Introduction to the Special Section on Public Impact Scholarship in Social Work: A Conceptual Review and Call to Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon M. Sliva ◽  
Jennifer C. Greenfield ◽  
Kimberly Bender ◽  
Stacey Freedenthal
2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 698-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Burney Nissen

This article will stretch the boundaries of the interdisciplinary lens to consider the history of and current potential for the arts to enhance, advance, and amplify individual, family, and community social change goals of the social work profession. To begin, consider the following questions: What would inspire artists and social workers to intentionally work together to reveal new strengths, energy, and capacity in the areas we care about? What do the arts have to teach the profession of social work and vice versa? How have the arts already played a role in the profession, and what has impaired social work’s ability to make greater use of the strengths associated with the arts? How have other professions (public health, psychology, education, and others) incorporated partnerships with the arts? This article concludes with a call to action to advance the potential of the arts in coordination with social work and related disciplines.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Annalise John ◽  
Elizabeth Gamarra ◽  
Melissa Bird ◽  
Rachel L. Wright ◽  
Caren J. Frost

The health of women is a crucial component to family and community wellbeing. However, social work scholars have not been very engaged in research pertaining to the health needs of women. With the Grand Challenges of Social Work becoming a major element for national discussion and with the revision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SGD) in 2015, we wondered how connected the 12 Grand Challenges and the 17 SDGs were. We searched the social work literature from 2005 to present to identify what salient publications were available about women’s health and then connected them to the current themes of the Grand Challenges and SDGs. There are no more articles to review in the social work literature. Using a feminist social work framework, we summarize the topics covered in these articles and define a call to action for more scholarly work on women’s health in the context of current national and global conversations about this social justice issue.


Practice ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-292
Author(s):  
Elaine James ◽  
Mark Harvey ◽  
Rob Mitchell

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Carole Adamson ◽  
Simon Lowe
Keyword(s):  

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