Recently added articles from Journal of Social Work Education:
A dialogue on the economic decline and higher education.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... MY PONDERINGS ABOUT this topic began one evening during a discussion of age cohort effects in a Helping Strategies with Older Adults class. We were discussing the fact that events such as wars, technological advances, and economic depressions have biopsychosocial impacts on persons who ...
Breaking the silence: sexual orientation in social work field education.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... FIELD EDUCATION, MORE SO than any other component of the social work curriculum, challenges students to integrate professional knowledge, values, and skills into their personal identity and sense of self. This multifaceted integration is clearly a process that takes place over the span of ...
Metaphors and the pejorative framing of marginalized groups: implications for social work education.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE FOLLOWING QUOTE appeared in a 1993 National Review article on the topic of welfare reform: <Pre>Work requirements are catnip forsocial workers; they see counselinggalore in the educational programsand training seminars that Congresswill construe as ...
Construction and validation of a professional suitability scale for social work practice.(Survey)
Jan 01, 2009; ... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS are responsible for assessing and screening students' professional suitability to practice social work. Professional suitability is defined as good understanding of social work knowledge, skills, and values and the performance of appropriate behaviors in given ...
Picky, picky, picky: ranking graduate schools of social work by student selectivity.
Jan 01, 2009; ... AMERICANS ARE UNDENIABLY fascinated by ranking. We seem to rank everything. Some rankings are trivial (e.g., the best-dressed or richest person); some merely note successful marketing (e.g., the best-selling car, bar of soap, or book). Other rankings have substantive implications for ...
Targeted mentoring: evaluation of a program.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... MENTORING, OR THE PROCESS of matching persons who have particular experience with persons with less experience, has been a topic of study since the late 1970s with the publication of texts such as Levinson's The Seasons of a Man's Life (1978) and Kanter's Men and Women of the Organization ...
Idealism, altruism, career orientation, and emotional exhaustion among social work undergraduates.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE ISSUE OF PROFESSIONAL burnout has received increasing attention over the past few decades. This increased attention is pertinent to the high cost that burnout is believed to have for organizations, service users and human service professionals (Edwards, Hershberger, Russell, & Markert, ...
Can you call it racism? An educational case study and role-play approach.(TEACHING NOTE)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION has long struggled to acknowledge cultural diversity and identify teaching methods to prepare students to work effectively with diverse populations (Council on Social Work Education, 2001). Garcia and Van Soest (2006) provide a conceptual framework that unites ...
A preliminary look at international students in MSW field placements at nonurban U.S. campuses.(FIELD NOTE)(Masters in Social Work)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... THERE HAS BEEN AN increased emphasis in social work education on the importance of incorporating an international context (Panos, Pettys, Cox, & Jones-Hart, 2004). Despite the growing awareness of the importance of a global perspective in social work education, as evidenced by Council on ...
New approaches to generalist field education.(FIELD NOTE)
Jan 01, 2009; ... FIELD WORK has been a central element in social work education from its inception. One of the key goals of field education is to enable students to apply the theories and skills they have learned in the classroom to agency practice and to use their practicum experiences to enhance ...
Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... To the Editor: I am pleased with your call to the profession to enlarge the discussion of social justice and the questions you pose for systematic inquiry [Dialogue on Social Justice, Journal of Social work Education, 44(2) 1-5]. My own view is that we may not be in precise ...
Erratum.(Correction notice)
Jan 01, 2009 ... A spelling error was made in the article "Toward Improvement of Scholarly Publications: The Journal of Social Work Education ...
Toward improvement of scholarly publications: the Journal of Social Work Education advances.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I AGREED TO BECOME EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of this journal a little over a year and a half ago following the urgings of some of my colleagues. Specifically, Dr. Deborah Valentine, former editor-in-chief, nominated me, and Dr. Kay Hoffman, who was president of the Council Social Work Education ...
Substance abuse training and perceived knowledge: predictors of perceived preparedness to work in substance abuse.(Survey)
Sep 22, 2008; ... SUBSTANCE ABUSE is a widespread problem in American society. In 2003 approximately 9% of the total U.S. population age 12 or older was classified with substance dependence or abuse (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2003). Because of its relatively high prevalence, ...
Using simulated sessions to enhance clinical social work education.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... THE USE OF SIMULATED THERAPY sessions represents an attempt to enhance the clinical education of graduate social work students. Related methods like peer role-plays and standardized client interviews have been used effectively with direct participants (Badger & McNeil, 2002; Miller, 2004; ...
The use of ePortfolios in evaluating the curriculum and student learning.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... STUDENT PORTFOLIOS (Campbell, 2004; Costantino & De Lorenzo, 2002; Lyons, 1998) have begun to receive increasing attention, not only in the higher education literature, but also within the social work profession (Cournoyer & Stanley 2002). Because portfolios can foster the integration of ...
Agency-university partnership for evidence-based practice in social work.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE (EBP) as a professional model is a frequently discussed and debated topic in social work education. Beyond studies based on descriptions of researcher, practitioner, and educator opinions of EBP, relatively little is known about the implementation of EBP in social ...
An investigation of the relations between student knowledge, personal contact, and attitudes toward individuals with schizophrenia.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... SOCIAL WORKERS are the primary providers of psychosocial treatment to individuals with schizophrenia (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2001), a complex and disabling mental disorder that poses unique treatment challenges to mental health professionals. Recent ...
School selection preferences of public and private university MSW students: a retrospective study.(Master of Social Work)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... A convenience sample of MSW students responded to an Internet-based survey (N=2,289) retrospectively reporting their reasons for enrolling in a specific social work graduate program. Reponses indicate that MSW students who enroll in private graduate programs are younger and reported ...
Interdisciplinarity in doctoral social work education: does it make a difference?(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... IN 1959, BRITISH SCIENTIST and novelist C.P. Snow argued that society's educational systems and intellectual life were characterized by what seemed an incommensurable split between its two dominant forms of intellectual inquiry--the arts and humanities on one hand and the sciences on the ...