[Note: Below is an excerpt from the lead editorial in the most recent issue of the journal Health & Social Work, co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press. The editorial was written by Christine M. Rine, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social Work,...
NASW Journals
Social Justice: A Life-or-Death Issue for the Profession
[Note: Below is an excerpt from the lead editorial in the most recent issue of the journal Health & Social Work, co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press. The editorial was written by Christine M. Rine, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social Work,...
Special Issue of Children & Schools on School Social Workers and Military-Connected Schools
It is estimated that the children of parents either who are currently in the military or who are veterans numbers over 4 million in the United States. These children and their families have and/or continue to experience multiple deployments, family separation,...
Implications of Paid Family Leave for Welfare Participants
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 has proven historic in providing job protection under certain conditions for qualified workers. Those who qualify under the FMLA are able to take unpaid time off from work when caring for a newborn or adopted child, sick...
Culturally Competent and Spiritually Sensitive Therapy with Lesbian and Gay Christians
For self-identified lesbian and gay Christians, the church is an important source of support and identity formation. Identity integration, the bringing together of religious and sexual identities, becomes complicated at best when lesbian and gay Christians face...
A Depression Prevention Program for Rural Adolescents: Modification and Design
Major depression has become a common, persistent, and debilitating condition that has been associated with elevated psychiatric problems and an increased risk for academic failure, interpersonal problems, suicide attempts and legal problems in adolescents. Depression...
Urban American Indians: A Comparison of Father Involvement Predictors across Race
Scholars have declared that a father’s physical absence from home as one of the greatest social problems in the United States. Although the impact of unmarried parents on children is of concern generally, this is seen as being more problematic for certain groups of...
Examing Cultural Competence in Health Care: Implications for Social Workers
It’s well established that ethnic and racial minorities bear experience a disproportionate amount of negative health outcomes; this phenomenon is known as “health disparities”. Given that health disparities among ethnic minority groups have been partly attributed to...