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Hiring Social Work Faculty: An Analysis Of Employment Announcements, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Hiring Social Work Faculty: An Analysis Of Employment Announcements, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Social Work Department Publications
An eleven-month long analysis of social work faculty position advertisements examined differences in social work faculty job descriptions between past and present findings, rural land, urban-located social work programs, doctorate and non-doctorate conferring institutions, and public and private institutions. Additionally, this investigation addressed 2008 EPAS standard 3.3.1 expectations regarding practice.
Finding Citations To Social Work Literature: The Relative Benefits Of Using Web Of Science, Scopus, Or Google Scholar, Elaine M. Lasda Bergman
Finding Citations To Social Work Literature: The Relative Benefits Of Using Web Of Science, Scopus, Or Google Scholar, Elaine M. Lasda Bergman
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
Past studies of citation coverage of Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar do not demonstrate a consistent pattern that can be applied to the interdisciplinary mix of resources used in social work research. To determine the utility of these tools to social work researchers, an analysis of citing references to well-known social work journals was conducted. Web of Science had the fewest citing references and almost no variety in source format. Scopus provided higher citation counts, but the pattern of coverage was similar toWeb of Science. Google Scholar provided substantially more citing references, but only …
The School Success Program: Improving Maltreated Children's Academic And School-Related Outcomes, Christopher A. Mallett
The School Success Program: Improving Maltreated Children's Academic And School-Related Outcomes, Christopher A. Mallett
Social Work Faculty Publications
Many victims of childhood maltreatment experience difficulties in school and with academic performance. This article reviews the evidence on the connection between child- hood maltreatment and school performance and presents an evaluation of a unique program established by Children's Services in Lorain County, Ohio. Since 2001, the School Success Program, in collaboration with 18 Ohio public school districts, has provided individual tutoring and mentoring by certified teachers to 615 maltreated children and youths, working closely with the whole family in an in-home setting. Most children and youths in the program have progressed to their appropriate grade level while improving overall …
Frederic Siedenburg, Sj: The Journey Of A Social Activist, Edward Gumz
Frederic Siedenburg, Sj: The Journey Of A Social Activist, Edward Gumz
Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is an archival study of Frederic Siedenburg, SJ, a Jesuit, who founded the first Catholic-Jesuit School of Social Work in the United States at Loyola University of Chicago in 1914. This study examines the multi-faceted career of this sociologist who served at two Catholic universities from 1914 through the 1930s when Progressivism and the New Deal in the United States were attempts to deal with social reform; the Catholic Church, in a variety of ways, responded to these reform efforts. Siedenburg espoused Catholic social teaching and attempted to carry out its tenets within a Catholic context as an educator …
Reflections And The Narrative Turn In Social Work, Benjamin C. Shepard
Reflections And The Narrative Turn In Social Work, Benjamin C. Shepard
Publications and Research
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