Social Work
Adolescents
Lisa Rapp-Paglicci
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Adolescents Introduction The developmental period of adolescence has been a predominant area of inquiry since the late 1980s, with many scholar...
Adoption
Jill Duerr Berrick, Jennifer Lawson, Erika Weissinger
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Adoption Introduction Adoption involves the complete transfer of parental rights and obligations from one family to another. In the late 20th a...
African Americans
Iris Carlton-LaNey, Tanya Smith Brice
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
African Americans Introduction African Americans (also known as Afro-Americans, blacks, black Americans, or Negroes) are citizens of the Un...
Aging
Nancy R. Hooyman
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Aging Introduction The rapid growth of the older population nationally and globally means that nearly all social workers will interact with ...
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Problems
Kenneth R. Yeager
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Problems Introduction Alcohol and drug abuse is an equal opportunity affliction. As a universal phenomenon, the abus...
Alcohol Problems: Practice Interventions
Katherine van Wormer
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Alcohol Problems: Practice Interventions Introduction Since America’s war on drugs got under way in the 1980s, the government’s attention h...
Asian Americans
Rowena Fong
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Asian Americans Introduction The 2000 US Census subdivides Asian Americans into groupings of persons whose ethnic roots are from countries in E...
Canadian Social Welfare, History of
John Graham
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
History of Canadian Social Welfare Introduction For the purpose of this entry, social welfare history encompasses the evolution of social...
Child Poverty
Robert Plotnick
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Child Poverty Introduction The child poverty literature overlaps to a significant degree the literature on poverty among working-age families. ...
Child Welfare
Jill Duerr Berrick, Colleen Henry
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Child Welfare Introduction The field of child welfare encompasses a range of family challenges and service responses. Traditional child welfare...
Child Welfare and Child Protection in Europe, History of
Mirja Satka, Caroline Skehill
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
History of Child Welfare and Child Protection in Europe Introduction This entry identifies resources on the European history of child welfare an...
Children
James K. Whittaker
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Children Introduction Since the inception of social work as a profession, children have constituted a key focus of interest for it. In fields o...
Clinical Social Work Practice with Adult Lesbians
Ski Hunter
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Clinical Social Work Practice with Adult Lesbians Introduction Lesbians were not notable in the United States until the term “lesbian” beca...
Community
Megan Meyer
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Community Introduction Understanding, fostering, and mobilizing communities have been central features of social work practice since the profes...
Conflict Resolution
Allan E. Barsky
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Conflict Resolution Introduction Conflict resolution (CR) may be defined as any process used to manage, determine, or settle differences th...
Counseling Female Offenders
Katherine van Wormer
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Counseling Female Offenders Introduction Gender-specific programming is viewed as essential to effective work with girls and women in the criminal ...
Direct Practice in Social Work
Jacqueline Corcoran
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Direct Practice in Social Work Introduction Direct practice in social work constitutes one-on-one contact with people at the micro level a...
Disabilities
Joanna C. Rankin, Marcia H. Rioux, Ivan Brown
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Disabilities Introduction This entry identifies resources relevant to the study of disability that are pertinent to the field of social work. R...
Disasters
Ted Bober
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Disasters Introduction Disasters are complex interactions between nature, the human-built environment, and social processes that significantly ...
Divorce
Michael Saini
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Divorce Introduction Divorce is the legal dissolution of an adult couple relationship by a court or other legal authority to terminate the legal...
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