Reviews

Books reviewed:
Mich`e Barrett Imagination in Theory
Davina Cooper Governing Out of Order: Space, Law and the Politics of Belonging
Jock Young The Exclusive Society
Elizabeth Hallam, Jenny Hockey and Glenys Howarth Beyond The Body: Death and Social Identity
Ian Culpitt More Practice Needed
Ian Culpitt Social Policy and Risk     

Clinical social work practice in a turbulent world

Abstract

The New Shape of Families: Impact on treatment

Family Violence

The Interface of Clinical Social Work and the Community

The Impact of Conservative governments on Social Welfare Policy and Clinical Services     

Queering Canadian Social Work Accreditation standards and procedures: a content analysis

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews and critically analyzes the Canadian Association for Social Work Education—Association Canadienne Pour La Formation En Travail Social’s (CASWE-ACFTS’) Accreditation Standards and Procedures from a Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIESC) lens to examine how such are addressed in relevant documents. The CASWE-ACFTS Queer Caucus undertook a lead role in examining ‘diversity’ in the documents as it serves as an umbrella term for SOGIESC and other intersecting positionalities. This paper iterates an initial response in the CASWE-ACFTS Queer Caucus’ ongoing consultation with the CASWE-ACFTS’s Education Policy Committee’s work on Education Policy and Accreditation Standards 2019 (EPAS2019). The content analysis of the documents reveals that SOGIESC issues are not adequately addressed and this has implications for undergraduate and graduate social work curricula in Canada. The authors provide recommendations that address the integration of SOGIESC in CASWE-ACFTS’s Accreditation Standards and Procedures documents.     

Promoting Election-Related Policy Practice Among Social Work Students

Political involvement is an integral component of the social work profession, yet there is no explicit reference to social work participation in election-related activities in either the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics or the Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Social work education may offer an opportune time to shape crucial patterns of future electoral participation among social workers. This study examines BSW, MSW, and PhD student electoral involvement during the 2012 presidential election and ways social work program administrators across the country encouraged students to acquire skills and experience in election-related policy practice during the election season. Findings indicate that the extent of opportunities offered to students varied widely across programs as well as across types of electoral activities.     

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series, May 1st-31st 2003 Published June 26th 2003

In This Issue Algeria PM Dismissed 15296 Nigeria Obasanjo ‐ Task Ahead 15300 Burundi Smooth Handover 15307 DR Congo Battle For Bunia 15309 Zimbabwe Impasse? 15315 Africa ‐ US Bush's Policy 15320 Contents Continental Alignments 15294 Internal Developments 15296 National Security 15306 Military 15318 Overseas Relations 15320 Social and Cultural 15323 Rates 15293 Index 15326     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Democracy and Community: A Study of Politics in Sheffield. by William Hampton. British Social Policy, 1914–1939 by Bentley B. Gilbert. Exploration into Child Care by Peter Boss. Introduction to Social Research by S. Labovitz and R. Hagedorn. Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View by Charles Perrow. Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organisations by Harrison C. White. Race and Racialism edited by Sami Zubaida. The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory by Anselm L. Strauss. Religious Sects by Bryan Wilson. Rural Exodus: A Study of the Forces Influencing the large-Scale Migration of Irish Rural Youth by Damian Hannan. Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge by Reinhard Bendix. Social Policy in Context by Joyce Warham. Let's Look at the Figures by D. J. Bartholomew and E. E. Bassett. Merseyside Social and Economic Studies edited by R. Lawton and C. M. Cunningham. The Sociology of Art and Literature edited by M. C. Albrecht et al. The Social Context of Art edited by J. Creedy. The Uneasy Partnership: Social Science and the Federal Government in the Twentieth Century by Gene M. Lyons. The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology by Alvin W. Gouldner. Language and Poverty: Perspectives on a Theme edited by Frederick Williams.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Bauman, Zygmunt In Search of Politics
Beynon, Huwand Glavanis, Pandeli Patterns of Social Inequality
Eisenstadt, S. N. Paradoxes of Democracy: Fragility, Continuity and Change
Gilbert, Nigel and Troitzsch, Klaus G. Simulation for the Social Scientist
Goldscheider, Frances and Goldscheider, Calvin The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Leaving and Returning Home
Heath, Anthony F., Breen, Richard and Whelan, Christopher T. (eds) Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science
Nelson, Robert L. and Bridges, William P. Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America
O'Connor, Julia. S., Orloff, Ann Shola and Shaver, Sheila States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States     

