Book Reviews

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Human Services at Risk: Administrative Strategies for Survival , edited by Felice Davidson Permutter. Boston, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1984. Reviewed by Mona Struhsaker Schatz

Supervising Student Internships in Human Services , edited by Carlton E. Munson. New York: The Haworth Press, 1984. Reviewed by Harvey Bertcher

Transactional Analysis for Social Workers and Counsellors: An Introduction , by Elizabeth Pitman. London and Boston: Library of Social Work, Routhledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. Reviewed by Edward G. Kuhlmann

Ages in Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Inequality Between Old and Young , by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Reviewed by Bruce A. Thyer

Clinical Social Work in Health Settings , by Thomas Owen Carlton. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1984. Reviewed by John R. Ball     

Book reviews

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Working With Families Gill Gore11 Barnes. Macmillan, BASW Practical Social Work series, 1984. (Reviewed by Elizabeth E. Irvine)

Working With Self-Help Groups

Ann Richardson. Bedford Square Press. £2.50. (Reviewed by Philip Dundon)

Education For Clinical Social Work Practice: Continuity and Change

Louise Bandler Ed. Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1983. Price not stated. (Reviewed by Kenneth K. Smith)

Growing Together: Innovatory Work With A Whole Family.

Smith Joan, Family Service Units, 1985. £3.00. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Smith)     

Collective Impact: A Review of the Peer-reviewed Research

ABSTRACT

Collective Impact (CI) is a framework for collaborative social change that has gained considerable attention over the past seven years. In this article we review the peer-reviewed academic research on the CI framework to understand what is known about its use. Nineteen articles were located. We identified four themes in the research: A need to adapt CI to the specific context, its technical nature, the importance of relationships, and concerns about power and equity. The literature on the CI framework is in its infancy and as such tends to focus on capacity building or model development. Whilst CI promotes important discussion about collaboration and social change, issues of power, equity and grass-roots engagement require further attention.

IMPLICATIONS

• Peer reviewed academic research on the application of CI is at an early stage and further research is needed.

• Social workers should carefully consider critiques of CI before adopting this framework for social change.

     

The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Social Work

Abstract

Social work has a history of treating the whole person in his/her environment, however, the effort to be scientific in our approach to clinical practice often has obscured our examination of the religious and spiritual beliefs and practices of our clients and in our own lives. Consequently, there has been very little guidance to date on how curriculum can help integrate the professional identities of MSW/MDiv students. An elective practice course, “The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Social Work” in our accredited graduate social work program provides a transitional space for this integration to occur through a guiding framework of psychodynamic, systems, and postmodern theories.     

Book reviews

Abstract

TO HA VE AND TO HOLD: Marriage, the First Baby and Preparing for Parenthood

CHRISTOPHER F. CLULOW. Aberdeen University Press, 1982. (Reviewed by Jeanne A. Bertrand)

THE STEP FAMILY: A Growing Challenge for Social Work by DIANA BROWN, Social Work Monograph no.4, 1982

RESPONSIBILITY FOR INCEST: A Feminist View by ANNA FAIRTLOUGH, Social Work Monograph no. 16, 1983

THE PERMANENCY PRINCIPLE IN CHILD CARE SOCIAL WORK by CATRIONA MORRIS, Social Work Monograph no. 21, 1984.

SOCIAL WORK AND MENTAL ILLNESS ALAN BUTLER AND COLIN PRITCHARD

SOCIAL WORK WITH THE FAMILIES OF CHILDREN AWAY FROM HOME SYLVIA MASSEY AND MARY PEALEY

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS (6) Working with Children Editor: JOYCE LISHMAN

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Goal-Directed Supervision of Social Work Students in Field Placement

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Permanency Planning for Children , by Anthony N. Maluccio, Edith Fein, and Kathleen A. Olmstead. London: Tavistock Publications, 1986. Reviewed by Donald Brieland

Feminist Visions for Social Work , edited by Nancy Van Den Bergh and Lynn B. Cooper. Silver Spring, MD: National Association of Social Workers, 1986. Reviewed by Cleo S. Berkum, DSW

People and Contexts: Social Development from Birth to Old Age , by Henry S. Maas. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1984. Reviewed by Harris Chaiklin

