Journal of Social Work Education articles from January 2008

Journal of Social Work Education archives from January 2008

The Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education: past and future considerations.(SPECIAL SECTION: THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: GUEST EDITORIAL)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... WE ARE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL to the Council on Social Work Education's Council on Publications; JSWE Editor-in-Chief, Colleen M. Galambos; immediate past Editor-in-Chief Deborah P. Valentine; the JSWE's consulting editors; and the CSWE Council on...

Psychosocial and career mentoring: female African American Social Work Education administrators' experiences.(SPECIAL SECTION: THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION)(Report)
January 1, 2008... MENTORING HAS BEEN espoused as a critical component in advancing the careers of new faculty, especially persons of color and women in academia (Perna & Lerner, 1995). Yet, the limited body of literature available does not reflect mentoring's...

Remembering Barbara Wootton's contribution to social work education.(SPECIAL SECTION: THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION)
January 1, 2008... BARBARA WOOTTON (1897-1988) was a prominent British social scientist with a truly diverse range of academic and research interests. Educated in economics at Cambridge University, Wootton went on to hold several academic positions, including...

Status of women in social work education.(SPECIAL SECTION: THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION)(Report)
January 1, 2008... AS AN INVITED STUDY for this special section that addresses women in social work education, the authors were charged with the task of assessing and reporting on the current status of female faculty within the profession. To place this...

"What about women?" Historical perspectives on the CSWE Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education (women's council).(SPECIAL SECTION: THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION)
January 1, 2008... THE COUNCIL ON THE Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education (WC), a volunteer committee of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), was represented by more than 155 volunteer members from the late 1960s through 2006. As evidenced...

How is qualitative research taught at the master's level?(Report)
January 1, 2008... QUALITATIVE RESEARCH POSES many challenges for educators. The named approaches to qualitative research are numerous and diverse; it is not a single unified tradition, as is probabilistic quantitative research. Differences in epistemologies,...

Postmodernism and spirituality: some pedagogical Implications for teaching content on spirituality.(Report)
January 1, 2008... INTEREST IN INCORPORATING content on spirituality into social work education has increased dramatically, particularly during the past decade (Canda, 2005). This interest is reflected in a number of areas, including specialized courses on...

Developing student knowledge and skills for home-based social work practice.(Report)
January 1, 2008... HOME VISITING HAS A LONG legacy in social work (Beder, 1998; Hancock & Pelton, 1989). Social workers in many practice settings work with clients in their homes as part of a continuing social work trend of serving families in their community...

Combining human diversity and social justice education: a conceptual framework.(Report)
January 1, 2008... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS have a professional responsibility to prepare students who can provide competent services in an increasingly culturally diverse society, and they have additional mandates to prepare students who can promote social and...

Collaboration among social work and journalism students and faculty: an instructional model.(TEACHING NOTES)(Report)
January 1, 2008... THERE IS GENERAL CONSENSUS that social work education programs should develop students' "media consciousness," "media literacy," and/or "media advocacy" skills (Brawley, 1997, p. 448; Lens, 2002, p. 40; Tower, 2000, p. 575). Broadly, this set...

Pre-placement anxiety among foundation-year MSW students: a follow-up study.(FIELD NOTES)(Master of Social Work)(Report)
January 1, 2008... FIELD LEARNING IS A distinctive and important part of social work students' educational process. Field placements bring classroom learning to life, providing students an opportunity to integrate theory and practice and become increasingly...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... To the Editor: The guest editorial written by Kay Hoffman and Alberto Godenzi in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of the Journal of Social Work Education (43.2, pp. 181-185) reflected an admirable desire to pursue unification of the various...

Adoption/race.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Simon, R. J., & Roorda, R. M. (2007). In Their Parents" Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees. New York: Columbia University Press. $24.50 (paper). Simon and Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their...

