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Social Welfare: Recent submissions
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An International Analysis of the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Practice
(Alliance for Children and Families, 2007)As service populations have changed, social workers in Norway and the United States have attempted to respond to the needs of diverse cultures, which often include issues of religion and spirituality. Members of the ... -
Crises That Threaten Out-of-Home Placement of Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
(Alliance for Children and Families, 1994)Children with serious emotional and behavioral disorders present strong challenges to families and professionals who attempt to care for them at home. This longitudinal, exploratory study examines the placementthreatening crises ... -
Service System Barriers to Reunification
(Alliance for Children and Families, 1995)Programs to reunite children in state custody with their families and communities have not proliferated to the same extent as have programs designed to prevent placement. Although reunification is generally recognized as ... -
Informing Best Practices for Children in Psychiatric Crises: Perspectives and Insights From Families
(Alliance for Children and Families, 2006)Young children in psychiatric crisis present complex challenges to their families and service providers. This article presents a qualitative study of families' perspectives on the crisis that led to their child's ... -
Foster Care Independent Living Services: Youth Perspectives
(Alliance for Children and Families, 2008)Emerging adulthood is a phase in the life course recently identified by developmental theorists. For youth in foster care, recent federal legislation in the United States has engendered new programs, typically called ... -
Adultcentrism in Practice with Children
(Alliance for Children and Families, 1992)Adultcentrism is the tendency of adults to view children and their problems from a biased, adult perspective, thus creating barriers to effective practice with children. The author (1) examines the roots of social work’s ... -
A Template for Family-Centered Interagency Collaboration
(Alliance for Children and Families, 2000)In this paper, it is asserted that successful interagency collaborations require commitment to a shared value base as the core dimension of the joint efforts. A rationale framework that places family-centered principles ... -
Parents of Children With Mental Illness: Exploring the Caregiver Experience and Caregiver-Focused Interventions
(Alliance for Children and Families, 2011)Serious mental illness in children can significantly impact the parents who care for these children in both positive and negative ways. Caregiver strain and enrichment manifests in all areas of parents’ lives, including ... -
COMMUNICATION ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH AND DECISION MAKING WITH ADOLESCENTS IN FOSTER CARE
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)When in foster care, adolescents experience a disruption in the expected avenues through which they would receive sexual health information, such as through parents, school and peers. Adolescents that are placed in foster ... -
Rethinking the clinical vs. social reform debate: a dialectical approach to defining social work in the 21st century
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)There is a historical tension in social work between the clinical and social reform perspectives. The original goal for this dissertation was to offer pragmatism as a philosophical orientation that would make sense of these ... -
Comparing Rawlsian Justice and the Capabilities Approach to Justice from a Spiritually Sensitive Social Work Perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-03)This article examines two social justice theories, Rawlsian Justice and the Capabilities Approach of Sen and Nussbaum, in relation to congruence with four principles of spiritually sensitive social work. We find that ... -
Reclaiming the practical: Formal and substantive rationality in social work practice
(University of Chicago Press, 1992)In this article, I argue that the starting point for inquiry about practice knowledge should be the empirical question, How does the competent practitioner go about knowing "in" practice? Using the work of J u r g e n ... -
Who is the "self" in self-aware: Professional self-awareness from a critical theory perspective
(University of Chicago Press, 1999-12)Professional self-awareness is widely considered a necessary condition for competent social work practice. Alternate prescriptions for self-awareness rely implicitly on varying definitions of what it means to be a "self" ... -
Concept, act, and interest in social work practice: Implications of an empowerment perspective
(University of Chicago Press, 1995-09)Within recent social work literature, the concept of empowerment as a practice perspective has received wide endorsement. In this article, I argue that adopting the notion of empowerment as a framework for practice requires ... -
Predictors of Foster Care Exits to Permanency: A Competing Risks Analysis of Reunification, Guardianship, and Adoption
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)Nearly 800,000 children spend time in foster care each year, with many children experiencing lengthy stays and exiting without a permanent family. The main objective of this study was to identify which child and placement ... -
The Influence of Perceived Workplace Spirituality on Job Satisfaction, Intention to Leave, and Emotional Exhaustion among Community Mental Health Center Workers in the State of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-08)Social workers are becoming increasingly concerned that work-related factors including low salaries, job insecurity, and hierarchical organizational structures have led to a decline in their job satisfaction, their motivation ... -
An Examination of Health Providers' HPV Vaccination Behaviors, Perceived Barriers, and Supports: A Four State Analysis.
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-08)This study's main research asked which combination of predictors, including type of health provider, type of state policy initiative, overall barriers scores, and overall supports scores, is most predictive of HPV vaccination ... -
THE LOSS, RECOVERY, AND REINVENTION OF SELF: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-08)Research with survivors of intimate partner violence has primarily focused on the outcome of leaving because it has been difficult for researchers in this area to determine which outcomes, if any, are the right outcomes ... -
That's the Thing with Community: Social Networks and Asset Development
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-08)This study explores the role of social networks in the lives of participants in an asset building program. Focus groups were conducted with parents whose children hold accounts in a multi-site demonstration project of ... -
Older Adults with HIV/AIDS: Experiences of Stigma-The Use of Personal Strengths
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-08)This dissertation explores the stigma experiences of older adults who have HIV/AIDS, the personal strengths and other responses they have to these experiences, and whether they experienced personal growth as a result of ...