Social Work articles from January 2005

Social Work archives from January 2005

Six steps to stronger journal publication in social work.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... The context of professional and academic journal publication has changed dramatically and become increasingly competitive in social work in recent years. The number of new journals has increased; many publishers have launched online journals...

Supported education for adults with psychiatric disabilities: an innovation for social work and psychosocial rehabilitation practice.
January 1, 2005... The value of education is so key. We must embrace learning as the path to true empowerment and effective personal and systems change. --Paolo del Vecchio, 2001, p. 9 Dual policies of deinstitutionalization and community-based mental...

Promoting participation in organizational decision making by clients with severe mental illness.
January 1, 2005... People with severe mental illness (SMI) traditionally have been perceived by themselves and others as powerless (Carling, 1995; Williams, 1995). This perception occurred in part as a result of the provision of psychiatric treatment in large...

Place first, then train: an alternative to the medical model of psychiatric rehabilitation.
January 1, 2005... There are two overarching goals to psychiatric rehabilitation: Help people with disabilities achieve (1) work and (2) independent living goals in the real world. Over the past 30 years, two paradigms emerged to guide rehabilitation...

Social workers' views of the etiology of mental disorders: results of a national study.
January 1, 2005... In the past decade it has become even more important for clinical social workers to demonstrate their practice effectiveness. Evidence-based practice uses data in the professional literature to guide assessments and interventions that...

Evidence-based drug treatment practice and the child welfare system: the example of methadone.
January 1, 2005... The substance abuse field has identified a range of evidence-based substance abuse treatment approaches. Evidence-based approaches are those that have been shown, through carefully controlled and replicated research, to be efficacious or...

Help seeking for AOD misuse among social workers: patterns, barriers, and implications.(alcohol and other drugs)
January 1, 2005... Misuse of alcohol and other drugs (AODs) is a public health issue, at great personal cost to individuals and their families and at great financial cost to businesses and the general public. In 2001, 7.3 percent of the U.S. population (ages 12...

Spiritual life maps: a client-centered pictorial instrument for spiritual assessment, planning, and intervention.
January 1, 2005... As Thayne (1998) observed, consumers' spiritual cosmologies can be a powerful resource in helping consumers deal with life's challenges. Indeed, major reviews on spirituality and religion have found a generally positive association between...

Ms. Palmer on Second Street.(storytelling)
January 1, 2005... In the community surrounding Second Street, slightly more than 58 percent of the households are headed by women, 32 percent of all the residents live in poverty, and almost 70 percent of the residents are people of color (U.S. Census Bureau,...

Improving social work.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... I read the editorial in Social Work (October 2003 issue) with a great deal of interest. A couple of things in the editorial really struck me as important to think about in how we as a profession teach other social workers. First, I can...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2005... In the April 2004 issue of Social Work, in the article by A. Westerfelt entitled "A Qualitative Investigation of Adherences Issues for Men Who Are HIV Positive," the author's blurb should have contained the following statement: Some information...