Social Work articles from July 2004

Social Work archives from July 2004

Social work organizations working together.(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... The recently released National Institutes of Health Plan for Social Work Research (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003) is evidence of two important trends in the field of social work. One is the growing recognition of the value...

Adolescent substance use: reviewing the effectiveness of prevention strategies.(prevention strategies of drugs usage by adolescents )
July 1, 2004... In the wake of findings pointing to the relatively unabated rates of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) use by adolescents (Barnes, Welte, Hoffman, & Dintcheff, 1997; Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 1994, 1995, 1996), the effectiveness of...

Harm reduction: a new perspective on substance abuse services.
July 1, 2004... Complete abstinence from nonmedical drugs has been the goal of most substance abuse treatment in the United States. Although nonabstinence-based interventions have existed since the inception of substance abuse treatment, the harm reduction...

Motivational strategies with alcohol-involved older adults: implications for social work practice.
July 1, 2004... Alcohol abuse by older adults is a hidden problem, frequently overlooked by professionals, family members, and others (Joseph & Harvath, 1998). Alcohol-related problems among older adults are addressed infrequently in gerontological and...

Methamphetamine abuse and manufacture: the child welfare response.
July 1, 2004... Methamphetamine abuse is on the increase, particularly by females of childbearing age. In California from 1992 to 1998, methamphetamine as a primary drug rose from 11.2 percent to 22.4 percent of all alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment...

Principles for practice with substance-abusing pregnant women: a framework based on the five social work intervention roles.(health care)
July 1, 2004... Traditionally, substance abuse treatment programs are designed for men and are not readily available to women, particularly pregnant women (Blume, 1998; Finkelstein, 1994). Although more programs became available to substance-abusing pregnant...

Health coverage instability for mothers in working families.
July 1, 2004... As women have entered the labor force in large numbers, they increasingly have gained access to the employer-based coverage that dominates the U.S. health care system (Mishel, Bernstein, & Schmitt, 2001). Yet, several studies have shown that...

Justice implications of a proposed Medicare prescription drug policy.(prescription drug coverage and the the concerns raised)
July 1, 2004... Social justice is a core value to the mission of social work. Older people are among the most vulnerable populations for whom social workers are called on to advocate. Although Medicare prescription drug coverage has been a top legislative...

Relationships between social work involvement and hospice outcomes: results of the national hospice social work survey.
July 1, 2004... Over the past two decades the U.S. hospice industry has struggled to provide holistic palliative care to the terminally ill population and their families. The birth of hospice movement occurred in the United States when it became clear that the...

Evaluation of a group intervention to assist aging parents with permanency planning for an adult offspring with special needs.
July 1, 2004... As institutions for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) have been phased out and health care advances have increased survival rates, the percentage of older adults with special needs in the community has climbed dramatically (Hayden &...

Validation of the health care surrogate preferences scale.(health care industry)
July 1, 2004... Advancing medical technology and increasing numbers of incapacitated patients in hospitals and nursing homes have augmented cultural demands to use technology to extend the lives of dying patients (Fletcher, Lombardo, Marshall, & Miller, 1997)....

Increasing the use of formal services by caregivers of people with dementia.(dementia,care and treatment)
July 1, 2004... Four million individuals in the United, States are believed to suffer from Alzheimer s disease and other dementias (AD), and the number of people with dementia is projected to quadruple in 50 years (Brookmeyer, Gray, & Kawas, 1998). The...

Dementia diary: a personal and professional journal.(personal narratives)
July 1, 2004... Mother had aged well until age 84. She had managed the slow and difficult death of her husband from cancer and continued to enjoy her friends, her church, her house, and her neighbors. But she was becoming afraid to drive, her formerly large...

Predictors of child custody plans for children whose parents are living with AIDS in New York City.
July 1, 2004... Worldwide, at least 10 million children have lost either a mother or both parents to AIDS (World Health Organization, 1999). About 125,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS in the United States (Corey, 1999). Consequently, attention is being...

A multidimensional conceptual framework for understanding HIV/AIDS as a chronic long-term illness.
July 1, 2004... Cassandra is a 29-year-old single woman of Asian descent with a history of substance abuse and depression. Five years ago, while hospitalized with pneumonia, she learned that she was HIV positive and that her immune system was already...

The empowerment model: a critical reflection of empowerment in Chinese culture.
July 1, 2004... When I was a boy, my father told me a story about a wise scholar and a foolish slave in the Sung Dynasty in our ancient China: In the Sung Dynasty (about 1,000 A.D.), there was a foolish slave called Tim Choi (in Chinese it...

Surviving as a postmodern social worker: two Ps and three Rs of direct practice.
July 1, 2004... Much has been written that demonstrates the theoretical applicability of postmodernism to social work (Brotman & Pollack, 1997; Chambon & Irving, 1994; Howe, 1994; Leonard, 1995; Pease, 2002; Pease & Fook, 1999). Little of this literature,...

Client-controlled case information: a general system theory perspective.
July 1, 2004... Information technology (IT) use in human services extends over three decades. Schoech (1999), LaMendola (1988), Nurius and Hudson (1988), and others began designing IT applications for the human services in the 1970s. However, little has...

Principled negotiation: a new tool for case advocacy.
July 1, 2004... More than other professions, social work looks outward, drawing from the environment necessary resources for clients. The person-in-environment framework at the core of social work requires practice skills that address that environment. Ethical...

How international is the social work knowledge base?(Commentary)
July 1, 2004... The global community has long been recognized as influencing and being influenced by United States social work education, research, and practice. Schools of social work and social services organizations in many countries as well as the United...

Social workers and the working and middle classes.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Before addressing Hodge's (Januar/2003) concerns, it is necessary to briefly examine the history of our profession's values in this country. This is done to support the idea that social workers' values as a whole have fluctuated between siding...

Do social workers suppress Evangelical Christians?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... I am a graduate student at a private Christian college, one that is part of a socially conservative denomination that David Hodge might very likely count as part of the Evangelical Christian movement. In his October 2002 article Mr. Hodge...

People with Cognitive Disabilities.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... The publication of Gerald O'Brien's article, People with Cognitive Disabilities: The Argument from Marginal Cases and Social Work Ethics" (July 2003), is an important step in helping social workers protect and provide services for some of the...

Parents with Mental Illness.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... I write in response to Ackerson's article "Parents with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness: Issues in Assessment and Services" (April 2003). As a social worker in the field of child welfare, you may find my comments a bit defensive, but I...

Catholic Charities.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... I find it ironic that in the July 2003 issue of Social Work where Margaret McKee challenges us to expand our frames of reference and to learn from diverse voices, Charles Degeneffe, in his otherwise excellent article on the history of Catholic...

National Committee for Quality Assurance.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... In "Managing Managed Care through Accreditation Standards Neuman and Ptak (July 2003) extolled the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in its mission to accredit managed care organizations (MCOs). However, the authors failed to...