Social Work

Editorial Reduced budget for the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would translate into reduced supply of and access to affordable housing units for low-income families. Aside from housing, employment is a central issue that would be of great concern to both social workers and their clients when the HUD budget is reduced. In light of the pending cuts in HUD's budget, social workers would have to incorporate a housing element, a community and economic development element and a collaborativ...

Afrocentricity: an emerging paradigm in social work practice.

Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted.

Current Child and Family Policy in the United States: More than Kissing Babies?

Empowering battered women transnationally: the case for postmodern interventions.

Female gang members: a profile of aggression and victimization.

Helping Yourself Help Others: A Book for Caregivers.

HIV/AIDS and suicide: be open.

Social workers should have the right to help HIV clients make end-of-life decisions, depending on their own beliefs, attitudes and value systems. If they cannot help their clients make the decision, they have the professional obligation to refer the patients and their families to competent professionals. Proper advice from social workers is necessary to prevent patients from subscribing to more violent means or methods that would only leave them disabled but not dead.

HIV/AIDS and suicide: further precautions.

Social workers assigned with HIV cases need proper support, direction and training since they have the responsibility to make suicide a rational choice for their clients. They go through a lot of stress assisting HIV patients choose death. These social workers experience as much depression, fear and isolation as their patients. End-of-life decision is not easy to make, more so for social workers who must help their patients make such decision.

Integrating Social Welfare and Social Work Practice.

Radicalizing recovery: addiction, spirituality, and politics.

The Empowerment Tradition in American Social Work: A History.

The personal is ecological: environmentalism of social work.

Social workers are becoming more involved in the growing environmental justice movement. Transpersonal therapists and ecologists take the traditional roles of social workers by addressing issues that include civil rights, urban housing, youth programs and clinical practice. These social workers realize the interrelationships between the physical environment and social work practice.

The strengths perspective in social work practice: extensions and cautions.

The Welfare of Children.

Training and supporting the telephone intake worker for an AIDS prevention counseling study.

Telephone intake workers for Project ARIES, an AIDS-prevention telephone-counseling study for men who have sex with men, undergo a lot of pressure in their job. They need support in dealing effectively with callers who are in crisis, callers whose isolation prevents them from using community resources, chronic callers and callers venting hatred. Staff support should be focused on normalizing the emotional reactions of staff workers and on finding inventive strategies to make the intake worker...

Understanding Social Problems, Policies, and Programs.

When social workers and physicians collaborate: positive and negative interdisciplinary experiences.