Hiring Social Work Faculty: An Analysis of Employment Announcements With Special Focus on Rural and Urban Differences and 2008 EPAS Implications

In social work practice, keeping records of encounters with clients is a routinized practice for documenting cases. This paper focuses on the specific task of obtaining the prospective clients’ correct address for filling in a standardized personal report form. My analysis focuses in the way both the client(s) and the social worker cooperatively orient to the practice of writing addresses, showing how this apparently simple task is multimodally implemented within interaction, and how it can generate some complications and expansions. A special focus will be devoted to difficulties encountered by clients to give their address in an adequate way, as well as to the transformation of this activity from an individual to a collective task.

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Political Social Work: An Essential Component of the Profession

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration ◽

10.37808/jhhsa.43.4.3 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 359-381

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Social Work ◽

Social Workers ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

Social Work Faculty ◽

Field Placements ◽

High Level ◽

Work Education ◽

Work Knowledge ◽

Initial Results

Social workers have played a key role in political settings from the profession’s historic roots to present day. Their knowledge, skills and values position social workers to practice in political settings. Social work faculty and students were interviewed to assess a) how field placements in legislative offices and participation in Campaign School and NASW-sponsored Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) impacted students’ professional development and perspectives on political social work, and b) social work faculties’ perception of these activities in students’ social work education and necessary political social work knowledge and skills. Initial results demonstrate a high level of support for these activities among faculty and students with opportunities to further include them in the explicit and implicit social work curriculum.

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Promoting Undergraduate Student Research Collaboration: Faculty Perceptions of Benefits and Challenges

Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work ◽

10.18084/basw.14.1.b172444649872588 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Catherine Tompkins ◽

Anissa Rogers ◽

Harriet Cohen

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Faculty Perceptions ◽

Research Process ◽

Work Skills ◽

Social Work Faculty ◽

Literature Reviews ◽

Research Questions ◽

Testing Instruments

Social work faculty from across the country (N=95) were surveyed to explore their perceptions about involving undergraduate students in their research projects. Results indicated that 58% of the respondents used undergraduate students in their research. Reported benefits of this involvement included that students brought enthusiasm, a willingness to learn, and a fresh vision to the research process. Students also brought social work skills and were helpful in conducting literature reviews, designing and pilot testing instruments, collecting and analyzing data, assisting with manuscripts, and presenting at conferences. Challenges reported by respondents included time and financial constraints for students and faculty as well as students' lack of understanding of and confidence about the research process. Implications are discussed, and further research questions are proposed.

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Social Work Faculty: Guidelines for Supporting Social Work Research

Building Research Culture and Infrastructure ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195399646.003.0004 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 62-82

Author(s):

Ruth G. McRoy ◽

Jerry P. Flanzer ◽

Joan Levy Zlotnik

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Work Research ◽

Social Work Faculty

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Social work academia and social policy in Israel: on the role of social work academics in the policy process

Social Work and the Making of Social Policy ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447349150.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 89-104

Author(s):

Idit Weiss-Gal ◽

John Gal

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Policy ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Social Work Faculty ◽

Policy Practice ◽

The Social ◽

Schools Of Social Work ◽

Policy Engagement

This study contributes to research on policy practice by enriching our knowledge about the forms that the policy engagement of social work academics takes, the dynamics of this engagement, and the factors associated with it. The study is based on structured interviews with 24 faculty members from schools of social work in Israel, all of whom are actively involved in policy formulation. The findings of the study reveal that participants are motivated by ideology and values to engage in policy and that they do so despite their perception that there is a lack of institutional support for this type of activity. The participants report that they successfully manage to combine their policy-related activities with teaching and research. The study also indicates that the social policy formulation process in Israel offers specific opportunities for the policy engagement of social work faculty.

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Who Is Citing Your Work? Journals With Impact Factor and h-Index in Social Work and Related Fields

Research on Social Work Practice ◽

10.1177/1049731520963770 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 104973152096377

Author(s):

Monit Cheung ◽

Patrick Leung

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Impact Factor ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Journal Impact Factor ◽

H Index ◽

Journal Publishing ◽

Social Work Faculty ◽

Journal Citation Reports ◽

Journal Impact

Purpose: With journal publishing being an important task for academicians, this article aims to help faculty and researchers increase their productivity by identifying journals with influential impacts on producing scientific knowledge. Method: Since 2004, the authors compiled and updated a journal list annually for social work faculty to use. This list aims to help faculty and researchers, including doctoral students, identify journals with significant scholarly impacts in social work and related fields for national and international recognition. Results: A total of 221 journals are included in the study, covering 44 social work journals with two indexes reported in the Journal Citation Reports® with Journal Impact Factor® and the h-index. Discussion: This list aims to help scholars find appropriate journals for article submissions. The criteria for the authors to select journals to be included in the publication list are also discussed.

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Factors Associated with the Use of SSS among Mothers in Nsukka Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria

International Quarterly of Community Health Education ◽

10.2190/hwl9-vfcj-df5h-x7g3 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 127-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joseph C. Okeibunor ◽

Florence C. Asobie ◽

Chiazor C. Igboeli

Keyword(s):

Urban Communities ◽

Positive Association ◽

Special Focus ◽

Sugar Solution ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Perceived Seriousness ◽

Illness Causation ◽

Perceptual Factors

The study was designed to identify factors influencing mothers' use of SSS in the management of diarrhoea in children. A survey questionnaire was used and a total of 652 mothers drawn from both rural and urban communities were interviewed. The two perceptual factors, perceived seriousness of diarrhoea and perceived efficacy of salt sugar solution (SSS) were found to relate significantly with SSS use. Similar associations were found between knowledge of SSS preparation and beliefs about diarrhoeal illness causation. Of the three demographic factors tested, only one, education, showed potential for influencing SSS use. Religion and residence (rural, urban) were not found to be predictors of SSS use. The positive association of clinic use (as measured by place where the mother gave birth to her last child) with SSS points to the need to improve the quality of facility-based health education with special focus on improving knowledge of SSS preparation procedures and perception of SSS efficacy.

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