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series, April 1st–30th 2006

In This Issue Refugees UNHCR Report 16602 Nigeria Third Term Agenda 16607 Chad Rebels Attack Capital 16614 Sierra Leone Taylor Pleads 'Not Guilty' 16619 Somalia US Policy? 16621 Health Malaria Report 16631 Contents Continental Alignments 16601 Internal Developments 16604 National Security 16613 Military 16625 Overseas Relations 16628 Social and Cultural 16631 Rates 16633 Index 16634     

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series, November 1st–30th 2004

In This Issue Pan–African Parliament Tough Challenges 15980 Namibia Nujoma's Man 15986 Nigeria The Edge of Chaos? 15990 Tension in Anambra 16000 Sudan Policy Failure 16003 Uganda Temporary Truce 16004 Culture Growth Sector 16011 Contents Continental Alignments 15979 Internal Developments 15982 National Security 15993 Military 16006 Overseas Relations 16008 Social and Cultural 16011 Rates 16013 Index 16014     

Reviews

Reviewed in this article:
Time Matters: On Theory and Method Andrew Abbott
Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity Andrew Wernick
Education Policy and Realist Social Theory: Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism Robert Willmott
The New Genetics and the Public's Health Alan Petersen and Robin Bunton
Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement Mitchell L. Stevens     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Redefining Fatherhood Nancy E. Dowd
The Invention of the Passport. Surveillance, Citizenship and the State John Torpey
Comparative Social Policy: Concepts, Theories and Methods, Jochen Clasen (ed.)
Risk Deborah Lupton
Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life David Lyon
Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life, Michael Bull     

How strong is the Social Security safety net? Using the Elder Index to assess gaps in economic security

Older Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits (SSBs) to support independent lifestyles, and many have few or no additional sources of income. We establish the extent to which SSBs adequately support economic security, benchmarked by the Elder Economic Security Standard Index. We document variability across U.S. counties in the adequacy levels of SSBs among older adults. We find that the average SSBs fall short of what is required for economic security in every county in the United States, but the level of shortfall varies considerably by location. Policy implications relating to strengthening Social Security and other forms of retirement income are discussed.     

Issues and Challenges in Gatekeeping: A Framework for Implementation

Social work educators' role in gatekeeping within BSW and MSW academic programs continues to be a concern and challenge for the profession. Social work programs are the entry point in which students develop the required competencies to practice within the field. The social work literature on gatekeeping is extensive and expansive. The literature reviews and addresses the importance and need for gatekeeping as well as challenges in implementing gatekeeping within social work programs. This paper reviews the literature on gatekeeping in social work programs, discusses the legal issues pertinent to gatekeeping, and identifies the challenges faced by social work programs in implementing gatekeeping procedures. The paper suggests an integrated conceptual framework using the Council on Social Work Education's Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) for competencies in gatekeeping in social work programs.     

Postmodernism: A Dead End in Social Work Epistemology

Postmodernism continues to have a detrimental influence on social work, questioning the Enlightenment, criticizing established research methods, and challenging scientific authority. The promotion of postmodernism by editors of Social Work and the Journal of Social Work Education has elevated postmodernism, placing it on a par with theoretically guided and empirically based research. The inclusion of postmodernism in the 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards of the Council on Social Work Education and its 2015 sequel further erode the knowledge-building capacity of social work educators. In relation to other disciplines that have exploited empirical methods, social work’s stature will continue to ebb until postmodernism is rejected in favor of scientific methods for generating knowledge.     

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Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: DANIELGLENDAY, HUBERTGUINDON, and ALLAN TUROWETZ (eds.), Modernization and the Canadian State. GORDON BOWKER and JOHN CARRIER. Race and Ethnic Relations: Sociological Readings. JOSEPH F. KRAUTER and MORRIS DAVIS. Minority Canadians: Ethnic Group. PAT ARMSTRONG and HUGH ARMSTRONG. The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work. LEROY O. STONE and CLAUDE MARCEAU. Canadian Population Trends and Public Policy Through the 1980's. KAROL KROTKI (ed.). Developments in Dual System Estimation of Population Size and Growth. MARTIN RULMER (ed.). Mining and Social Change. M. SILVERMAN and R.F. SALISBURY. A House Divided.? anthropological Studies of Factionalism: Social and Economic Papers No. 9. Institute of Social and Economic Research. RENEE G. KASINSKY. Refugees From Militarism: Draft-age Americans in Canada.     

