Social Work articles from July 2007

Social Work archives from July 2007

How changes in the Pacific/Asia region are shaping social work education and practice in Hawai'i.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
July 1, 2007... No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein At the February 2007 Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Board of Directors meeting, Dean Kay Hoffman, CSWE president, opened by making...

Forrester Blanchard Washington and his advocacy for African Americans in the new deal.
July 1, 2007... For six months in 1934, before the enactment of the Social Security Act, Forrester Blanchard Washington agitated for social change as director of Negro Work in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and used his reputation and...

Situational approaches to direct practice: origin, decline, and re-emergence.
July 1, 2007... Beginning in the 1890s, major social and economic changes steadily began to affect every aspect of life in the United States. Social workers, social reformers, community activists, and social planners were caught up in waves of speculation and...

Information technology acceptance in the social services sector context: an exploration.
July 1, 2007... More than three decades of research on information technology (IT) acceptance has made this field one of the most established research areas in management information systems (Venkatesh, Morris, Davis, & Davis, 2003). However, little has been...

Borrowing to save: a critique of recent proposals to partially privatize Social Security.
July 1, 2007... Social Security remains one of the United States's most important and successful public programs. Social Security, also referred to here as Old Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASIDI), is important in part because it is so...

Bending gender, ending gender: theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community.
July 1, 2007... This article puts forth a radical argument: Social workers should reject a dichotomous understanding of gender in favor of more accurate and affirming conceptualizations of gender. Best practices with the transgender population requires as...

Re-examining empathy: a relational-feminist point of view.
July 1, 2007... For thousands of years people have been aware of the concept of empathy. In ancient Greece, philosophers expressed their understanding of "empathy" by the word empatheria, which implies an active appreciation of another person's feeling...

Effects of service barriers on health status of older Chinese immigrants in Canada.
July 1, 2007... There are abundant research findings on service barriers in older ethnocultural minority individuals. Although it is generally believed that service barriers create a negative impact on health outcomes, little research is available to examine...

Increasing safety for at-risk adults: screening in-home care providers.(COMMENTARY)
July 1, 2007... Years ago, the director of a program for adults with developmental disabilities asked me to teach a workshop for staff after a male aide molested a wheelchair-bound client in a bathroom. A head nurse at a hospital for frail elders asked for a...

Perspective analysis: McKnight's Careless Society and the strengths-based approach to social work.(COMMENTARY)(John McKnights)
July 1, 2007... John McKnights 1995 The Careless Society is widely used in social work programs. Although it offers instructive reading, it also presents a one-sided view of service provision. This article seeks to provide balance and perspective to McKnight's...

In their words: secondary traumatic stress in social workers responding to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City.(COMMENTARY)
July 1, 2007... The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, traumatized the nation and produced serious mental health issues for many residents of New York City. Social workers and others in the mental health community in the city rallied to help those in...

The importance of revitalizing management education for social workers.(COMMENTARY)
July 1, 2007... For more than three decades, social work educators have recognized the unique challenges of training social work administrators and the limitations of schools of social work in preparing students as administrators (Ezell, Chernesky, & Healy,...