Journal of Social Work Education articles from March 2001

Journal of Social Work Education archives from March 2001

Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards: Do They Work for Clients?(Council on Social Work Education)
March 22, 2001... The Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is now being redrafted (CSWE, 2001).(1) Questions that seem reasonable to ask regarding educational policy and accreditation standards...

LEARNING FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS: A LOOK AT SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT IN RESEARCH.(social work research ethics)
March 22, 2001... SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT or, more positively, appropriate conduct in the realm of research and scientific inquiry, is a topic that has received very little attention in the social work literature. Unfortunately, this is because social workers have...

DUAL RELATIONSHIPS IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: REPORT ON A NATIONAL SURVEY.
March 22, 2001... ALTHOUGH VALUES AND ETHICS have long been of concern in social work education (Pumphrey, 1959), there has been increased attention to this area within the last decade. The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) requires the inclusion of...

MAKING COMPUTER-MEDIATED EDUCATION RESPONSIVE TO THE ACCOMMODATION NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.(social work education)
March 22, 2001... THE ACCOMMODATION NEEDS of students with disabilities has been a subject of concern to social work educators for at least two decades (see Alperin, 1988; Cole & Cain, 1996; Cole, Chirst, & Light, 1995; James & Thomas, 1996; Madden, 1995;...

EVERYONE HAS A SHINING SIDE: COMPUTER-MEDIATED MENTORING IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION.
March 22, 2001... THE HALLMARK OF ANY professional training includes the transmission of a body of specific knowledge, a repertoire of basic skills, and the acceptance of the values of the profession (Valentine, Gandy, & Weinbach, 1986). In social work, an...

FACULTY IN THE MIDDLE: THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY CAREGIVING ON ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION, in its varying institutional forms, has faced many of the same challenges as other organizations in American society. Because social work education has a value-based professional culture and monitors emerging social...

BSW AUTONOMY ISSUES IN COMBINED BSW/MSW PROGRAMS.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... AUTONOMY OF BSW PROGRAMS is a requirement for initial accreditation and reaffirmation. The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Handbook of Accreditation Standards (1994) does not explicitly define autonomy, but states that "the social work...

SOCIAL WORKERS' POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: STRENGTHENING THE POLITICAL CONFIDENCE OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, the rate at which most Americans vote and engage in other political acts has declined (Verba, Schlozman, & Brady, 1995). Earlier studies of members of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) suggest that...

RESEARCH LEARNING ATTRIBUTES OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHOLOGY, AND BUSINESS.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... WHEN SUMMARIZING OBSERVATIONS and reactions to having taught the required research and statistics courses, social work faculty have consistently emphasized students' low levels of preparation, motivation, and achievement (Bogal & Singer, 1981;...

STUDENT DEBATES IN POLICY COURSES: PROMOTING POLICY PRACTICE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ACTIVE LEARNING.
March 22, 2001... SOCIAL WORKERS HAVE a professional responsibility to shape social policy and legislation (National Association of Social Workers, 1996). In recent decades, the concept of policy practice has encouraged social workers to consider the ways in...

THE PROCESS OF FIELD INSTRUCTION: BSW AND MSW STUDENTS' VIEWS OF EFFECTIVE FIELD SUPERVISION.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... THERE IS CONSENSUS among social work educators that more attention must be devoted to examining the processes and outcomes of field instruction, particularly those related to helping students integrate theory with practice (Cuzzi & Holden,...

Critical Thinking and the Web.
March 22, 2001... MORE STUDENTS THAN EVER are turning first to the World Wide Web when conducting research. As you read their papers you become painfully aware that many do not differentiate cyber-treasures from cybertrash. Students tend to approach online...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
March 22, 2001... Children & Families Arcus, S. (2000). Deja Views of an Aging Orphan: Growing Up in the Hebrew National Orphan Home. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris. $25.00 (cloth); $14.40 (paper). This book is a collection of memoirs, essays, news articles,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2001... Point/Counterpoint Fills a Need To the Editor: I want to commend Eileen Gambrill for the unusual and stimulating articles in the Winter 2001 Journal of Social Work Education. I found the scholarship in the Point/Counterpoint section of...