Journal of Social Work Education articles from March 2002

Journal of Social Work Education archives from March 2002

Encouraging transparency. (From The Editor).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Knowledge that may contribute to making well-reasoned decisions differs in how accessible it is to different groups. Faculty in professional schools occupy a key role as gatekeepers regarding what knowledge is shared with students and what is...

Research on the drug treatment of schizophrenia: a critical appraisal and implications for social work education.
March 22, 2002... SCHIZOPHRENIA IS CONSIDERED the epitome of severe and persistent mental disorder and remains the focus of considerable research activity, mostly about its psychopharmacological treatment. The introduction of neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs in...

Multicultural content and class participation: do students self-censor?
March 22, 2002... AS PART OF THE Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) mandate that programs incorporate content on social and economic justice, diversity, and populations at risk into the curriculum (CSWE, 1992), social work educators have sought ways to...

Mutual aid in the classroom: an instructional technology application.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS have described the traditional classroom as a mutual aid system where the teacher's role is to mediate interactions between learners and the course material (Shulman, 1970). This depiction places an emphasis on the way...

Assessing beginning social work and counseling student's acceptance of lesbians and gay men.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... NEGATIVE ATTITUDES toward gay men and lesbians have been expressed by the American public throughout its history (Katz, 1976). Nationwide probability samples of American adults surveyed between 1970 and 1984 consistently found that...

Defining and conceptualizing social work enterpreneurship.
March 22, 2002... THE 1992 CURRICULUM POLICY STATEMENT encourages schools of social work to respond to needs and trends that will help social workers develop cutting-edge interventions for social problems (Council on Social Work Education, 1992). Social work...

Disclosure of student status to clients: where do MSW programs stand?
March 22, 2002... THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES how master's level programs in social work manage the issue of disclosure of student status to clients in fieldwork. Directors of fieldwork were surveyed to determine their school's current policies and practices...

Perceptions of new social work faculty about mentoring experiences.
March 22, 2002... THE START OF A NEW faculty member's academic career is filled with questions, especially concerning how one learns to survive and succeed in the new setting, and whether teaching, research, and service activities can be learned through some...

Books received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... Children and Families Greenspan, S. (2001). The Four-Thirds Solution: Solving the Childcare Crisis in America Today. Cambridge, MA: Perseus. $26.00 (cloth). At present, approximately half of the 21 million preschool aged children in...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2002... Some data on faculty publication rates at two programs of social work were wrongly reported in the article "Results of the Doctoral Faculty Publication Project: Journal Article Productivity and Its Correlates in the 1990s," by Green, Baskind,...

Examining CSWE accreditation policy. (Letters To The Editor).
March 22, 2002... To the Editor: We would like to contribute to the dialogue on accreditation that began in the Journal (Spring/Summer 2001) with Gambrill's editorial, "Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards: Do they work for clients?" At its June...

Questioning multiculturalism. (Letters To The Editor).
March 22, 2002... To the Editor: The invited article titled "A human-centric alternative to diversity and multicultural education" by Yehudi O. Webster (JSWE, Winter 2002) is a welcome addition to the social work literature by a sociologist. The author...

Faculty Publication Project. (Letters To The Editor).
March 22, 2002... To the Editor: While Green, Baskind, and Bellin's analysis of the publication productivity of doctoral faculty ("Results of the Doctoral Faculty Publication Project: Journal Article Productivity and Its Correlates in the 1990s," JSWE,...