these jobs there is little hope that these workers' incomes will rise above the poverty...

Mental Health Services in Faith Communities: The Role of Clergy in Black Churches.
January 1, 2000... A small but growing literature recognizes the varied roles that clergy play in identifying and addressing mental health needs in their congregations. Although the role of the clergy in mental health services delivery has not been studied...

Social Work and Speciesism.
January 1, 2000... Jane Addams (1940) perhaps the most prominent of the founders of modern social work, describing the impetus to dedicate herself to the welfare of others and develop Hull House, wrote, "We had been to see a bull fight rendered in the most...

Letters.
January 1, 2000... Native Americans How refreshing to open the May 1998 journal and find Weaver's article, "Indigenous People in a Multicultural Society: Unique Issues for Human Services" (pp. 203-211). The title seemed to promise an in-depth analysis of the...