Social Work - S - Oxford Bibliographies
Health Social Work
Sarah Gehlert
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Health Social Work Introduction Health social workers provide psychosocial support to individuals, families, and communities that are faced wit...
HIV/AIDS
Peter A. Newman
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
HIV/AIDS Introduction AIDS is one of the most catastrophic epidemics ever to befall humankind. Over 1 million people have been diagnosed with A...
HIV/AIDS Prevention with Adolescents
Geetha Gopalan, Candice Baugh, Mary McKay
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
HIV/AIDS Prevention with Adolescents Introduction Adolescence is marked by the onset of physical and emotional maturation, which is accompanie...
Homelessness
Yin-Ling Irene Wong
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Homelessness Introduction Homelessness is a complex social problem. Homelessness affects people of both genders and all ages and racial and et...
Housing
Anna Maria Santiago
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Housing Introduction Beginning in the early 2000s the availability of affordable housing worsened in US cities and throughout the world as pro...
Human Needs
Michael A. Dover
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Human Needs Introduction As a profession, social work has long been concerned with understanding and meeting human needs. The preamble of th...
Human Trafficking, Victims of
Rowena Fong
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Victims of Human Trafficking Introduction Human trafficking has become a growing problem at both the international level and the domestic level...
Immigrants and Refugees
Elaine Congress
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Immigrants and Refugees Introduction As a result of climate change, natural and manmade disasters, urbanization, and globalization, the number...
Immigrants and Refugees: Evidence-based Social Work Practice
Rowena Fong
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Immigrants and Refugees: Evidence-Based Social Work Practice Introduction Immigrants and refugees are an integral part of American society and ...
Impaired Professionals
Frederic G. Reamer
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Impaired Professionals Introduction In recent years, various professions—such as social work, medicine, nursing, law, and psychology—have paid ...
Implementation Science and Practice
Enola K. Proctor, Byron Powell, Hollee McGinnis
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Implementation Science and Practice Introduction Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been increasingly advocated and is gaining wider acceptance ...
International Social Work
Lynne M. Healy
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
International Social Work Introduction International social work encompasses those aspects of the profession that address practice or policy is...
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Sarah Bledsoe
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Interpersonal Psychotherapy Introduction Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a focused, practical, and proven time-limited intervention design...
Intervention with Traumatized Populations
Cheryl Regehr
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Intervention with Traumatized Populations Introduction This entry identifies materials from the social work, psychology, and psychiatry literatur...
Interviewing
Pa Der Vang, Ronald Rooney
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Interviewing Introduction Social work interviews are purposeful conversations between practitioners and clients designed to facilitate coop...
Intimate Partner Violence
Cheryl Regehr
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Intimate Partner Violence Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) is any behavior in an intimate relationship that causes physical, ps...
Juvenile Justice
Lisa Rapp-Paglicci
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Juvenile Justice Introduction The topic of juvenile justice is expansive, and multiple fields, such as social work, criminology, psychology,...
Korean Americans
Yoonsun Choi
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Korean Americans Introduction Korean immigrants, like many other immigrants from Asia and Latin America, arrived in the United States in great...
Latinos and Latinas
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Kosta Kalogerogiannis
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Latinos and Latinas Introduction Latinos and Latinas are the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the United States, and a growing body o...
Law, Social Work and the
Allan E. Barsky
Subject: Social Work »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Social Work and the Law Introduction “Social work and the law” refers to the interface between the practice of social work and the legal system...