Social Work articles from October 2007

Social Work archives from October 2007

Engaging women who are depressed and economically disadvantaged in mental health treatment.
October 1, 2007... Converging evidence suggests that women disadvantaged by poverty or racial and ethnic minority status are more likely to experience depression than the rest of the U.S. population (Bruce, Takeuchi, & Leaf, 1991; Kessler, 2003; Kessler &...

Poverty, race, and the contexts of achievement: examining educational experiences of children in the U.S. South.
October 1, 2007... Race and socioeconomic status gaps in children's academic achievement are a troubling social justice issue, both because of the serious long-term social and economic consequences, and because despite decades of research and efforts at reform,...

Effectiveness of advanced illness care teams for nursing home residents with dementia.
October 1, 2007... This study evaluated the effectiveness of advanced illness care teams (AICTs) for nursing home residents with advanced dementia. The AICTs used a holistic approach that focused on four domains: (1) medical, (2) meaningful activities, (3)...

Social workers' final act of service: respectful burial arrangements for indigent, unclaimed, and unidentified people.
October 1, 2007... Although little discussed in the professional literature, social workers have long been involved in identifying resources and making final arrangements for clients who die without an estate or heirs to assume economic responsibility; who may...

Revisiting the benefits debate: does qualitative social work research produce salubrious effects?
October 1, 2007... A heated debate ensued on the pages of this journal regarding the "fit" of qualitative research and social work practice in response to Gilgun's (1994) famous "hand-in-glove" analogy (Bein & Allen, 1999; Padgett, 1998a, 1999; Pieper & Tyson,...

Students' perceptions of social work: implications for strengthening the image of social work among college students.
October 1, 2007... Currently, NASW is in the midst of an education campaign, with the primary goal of increasing the public's awareness of social work roles and the social work profession (NASW, 2005). This campaign is in direct response to concerns that the...

Child welfare informatics: a new definition for an established practice.
October 1, 2007... Child welfare, one of the most important arenas of social work, has benefited from advances in information technology in the past two decades (Weaver, Moses, Furman, & Lindsey, 2003). This whole discipline of social work can be captured best...

Second thoughts from the front lines.(mental health care)
October 1, 2007... I work on the front lines of a community mental health agency that has been in operation for the past 50 years. We serve a five-county area in east Tennessee. Services are provided to consumers regardless of their ability to pay, a practice...

Learning to hear each others' voice: a response to Melendez and LaSala.
October 1, 2007... It is a pleasure to respond to Melendez and LaSala's (2006) critique of my article "Epistemological Frameworks, Homosexuality, and Religion: How People of Faith Understand the Intersection between Homosexuality and Religion" (Hodge, 2005a)....

Living in the trenches: managerial skills for practitioners.
October 1, 2007... These reflections are a response to a 2005 Social Work article by Mimi Abramovitz that examines the impact of welfare reform on the working lives of frontline workers in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and describes...