Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960337
Ellen M. Burkemper, J. Stretch
{"title":"The right of justice: Contributions of social work practice‐research","authors":"Ellen M. Burkemper, J. Stretch","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960337","url":null,"abstract":"This volume addresses justice. The articles, written by social workers, examine societal structures that present challenges to justice and point to possibilities for change. Social justice has consistently been of importance in the field of social work in its historical efforts to alleviate social problems (Reid, 1977). Brieland (1981) champions justice as a basic human right. Social justice is difficult to fully conceptualize. The definition of social justice in the Social Work Dictionary is an \"ideal condition in which all members of a society have the same basic rights, protection, opportunities, obligations, and social benefits\" (Barker, 1999, p. 451). The National Association of Social","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960337","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960326
C. Faver
{"title":"Being called: Women's paths to service and activism","authors":"C. Faver","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960326","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explored how women experience God's “call” to vocations in social service and social activism. In‐depth interviews were conducted with fifty Protestant laywomen who were providing social services or working for social change as volunteers or professionals in sectarian and secular agencies and organizations. Using a grounded interpretive method, the analysis of the interviews revealed that the respondents heard God's call as a “still, small voice” and were “led” to their work through a sense of urgency to respond to particular needs, through experiences and observations of oppression and injustice, and through discovering ways to use their unique gifts and skills to help others. Insights from the study can inform social workers’ self‐examination of their own “call” to the profession and their work with religious organizations involved in community‐based social programs and services.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"63 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960326","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960346
Cathryne L. Schmitz, Michelle Vazquez Jacobus, Catherine Stakeman, Grace A. Valenzuela, Jane Sprankel
{"title":"Immigrant and refugee communities: Resiliency, trauma, policy, and practice","authors":"Cathryne L. Schmitz, Michelle Vazquez Jacobus, Catherine Stakeman, Grace A. Valenzuela, Jane Sprankel","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960346","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Children and families from immigrant and refugee communities entering new lives in the United States are at risk of traumatic adjustment. Federal policies impact them directly and indirectly, privileging some while challenging others. It is incumbent upon social workers, as professionals committed to social and economic justice, to comprehensively understand the range of obstacles facing immigrants and refugees and empower them in their struggle to make a healthy adjustment. This article weaves together multiple policy and practice strands with discussion of the needs, strengths, and traumas experienced by immigrant and refugee individuals and families. The responses of a small metropolitan community to the needs of diverse immigrant and refugee populations are presented as an exemplar.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"135 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960346","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960348
D. Linhorst, A. Eckert, Gary Hamilton, Eric Young
{"title":"Practicing social justice with persons with mental illness residing in psychiatric hospitals","authors":"D. Linhorst, A. Eckert, Gary Hamilton, Eric Young","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960348","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This article examines the practice of social justice with persons with mental illness residing in public psychiatric hospitals by involving them in decision making. Ten guidelines for involving clients in decision making are offered, which were derived from the professional literature and a study of client decision making at a long‐term public psychiatric hospital. Guidelines include making an organizational commitment to involve clients in decision making, treating the mental illness, providing clients with decision making skills, offering clients options, giving clients information to make informed choices, developing structures and processes for client participation in decision making, properly implementing decision making processes, acting upon clients’ preferences, and publicizing clients’ participation in decision making. The article concludes by discussing the roles played by clinical and administrative staff in promoting social justice by involving clients in decision making in public psychiatric hospitals.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"177 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960323
M. Gibelman, S. Gelman
{"title":"The promise of faith‐based social services: Perception versus reality","authors":"M. Gibelman, S. Gelman","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960323","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the tenets that support the history of faith‐based social services in the United States and highlights the role of faith‐based organizations, which have a long and respected tradition in service provision. These tenets are rooted in the religious and secular precepts of duty, obligation, charity, responsibility, participation, community, and justice. As basic as these concepts are, the 2001 political debate about extending public support of faith‐based services has proven to be divisive rather than unifying. The concepts and practice of, and experience with, faith‐based services provide an important perspective by which to view and assess the 2001 Bush initiative to expand the use of faith‐based groups in the provision of social services. There is an inherent danger in raising expectations about the ability of faith‐based groups to meet social service needs and to do so “better” than other nonprofit or government agencies. Based on this review of the purposes, history, and current capacity of faith‐based groups, implications are identified and future scenarios offered in regard to an extended role of religious groups in service provision.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"23 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960327
