Social Work articles from September 1998

Social Work archives from September 1998

Mirror, mirror on the wall: creative tensions, the academy, and the field. (relationship tension between social work academics and social work practitioners)
September 1, 1998... Universities and communities have rediscovered each other. As social problems continue unabated, communities have been asking why their local academic institutions, often supported with tax dollars, seem disinterested in their welfare. Within the...

Applying a conflict resolution framework to disputes in managed care.
September 1, 1998... Conflict is variously defined as a direct disagreement of ideas or interests, a battle or struggle, antagonism or opposition, and incompatibility and interference. Sadly, such terms frequently apply to the delivery of mental health services in...

Perceptions of empathy and client satisfaction with managed behavioral health care.
September 1, 1998... Over the past decade there have been revolutionary changes in the provision of mental health services in the United States. These changes result from numerous factors, most notably the advent and subsequent expansion of the principles of cost...

Outdated practitioner views about family culpability and severe mental disorders.
September 1, 1998... Current theories and research about the etiology and treatment of psychotic disorders increasingly point to the importance of biological factors. Only about two decades ago these disorders were attributed by mental health professionals and the...

Recovered memory therapy: a dubious practice technique.
September 1, 1998... Throughout most of this century, public response to the sexual abuse of children had been to disregard, minimize, or deny allegations of child sexual abuse (Brownmiller, 1975; Finkelhor, 1979; Hechler, 1988). Incest was said to be a very rare...

People matter: client-reported interpersonal interaction and its impact on symptoms of schizophrenia.
September 1, 1998... Schizophrenia is one form of severe mental illness with a lifetime prevalence rate in the United States of about 1.5 percent and an active one-year rate of about 1.0 percent (Robins & Regier, 1991). The illness can negatively affect the...

Associations among economic need, self-esteem, and Israeli Arab women's attitudes toward and use of professional services.
September 1, 1998... The underutilization of professional services by people in need has been explained by a variety of factors, including sociodemographic features such as gender (Feinson, Popper, & Handelsman, 1992; Raviv & Yunovitz, 1989) and age (Weeks & Cuellar,...

A map for you? Geographic information systems in the social services.
September 1, 1998... This article introduces social agency practitioners and administrators to geographic information systems (GIS). To illustrate the application of GIS to the social services, we describe how we used GIS recently to study the supply of child care...

Improving compliance with the initial outpatient session among discharged inpatient dual diagnosis clients.
September 1, 1998... Introduction Although poor compliance with treatment is common across a wide range of mental health, medical, and substance use disorders (Meichenbaum & Turk, 1987), it is particularly high among clients with psychiatric and comorbid substance...

Social workers: unsung heroes.
September 1, 1998... For the past 10 years my elder law practice has brought me into contact with numerous social workers who care for elderly clients. I have marveled at their patience, understanding, and forbearance in very difficult and trying circumstances. I do...

Helping Battered Women: New Perspectives and Remedies.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Albert R. Roberts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 263 pp. $24.00 paperback, ISBN 0-19-509587-1. Social work has failed women. Although an estimated 50 percent of all women will be abused at some point in their lives, few...