Journal of Social Work Education articles from January 2004

Journal of Social Work Education archives from January 2004

Field education: exploring the future, expanding the vision.(Guest Editorial)
January 1, 2004... HOW MANY OF YOU remember the name of the professor of your first classroom course in graduate school? How many of you remember the name of your first field instructor? These two questions have been used to begin a training seminar for new field...

The field instructor as group worker: managing trust and competition in group supervision.(Special section: field education in social work)
January 1, 2004... GROUP SUPERVISION has been used for decades in field education in social work. Its proponents claim that it offers many advantages beyond being an efficient teaching method. It provides the opportunity to learn from others through sharing...

An evaluation study of diversity training for field instructors: a collaborative approach to enhancing cultural competence.(Special section: field education in social work)
January 1, 2004... SINCE 1968, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has required schools of social work to achieve cultural diversity in enrollment of students, hiring of faculty, and development of curricula (McMahon & Allen-Meares, 1992). The National...

Anxiety experienced by foundation-year MSW students entering field placement: implication for admissions, curriculum, and field education.(Special section: field education in social work)
January 1, 2004... AS SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS KNOW and research has indicated, foundation-year master's-level (MSW) social work students have significant anxiety about beginning their field placements (Rauch, 1984; Rompf, Royse, & Dhooper, 1993; Royse, Dhooper, &...

Comparisons of moral reasoning levels between battered and non-battered women.(Special section: domestic violence and social work education)
January 1, 2004... VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN is a major social problem that requires well-informed, empirically grounded policy and practice responses. The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice (1998) indicates that approximately 1 million...

Evidence-based practice and the borders of data in the global information era.(Special section: domestic violence and social work education)
January 1, 2004... DURING THE 1990S, an estimated 2 million articles were published annually in more than 20,000 biomedical journals (Mulrow & Lohr, 2001). The number of articles published for social work was far fewer; yet, time pressures were listed by 98.3% of...

Implementing standardized client education in a combined BSW and MSW program.(Special section: domestic violence and social work education)
January 1, 2004... STANDARDIZED CLIENTS (SCs) are lay persons, such as community members or actors, who are trained to portray clients realistically and in a reproducible fashion so that students can interact with a client who does not vary from encounter to...

Addressing stress with social work students: a controlled evaluation.(Special section: domestic violence and social work education)
January 1, 2004... THE ISSUE OF STRESS AND COPING has received significant attention over the past few decades. This increased attention has lead to a rapid increase in many theoretical, empirical, and applied studies, books for the general public, and...

Classroom assessment and social welfare policy: addressing challenges to teaching and learning.(Special section: domestic violence and social work education)
January 1, 2004... THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE is to show how Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) can minimize three major barriers to student learning in the field of social welfare policy: (1) resistance to learning about social welfare policy due to its...

Evaluation of social work journal quality: citation versus reputation approaches.(Special section: domestic violence and social work education)
January 1, 2004... CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES suggest that between 1978 and 1994, the number of social work journals rose from 10 to 50, an increase of 400% (Cnaan, Caputo, & Shmuely, 1994; Lindsey, 1978). Almost 90 years ago, Flexner (1915) explained the importance...

Books received.
January 1, 2004... Aging Kolb, P. (2003). Caring for Our Elders: Multicultural Experiences With Nursing Home Placement. New York: Columbia University Press. $22.50 (paper). In this work, the author explores the experiences of 75 nursing home residents...

Critical approaches to education for social work practice.(Letter To The editor)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... To the Editor: There is some profit in interpreting Lacasse and Gomory's troubling findings ("Is Graduate Social Work Education Promoting a Critical Approach to Mental Health Practice?" JSWE 39.3, Fall 2003) as conscious professional...