Case Management in Human Service Practice by Marie Weil, James M. Karls, and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1985. Reviewed by Doman Lum

Law and the Mental Health System: Civil and Criminal Aspects , by Ralph Reisner. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1985. Reviewed by Wynne Sandra Korr

Testing the Social Safety Net , by Martha R. Burt and Karen J. Pittman. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1985. Reviewed by Julia M. Watkins     

Journal abstracts

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Clinical social work journal, spring 1983, vol.22, no.1

Seari, Carolyn “On the place of reality in social work and psychoanalytic theory” (Abstracted by Frances Chase)

Clinical Social Work Journal Spring 1983, Vol.11, No.1

Weber, Susan B. “On women in therapy and women as therapists” (Abstracted by Frances Chase)

Clinical Social Work Journal, Spring 1983, Vol.11, No.1

Poncelet, Noelle M. “A family systems view of emotional disturbance during pregnancy” (Abstracted by Frances Chase)

Clinical Social Work Journal, Summer 1983, Vol.11, No.2

Smaldino, Angelo From action to reflection: new depths in psychotherapy with drug addicts (Abstracted by Frances Chase)

Changes, 1984, Vol.2, No.3, pp.76–79

Langley, Dorothy Metaphor in the search for self (Abstracted by Jill Hopkins)

Family Process, 1983, Vol.22, No.4

Cooklin, A., Miller, A.C., McHugh, B. “An institution for change: developing of a Family Day Unit.” (Abstracted by Robin Piper)

Family Process, 1983, Vol.22, No.4

Sluzki, C.E. “Process, structure and world views - toward an integrated view of systemic models in family therapy”. (Abstracted by Robin Piper)

International Child Welfare Review, December 1983, No.59

Fuente, Amando Vega “The maladjusted child is powerless in the face of drugs” A survey carried out in a juvenile remand centre and reformatory in Spain, amongst 50 children (Abstracted by Veronica Piercy)

International Child Welfare Review, June 1984, No.61

Traber, J. “A special being, doing a special job in a special place - a fresh look at the institutional talcing into care of children and adolescents” (Abstracted by Veronica Piercy)

Journal of Family Therapy, 1984, Vol.6, No.2

Lau, Annie “Transcultural issues in family therapy” (Abstracted by Leonard Davis)

Journal of Family Therapy, 1984, Vol.6, No.2

O'Hagan, Kieran “Family crisis intervention in social services” (Abstracted by Leonard Davis)

Journal of Family Therapy, 1984, Vol.6, No.1

Campion, Jean Psychological services for children: using family therapy in the setting of the school psychological service (Abstracted by Leonard Davis)

Social Casework, November 1983, 64, pp.561–5

Rosenfeld, J. M. and Krim, A. “Adversity as opportunity: urban families who did well after a fire” (Abstracted by Jona Rosenfeld)

International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 1983 Vol.4, No.3

Munich, R.L. “Suicide on an inpatient unit: a sociotherapeutic view” (Abstracted by Leonard Davis)

International Journal of Therapeutic Communities 1983, Vol.4, No.4

De Leon, G. “The next therapeutic community: autocracy, and other notes toward integrating old and new therapeutic communities” (Abstracted by Leonard Davis)

International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 1984, No.l, Vol.4, pp.25–37

Bell, M. D. and Ryan, E. R. “The therapeutic community meeting: theory and technique” (Abstracted by Leonard Davis)

International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 1984, Vol.4, No.l, pp.6–24

Lees, J. D. and Manning, N. “Problems in the psychology of personality and environment, and some Marxist solutions” (Abstracted by Leonard Davis)     

Book Review

Abstract

Social Work in Rural Communities, 2nd ed., edited by Leon H. Ginsberg. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education. $13.00 (paper).     

Introduction

SUMMARY

This introduction to Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Mental Health reviews the need for research specific to lesbian and bisexual women's mental health. We also emphasize the need to provide research sensitive to the multidimensional nature of lesbian and bisexual women's lives. We provide a human ecological perspective consistent with lifespan developmental psychology and compatible with Clinical Social Work and Counseling Psychology as well as other interdisciplinary disciplines. With a strong emphasis on empirical research, this volume introduces readers to research that explores and reexamines the interactions between lesbian and bisexual women's mental health and the diverse social contexts in which they (we) live.     