African American family systems.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Black Families, 4th ed.)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... McAddoo, H. P. (2007). Black Families, 4th Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. $46.95 (paper). Following the success of its best-selling predecessors, the Fourth Edition of Harriette Pipes McAdoo's Black Families retains several...

Alcohol abuse.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Familial Responses to Alcohol Problems)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Fischer, J. L., Mulsow, M., & Korinek, A. W. (Eds.). (2007). Familial Responses to Alcohol Problems. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. $25.00 (paper). An individual's alcohol abuse can devastate the rest of his or her family in various ways....

Caregiving/kinship care.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Wilson, R. G., & Crewe, S. E. (Eds.). (2007). Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. $32.00 (paper). Kinship care is part tradition and part social welfare policy. This book examines the balance of the...

Caregiving/LGBT issues.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Caregiving With Pride)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I. (Ed.). (2007). Caregiving With Pride. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. $39.00 (paper). It is more common now than ever before for partners, family members, and friends to provide informal care, yet caregiving in the...

Course-Based Action.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Pedagogies of Praxis: Course-Based Action Research in the Social Sciences)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Hofman, N. G., & Rosing, H. (Eds.). (2007). Pedagogies of Praxis: Course-Based Action Research in the Social Sciences. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company. $37.95 (cloth). This book is about building public interest partnerships between...

Disability/illness.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(The Psychological and Social Impact of Illness and Disability, 5th Edition)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Dell Orto, A. E., & Power, P. W. (Eds.). (2007). The Psychological and Social Impact of Illness and Disability, 5th Edition. New York: Springer Publishing Company. $85.00 (cloth). The newest edition of The Psychological and Social Impact of...

Gender issues.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(What is Gender?: Sociological Approaches)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Holmes, M. (2007). What is Gender? Sociological Approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. $39.95 (paper). Is gender something done to us by society, or something we do? What is the relationship between gender and other inequalities?...

Human rights.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Reichert, E. (Ed.). (2007). Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective. New York: Columbia University Press. $34.50 (paper). By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better...

International disciplines/community development.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Interdisciplinary Community Development: International Perspectives)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Butterfield, A. E. J., & Korazim-Korosy, Y. (Eds.). (2007). Interdisciplinary Community Development: International Perspectives. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. $45.00 (paper). Workers from various diverse disciplines such as geography, public...

LGBT issues.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Hunter, S. (2007). Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. $24.95 (paper). LGBT persons face multiple challenges when entering the coming out process, regardless of age or place in society....

Sexual abuse/creative therapies.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(The Use of the Creative Therapies With Sexual Abuse Survivors)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Brooke, S. L. (2007). The Use of the Creative Therapies With Sexual Abuse Survivors. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas. $74.95 (cloth). This book is a useful reference for anyone seeking to provide therapy to survivors of sexual abuse. The...

Social development.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Mohan, B. (2007). Fallacies of Development: Crises of Human and Social Development. New Delhi, India: Atlantic Publishers. $11.54 (cloth). This book critiques the contemporary approach to social development. It offers a hermeneutical...

Social practice/social policy.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Reinventing Social Work: Reflections on the Metaphysics of Social Practice)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Mohan, B. (2007). Reinventing Social Work: Reflections on the Metaphysics of Social Practice. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press. $109.95 (cloth). The main purpose of this book is to educate both faculty and students about the nature and...

Statistics/quantitative analysis.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services With exercises and instructions for SPSS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Faherty, V. E. (2008). Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With exercises and instructions for SPSS). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. $44.95 (paper). This book is an attempt to "demythologize"...

Therapist-client relationships/communication.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Knapp, H. (2007). Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. $39.95 (paper). Written in a clear and concise style, this jargon-free text provides student clinicians with the practice...

Trauma.(BOOKS RECEIVED)(Trauma Transformed: An Empowerment Response)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Bussey, M., & Wise, J. B. (Eds.). (2007). Trauma Transformed: An Empowerment Response. New York: Columbia University Press. $34.50 (paper). Whether it's physical, psychological, social, historical, or ongoing, trauma is a universal...