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Multicultural Clients: A Professional Handbook For Health Care Providers And Social Workers. Sybil M. Lassiter.
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Sybil M. Lassiter, Multicultural Clients: A Professional Handbook for Health Care Providers and Social Workers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. $65.00 hardcover.
Feminization Of The Aids Epidemic, Mark S. Kaplan
Feminization Of The Aids Epidemic, Mark S. Kaplan
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Although males still constitute a substantial number of persons with AIDS, it is becoming clear that this is a disease affecting women and minority populations more adversely. Today women, while representing approximately 16 percent of all AIDS cases nationwide that are reported to the Centers for Disease Control, make up the fastest-growing segment of the population with AIDS. This article contends that AIDS is increasingly afflicting women who have little economic, political, or social power. Furthermore, misdirected public policy has been partly responsible for the greater incidence of the disease in certain regions and populations.
Attention Deficit Disorder And Case Management: Infusing Macro Social Work Practice, Dennis D. Long
Attention Deficit Disorder And Case Management: Infusing Macro Social Work Practice, Dennis D. Long
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Intervention with children with attention deficit disorders is complex and requires change at multiple system levels using a social work perspective. Case management, macro social work practice, time allocation issues, the structure of a professional self, constraints in expanding a narrow definition of the social worker, and specific macro level intervention areas for social workers are examined in this context.
Women Who Hurt Themselves. Dusty Miller.
Women Who Hurt Themselves. Dusty Miller.
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Dusty Miller, Women Who Hurt Themselves. New York: Basic Books, 1994. $22 hardcover.