Journal of Social Work Education articles from March 2004

Journal of Social Work Education archives from March 2004

Access to higher education: a challenge to social work educators.(FROM THE EDITOR)
March 22, 2004... THERE IS NO DENYING the effect of education on community and national well-being. Mortenson (2000) maintains that "there is no simpler, more direct, or more important determinant of human welfare today than educational attainment" (p. 38). A...

Out in the field: gay and lesbian social work students' experiences in field placement.(SPECIAL SECTION: FIELD EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WORK)
March 22, 2004... ... Because you are trying to figure everything out in your first placement especially. You are trying to figure out the agency, the clients, do all the schoolwork, do all this on top of it. It's not always the first thing you are thinking....

The integrative case analysis model for linking theory and practice.(SPECIAL SECTION: FIELD EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WORK)
March 22, 2004... FIELD EDUCATION PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE in helping students integrate theory with practice in the field. Although many MSW programs conduct integrative field seminars to help achieve the task of integration, there are few explicit models detailing...

Defining culturally competent practice with sexual minorities: implications for social work education and practice.
March 22, 2004... DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS, interest in cultural competence has been growing in the helping professions, especially in social work. The shift toward use of this concept occurred gradually and is the latest iteration related to concern about...

Evaluating an assessment tool for undergraduate social work education: analysis of the baccalaureate educational assessment package.
March 22, 2004... RECENTLY, JOSEPH BURKE (1999) posed a question in the title of an article, "The Assessment Anomaly: If Everyone's Doing It, Why Isn't More Getting Done?" (p. 3). Burke chose to rephrase an earlier observation by Ted Marchese, then...

What do we know about the professional socialization of our students?
March 22, 2004... ONE OF THE PURPOSES of social work education is to "prepare competent and effective professionals" (Council on Social Work Education, 2001, p. 5). To that end, educational professionals must follow prescribed guidelines for infusing the...

Maximizing content on elders with dementia while teaching multicultural diversity.
March 22, 2004... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION PROGRAMS are required by the Council on Social Work Education's Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (2001) to include content on human diversity. While there is some controversy about teaching diversity and...

Teaching social workers about trauma: reducing the risks of vicarious traumatization in the classroom.
March 22, 2004... PREVALENCE RATES OF TRAUMA are reportedly high. In two clinical samples, 81.5% (Davidson & Smith, 1990) and 69% (Norris, 1992) of respondents reported a history of traumatic events. In a non-clinical population, 84% reported at least one...

Partnership for integrated community-based learning: a social work community-campus collaboration.(TEACHING NOTES)
March 22, 2004... A MAJOR CHALLENGE facing contemporary higher education is to enhance its relevance and connection to the pressing issues and problems faced by local communities. Bok (1990) and Votruba (1996) observed that the separation of universities from...

Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in field education supervision.(FIELD NOTES)
March 22, 2004... FIELD EDUCATION IS an essential element of social work education. Field education strengthens students' application of skills and understanding of the knowledge, values, and ethics of the social work profession (Council on Social Work...

Social work education responds to the shortage of persons with both a doctorate and a professional social work degree.(RESEARCH NOTES)
March 22, 2004... THERE IS A RECOGNIZED SHORTAGE of persons who have both a doctorate and a professional degree (BSW or MSW) from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). One of the sources of evidence for this assertion is the...

Evaluating social work journal publication systems.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... To the Editor: The recent article by Sellers, Perry, Mathiesen, and Smith ("Evaluation of Social Work Journal Quality: Citation Versus Reputational Approaches," JSWE, 40(1), Winter 2004, is a welcome addition to the growing literature...

A note to doctoral students: dissertation acknowledgement.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... To the Editor: Dissertations are preserved in a way that, reading them, one doubt's they really deserve. I was quite surprised to learn that this tiny project will be copyrighted, placed on microfiche and become accessible through...