Social Work back issues from January 2002:
Reflections and farewell. (Editorial).(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Stanley L. Witkin This is my last editorial. In fact, by the time you read this, my term will have ended and the new editor-in-chief will have assumed her duties. As with most final editorials, I assumed this would be my opportunity to bid farewells and offer thanks to the many ...
Embodied practice: Claiming the body's experience, agency, and knowledge for social work.
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** Although social work practice typically is concerned with physical conditions and experiences such as poverty, addiction, and violence, relatively little attention has been given to the body in professional literature. Emphasizing both physical and sociocultural ...
Paradigm for pluralism: Mikhail Bakhtin and social work practice.
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** This article explores the work of the literary and cultural theorist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin and acknowledges him as a new voice to social work. In a larger context the authors argue that his ideas can help the profession negotiate the tricky and unsettling ...
Empowerment as a dynamically developing concept for practice: Lessons learned from organizational ethnography.
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** This article describes the process of developing an empowerment approach in a comprehensive child development program that defined its mission as empowerment of families living in poverty. This description is derived from a seven-year organizational ethnographic ...
Empowering African American custodial grandparents.
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** The increase in grandparent-headed households is receiving much attention as the needs and concerns of these grandparents become more widely known. However, to the extent that services focus on the problems of this population, there is an inherent danger in ...
Client or former client? Implications of ex-client definition on social work practice.
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** The study discussed in this article investigated the effect of the variation in individual worker definition of "former client" in relationship to workers' perceptions of appropriate professional behaviors during the provision of social work services. A random sample ...
Sexual harassment between same-sex peers: Intersection of mental health, homophobia, and sexual violence in schools.
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** This article provides a historical and legal framework for defining peer sexual harassment from three different perspectives: sex discrimination, mental health, and sexual violence. Major court decisions that define sexual harassment in both education and the ...
Is social work's door open to people recovering from psychiatric disabilities?
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** Social workers are the major providers of mental health services in the United States, yet the profession has been reluctant to include recovering consumers in its ranks. This article contrasts social work's historic focus on the deficits believed to be inherent in ...
Knowledge diffusion in social work: A new approach to bridging the gap.
Jan 01, 2002; ... ********** The continuing gap between research and practice has long been a problem in social work. A great deal of the empirical practice literature has emphasized practice evaluation (usually in the form of single-case methodologies) at the expense of research dissemination ...