Social Work articles from January 2002

Social Work archives from January 2002

Reflections and farewell. (Editorial).(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... Stanley L. Witkin This is my last editorial. In fact, by the time you read this, my term will have ended and the new editor-in-chief will have assumed her duties. As with most final editorials, I assumed this would be my opportunity to bid...

Embodied practice: Claiming the body's experience, agency, and knowledge for social work.
January 1, 2002... ********** Although social work practice typically is concerned with physical conditions and experiences such as poverty, addiction, and violence, relatively little attention has been given to the body in professional literature....

Paradigm for pluralism: Mikhail Bakhtin and social work practice.
January 1, 2002... ********** This article explores the work of the literary and cultural theorist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin and acknowledges him as a new voice to social work. In a larger context the authors argue that his ideas can help the...

Empowerment as a dynamically developing concept for practice: Lessons learned from organizational ethnography.
January 1, 2002... ********** This article describes the process of developing an empowerment approach in a comprehensive child development program that defined its mission as empowerment of families living in poverty. This description is derived from a...

Empowering African American custodial grandparents.
January 1, 2002... ********** The increase in grandparent-headed households is receiving much attention as the needs and concerns of these grandparents become more widely known. However, to the extent that services focus on the problems of this population,...

Client or former client? Implications of ex-client definition on social work practice.
January 1, 2002... ********** The study discussed in this article investigated the effect of the variation in individual worker definition of "former client" in relationship to workers' perceptions of appropriate professional behaviors during the provision...

Sexual harassment between same-sex peers: Intersection of mental health, homophobia, and sexual violence in schools.
January 1, 2002... ********** This article provides a historical and legal framework for defining peer sexual harassment from three different perspectives: sex discrimination, mental health, and sexual violence. Major court decisions that define sexual...

Is social work's door open to people recovering from psychiatric disabilities?
January 1, 2002... ********** Social workers are the major providers of mental health services in the United States, yet the profession has been reluctant to include recovering consumers in its ranks. This article contrasts social work's historic focus on...

Knowledge diffusion in social work: A new approach to bridging the gap.
January 1, 2002... ********** The continuing gap between research and practice has long been a problem in social work. A great deal of the empirical practice literature has emphasized practice evaluation (usually in the form of single-case methodologies) at...