Journal of Social Work Education articles from September 2000

Journal of Social Work Education archives from September 2000

Honest Brokering of Knowledge and Ignorance.
September 22, 2000... I would like to thank the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) for offering me the opportunity to be editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Work Education (JSWE). I thank Paula Allen-Meares and Barbara White for their warm words of...

SHOULD CONVICTED FELONS BE DENIED ADMISSION TO A SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION PROGRAM? YES!(*).
September 22, 2000... One goal of an admissions process is to select from the applicant pool those students who are most qualified to become professional social workers. It is both prudent and reasonable for social work education programs to develop policies which...

SHOULD CONVICTED FELONS BE DENIED ADMISSION TO A SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION PROGRAM? NO!
September 22, 2000... Imagine that you have made a very bad mistake. Imagine that you've been convicted and served time in prison for sexual assault of a minor. You've gone through months of extensive treatment using a cognitive behavioral approach. You've been...

CULTURE AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: THE EXPERIENCES OF NATIVE AMERICAN SOCIAL WORKERS.
September 22, 2000... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION socializes students into the norms and values of the profession including perspectives on clients (e.g., systems theories, strengths perspective) and beliefs about desirable behaviors (e.g., Code of Ethics). But students...

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND GRADUATE SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: A STUDY OF CAREER CHOICE INFLUENCES AND STRATEGIES TO REVERSE ENROLLMENT DECLINE.
September 22, 2000... IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, the social work profession faces a major challenge: attempting to enlarge and diversify the body of social workers who have graduate-level training. As will be documented, growth in the proportion of minority social...

MULTICULTURALISM IN SOCIAL WORK ETHICS.
September 22, 2000... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION CURRICULA provide course work in multiculturalism, and in other related fields, multiculturalism was one of the fastest growing new college course offerings from 1991 to 1995 (Hollis & Wantz, 1990, 1994; Ponterotto, Casas,...

USING AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE TO EDUCATE ABOUT CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND SOCIETAL OPPRESSION.
September 22, 2000... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS FACE two critical challenges: (1) preparing students to work toward transforming "unjust and oppressive social, economic, and political institutions into just and nonoppressive alternatives" (Gil, 1998, p. 1); and (2)...

Engendering Innovation: Reflecting on the Millennium Project.
September 22, 2000... For the social work profession to help resolve complex problems and issues emerging within the environment, its members must explore the relationships among its current structures, functions, and conceptual frameworks; create innovative forms...

AN ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION.
September 22, 2000... LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IS a core concern of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). CSWE's Strategic Plan for 1998-2000 addresses leadership in the Values statement: "CSWE believes in exerting vision and leadership to maintain the highest...

RESHAPING CLINICAL PRACTICE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
September 22, 2000... HOW SHOULD CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK practice enter the new millennium? Oppression in the forms of racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ableism and abuse will continue to affect the lives of the people with whom practitioners work (Rose, Peabody,...

EDUCATING SOCIAL WORKERS FOR AN AGING SOCIETY: A VISION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
September 22, 2000... THE UNITED NATIONS General Assembly recognized "humanity's demographic coming of age" by declaring 1999 the International Year of Older Persons. The increased aging of the world population is the most dramatic demographic shift in history. From...

EDUCATING STUDENTS FOR SOCIAL WORK WITH LATINOS: ISSUES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... LATINOS, people of Latin American descent, will be the largest ethnic minority group in the United States in the 21st century.(1) The growth of the Latino population in the United States, and their internal migration to new :regions will have a...

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SOCIAL WORK CURRICULUM: ADDING MODELING TO THE SYSTEMS PARADIGM.
September 22, 2000... Four concepts have the power to revolutionize social work curricula and practice in the new millennium. Together they can help teachers, students, practitioners, and clients significantly deepen their understanding of complex problems. These...

IN OUR OWN IMAGE: SHAPING ATTITUDES ABOUT SOCIAL WORK THROUGH TELEVISION PRODUCTION.
September 22, 2000... SOCIAL WORK IS A NOBLE UNDERTAKING, but defamatory images of the profession are commonplace, especially in the popular media. Brawley (1995) has suggested that lack of positive media attention is the reason that social work is "not uniformly...

LIVING IN CYBERSPACE: RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VIRTUAL WORLD IN SOCIAL WORK ASSESSMENTS.
September 22, 2000... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS endeavor to keep abreast of major societal trends and shifts in order to maintain awareness of the contemporary environment. In turn, social work students are taught to value the person-in-environment approach to working...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
September 22, 2000... Children & Families Barkley, R. A., & Benton, C. (1998). Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior. New York: Guilford. $29.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). More than 5% of children have severe behavioral problems that can rage...

Measuring Quality at a Distance and in the Classroom.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... To the Editor: It might be well to point out that Haga and Heitkamp's evaluation of distance classroom instruction ("Bringing Social Work Education to the Prairie," JSWE, Spring/Summer 2000) lacks adequate standards to measure educational...