Reviews

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Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners Stephen Rollnick, Pip Mason And Chris Butler Churchill Livingstone (Available From Harcourt Australia)Xii + 225, Soft Cover, $45.95

Contemporary Perspectives on Social Work and the Human Services: Challenges and Change IAN O'Connor, Paul Smyth And Jeni Warburton Pearson Education Australia, Soft CoverRRP $39.95

A Matter Of Attitude: Older People Confronting The Fear Of Frailty Video Review Office Of Aging, Department Of Families Youth And Community Care, Queensland, 1999, 30 Minutes     

New Opportunities and Responsibilities in Our Changing Society

The Assessment of Social Research: Guidelines for the Use of Research in Social Work and Social Science, Tony Tripodi, Philip Fellin, and Henry J. Meyer. Itasca, Ill.; F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., 1969. 297 pages. $7.00, Hardbound. Reviewed by Samuel Finestone

Exemplars of Social Research, edited by PHILIP FELLIN, TONY TRIPODI, and HENRY J. MEYER. Itasca, Ill.; F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., 1969. 377 pages. $4.75, paperback. Reviewed by Samuel Finestone     

Strengthening Australian Families: Socioeconomic Status,Social Connectedness,and Family Functioning

Abstract

Social connectedness has been promoted as one factor that may facilitate optimal functioning for families experiencing economic adversity. Using data from 218 Australian families, the current study explored the relative importance of social connectedness to the functioning of economically diverse families. Overall, results indicated similar levels of social connectedness and family functioning across low- and high-income groups. However, important differences were identified with regards to the relative contribution of social connectedness to the functioning of families across the economic spectrum. Clinical implications arising from these findings include the potential benefit of exploring social connectedness as a routine part of clinical assessment and ongoing intervention for families experiencing economic vulnerability.     

Must Schools of Social Work be Freestanding? Yes!

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Point/Counterpoint is a regular feature of the Journal of Social Work Education. Its purpose is to provide a vehicle for the expression of contrasting views on controversial topics in social work education. Our goal is to illuminate important debates and explore the diverse perspectives that are shaping social work education.

In each issue of the Journal, social work educators are invited to comment on a topic about which they have differing viewpoints. Each commentator is given an opportunity to make a brief rebuttal. In this issue, Barbara Shank (Chair, Department of Social Work, University of St. Thomas and the College of St. Catherine), Irving Piliavin (Director, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Marsha Seltzer (Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison) address the question: Must schools of social work be freestanding?     

Advanced Standing and Two-Year Program MSW Students: An Empirical Investigation of Foundation Interviewing Skills

Abstract

Fifteen advanced standing and 23 two-year program Master of Social Work (MSW) students interviewed a simulated client. Blind raters working from videotapes of these interviews reliably evaluated the students' use of three core interviewing skills: Facilitation, Questioning/Clarification, and Support/Empathy. No statistically significant differences were found between the two groups of students on these skills. These results support the Council on Social Work Education policy of offering advanced standing to graduates of accredited Bachelor of Social Work programs.     

Social Impact Bonds und der Disput um die Wohlfahrt

Social Impact Bonds are novel financial mechanisms for social welfare programs. What’s new about them is that they include professional financial investors into state provision of welfare. Its promise is to help states save public money in times of austerity by becoming more effective and selling their risk of failed social investments to the financial market. Against it, its critics see a further mode of capitalization of the public sphere (Landnahme). This article investigates Social Impact Bond s between the poles of de- and repolitization. On the one hand, the Social Impact Bond prevents public and democratic debates over welfare by means of privatization and methodical rationalization, on the other hand it addresses the welfare state and public expenditures to be important again. This is new, after decades of diminishing welfare states. Which sort of dispute the Social Impact Bond will bring about depends on the institutional context of its implementation.     

Book Reviews

Welfare States in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. Edited by Gösta Esping-Andersen. London, Sage, 1996. 276pp., ISBN 0–7619–5048–6, £13.95.

Social Protection and the European Economic and Monetary Union. Edited by Jozef Pacolet. Aldetshot, Avebury, 1996. 305 pp., ISBN 1–8562–581–2, £40.

