Social Work Practice with Latinos: Key Issues for Social Workers

Comparative Study of Burnout Rate of Psychiatric Social Workers with Other Areas of Social Work Practice in Tehran

Introduction: Psychiatric social work is one of the most important areas in which social workers as a member of the treatment team provide specialized services in providing a supportive environment for people with mental disorders and their families to meet their needs and return to society. Because one of the factors influencing the quality of social services provided to social work target gro...

Issues in overturning a medical model of social work practice.

EMERGENCE OF a healthoriented paradigm of human behavior is particularly felicitous for the social work profession. In its implicit emphasis on growth-enhancing possibilities for human beings, a healthoriented model strikes an affinity with the value base of the profession and stimulates reaffirmation of principles of practice that have always been present. Recent works by Germain and Gitterman...

New practice model for Latinos in need of social work services.

The practice model described in this article represents a new synthesis of some of the best and most pragmatic models and concepts in the cultural competence literature. The article begins by infusing the ecosystems perspective with Latino-relevant theories and research for enhancing cultural sensitivity, both heightened awareness of the Latino experience and understanding of problem patterns i...

Crafting Social Issues at Work

I present and test a model of issue crafting, in which individuals shape the meaning of social issues by intentionally using language in public that portrays those issues in ways that differ from the individuals’ private understandings of the issues. Using statements collected with an experimental design, I found that the public language individuals used was more economic and less normative tha...

Research on Social Work Practice