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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...