Social Work - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sexuality and life-threatening illness: implications for social work and palliative care.

30 Jul 2009 Social workers in hospice and palliative care settings have been charged with the responsibility of addressing sexuality with their patients and families. However, little direction has been offered as to how to approach this difficult subject within ... Read more...

Neuroplasticity, psychosocial genomics, and the biopsychosocial paradigm in the 21st century.

30 Jul 2009 The biopsychosocial perspective is a foundation of social work theory and practice. Recent research on neuroplasticity and psychosocial genomics lends compelling support to this perspective by elucidating mechanisms through which psychosocial forces ... Read more...

Professional decision making on elder abuse: systematic narrative review.

29 Jun 2009 Social work and health care professionals internationally are recognizing the need to understand and respond to the abuse of older people. Policy and guidance have identified processes but definitions of key concepts remain problematic, and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Work - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Sexuality and life-threatening illness: implications for social work and palliative care. 30 Jul 2009
• Neuroplasticity, psychosocial genomics, and the biopsychosocial paradigm in the 21st century. 30 Jul 2009
• Professional decision making on elder abuse: systematic narrative review. 29 Jun 2009
• Segmented assimilation theory and the life model: an integrated approach to understanding immigrants and their children. 29 Jun 2009
• Advancing the Africentric paradigm shift discourse: building toward evidence-based Africentric interventions in social work practice with African Americans. 29 Jun 2009
• [The medical social issues of developing the rehabilitation service for disabled children] 29 Apr 2009
• Discharge planning from hospital to home for elderly patients: a meta-analysis. 30 Mar 2009
• Styles of evidence-based practice in the child welfare system. 30 Mar 2009
• Evidence-based practice for youth in supervised out-of-home care: a framework for development, definition, and evaluation. 30 Mar 2009
• A reflection on reasons, preconditions, and effects of implementing evidence-based practice in social work. 30 Mar 2009
• Social work practice with Latinos: key issues for social workers. 30 Mar 2009
• Innovative service or proselytizing: exploring when services delivery becomes a platform for unwanted religious persuasion. 30 Mar 2009
• Older adult inmates: the challenge for social work. 30 Mar 2009
• Restorative justice as social justice for victims of gendered violence: a standpoint feminist perspective. 30 Mar 2009
• Bereavement and bereavement care in health and social care: provision and practice in Scotland. 27 Feb 2009
• Therapeutic letters as relationally responsive practice. 30 Jan 2009
• The changing face of opioid addiction: prescription pain pill dependence and treatment. 30 Jan 2009
• From hospital to nursing facility: factors influencing decisions. 30 Jan 2009
• Education: a complex and empowering social work intervention at the end of life. 30 Jan 2009
• Between the professional and the private: the meaning of working with intimate partner violence in social workers' private lives. 6 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Social Work'

Definition: The use of community resources, individual case work, or group work to promote the adaptive capacities of individuals in relation to their social and economic environments. It includes social service agencies.

Descriptor UI: D012947

Alternative terms: Social Work; Work, Social; Social Service; Service, Social; Services, Social; Social Services; Social Workers; Social Worker; Worker, Social; Workers, Social;

Related Mesh Headings: Community Health Services; Relief Work;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.880.792; N02.421.849;

Online Note: use SOCIAL WORK to search SOCIAL SERVICE 1966-77

History Note: 78; was SOCIAL SERVICE 1963-77

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif