Social Work articles from July 2001

Social Work archives from July 2001

Complicating Causes.
July 1, 2001... Causality may be considered as a mode of perception by which we reduce our sense impressions to order. Niels Bohr Jim, a social worker with a state child welfare agency, is interviewing an adolescent male (Chad) who was arrested...

Spiritual Assessment: A Review of Major Qualitative Methods and a New Framework for Assessing Spirituality.
July 1, 2001... This article introduces a new qualitative spiritual assessment instrument. It reviews existing qualitative assessment tools and presents a new multidimensional spiritual assessment framework. The instrument consists of two components: a...

Socialization in Changing Cultural Contexts: A Search for Images of the "Adaptive Adult".
July 1, 2001... In recent years increasing attention has been paid to the significant roles of culture and socialization in child development. The conceptual framework presented in this article is derived from the fields of cross-cultural child development,...

Representation of Ethnic Identity in North American Social Work Literature: A Dossier of the Chinese People.
July 1, 2001... Ethnic and cultural identities of people who are not white in North America are conceived as natural and fixed categories. Such conceptualizations are associated with a tendency to take ethnicity as a client characteristic instead of...

Cultural Competence for Transracial Adoptive Parents.
July 1, 2001... This article provides a clear conceptual definition of cultural competence for transracial--cultural adoptive (TRA) parents based on an extensive review of the literature and feedback from both experts and parents. Following the differentiation...

The Effects of Poverty on Children's Socioemotional Development: An Ecological Systems Analysis.
July 1, 2001... Bronfenbrenner's process-person-context--time model is used to examine theories that explain the adverse effects of economic deprivation on children's socioemotional development. In his model, each of five structures of the ecological...

In-Home Continuing Care Services for Substance-Affected Families: The Bridges Program.
July 1, 2001... Addressing substance abuse in families is an important concern for the social work field. This article presents a preliminary view of a continuing care substance abuse recovery services program designed to assist the substance-affected family....

Strengths-Based Case Management: Individuals' Perspectives on Strengths and the Case Manager Relationship.
July 1, 2001... Strengths-based practice in social work has a strong theoretical foundation as an effective helping strategy that builds on a person's successes. Although there is growing empirical evidence informing outcomes associated with strengths-based...