What do social work students think social work research is?

Students' perceptions of social work: implications for strengthening the image of social work among college students.

This study, inspired by the efforts of NASW to improve the public perception and understanding of social work, focused on the perceptions and attitudes of college students regarding the profession of social work. The sample included 678 undergraduates at a state university who represented a wide variety of majors. Findings indicate that students' affiliation with a social worker, whether a fami...

Research on Social Work Practice

What kind of social justice does social work seek?

Before considering conceptions of social justice, it is important to understand why it matters, since this is a matter of opinion rather than fact (Donnison, 1991). There is perhaps little, if any, doubt about the significance of this question among people in poor countries. They have become accustomed to facing the prospect of destitution, violence and death. Even in an affluent country like A...

Social support interventions: do they work?

Presence of support has repeatedly been linked to good long-term health outcomes based on demonstrations of better immune function, lower blood pressures, and reduced mortality (among others). Despite a massive literature on the benefits of support, there is surprisingly little hard evidence about how, and how well, social support interventions work. Using a computerized search strategy, 100 st...

Attributions of poverty among social work and non-social work students in Croatia.

AIM To investigate how students in Croatia perceive causes of poverty and to examine the differences in attributions of poverty between students of social work, economics, and agriculture. METHODS The study included 365 participants, students of social work (n=143), economics (n=137), and agriculture (n=82). We used the newly developed Attribution of Poverty Scale, consisting of 4 factors, as...