Valuazione e sapere sociologico (Evaluation and Sociological Knowledge). Edited by G. Bertin. Milan, Franco Angeli, 1996. 299pp., L. 38.000.

I bisogni dimenticati. Rapporto 1996 su emarginazione ed esclusione sociale (Report on Social Marginalization and Exclusion). Caritas Italiana—Fondazione E. Zancan. Milan, Feltrinelli, 1997. 292pp., L. 30.000.

Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work. Edited by Nigel Parton. London, Routledge, 1996. 238pp., ISBN 0–415–12698–3, £13.99.

Lena Dominelli: Sociology for Social Work. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997. ISBN 0–333–61521–2, £13.99.

Simon Goodwin: Comparative Mental Health Policy: From Institutional to Community Care. London, Sage. 183pp. ISBN 0–8039–7729–8, £13.99.

Anthony Colombo: Understanding Mentally Disordered Offenders. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1997. 226pp. ISBN 1–85972–689–5. £37.50.

Critical Approaches to Ageing and Later Life.

Edited by Anne Jamieson, Sarah Harper and Christina Victor. Buckingham, Open University Press, 1977. 195pp., ISBN 0–335–19725–6. £14.99.

Education and Fascism. Political Identity and Social Education in Nazi Germany. Edited by H. Sünker and H.-U. Otto. London, Falmer Press, 1997. 180pp., ISBN 0–7507–05919-X, £14.95.     

Ccetsw News

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The Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work, as part of a five-year plan to meet its strategic objectives based on its statutory powers and responsibilities, has developed policies and has undertaken a number of measures aimed at facilitating effective anti-racist social work practice.     

Return to Jedwabne 1

A generation of ‘Neo‐Marranos‘. Malgorzata Melchior, Spoleczna tozsamosc jednostki (w swietle wywiadow z Polakami pochodzenia zydowskiego urodzonymi w latach 7 944–1955) (The Social Identity of the Individual in the Light of Interviews with Poles of Jewish Origin Born Between 1944–1955). Warsaw: Warsaw University, The Institute of Applied Social Sciences, 1 990. 315 pp.

Towards a Proper Understanding of Belarusian‐Jewish Relations. Jan Zaprudnik, Belarus—At a Cross‐Road of History. Boulder/ San Francisco/Oxford: Westview Press, 1993. 278pp. illus. Paperback.

Excesses of Polish Nationalism. Wojciech Wrzesinski (ed.), Polska‐Polacy‐mniejszosci narodowe (Poland, the Poles and the National minorities). Wroclaw/Warsaw/Cracow: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, 1992. 421 pp. (Polish Political Thought of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, vol. 8). 45,000 zl.

Returning Images of the Holocaust. ’Returning Images of War’ Exhibition by Israel Zohar and Rivka Golani, 12–31 October 1993, Roy Miles Gallery, London.     

Book reviews: Desire: The politics of sexuality

Abstract

Snitow, Ann and Stansell, Christine and Thompson, Sharon. Virago, 1984. £6.50. (Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Smith)

Research Highlights: No.6 Working with Children

Department of Social Work, Aberdeen. £4.50. (Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Smith)

An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities

Kennard, David and Roberts, Jeff. Routledge and Kegan Paul. £5.95 Paperback. (Reviewed by Pauline Cunningham)     

Social Work Registration: Another Opportunity for Discussion

ABSTRACT

The Social Workers Registration Bill 2018 is before the Parliament of South Australia. It makes provision to establish a social worker registration board with powers to investigate complaints and enforce penalties for breach of competency and ethical standards. This paper presents an argument for the national registration of social workers; and in addition, outlines key considerations for thinking about risk, protection, safeguarding, and implementation that comes with registration.

IMPLICATIONS

• Risk and protection need to be assessed as part of a more comprehensive regulatory framework in the debates of registration.

• If registration is to become part of the regulation of social work, a national approach to social worker registration is indicated, so that a person deregistered in one state cannot be employed as a social worker in another.

• Social worker registration is a potentially useful formal mechanism that offers both a protective safeguard (social worker status) and a corrective safeguard (limiting or de-registering).