background drug dependence is one of the major problems in today’s world which has turned into a serious, concerning threat due to its destructive and preventive effects on the development and prosperity of the society. objectives the study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of social skills training on tendency to addiction among high school female students of ahvaz city. patients and meth...

Social work curriculum that offers an optimistic perspective on aging has the potential to help social work students go on to practice in a nondiscriminatory way with older adults. This study introduces social work students to the productive aging concept, an optimistic view to social potential in later life, in lecture format and assesses postlecture changes in their perceptions of older adult...

Firearms constitute an environmental risk factor for suicide among all age groups. Although other professions have been urged to assess firearm availability and advocate for the removal of firearms of their clients, little is known about the practices and the techniques within the social work profession. The present study surveyed a random sample (N = 697) of Ohio licensed social workers (requi...

It is critical that clinical social workers become actively aware of the endemic processes and manifestations racism, inequities, structures dynamics white supremacy within across organizational, supervisory relationships. The Structural-Clinical Model (SCM) presented, providing a multi-layered theoretically rich pathway for to examine intricate, multifaceted interconnections expressing raciali...