6 articles in this issue
Jane Tunstill
Editorial to SWSSR 18(2) discusses concerns about the narrow focus of current British Government plans to reform social work education
Van Tran Kham
In the early 1990s, some academic institutions in Vietnam introduced the subject of social work into their curricula and began training students in related programs. The training was, however, not internally coherent, and social work education in Vietnam ... see more
Michael Emslie
The fact that social welfare professions including social work, youth work and community work deal with the lives and relationships of human beings is far from controversial. What is contentious is that in light of increasing intellectual work on the natu... see more
Ronny Kountor
The aim of this study is to examine the structural model used in explaining the impact of fun activities in changing a person’s behavior toward that activity. This is a cross-sectional survey of 116 respondents that made used of two-step structural equati... see more
Kellie O'Dare Wilson
Social work has used the ecomap approach to situate individuals within their environments since the 1970’s. While a useful tool, ecomaps have limitations, including their qualitative nature and pen-and-paper technology. GIS mapping, when conceptualized as... see more
Kyle A McGregor,James A Hall,David A Wilkerson,Larry W Bennett,Mary A Ott
Children’s and adolescents’ capacity to provide valid informed consent is one of the key ethical concerns in pediatric research. This review of adolescent vulnerability is presented to highlight the complex interplay between capacity and other forms of vu... see more