The search for identity: defining social work - past, present, future.

Social Work;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......identity has occupied center stage within social work since its inception. Its efforts in...opportunity to reflect once again on what social work is, as represented in efforts over the...forces that affect the definition of social work and the place of the profession in society...

Lena Dominelli, Social Work: Theory and Practice for a Changing...

Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Lena Dominelli, Social Work: Theory and Practice for a Changing...understand the changing context of social work practice in a globalised world by...understand the contemporary context of social work practice so that we are fully conversant...

Setting the record straight: social work is not a female-dominated...

Social Work;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The social work profession is frequently described as a female-dominated profession in the social work and other professional literature. Most frequently social work is grouped with nursing, teaching, and library science as similarly female-dominated...

Hidden Voices.(social work)

Social Work;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......that has characterized the profession, social work has not been able to convey adequately...care as the first voice of women and of social work and explores it as an avenue to better...vital tasks carried out in all venues of social work practice. Key words: first voice; second...

Comparisons between Caucasian students, students of color, and American...

Journal of Social Work Education;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Social Work's Traditional Mission WHATEVER THE SOCIAL or political climate, the profession of social work has historically accepted responsibility...1994; Williams, 1990). Many within the social work profession (Bogo, Michalsk, Raphael...

Social work and social reform: an arena of struggle.(Special Centennial...

Social Work;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......containment and change have plagued social work since its origins in the late 19th century...same time, observers within and outside social work have often accused the profession of...quo. This contradiction has made the social work profession a site of ongoing struggle...

Redefining hospital social work: an embattled professional domain....

Health and Social Work;  November 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Is hospital-based social work in jeopardy? There are unmistakable...other restructuring are commonplace. Social work department personnel budgets have...disciplines are appropriating key social work functions. A luxury most cannot...

Improving social work.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Social Work;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...I read the editorial in Social Work (October 2003 issue) with a great...information. Sometimes I think that social work as a profession is so client-centric...of methodology, though, I think Social Work may not be the best venue for articles...

Social work organizations working together.(Editorial)

Social Work;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......National Institutes of Health Plan for Social Work Research (U.S. Department of Health...two important trends in the field of social work. One is the growing recognition of the value of social work research for promoting and preserving...

Challenges to the future of evidence-based practice in social work...

Journal of Social Work Education;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...EMPIRICALLY-ORIENTED SCHOLARS in social work have long been concerned about inadequacies...of research. Studies have shown that social work practitioners by and large rarely examine...Bacon, 2004). Several generations of social work educators have tried various ways to...

A study of baccalaureate social work students' beliefs about the inclusion...

Journal of Social Work Education;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......were evident from the early years of social work practice and theory, and they continue...1982, the three most recent Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) curriculum policy statements...as an area of diversity for study in social work education. The 2001 CSWE Educational...

COVERAGE OF GAY AND LESBIAN SUBJECT MATTER IN SOCIAL WORK JOURNALS.

Journal of Social Work Education;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...IN 1992 THE Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) revised the Curriculum...orientation. (CSWE, 1992). For social work programs to meet this mandate...has increased significantly in social work journals in recent years due to...

Degree threat as social work crisis deepens; Edinburgh University's bitter...

The Sunday Herald;  April 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Edinburgh University is poised to scrap its social work degree at a time when recruitment for...students graduating with degrees in social work has fallen by more than one- third since...symptomatic" of the problems surrounding social work. "This is the product of the denigration...

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SOCIAL WORK CURRICULUM: ADDING MODELING TO THE SYSTEMS...

Journal of Social Work Education;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......concepts have the power to revolutionize social work curricula and practice in the new millennium...are basic methodological elements of social work's preeminent paradigm, systems theory...systems approach is securely ensconced in social work curricula and practice, it is used ...

Developing a research unit within a hospital social work department.

Health and Social Work;  February 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...There is growing concern within the social work profession that the quantity and quality of current research in social work is inadequate to inform the major...the report of the Task Force on Social Work Research (National Institute of...