M. Zahl
{"title":"Spirituality and social work: A Norwegian reflection","authors":"M. Zahl","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960327","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Inasmuch as social work practice is influenced by the context in which it is performed, it will in some way be influenced by the prevailing belief systems in a country. This article presents some of the context influencing social work in Norway. Even though Norway has a State Church based on the Evangelical‐Lutheran faith, the training of social workers is particularly inclusive of neither a religious nor a spiritual perspective. Religion and spirituality are not a central part in social work practice. We might rather hypothesize that the State Church and its influence on K‐12 education makes religion and culture so intertwined that it is hard to separate them from each other, and that this blend creates a negative alertness for religion and spirituality in general.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"77 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960327","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960328
R. Spano, T. Koenig
{"title":"Moral dialogue: An interactional approach to ethical decision making","authors":"R. Spano, T. Koenig","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960328","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article proposes an ethical decision‐making process for clinical practitioners that bridges the gap between more abstract ethical frameworks in our current literature and the actual process of ethical decision making that occurs at the practice level. The bridge is provided by the use of the concept of “moral dialogue,” which focuses on the ongoing interactions between clients and workers. The use of preexisting clinical skills guides the process of assessment and decision making rooted in the moral aspects of the challenges often embedded in practice situations. Furthermore, this article addresses the usefulness of the emerging literature on spirituality, diversity, narratives and transpersonal theory in adding to the social workers’ capacity to enter this realm of practice from a non‐moralistic stance. Hence, this approach avoids many of the pitfalls that have plagued clients and professionals throughout our history.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"58 1","pages":"103 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960339
M. Gallagher, Cynthia A. Loveland Cook, Susan C. Tebb, M. Berg-Weger
{"title":"Practicing social justice: Community‐based research, education, and practice","authors":"M. Gallagher, Cynthia A. Loveland Cook, Susan C. Tebb, M. Berg-Weger","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960339","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The Center for Social Justice Research and Education at Saint Louis University has implemented a model of collaborative research and education among social work practitioners, university faculty and students. The partnerships promote creative practice of social justice in the community. Social workers in community agencies articulate the relevant practice problems for students and faculty; faculty offer methodological and resource assistance to practitioners; students learn social justice best at the intersection of the perspectives of university and community. Steps in the implementation of the model and examples of the collaboration are described.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"27 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960339","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960329
J. Dwoskin
{"title":"Hannah Arendt on thinking and action: A bridge to the spiritual side of social work","authors":"J. Dwoskin","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960329","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social workers are being challenged to incorporate a spiritual perspective into their frames of practice. In the tradition of borrowing from other disciplines, the philosophy of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), a modern political thinker, has much to offer our profession in this regard. The spiritual resides in an invisible realm. Hannah Arendt, in her writings, describes a part of this invisible world, the world of thinking. She ties this invisible realm to moral consideration and to action. She does not describe her ideas as spiritual, yet the elements that comprise this universal aspect of being human are implicit in her work. Her particular contribution to how we think and act is a natural and timely link to developing a spiritually sensitive social work practice grounded in the values and ethics of our profession.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"105 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960329","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social thoughtPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2003.9960356
N. Linzer
{"title":"An ethical dilemma in volunteer professional relationships","authors":"N. Linzer","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2003.9960356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960356","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ethical issues in social welfare agencies tend to focus on conflicts between social workers and clients and other personnel. This article discusses a social worker's ethical dilemma when a volunteer seeks to circumvent agency rules. Values, principles, and theories of justice are used to analyze the case, and a process of ethical decision making delineates the steps leading toward the decision.","PeriodicalId":82727,"journal":{"name":"Social thought","volume":"22 1","pages":"37 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15426432.2003.9960356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59932717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}