Journal of Social Work Education articles from January 1 2009

Journal of Social Work Education archives from January 1 2009

A dialogue on the economic decline and higher education.(Editorial)
January 1, 2009... MY PONDERINGS ABOUT this topic began one evening during a discussion of age cohort effects in a Helping Strategies with Older Adults class. We were discussing the fact that events such as wars, technological advances, and economic depressions...

Breaking the silence: sexual orientation in social work field education.(Report)
January 1, 2009... FIELD EDUCATION, MORE SO than any other component of the social work curriculum, challenges students to integrate professional knowledge, values, and skills into their personal identity and sense of self. This multifaceted integration is...

Metaphors and the pejorative framing of marginalized groups: implications for social work education.(Essay)
January 1, 2009... THE FOLLOWING QUOTE appeared in a 1993 National Review article on the topic of welfare reform: Work requirements are catnip for social workers; they see counseling galore in the educational programs and training seminars...

Construction and validation of a professional suitability scale for social work practice.(Survey)
January 1, 2009... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS are responsible for assessing and screening students' professional suitability to practice social work. Professional suitability is defined as good understanding of social work knowledge, skills, and values and the...

Picky, picky, picky: ranking graduate schools of social work by student selectivity.
January 1, 2009... AMERICANS ARE UNDENIABLY fascinated by ranking. We seem to rank everything. Some rankings are trivial (e.g., the best-dressed or richest person); some merely note successful marketing (e.g., the best-selling car, bar of soap, or book). Other...

Targeted mentoring: evaluation of a program.(Report)
January 1, 2009... MENTORING, OR THE PROCESS of matching persons who have particular experience with persons with less experience, has been a topic of study since the late 1970s with the publication of texts such as Levinson's The Seasons of a Man's Life (1978)...

Idealism, altruism, career orientation, and emotional exhaustion among social work undergraduates.(Report)
January 1, 2009... THE ISSUE OF PROFESSIONAL burnout has received increasing attention over the past few decades. This increased attention is pertinent to the high cost that burnout is believed to have for organizations, service users and human service...

Can you call it racism? An educational case study and role-play approach.(TEACHING NOTE)(Report)
January 1, 2009... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION has long struggled to acknowledge cultural diversity and identify teaching methods to prepare students to work effectively with diverse populations (Council on Social Work Education, 2001). Garcia and Van Soest (2006)...

A preliminary look at international students in MSW field placements at nonurban U.S. campuses.(FIELD NOTE)(Masters in Social Work)(Report)
January 1, 2009... THERE HAS BEEN AN increased emphasis in social work education on the importance of incorporating an international context (Panos, Pettys, Cox, & Jones-Hart, 2004). Despite the growing awareness of the importance of a global perspective in...

New approaches to generalist field education.(FIELD NOTE)
January 1, 2009... FIELD WORK has been a central element in social work education from its inception. One of the key goals of field education is to enable students to apply the theories and skills they have learned in the classroom to agency practice and to use...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2009... To the Editor: I am pleased with your call to the profession to enlarge the discussion of social justice and the questions you pose for systematic inquiry [Dialogue on Social Justice, Journal of Social work Education, 44(2) 1-5]. My own...

Erratum.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2009... A spelling error was made in the article "Toward Improvement of Scholarly Publications: The Journal of Social Work Education Advances" in the Fall 2008 issue (vol. 44, pp. 3-6) of this journal. On pages 3 and 6, Shilling should be Schilling. We...