Social Work articles from October 2004

Social Work archives from October 2004

Social work readers describe "useful knowledge".(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... Four times each year the journal Social Work arrives in the mail of the 150,000 members of NASW, concrete evidence of the commitment of our profession to the development and dissemination of knowledge. As social workers, we understand that our...

Comprehensive community initiatives: a rural perspective.
October 1, 2004... Over the past 20 years, comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) have re-emerged as a development strategy for disadvantaged communities throughout the United States. The CCI strategy uses coalitions of public and private agencies, religious...

A study of community guides: lessons for professionals practicing with and in communities.
October 1, 2004... Social workers appreciate the knowledge local populations have to solve local problems, but theory and models of practice are often generated in settings outside the communities in which they are used. An emerging postmodern critique of how...

Privatized management in urban public housing: a comparative analysis of social service availability, utilization, and satisfaction.
October 1, 2004... Privatizing state, local, and federal services has been a tradition in the United States for many years (Hayes, 1994). Privatization occurs when government sectors transfer partial or full responsibility for a variety of public services to the...

A user-friendly approach to program evaluation and effective community interventions for families at risk of homelessness.
October 1, 2004... Practitioners who administer social programs seek usable knowledge from academic researchers that encompasses the critical issues of the times and the problem of hands-on management (Schuman & Abramson, 2000). Practitioners in small nonprofit...

The Kosovo family support project: offering psychosocial support for families with missing persons.
October 1, 2004... This article presents a case that illustrates the vital role that social workers and other mental health and public health workers provided to support families following the 1999 conflict between Serb forces and Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo. A...

Guidelines for ethical practice in community organization.
October 1, 2004... Community organizers often encounter ethical dilemmas in practice. Most organizers engage on a regular basis with community residents, constituency groups, local institutions, and government decision makers. Consequently, most practice...

Innovations in the management of child protection workers: building worker resilience.(Practice Update)(Column)
October 1, 2004... Taking children away from their parents is risky business. Child protective services (CPS) workers are charged with monumental tasks and ever-increasing caseloads. As a countywide CPS supervisor in New Mexico, I shared the pain of one...

Social work misconduct may lead to liability.(Practice Update)
October 1, 2004... "It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of its citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals" (President Abraham Lincoln, First speech to Congress, 1861). In a recent...

Relevant books received.
October 1, 2004... America's Quiet Unknown Heroes. Marlene E. Coach. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 212 pages. ISBN: 0-7618-2753-6 $45.00 paperback. Changing Welfare Services: Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs. Michael J. Austin...