Social Work articles from January 2006

Social Work archives from January 2006

Greetings Social Work colleagues and friends of the profession.(EDITORIAL)
January 1, 2006... It is with great pleasure and a tremendous sense of responsibility that I take on the Social Work editor-in-chief position. I am truly honored and humbled by the trust NASW has placed in me to lead the flagship journal of the profession for the...

Maintaining product-process balance in community antipoverty initiatives.
January 1, 2006... Increasingly, antipoverty interventions have focused their efforts at the community or neighborhood level. Intervening at a community level allows initiatives to target neighborhood market conditions driving the availability of jobs and...

Groups for individuals with traumatic histories: practice considerations for social workers.
January 1, 2006... An impressive, ever-expanding body of empirical and theoretical literature describes the affective, social, behavioral, and physiological consequences of psychological trauma. Treatment approaches designed to minimize, ameliorate, and remediate...

Living with severe mental illness--what families and friends must know: evaluation of a one-day psychoeducation workshop.
January 1, 2006... Deinstitutionalization has shifted responsibility of care into community settings for even individuals with the most serious mental illnesses. Simultaneously, recent government policies have cut funding for intensive psychosocial stabilization...

Developing a parent-professional team leadership model in group work: work with families with children experiencing behavioral and emotional problems.
January 1, 2006... Involving families in the development of appropriate interventions for children with serious emotional disturbances (SED) has been a goal of mental health systems of care models since the early 1980s (Osher, deFur, Nava, Spencer, & Toth-Dennis,...

Help-seeking behaviors and depression among African American adolescent boys.
January 1, 2006... Childhood depression is a serious public health concern for families, schools, social workers, and other mental health practitioners. Annual estimates in the general population indicate that 8.3 percent of adolescents suffer from depression...

Unraveling the link between trauma and male delinquency: the cumulative versus differential risk perspectives.
January 1, 2006... Within the social work, mental health, and criminal justice fields, researchers generally agree that trauma places youths at risk of juvenile delinquency. Proponents of the developmental and cumulative risk theoretical models (Cichetti &...

Ecological factors associated with STD risk behaviors among detained female adolescents.
January 1, 2006... In the United States adolescents exhibit a higher incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) compared with other segments of the population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2002). For example, adolescents, although...

Gendered organizational culture in child protection social work.(PRACTICE UPDATE)
January 1, 2006... This Practice Update summarizes the findings of ethnographic research on child protection work in the United Kingdom. The focus of the research was on the gendered culture of a social work team. The findings have been published in detail...

Male social workers in child and family welfare: new directions for research.(COMMENTARY)
January 1, 2006... Men in social work and, more particularly, in direct child and family welfare practice are in the minority (Christie, 2001), and little has been written and researched about their experiences and their contributions to practice with children...

The role of social work in the childhood obesity epidemic.(COMMENTARY)
January 1, 2006... Childhood obesity is growing at alarming rates in the United States. According to the American Obesity Association (AOA), the prevalence of obese children and adolescents has greatly increased in the past three decades. From 1976 to 1980 the...

Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse. Jeffrey A. Butts and John Roman (Editors). Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2004, 284 pages. ISBN: 0-87766-725-X $29.50 paperback. This book examines the history and current status of...

The Children of Neglect: When No One Cares.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Children of Neglect: When No One Cares. Margaret G. Smith and Rowena Fong. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004, 321 pages. ISBN: 0-415-94658-1 $29.95 paperback. Child maltreatment researchers, practitioners, and policymakers will welcome...

The Role of Law in Social Work Practice and Administration.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Role of Law in Social Work Practice and Administration. Theodore f Stein. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 496 pages. ISBN: 0-231-12648-4 $75.00 hardback. This book shows how the law and the legal system affect social work...

Beyond Multiculturalism in Social Work Practice.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Beyond Multiculturalism in Social Work Practice. KuiHee Song. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 308 pages. ISBN: O- 7618-2969-5 $39.95 paperback. Although the abuse of children in the United States consistently attracts social work...

Improving Social Work.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... I am joining the discussion about improving this journal. All the points made by the editor-in-chief (January, 2005, pp. 5-6) and by the letters (January 2005, pp. 93-94) are valid and should be implemented as well as possible. When I was...

Social Wworkers' Views of the Etiology of Mental Disorders.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... The findings reported in "Social Workers' Views of the Etiology of Mental Disorders" (January 2005) are encouraging. Social workers who embrace the neuropsychiatric revolution and recognize the benefits of psychotropic drugs to alleviate...

Spiritual Lifemaps.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... Regarding "Spiritual Lifemaps" by David R. Hodge in the January 2005 issue (p. 77), is anyone else as horrified as I am about the contents of this article and that NASW chose to publish it? My concerns are (1) There are spiritual traditions and...

Bioterrorism and Smallpox.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... I am writing to advise you that I believe there is an error in the article "Bioterrorism and Smallpox: Policies, Practices, and Implications for Social Work," in the April 2005 issue. Specifically, in Table 1, "Potential Bioterrorism Agents,"...

Role of the Social Worker in the Face of Terrorism.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... As someone who has counseled survivors of terrorist attacks, lived in New York City during September 11, and visited Israel and Palestine during the most recent intifadeh, I found the article "The Role of the Social Worker in the Face of...