Recently added articles from Social Work:
Racial minorities then and now: the continuing significance of race.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2009; ... It has been 27 years since the last special issue on racial minorities appeared in Social Work. When the issue appeared in 1982, Jerome Schiele was pursuing an undergraduate degree in sociology at Hampton University. June Gary Hopps was editor of the 1982 special issue and had by then ...
What African American male adolescents are telling us about HIV infection among their peers: cultural approaches for HIV prevention.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... In the United States, African American male adolescents are at significant risk of HIV infection. For instance, male African Americans between the ages of 14 and 24 years comprise approximately 16.8 percent of the adolescent population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000), but they account for more ...
Moving from colonization toward balance and harmony: a Native American perspective on wellness.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Current mental health practices appear to be largely ineffective in terms of meeting the needs of many Native Americans (Graham, 2002; Weaver, 2004). According to nationally representative survey data (N = 134,875), Native Americans are significantly more likely to indicate that they have ...
Fundamental contradictions in cultural competence.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... What could possibly be amiss with the idea of cultural competence (CC), that is, social workers possession of "a knowledge base of their clients' cultures" and ability to provide "services that are sensitive to clients' cultures" (NASW, 2000a, p. 9)? After all, CC sounds as inviting and ...
Mexican American women's adherence to hemodialysis treatment: a social constructivist perspective.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Genetic predisposition, lifestyle risks, environmental stressors, and unequal access to health care are among the factors contributing to a growing prevalence of chronic illness among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. In the absence of a cure, chronic conditions are ...
A black experience-based approach to gender-based violence.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Gender-based violence (GBV) is defined as "physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life" (United Nations, 2007). GBV includes childhood sexual abuse, ...
Segmented assimilation theory and the life model: an integrated approach to understanding immigrants and their children.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Nearly a century ago, Jane Addams (1910) observed that immigrants needed help integrating their European and American experiences to give them meaning and a sense of relation: <Pre>Power to see life as a whole is more needed inthe immigrant quarter of the city than ...
Building on strengths: intergenerational practice with African American families.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Family networks, composed of several generations (three of more), have been a source of strength for African American families. Multigenerations providing support and care for family members and fictive kin (non-blood relatives) across the life course have been well documented ...
Qualitative and mixed methods in social work knowledge development.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Providing guidelines on qualitative and mixed methods in social work knowledge development is a daunting task. Quantitative methods also require careful consideration, but they rarely entail the degree of epistemological self-searching and ongoing consequential decision making that ...
Restorative justice as social justice for victims of gendered violence: a standpoint feminist perspective.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Because of an increasing awareness of inadequacies in the criminal justice system in meeting the needs of victims of crime, there is a growing movement to use alternative, more informal forms of instituting justice for victims, offenders, and communities (see, for example, Belknap, 2007; ...
Older adult inmates: the challenge for social work.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Truth-in-sentencing laws, mandatory minimums, and three-strikes-and-you're-out rules established over the past several decades are keeping more offenders confined in prison for longer periods of time (van Wormer & Bartollas, 2007; Yorston & Taylor, 2006). These laws have created a ...
Social workers' and service users' causal attributions for poverty.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... A major portion of social work practice worldwide consists of the provision of services to people with needs and problems associated with living in poverty (Elliott, 1997; Healy, 2001; Hokenstad, Khinduka, & Midgley, 1992; Jones, 2002). These problems include insufficient financial ...
Maltreated children's thoughts and emotions as behavioral predictors: evidence for social work action.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Despite more than 40 years of key federal legislation addressing child abuse and neglect, ranging from the 1974 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (P.L. 93-247) to the more recent amendment, Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-36), many children remain at risk of ...
Risk and protective factors for HIV/AIDS in Native Americans: implications for preventive intervention.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... There are 4.1 million American Indian and Alaska Natives who self-identified on the 2000 U.S. census. This is a highly heterogeneous group representing over 500 federally recognized tribes and speaking over 300 distinct languages (Duran & Walters, 2004). Although there are cultural ...
Innovative service or proselytizing: exploring when services delivery becomes a platform for unwanted religious persuasion.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Since passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), including section 104 (also known as Charitable Choice), social work scholars have responded by increasing their attention to spirituality and religion as areas for research that ...
Social work practice with Latinos: key issues for social workers.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... As Latinos become a larger proportion of the U.S. population, there is a greater need for social work education to provide culturally sensitive training to social work students (Furman, Bender, Lewis, & Shears, 2006; Iglehart & Becerra, 1995). Latinos have become the largest minority ...
A reflection on reasons, preconditions, and effects of implementing evidence-based practice in social work.(COMMENTARY)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Over the past decade, there has been an increasing recognition that social work should be evidence based. The potential contribution of evidence-based practice (EBP) to the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of social work education and practice has been emphasized (Gambrill, ...
Discretion in direct practice: new perspectives.(COMMENTARY)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The study of clinical decision making in social work has focused on various areas over the years, such as diagnosis, treatment planning, crisis intervention, and evidence-based practice. Major concerns over accountability and legal liability have recently caused the study of clinical ...
Removing gender identity disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: a call for action.(COMMENTARY)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In 2012, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) plans to release the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). In July 2007, APA named a 27-member task force to oversee development of the new edition, which will constitute the first major ...