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Full-Text Articles in Social Work
Changing The World With One Cell: The Story Of Hela, Allison Roberts
Changing The World With One Cell: The Story Of Hela, Allison Roberts
Allison Roberts
Poster Created for the Diversity Committee Fall 2011 Culture Corner featuring The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks’ cell culture spawned changes in medicine, science, ethics, society and the world. This Semester’s Culture Corner features selections from UT Libraries collection that highlight the areas effected by this one human and her immortal cell.
Social Justice Education: Impacts On Social Attitudes, Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Janna C. Heyman
Social Justice Education: Impacts On Social Attitudes, Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Janna C. Heyman
School of Social Work Faculty Publications
Paramount to multicultural social work practice is acquiring a comprehensive understanding of oppressed and vulnerable populations who often lack access to healthcare and economic resources. A practitioner’s self-awareness of social attitudes can provide a foundation for developing cultural competency skills. Using a pretest posttest design, social attitudes of Master of Social Work (MSW) students enrolled in a required social justice course were examined (N=85). A repeated-measure MANOVA indicated significant main effects on: 1) within subject factor of time on students’ cognitive attitudes towards racial diversity, affective attitudes toward racial diversity, and women equity following students’ exposure to the social justice …
Diversity Within Bachelor Of Social Work Programs: Perspectives And Interventions, Brian Warner
Diversity Within Bachelor Of Social Work Programs: Perspectives And Interventions, Brian Warner
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
Diversity is a term that has become increasingly relevant in the field of social work. Perhaps there is no other sector of the social work profession where diversity is more relevant than in higher education. With the ever changing ethnic and racial make-up of the United States, it is imperative that social work educators are able to convey the differences and/or challenges that working with diverse individuals will present. One of the easiest and most direct ways for this to occur is for the student body itself to be diverse. Yet, many social work programs have remained ethnically and racially …