This report describes an exploration of Google Trends in an attempt to determine its usefulness for social work research. Web searches on Google Trends related to social work were undertaken for the period 2007-2013. Hits related to jobs and education dominated. Emerging trends related to social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, but also came up for words such as evidence, technolog...

This short book for adolescents is one of a series giving information in story form, about careers. It is a useful idea and the essential facts about social work are correctly conveyed. Most important of all, is the skilful way in which the author has woven into her story the kind of personality needed for this type of work. Apart from the inappropriate dust cover (showing a nurse in uniform) t...

Action research by social work practitioners provides a particularly direct means of overcoming the often cited practice/research divide within the profession. This article draws from a project within a UK local authority fostering recruitment team that examined aspects of recruitment including the impact of foster carer involvement. Characteristics of the project that contributed to its effect...

The present time is opportune for reconsidering the lines on which the University should introduce her students to the higher conception of Practical Medicine. Fifty years ago, the Literae Humaniores were inadequate representatives of knowledge. Now we see that the complicated condition of human society, with its pressing needs, demands such extended estimate of the Physician's functions as to ...

background: exposure to job stress causes deleterious effects on physical and mental health of employees and productivity of organizations. objective: to study work-related stressors among employees of prisons of ilam, western iran. methods: in a cross-sectional study conducted from july to october 2013, 177 employees of ilam prisons and security-corrective measures organization were enrolled i...

to social work. The first part of the book consists of basic psychoanalytical theory with an emphasis on ego psychology. The rest of the book consists of ten chapters written by different psychoanalysts demonstrating how psychoanalytical knowledge can be applied usefully in various fields of social work. The theoretical part of the book gives a concise account of psychoanalytical theory and it ...

distinction between casework and group work is not always clear, this may be partly due to the lack of self consciousness which characterizes the formation of many groups, and indeed the lack of agreement about aims. "Getting together" is often thought of as good-in-itself without defining the method or ultimate aim. Peter Kuenstler limits the scope of the book to "Group work with a specific pu...

Jane Addams (1940) perhaps the most prominent of the founders of modern social work, describing the impetus to dedicate herself to the welfare of others and develop Hull House, wrote, "We had been to see a bull fight rendered in the most magnificent Spanish style, where greatly to my surprise and horror, I found that I had seen, with comparative indifference, five bulls and many more horses kil...