Social Work articles from October 2003

Social Work archives from October 2003

The social work response to violence.(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... "... there's something in the human spirit that yearns for peace. If statesmen and generals can't stop violence, maybe social workers can." Charles Kuralt, 1997 These optimistic words from broadcaster Charles Kuralt, in response to...

Protecting children from chemical exposure: social work and U.S. social welfare policy.
October 1, 2003... Children in the United States are exposed daily to combinations of more than 70,000 to 75,000 chemicals in air, land, water, and food (Mott, 1996). Evidence suggests that those chemicals are instrumental in increasing rates of childhood asthma,...

Impact of trauma work on social work clinicians: empirical findings.
October 1, 2003... A body of research exists on the effect of traumatic events on victims (Briere & Runtz, 1990; Brock & Perry, 1995). However, less attention has been focused on the people indirectly exposed to trauma. As an increasing number of traumatized...

Fighting for child custody when domestic violence is at issue: survey of state laws.
October 1, 2003... Family law judges deciding child custody cases are often faced with difficult choices. Should a judge award joint custody to Jon and Lisa's father who has remarried a woman the children dislike? Should their mother, who has been the stable...

School violence in Israel: findings of a national survey.
October 1, 2003... Exposure to school violence has immediate and long-term negative effects on children (see AAUW, 1993; Astor, Vargas, Pitner, & Meyer, 1999; Jenson & Howard, 1999a; Moran & Jenson, 1999). For a growing number of students the school environment...

After Columbine: how people mourn sudden death.
October 1, 2003... In April of 1999, two students, seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, came to school armed with an assortment of guns and bombs and killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher before committing suicide themselves. While...

Claimsmakers in the child sexual abuse "wars": who are they and what do they want?
October 1, 2003... The world of lived reality and situation-specific meanings that constitute the general object of investigation is thought to be constructed by social actors. That is, particular actors, in particular places, at particular times, fashion meaning...

Stalking: terrorism at our doors--how social workers can help victims fight back.
October 1, 2003... Stalking is a devastating crime that irrevocably changes the lives of its victims. Victims report that they never again feel the same level of security and trust. Exacerbating the effects of stalking is the tendency for courts, law enforcement,...

Strengths and secondary trauma in family violence work.
October 1, 2003... The growing influence of the strengths perspective represents an important shift in the style and substance of social work practice, away from diagnosing problems to assessing and building on client resources and abilities (Saleebey, 1992). The...

Correlates associated with escalation of delinquent behavior in incarcerated youths.
October 1, 2003... The majority of youths in the United States engage in some type of delinquency before advancing to late adolescence or their adult years (Maguin et al., 1995; Williams, Ayers, Van Dorn, & Arthur, in press; Williams & Van Dorn, 1999). Various...

Client violence toward social workers: the role of management in community mental health programs.
October 1, 2003... Fear gripped me. This routine psychotropic medication delivery and in-home assessment visit had gone terribly wrong. The look I saw in my client's eyes indicated to me that he had lost control of himself and that he was...

Using social constructionist thinking in training social workers living and working under threat of political violence.
October 1, 2003... Living under conditions of political violence such as war and terrorism was for years an idiosyncratic local phenomenon. Such concerns were mostly theoretical for the Western world until the events of September 11 made living under conditions...

Dealing with terrorism: what social workers should and can do.(Points & Viewpoints)
October 1, 2003... On September 11, 2001, we saw on television with disbelief the World Trade Center towers crumbled before our eyes. The tragedy shocked us, but it cannot shake our beliefs. As members of an international profession--social work--which has...

Spiritual assessment.(Points & Viewpoints)
October 1, 2003... The appearance of David R. Hodge's (2001) article in Social Work is long overdue and represents a real advance in the profession's openness to discourse on this subject. The absence of such has been conspicuous and baffling, when we consider...

Spiritual assessment.(Letters)
October 1, 2003... David R. Hodge's "Spiritual Assessment: A Re* view of Major Qualitative Methods and a New Framework for Assessing Spirituality" (Social Work, July 2001) is a welcome addition to the literature on social work and spirituality. As the author...

Relevant books received.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2003... Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education. Joanna Mellor and Joann Ivy (Editors). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003, 276 pages. ISBN: 0-7890-2064-5 $59.95 hardback; ISBN: 0-7890-2065-3 $39.95 paperback. Affirmative Gay...