Social Work articles from July 1999

Social Work archives from July 1999

The search for identity: defining social work - past, present, future.
July 1, 1999... The quest for status and identity has occupied center stage within social work since its inception. Its efforts in this regard have been hampered by the breadth of the profession, its relationship to the external sociopolitical and economic...

African American social work pioneers' response to need.
July 1, 1999... African American pioneer social workers of the Progressive Era (1898-1918) were at once concerned about the private troubles of individuals and the larger public issues that affected them. They also were acutely aware of their relationship to...

Indirect work: social work's uncelebrated strength.
July 1, 1999... On the first centenary of professional social work education in the United States, there are several ways of celebrating social work's contribution to society. We can remember the profession's pioneers and praise the advances made in theory and...

Linking clients and policy: social work's distinctive contribution.
July 1, 1999... Social work's unique and distinctive contribution to American life, often expressed as a dual focus on the person and his or her environment, resulted from a specific frame of reference that linked clients and social policy. From the earliest...

Influencing social policy in a time of devolution: upholding social work's great tradition.
July 1, 1999... Since the founding of social work as a profession in 1898, social workers have been urged continually to assume a key role in shaping social welfare policy (Domanski, 1998). In their commitment to working for the betterment of social living and...

A century of forensic social work: bridging the past to the present.
July 1, 1999... Law enforcement and correctional policies have been shaped by the fear that all of_ fenders are dangerous and need lengthy periods of incarceration. The fact is that the overwhelming majority - more than 80 percent - of crime victimizations in...

Reimaging field instruction from a spiritually sensitive perspective: an alternative approach.
July 1, 1999... No longer can we tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher or the teacher offering herself to the student. We see each of the two beings mirroring the other in pure reflection. - Huang & Lynch, 1995, p. 4 As we...

Will the "real' social work please stand up? A call to stand for professional unity.
July 1, 1999... The critical test of social justice must be measured from the point of view of the least among us." The social work profession is unique in permitting us the advantage of seeing that view and hearing those voices, which is both our challenge...