Social Work articles from October 2001

Social Work archives from October 2001

Whose Evidence and for What Purpose?
October 1, 2001... Evidence-based practice (EBP) is one of the predominant new ways of thinking about what social workers should do in their practice and how they should decide to do it. EBP involves using the "best available" evidence, often interpreted to mean...

Everyone Is Still on Welfare: The Role of Redistribution in Social Policy.
October 1, 2001... Most people have an inaccurate assessment of who is "on welfare." Two decades have passed since Social Work published the original version of this article, which applied Titmuss's framework of a three-tiered social welfare system and showed...

Rhetoric and Reality of Work-Based Welfare Reform.
October 1, 2001... The argument presented in this article is that although work is one path toward improved well-being for poor families, a successful and humane social welfare policy must recognize and respond to its limitations. The prowork rhetoric surrounding...

Welfare Reform and "Ineligibles": Issue of Constitutionality and Recent Court Rulings.
October 1, 2001... In 1996 welfare legislation made lawful immigrants, with a few exemptions, categorically ineligible for most forms of public assistance. This legislation has led affected immigrants and their advocacy groups to file lawsuits to challenge the...

Parent-Child Interaction during Foster Care Visits.
October 1, 2001... The case-based research discussed in this article describes the variety of strategies mothers and young children spontaneously used to negotiate the complexities of foster care visiting. Nine mothers and their 24- to 48-month-old children were...

Perceptions of Mission-Critical Organizational Resources: A Survey of Substance Prevention and Treatment Agencies in the Southwest.
October 1, 2001... This article explores administrator and staff perceptions of mission-critical agency capacity in a predominantly Hispanic region that has a high degree of acculturation and elevated use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. The domains explored...

Working with Victims of Persecution: Lessons from Holocaust Survivors.
October 1, 2001... It is estimated that 25 to 30 million people are forced to leave their homes because of human rights violations or threats to their lives. Such massive dislocations at the international level result in significant numbers of diverse, persecuted...

Co-Constructing Cooperation with Mandated Clients.
October 1, 2001... Dominant practice models for social work were originally developed and intended for work with voluntary clients. The professional literature indicates that use of these models with involuntary clients often alienates rather than engages. This...

Letters.
October 1, 2001... Responses to The Diagnostic Strengths Manual? Dennis Saleebey's Commentary, "The Diagnostic Strengths Manual? (Social Work, April 2001, pp. 183-187), speaks to the heart of my work with mentally ill individuals. As a recent MSW graduate and...