Women Social Workers, Career Commitment and Continuing Education

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Zmira Laufer ◽  
Nachman Sharon
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Career Commitment ◽  
Women Social Workers

Licensure: Help or Hindrance to Women Social Workers

1987 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Rehner Iversen
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Women Social Workers

Understanding Lesbian Women

1980 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Freud Loewenstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Lesbian Women ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Women Social Workers ◽  
Relationship Styles

Lesbian women are as diverse in childhood histories, personality characteristics, and relationship styles as heterosexual women. Social workers can offer lesbians particular assistance in issues related to self-esteem and can help mediate their acceptance by courts in custody cases, by their parents, and by society in general.

Situated Voices: ‘Black Women's Experience’ and Social Work

1996 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Women Social Workers

The article uses a discourse analytic approach to explore some of the ways in which black women social workers invoke the category ‘experience’ as a means by which to mediate their structural and discursive location in social services departments. The article draws on current feminist theoretical debates about ‘experience’ and the ‘multivocality’ of black women as they construct dialogic spaces with diverse interlocutors. In so doing an argument is made for an understanding of ‘black women's experience’ as constituted rather than descriptive.

Native Americans: Overview

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary N. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Nations People ◽  
Women Social Workers

First Nations Peoples, the original inhabitants of what is now the United States, are diverse and growing populations. There are approximately 5.2 million First Nations Peoples within the boundaries of the United States, accounting for 1.7% of the general population (Norris, Vines, & Hoeffel, 2012). First Nations people tend to be younger, poorer, and less educated than others in the United States. The contemporary issues faced by these peoples are intimately intertwined with the history of colonization and current federal policies that perpetuate dependency and undermine self-determination. Social workers must overcome the negative history of the profession with First Nations Peoples, in particular social work involvement in extensive child removals and coercive sterilization of Indigenous women. Social workers have the power and ability to make important differences in enhancing the social and health status of First Nations Peoples, but this must begin with an awareness of their own attitudes and beliefs, as well as an awareness of how social workers have contributed to, rather than worked to alleviate, the problems of First Nations Peoples.

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