Journal of Social Work Education articles from March 2000

Journal of Social Work Education archives from March 2000

Developing New Skills for Community Practice in an Era of Policy Devolution.
March 22, 2000... The passage of federal welfare reform in 1996 was a dramatic and controversial change in U.S. social welfare policy. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act eliminated the guarantee of minimal cash assistance to poor...

SHOULD LICENSURE BE REQUIRED FOR FACULTY WHO TEACH DIRECT PRACTICE COURSES? YES!
March 22, 2000... At present the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accreditation standards for MSW programs stipulate that "faculty who teach required practice classes or direct the field practicum must hold credentials that include a master's degree in...

SHOULD LICENSURE BE REQUIRED FOR FACULTY WHO TEACH DIRECT PRACTICE COURSES? NO!
March 22, 2000... The enactment of a standard requiring licensure for teachers of practice courses would be impractical and unfair. It would be redundant since adequate measures of academic accountability are already in place, and unnecessary since teaching is...

THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL WORK IN THE UNITED STATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR FIELD EDUCATION.
March 22, 2000... IN THE UNITED STATES, schools of social work, in collaboration with social service agencies, have played a critical role in shaping the character of social welfare and the social work profession for the past century. They have helped define the...

AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR SOCIAL WORK?
March 22, 2000... A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; [for want of a rider the battle was lost; and for want of a victory,...

HARDINESS AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING AMONG SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION.
March 22, 2000... THE STRESSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION have been well documented. Social work, like other disciplines, has its own stresses (Kramer, Matthew, & Endias, 1987; Munson, 1984; Patchner, 1983). The entire educational experience is fraught with role...

ETHICAL VULNERABILITY IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF NASW COMPLAINTS.
March 22, 2000... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION is rife with the potential for ethical conflicts. As faculty carry out their instructional, evaluative, and gatekeeping responsibilities, challenges can arise around fairness, clear expectations, confidentiality,...

THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND SOCIAL POLICY TRAINING IN SOUTH AFRICA.
March 22, 2000... THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND (Wits) School of Social Work in South Africa does not offer a core course on social policy or social analysis. During the years of apartheid it was not offered at all, because social policy was perceived as...

REVISITING MULTICULTURALISM IN SOCIAL WORK.
March 22, 2000... CREATED OUT OF CONTROVERSIAL developments in both K-12 and higher education circles, sometimes labeled the "culture wars," multiculturalism has become a popular overarching concept in social work education for the study of human diversity and...

TEACHING BEYOND THE DEFICIT MODEL: GAY AND LESBIAN ISSUES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS, LATINOS, AND ASIAN AMERICANS.
March 22, 2000... PREVIOUS STUDIES OF GAY AND LESBIAN identity development focused mainly on the experiences of European Americans. Recently, attention has been given to the effects of race or ethnicity on this development process (Cox & Gallois, 1996; Fassinger...

QUALITY AND COMPARABILITY IN DISTANCE FIELD EDUCATION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM COMPARING THREE PROGRAM SITES.
March 22, 2000... THE NEED FOR AND ACCEPTANCE OF distance education programs in graduate social work are well represented in the literature (Black, 1997; Blakely, 1992, 1994; Cochrane, Sullivan, & Bloom, 1995; Conklin, 1994; Jackson & Nair, 1995; Jennings,...

BRINGING SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION TO THE PRAIRIE.
March 22, 2000... DISTANCE EDUCATION is generally defined as instruction that occurs when teachers and learners are separated from each other. Historically, this involved correspondence study, but more recently it includes the use of technology to deliver...

DESIGNING A FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON TECHNOLOGY: IF YOU BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME?
March 22, 2000... THE IMPORTANCE OF FACULTY SUPPORT and training to the success of any distance education or instructional technology effort has been widely acknowledged in the social work and distance education literature (Beaudoin, 1990; Dillon & Walsh, 1992;...

SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS AND THEIR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: A COMPARISON OF INTERACTIVE TELEVISION, FACE-TO-FACE INSTRUCTION, AND THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM.
March 22, 2000... IN RECENT YEARS, SOCIAL WORK education has felt the impact of changes in telecommunications technology. These developments have expanded the educational delivery methods available to social work educators. Raymond and Pike (1997) write: ...

GROUP WORK IN FOUNDATION GENERALIST EDUCATION: THE NECESSITY FOR CURRICULUM CHANGE.
March 22, 2000... A COLLABORATION between the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) and the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (AASWG) began in 1994, in recognition of the need to learn more about the state of group work education in...

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: TWO CASE STUDIES.
March 22, 2000... AT A TIME WHEN the student population in many colleges and universities is becoming more diverse, social workers are challenged to consider the possibilities of practice in these settings. While useful models of practice have been identified...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
March 22, 2000... Children & Families Boyd-Franklin, N., & Bry, B. H. (2000). Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions. New York: Guilford. $30.00 (cloth). This book is aimed at family practitioners of all kinds,...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
March 22, 2000... Publication Productivity at Doctoral Programs To the Editor: On behalf of the highly productive faculty of the Boston University School of Social Work, I would like to register concerns about the article "The Middle Years of the...