Social Work articles from July 2003

Social Work archives from July 2003

Chewing on cardboard and other pleasures of knowledge utilization. (Editorial).
July 1, 2003... A recent letter to NASW Press stated that reading Social Work is like "chewing on card board." Despite the obvious negative evaluation, I was delighted to receive this letter. As I indicated in my first editorial, I have two goals as...

A model for interdisciplinary collaboration.
July 1, 2003... Social workers practice in schools, hospitals, psychiatric clinics, juvenile courts, prisons, police departments, and a range of other settings (Abramson & Rosenthal, 1995; Gibelman, 1995). Current practice demands collaboration between social...

Interorganizational relationships among nonprofits in the aftermath of welfare reform.
July 1, 2003... One of the most significant consequences of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 (P. L. 104-193) was its impact on the decades-old partnership between the state and the voluntary sector. It...

Advocating in schools for children with disabilities: what's new with IDEA?(Individuals with Disabilities Education Act )
July 1, 2003... The educational experiences of all children have a significant effect on their overall wellbeing. Social workers who work with families and children are often unaware of the legal protections afforded to children, particularly to children with...

People with cognitive disabilities: the Argument from Marginal Cases and Social Work ethics.
July 1, 2003... "What if an ape had the intelligence and sensibilities of a human, and a human had only the capabilities of an ape? Which would be the human being? The answer is plain; the ape would be the human being" (Fletcher, 1976, p. 62). Beginning...

Social work and the law: a therapeutic jurisprudence perspective.
July 1, 2003... The search for static security--in the law and elsewhere--is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. William O. Douglas (1949)...

Probation foster care as an outcome for children exiting child welfare foster care.
July 1, 2003... Since the 1970s, child welfare policies and programs have focused on providing children and youths in foster care with permanency (Pike, 1976). For the purposes of this article, we are interested in permanency associated with a stable exit from...

From misery to mission: forensic social workers on multidisciplinary mitigation teams.
July 1, 2003... In June 2000 Feltus, age 39, was executed by the state of Louisiana after almost a decade of legal appeals. During his incarceration, social workers took a lead role on a multidisciplinary team that pieced together Feltus's life history and...

What is Catholic about Catholic Charities?
July 1, 2003... Religious belief and expression are common and important components in most cultures and nations in the world, In the United States religious identification and affiliation have been traditional staples of society, and there has been an...

Managing managed care through accreditation standards.
July 1, 2003... The emergence of managed care has significantly influenced the financing and delivery of mental health and health care services. Having survived a long tradition of social and economic policies designed to limit services and contain costs, the...

Finding meaning in medical necessity.
July 1, 2003... More and more of America's employees have health coverage that includes some form of behavioral managed care. Managed care over the past 10 years has resulted in changing patterns of practice. For the most part these changes have been...

Excavating our frames of mind: the key to dialogue and collaboration.
July 1, 2003... Conversations between colleagues who hold divergent views of a case or practice situation often take the form of a win--lose debate in which contenders, arguing from within their respective frameworks, find they are unable to reach mutual...

Open adoption of infants: adoptive parents' feelings seven years later.
July 1, 2003... Traditionally a family was defined as a married heterosexual couple living with their biological children. Today, of course, the definition of family is debated and many different family forms are accepted (Hartman & Laird, 1983). In fact, the...

Enhancing relationships in nursing homes through empowerment. (Practice Update).
July 1, 2003... As our population ages, an increasing need exists for gerontological social workers. An important role for these social workers is to help empower older people and their caregivers (Cox & Parsons, 1994). Within the "top-down" hierarchy of...

When is a mental health clinic not a mental health clinic? Drug trial abuses reach social work. (Commentary).(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... The HOPE Clinic In May 1999 the New York Times published a series about the abuses resulting from drug companies paying private practice doctors to refer patients as experimental subjects (Eichenwald & Kolata, 1999a, 1999b). The series...

Letters.
July 1, 2003... Social Work, Evangelical Christians, and Values In his recent articles "Does Social Work Oppress Evangelical Christians? A 'New Class' Analysis of Society and Social Work" (October 2002) and "Value Differences between Social Workers and...