Social workers spend a tremendous amount of time and resources developing interventions to help serve disadvantaged families and individuals. It is critical to know what barriers are impacting participants from enrolling in programs since if people are not enrolling,...
NASW Journals
The Associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Services Use among Head Start-Eligible Low-Income Families
Social workers spend a tremendous amount of time and resources developing interventions to help serve disadvantaged families and individuals. It is critical to know what barriers are impacting participants from enrolling in programs since if people are not enrolling,...
Impact of School Violence on Youth Alcohol Abuse: Differences Based on Gender and Grade Level
Impact of School Violence on Youth Alcohol Abuse: Differences Based on Gender and Grade Level Get access Arrow, Children & Schools, April 2016 Researchers have noted a strong association between violence and alcohol-related problems among youths. Studies have...
LatCrit: Latino Critical Perspective in Social Work
LatCrit can be seen as a useful perspective for culturally competent social work, especially in a move to revive macro practice.
Tangible needs and external stressors faced by Chinese American families with a member having schizophrenia
Winnie Kung, Ph.D. set out to study the families of Chinese Americans who have schizophrenia. She wanted to know what particular stresses and problems these families face. Sensing a real gap in researchers’ knowledge about how this particular segment of the population...
Impact of death work on self: Existential and emotional challenges and coping of palliative care professionals
Palliative care professionals work with the dying; dealing with death and bereavement falls within their purview. Dealing with death and bereavement on a day to day basis takes its toll on palliative care professionals. How do they cope? In a recent issue of Health...
Moving beyond the Emphasis on Bullying: A Generalized Approach to Peer Aggression in High School
Bullying has been a major topic in the media in the past decade, and many well-meaning activists and politicians have attempted to tackle this problem head-on. In some jurisdictions, anti-bullying legislation has even been introduced. By mandating anti-bullying...
Living Up to the Code’s Exhortations? Social Workers’ Political Knowledge Sources, Expectations, and Behaviors
As one expression of an overall ethos of advocacy for human rights and social just, political engagement is clearly part of the Code of Ethics. But do social workers actually support this admonition, and if so, to what extent do they actually engage in politics?