Journal of Social Work Education articles from March 2008

Journal of Social Work Education archives from March 2008

A dialogue on social justice.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION is under the watchful eye of the public, and unfortunately it is being attacked for its views and ideals. A particularly significant incident is that of a study released by the National Association of Scholars (NAS)...

Review of multidisciplinary measures of cultural competence for use in social work education.(Report)
March 22, 2008... THIS STUDY EXAMINES extant measures of cultural competence from a wide range of disciplines to find those that appear optimal for measuring the cultural competence of social work students. Shifts in the ethnic composition of American society in...

Re-gendering the social work curriculum: new realities and complexities.(Report)
March 22, 2008... FOR THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, following the second wave of the women's movement, there have been repeated calls to include gender issues in the social work curriculum (Bentley, Valentine, & Haskett, 1999; Council on Social Work Education...

Cultural models of domestic violence: perspectives of social work and anthropology students.(Report)
March 22, 2008... DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A pervasive social problem that can demand attention from a variety of social service providers (see Pyles, 2006; Pyles & Postmus, 2004; Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Social workers who come into contact with families who are...

General and supervision-specific attachment styles: relations to student perceptions of field supervisors.(Report)
March 22, 2008... HISTORICALLY, THE STUDENT-SUPERVISOR relationship has been considered central to social work field education (Kadushin & Harkness, 2002; Munson, 2002; Nye, 2002; Reynolds, 1942; Robinson, 1936; Saari, 1989; Shulman, 1993; Towle, 1954). Research...

Past, present, and future trends in teaching clinical skills through web-based learning environments.(Report)
March 22, 2008... DISTANCE EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WORK, defined as any "formal approach to learning in which the majority of the instruction occurs while the educator and learner are at a distance from one another," has grown significantly due to the use of...

Tenure and promotion decisions: the relative importance of teaching, scholarship, and service.(Report)
March 22, 2008... THE SPECIFIC CRITERIA USED for tenure and promotion decisions are critical to young professionals seeking their first faculty position, continuing faculty members contemplating alternative positions, and students seeking particular emphases in...

MSW Programs: gatekeepers to the field of developmental disabilities.(master of social work)(Report)
March 22, 2008... THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE ROLES of master's of social work programs in developing student practice interests in working with people with developmental disabilities (DD). The findings come from a larger qualitative study (Russo, 2002b). The...

Comparing three modes of instruction in a graduate social work program.(Report)
March 22, 2008... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION faces a number of strategic issues related to the convergence of two major trends in higher education: (a) the expansion in distributed education to meet the needs of a growing population of nontraditional students and (b)...

Revisiting field education standards.(Report)
March 22, 2008... THE SOCIAL WORK LITERATURE has identified the many issues, concerns, and challenges that underlie the social work field education system (Frumkin, 1980; Globerman & Bogo, 2003; Jarman-Rhode, McFall, Kolar, & Strom, 1997; Lager & Robbins, 2004;...