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: JEAN STOCKARD and MARIAN M. JOHNSON, Sex Roles: Sex Inequality and Sex Role Development. MARGRIT EICHLER, The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science. ALICE M. YOHALEM, The Careers of Professional Women: Commitment and Conflict. MARTIN KING WHYTE, The Status of Women in Preindustrial Societies JACQUES DONZELOT, The Policing of Families. Toronto: Random House of Canada SHANKAR A. YELAJA (ed.), Canadian Social Policy. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier GAYLENE BECKER, Growing Old in Silence. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London ELLIOTT A. KRAUSE. Power and Illness. The Political Sociology of Health and Medical THEDA SKOCPOL, States and Social Revolutions, NY: Cambridge VINCENT WRIGHT, The Government and Politics of France. London JOHN McCALLUM, Unequal Beginnings: Agriculture and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario Until 1870. Toronto DOUG OWRAM, Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856–1900. Toronto J. RICK PONTING and ROGER GIBBINS, Out of Irrelevance: A Socio-Political Introduction to Indian Affairs in Canada. Toronto ROBERT A. SCOTT and ARNOLD R. SHORE, Why Sociology Does Not Apply: A Study of the Use of Sociology in Public Policy. WILLIAM SKIDMORE, Theoretical Thinking in Sociology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge JAMES A. SCHELLENBERG, Masters of Social Psychology. New York GREGORY BAUM (ed) Sociology and Human Destiny: Essays on Sociology, Religion and Society. New York EDWARD A. MAZIARZ (ed.), Value and Values in Evolution. New York BRYAN R. WILSON, The Noble Savages: The Primitive Origins of Charisma and its Contemporary Survival. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London ARON HOROWTIZ, Striking Roots: Reflections on Five Decades of Jewish Life. Oakville PIERRE CLICHE, Espace Social et Mobilité Residentielle. Québec: Les Presses de ?     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Implementing Rural Development Projects. Edited by Elliott R. Morss and David D. Gow. Boulder Rural Project Management. By Vincent Austin. Guide to Social Assessment: A Framework for Assessing Social Change. By Kristi Branch, Douglas A. Hooper, James Thompson and James Creighton. Politics and Economics of External Debt Crisis: The Latin American Experience. Edited by Miguel S. Wionczek. Foreign Debt and Latin American Economic Development. Edited by Antonio Jorge, Jorge Salazar-Carillo and René P. Higonnet. Room for Manoeuvre: An Exploration of Public Policy in Agriculture and Rural Development. Edited by E. J. Clay and B. B. Schaffer. The Impending Crisis in Kenya: the Case for Land Reform. By Diana Hunt. Recurrent Costs and Agricultural Development. Edited by John Howell. Labelling in Development Policy: Essays in Honour of Bernard Schaffer. Edited by Geoff Wood. Bahrain and the Gulf. By Jeffrey Nugent and Theodore H. Thomas. UK Aid to African Agriculture. All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development. Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics. By Vicky Randall and Robin Theobald.     

Family homelessness in Britain: More than just a housing issue

This article offers an analysis of family homelessness in Britain and makes suggestions for change and development in both policy and practice. In Britain, family homelessness too often has been defined solely as a housing issue. The author asserts that this approach ignores the evidence that it is a complex problem in which not only economic and political, but also personal and social, factors play significant roles. The widespread failure to recognize the broad range of needs and problems experienced by homeless families seriously limits British vision and creativity in developing potential solutions. The article sets forth a number of policy recommendations, including developing comprehensive housing and service programs for homeless families; adding an intensive service component to existing homeless-at-home programs; emphasizing homelessness prevention; better utilizing persistently vacant housing; better utilizing the private rental sector; and exchanging Britain's present national commitment to temporary accommodation for an ongoing commitment to build sufficient affordable housing. These recommendations are based on the author's experience as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford and on her 10 years of work with homeless families in the United States.     

The Use-of-Selves Interdependent Model: A Pedagogical Model for Reflective Practice

Use of self is an integral concept in social work practice. It is implicitly embedded throughout the Council for Social Work Education’s Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards and the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics. The present exploratory study developed a pedagogical model for use in social work education: use of selves interdependent model (USIM). Use-of-self essay assignments (N=17) in two sections of an MSW concentration-year integrative field seminar were used to further inform the model. Using constant comparative methods, the student essays were qualitatively analyzed and coded for USIM domains and elements. Exploratory study results suggested there is support for numerous domains and elements in the model.