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Social Work Theories

Guide to locating information on social work theories

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References

Acevedo, V. (2008). Cultural competence in a group intervention designed for Latino patients living with HIV/AIDS. Health & Social Work, 33(2), 111-120.

Amodeo, M., Peou, S., Grigg-Saito, D., Berke, H., Pin-Riebe, S., & Jones, L. K. (2004). Providing culturally specific substance abuse services in refugee and immigrant communities: Lessons from a Cambodian treatment and demonstration project. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 4(3), 23-46. doi:10.1300/J160v04n03_03

Andersen, T. H. (2013). Against the wind: Male victimization and the ideal of manliness. Journal of Social Work, 13(3), 231-247. doi:10.1177/1468017311410002

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Carstens, C. A. (2001). Defining the boundaries: Social worker assessment of sexual abuse in a cultural context – multivariate analysis of personal and professional factors influencing social workers' labelling of intimacy behaviour. Child & Family Social Work, 6(4), 315-325. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2206.2001.00212.x

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Coulter, S., Campbell, J., Duffy, J., & Reilly, I. (2013). Enabling social work students to deal with the consequences of political conflict: Engaging with Victim/Survivor service users and a ‘Pedagogy of discomfort’. Social Work Education, 32(4), 439-452. doi:10.1080/02615479.2012.668180

Eisikovits, Z., Buchbinder, E., & Bshara, A. (2008). Between the person and the culture: Israeli Arab couple's perceptions of police intervention in intimate partner violence. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 17(2), 108-129. doi:10.1080/15313200801941531

Fargion, S. (2014). Synergies and tensions in child protection and parent support: Policy lines and practitioners cultures. Child & Family Social Work, 19(1), 24-33. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00877.x

Gambrill, E. (2014). The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders as a major form of dehumanization in the modern world. Research on Social Work Practice, 24(1), 13-36. doi:10.1177/1049731513499411

Garb, Y., & Goren, T. (2010). Cultural and ecological contexts of violent punishment and restraint of Negev Bedouin children: From understandings to interventions. Child Abuse Review, 19(4), 273-290.

Graham, J. R., Bradshaw, C., & Trew, J. L. (2009). Adapting social work in working with Muslim clients. Social Work Education, 28(5), 544-561. doi:10.1080/02615470802400729

Haight, W., Kayama, M., & Korang-Okrah, R. (2014). Ethnography in social work practice and policy. Qualitative Social Work, 13(1), 127-143. doi:10.1177/1473325013507303

Katiuzhinsky, A., & Okech, D. (2014). Human rights, cultural practices, and state policies: Implications for global social work practice and policy. International Journal of Social Welfare, 23(1), 80-88. doi:10.1111/ijsw.12002

Lemberger, M. E., & Hutchison, B. (2014). Advocating student-within-environment: A humanistic approach for therapists to animate social justice in the schools. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 54(1), 28-44. doi:10.1177/0022167812469831

Lessard, G., Flynn, C., Turcotte, P., Damant, D., Vézina, J., Godin, M., . . . Rondeau-Cantin, S. (2010). Child custody issues and co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment: Controversies and points of agreement amongst practitioners. Child & Family Social Work, 15(4), 492-500. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00705.x

Liebermann, S. C., Wegge, J., Jungmann, F., & Schmidt, K. (2013). Age diversity and individual team member health: The moderating role of age and age stereotypes. Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, 86(2), 184-202. doi:10.1111/joop.12016

Limb, G., Hodge, D., Leckie, R., & Ward, P. (2013). Utilizing spiritual lifemaps with LDS clients: Enhancing cultural competence in social work practice. Clinical Social Work Journal, 41(4), 395-405. doi:10.1007/s10615-012-0404-3

Meyers, S. (2006). Role of the social worker in old versus new culture in nursing homes. Social Work, 51(3), 273-277.

Mirsky, J. (2013). Getting to know the piece of fluff in our ears: Expanding practitioners' cultural self-awareness. Social Work Education, 32(5), 626-638. doi:10.1080/02615479.2012.701279

Ng, J., Popova, S., Yau, M., & Sulman, J. (2007). Do culturally sensitive services for Chinese in-patients make a difference? Social Work in Health Care, 44(3), 129-143. doi:10.1300/J010v44n03-01

Nguyen, D., & Reardon, L. J. (2013). The role of race and English proficiency on the health of older immigrants. Social Work in Health Care, 52(6), 599-617. doi:10.1080/00981389.2013.772554

Nimmagadda, J., & Cowger, C. D. (1999). Cross-cultural practice. International Social Work, 42(3), 261-277.

Patterson, D. A., Dulmus, C. N., & Maguin, E. (2013). Is openness to using empirically supported treatments related to organizational culture and climate? Journal of Social Service Research, 39(4), 562-571. doi:10.1080/01488376.2013.804023

Reeves, C. (2013). 'The others': Sex offenders' social identities in probation approved premises. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52(4), 383-398. doi:10.1111/hojo.12018

Richards-Schuster, K., & Aldana, A. (2013). Learning to speak out about racism: Youths' insights on participation in an intergroup dialogues program. Social Work with Groups, 36(4), 332-348. doi:10.1080/01609513.2013.763327

Rodenborg, N. A., & Boisen, L. A. (2013). Aversive racism and intergroup contact theories: Cultural competence in a segregated world. Journal of Social Work Education, 49(4), 564-579. doi:10.1080/10437797.2013.812463

Russell, M. N., & White, B. (2001). Practice with immigrants and refugees: Social worker and client perspectives. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 9(3), 73-92.

Russell, M. N., & White, B. (2002). Social worker and immigrant client experiences in multicultural service provision: Educational implications. Social Work Education, 21(6), 635-650. doi:10.1080/0261547022000026355

Sampson, M., Zayas, L., & Seifert, S. (2013). Treatment engagement using motivational interviewing for low-income, ethnically diverse mothers with postpartum depression. Clinical Social Work Journal, 41(4), 387-394. doi:10.1007/s10615-012-0422-1

Scherrer, K. (2013). Culturally competent practice with bisexual individuals. Clinical Social Work Journal, 41(3), 238-248. doi:10.1007/s10615-013-0451-4

Seeley, K. M. (2004). Short-term intercultural psychotherapy: Ethnographic inquiry. Social Work, 49(1), 121-130.

Shibusawa, T., & Chung, I. (2009). Wrapping and unwrapping emotions: Clinical practice with east Asian immigrant elders. Clinical Social Work Journal, 37(4), 312-319. doi:10.1007/s10615-009-0228-y

Smith, K. (2013). Decolonizing queer pedagogy. Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work, 28(4), 468-470. doi:10.1177/0886109913505814

Swallow, V. M., Nightingale, R., Williams, J., Lambert, H., Webb, N. J. A., Smith, T., . . . Allen, D. (2013). Multidisciplinary teams, and parents, negotiating common ground in shared-care of children with long-term conditions: A mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research, 13(1), 264-280. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-264

Tosone, C. (2005). The guijin therapist and the nature of therapeutic truth: A relational perspective. Clinical Social Work Journal, 33(1), 9-19.