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Adolescent Pregnancy
Naomi Farber
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Adolescent Pregnancy Introduction Since the 1960s, adolescent pregnancy and childbearing have been regarded as serious problems in the United ...
Adolescents
Lisa Rapp-Paglicci
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Adolescents Introduction The developmental period of adolescence has been a predominant area of inquiry since the late 1980s, with many scholar...
Adoption
Jill Duerr Berrick, Jennifer Lawson, Erika Weissinger
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Adoption Introduction Adoption involves the complete transfer of parental rights and obligations from one family to another. In the late 20th a...
Adoption Home Study Assessments
Thomas M. Crea
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Adoption Home Study Assessments Introduction In the United States, all families who wish to foster or adopt a child must undergo a home study ...
African Americans
Iris Carlton-LaNey, Tanya Smith Brice
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
African Americans Introduction African Americans (also known as Afro-Americans, blacks, black Americans, or Negroes) are citizens of the Un...
Aging
Nancy R. Hooyman
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Aging Introduction The rapid growth of the older population nationally and globally means that nearly all social workers will interact with ...
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Problems
Kenneth R. Yeager
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Problems Introduction Alcohol and drug abuse is an equal opportunity affliction. As a universal phenomenon, the abus...
Alcohol Dependence
Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner, Sarina Beth Straussner
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Alcohol Dependence Introduction Millions of individuals use alcohol every day; however, not everyone experiences a problem due to such use. It...
Alcohol Problems: Practice Interventions
Katherine van Wormer
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Alcohol Problems: Practice Interventions Introduction Since America’s war on drugs got under way in the 1980s, the government’s attention h...
Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias
Stanley G. McCracken
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Introduction Prior to the last century dementia, referred to as senility, was seen as a normal and ine...
Asian Americans
Rowena Fong
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Asian Americans Introduction The 2000 US Census subdivides Asian Americans into groupings of persons whose ethnic roots are from countries in E...
Asian-American Youth
Yoonsun Choi
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Asian-American Youth Introduction Although they are one of the fastest growing populations in the United States, Asian Americans and their chi...
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Paul T. Shattuck, Valerie Njiiri, Laura Hudson
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Autism Spectrum Disorders Introduction Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) is not an officially defined term but generally refers to three diagno...
Behavioral Health
Denise Torres, Steve Estrine
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Behavioral Health Introduction As with mental health (see Oxford Bibliographies article on Mental Health), there is no one definition of behav...
Behavioral Social Work Practice
Bruce A. Thyer
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Behavioral Social Work Practice Introduction The practice of social work is often seen as centered around various theories of the etiology o...
Bereavement Practice
Mary Sormanti
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Bereavement Practices Introduction Bereavement may be defined as the condition of living in the face of a loved one’s death. With estimated gl...
Canadian Social Welfare, History of
John Graham
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
History of Canadian Social Welfare Introduction For the purpose of this entry, social welfare history encompasses the evolution of social...
Child Poverty
Robert Plotnick
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Child Poverty Introduction The child poverty literature overlaps to a significant degree the literature on poverty among working-age families. ...
Child Welfare
Jill Duerr Berrick, Colleen Henry
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Child Welfare Introduction The field of child welfare encompasses a range of family challenges and service responses. Traditional child welfare...
Child Welfare and Child Protection in Europe, History of
Mirja Satka, Caroline Skehill
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
History of Child Welfare and Child Protection in Europe Introduction This entry identifies resources on the European history of child welfare an...
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