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The Life Model of Social Work Practice

open access: yes, 2020
Originally published in 1980, this was the first textbook to apply the ecological approach to practice. Germain and Gitterman have extensively updated and expanded this classic text.
C. B. Germain, C. Knight
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Work

open access: yes, 2012
Social workers draw on a variety of theoretical perspectives to inform their practice and understand the diverse settings in which they work. Social Work: From Theory to Practice explores practice theories through the discipline's unique interpretive lens and demonstrates how these can be understood and enacted by practitioners in human services ...
Louise Harms, Marie Connolly
openaire   +3 more sources

Harnessing Technology for Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Diary Study Protocol

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Project Title: Psychosocial Reactions to a Global Pandemic: A Diary Study During COVID-19. Design: The study uses a mixed methods design that includes both a cross-sectional quantitative survey and qualitative diary entries submitted online eight times ...
L. Y. Saltzman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Child Attributions Mediate Relationships Between Violence Exposure and Trauma Symptomology

open access: yesAdvances in Social Work, 2017
Violence and trauma exposure have been increasingly investigated as contributing to a range of negative outcomes in child physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and psychological functioning, particularly among youth who are racial/ethnic minorities ...
Kathryn S. Collins   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The burdens and management of casual street gangsterism from the police experience in Ethiopia

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2022
There is no consensus and common ground among scholars toward defining the concept of gangsterism. The type and nature of the so-called gang groups are also stated differently in the existing literature.
Wubshet Hailu Fufa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of immersive learning framework (ILF) in achieving the goals of higher education: measuring the impact using a pre–post design

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Emerging technological tools like Artificial Intelligence-based Chatbots, digital educational alternatives and market-driven educational systems pose a challenge to the fundamental aim of the higher education system; comprehensive education for well ...
Saju Madavanakadu Devassy   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engagement intervention versus treatment as usual for young adults with serious mental illness: a randomized pilot trial

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2020
Background Young adults have elevated rates of mental health disorders, yet they often do not receive consistent care. The challenge of continuing to engage young adults has been pervasive worldwide.
Michelle R. Munson   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Work or Relief Work? A Crisis in Professional Social Work [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Change Review, 2015
Abstract Social work is a sharing and caring profession based on scientific methods. This problem solving profession makes people self-reliant and self-dependent when he/she is in any sorts of crises. Thus, it differs from relief work, social services or social welfare delivered during emergence crises.
openaire   +3 more sources

Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2013
Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use ...
Lia Bryant BSW, PhD in Sociology   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing Permanency in Children and Families (EPIC): a child welfare intervention for parental substance abuse

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Across Ohio, parental substance abuse has contributed to a marked increase in the number of children in foster care. Children exposed to parental substance use have a higher likelihood of physical abuse and neglect, and consequently a variety ...
Bridget Freisthler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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