Social Work articles from March 1999

Social Work archives from March 1999

Taking humor seriously.(humor in social work)(Editorial)
March 1, 1999... Reality. What a concept! --Robin Williams Do you laugh when reading Social Work? I don't. Social Work is not a funny publication. In fact, humor is rare in the social work literature. For example, I could not find the word "humor" in the...

Measuring and monitoring children's well-being across the world.
March 1, 1999... An international initiative to measure and monitor the status of children beyond survival is an effort to use tools of the information age to promote understanding of children's life perspectives and an action to improve their condition. An...

Late entry into prenatal care: the neighborhood context.
March 1, 1999... This study investigated individual and neighborhood factors associated with late entry into prenatal care. Data from 220,694 New York City birth certificates were linked with data from the 1990 census and other secondary sources to determine the...

Access barriers and the use of prenatal care by low-income, inner-city women.
March 1, 1999... An important public health agenda in the United States is improving access to prenatal care, particularly for low-income women. The study discussed in this article was designed to determine which social, environmental, and psychological barriers...

Family caregiving responsibilities among lesbians and gay men.
March 1, 1999... This study examines the full range of family care responsibilities among lesbians and gay men, including caring for children and adults with an illness or disability. Thirty-two percent of the gay men and lesbians in this study were providing...

The effects of nonresident father involvement on single black mothers and their young children.
March 1, 1999... Using data from an ongoing study of current and former welfare recipients and their preschool children, the study discussed in this article examined the influence of the presence of nonresident fathers on the well-being and development of 188...

Adoption and race: implementing the Multiethnic Placement Act and the Interethnic Adoption Provisions.
March 1, 1999... Passage of the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 (MEPA) and the 1996 provisions on Removal of Barriers to Interethnic Adoption (Interethnic Adoption Provisions) provides an ideal opportunity to examine what can be done to increase adoptions of...

"Friends in need": designing and implementing a psychoeducational group for school children from drug-involved families.
March 1, 1999... Despite widespread recognition of the risks that parental drug use pose to children, few resources are available to help such children. Using a developmental intervention approach, the authors designed and tested a model curriculum for use with...

Community Practice: THeory and Skills for Social Workers.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Community Practice: Theory and Skills for Social Workers David A. Hardcastle, Stanley Wenocur, and Patricia R. Powers. 1996. New York: Oxford University Press, 464 pp. $36.95 paperback. ISBN 0-19-509352-6. Community Practice attempts to cast...