Social Work articles from July 2005

Social Work archives from July 2005

Social work: help starts here.(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... Enrique's story is familiar. At age 6, his parents appeared not to be able to care for him and his siblings, and he was pulled from his family home. In his youth, he moved from foster home to foster home, spending his high school years in a...

NASW Press policy on ethical behavior.(National Association of Social Workers )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The NASW Press expects authors to adhere to ethical standards for scholarship as articulated in the NASW Code of Ethics and Writing for the NASW Press: Information for Authors. These standards include actions such as * taking...

Faith-based human services initiatives: considerations for social work practice and theory.
July 1, 2005... The U.S. culture of social services delivery is shifting to accommodate charitable choice provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193) and more recent faith-based initiatives. In...

Epistemological frameworks, homosexuality, and religion: how people of faith understand the intersection between homosexuality and religion.
July 1, 2005... The intersection between homosexuality and religion has been the topic of some debate in social work discourse (Berkman & Zinberg, 1997; Cornett, 1992; Jones, 1996; Parr, 1996; Van Soest, Canon, & Grant, 2000). Van Soest (1996) suggested that...

Altering state policy: interest group effectiveness among state-level advocacy groups.
July 1, 2005... Social welfare policy making at the state level has become more important in recent years. Devolution of important decisions from the national to the state level has occurred in many social programs (for example, Temporary Assistance to Needy...

Advocacy and argumentation in the public arena: a guide for social workers.
July 1, 2005... The estate tax suddenly appears in newspaper stories as the "death tax." School vouchers are renamed "scholarships." Through a simple change in wording, public debates about social problems take a different turn. Issues get reframed and...

"Leavers" from TANF and AFDC: how do they fare economically?(temporary assistance for needy families)(aid to families with dependent children)
July 1, 2005... Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) was enacted as a part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) (P.L. 104-193) and is a drastic departure from the Job Opportunity and Basic Skills...

Informing state policymakers: opportunities for social workers.
July 1, 2005... Where do state policymakers go for information and what are the implications for social work? For years, community groups, foundations, and researchers have been looking for avenues to get relevant information to legislators. Similarly, social...

Resolving the dilemma between organizing and services: Los Angeles ACORN's welfare advocacy.(Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
July 1, 2005... The issue of providing individual services historically has been a major dilemma for social action, Alinsky-style community organizations (COs). The literature is replete with examples of confrontational COs that lost their militant edge and...

The Americans with Disabilities Act: a decision tree for social services administrators.
July 1, 2005... The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (P.L. 101-336) has affected virtually every administrator in the social work field. Moreover, unlike in other professions or businesses, social workers may not only approach the ADA from the...

Faith-based versus fact-based social policy: the case of teenage pregnancy prevention.(COMMENTARY)
July 1, 2005... The Clinton administration's 1996 welfare reform legislation (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act [PRWORA], P.L. 104-193) contained a "charitable choice" clause, a provision that encourages states to increase the...

HIPAA the health care hippo: despite the rhetoric, is privacy still an issue?(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
July 1, 2005... Patients have long been concerned about the privacy of their health care information. "How private is private'?" is a question that echoes through the minds of patients every time they receive a stigmatizing diagnosis such as cancer, a sexually...