Calls for Papers
Call for Chapters
Social Work and Neuroscience
Deadline: March 31, 2012
Implications from the current decade of discovery for social work practice are tremendous. Understanding the ways in which strategic psychosocial interventions act on brain structures to change behavioral response is deeply relevant to the person-in-environment perspective integral to the social wok profession. Therefore, social workers should be committed to reciprocally promoting new developments in social neuroscience research agendas to incorporate a social work perspective that will inform social and behavioral health fields. It is crucial that social workers apply empirical knowledge from the social neuroscience literature to social work education, practitioner training, and innovative treatment development, and reciprocally contribute new scientific discoveries to this knowledge base. This book entitled “Social work and neuroscience: Implications for policy, practice and research” is contracted with Springer Publishing Company to be published in 2013. The book will be a “snapshot” of the current state of the field of social work and neuroscience and will aim to explain the latest findings in simple language, and include clear implications that can be incorporated into social workers’ daily practice, teaching and future research. Please click here for more information about submitting a chapter proposal for this publication.
Call for Papers
SSWR 2013
Deadline: April 30, 2012
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) announces its Seventeenth Annual Conference “Social Work for a Just Society: Making Visible the Stakes and Stakeholders” which will convene in San Diego, CA, January 16-20, 2013. You are invited to submit abstracts for one of the three types of presentations of original research: (1) oral paper presentations; (2) organized symposia; and (3) poster presentations. The conference will also include workshop and roundtable sessions for which you can submit abstracts. Click here for more information.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Edition of Social Work and Christianity: Towards A Christian Critique of Evidence-based Practice in Social Work
Deadline: September 1, 2012
Guest Editors: Michael S. Kelly, Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work & Cynthia Franklin, University of Texas-Austin
Evidence-based Practice (EBP) is now entering its second decade in social work scholarship and practice. This special issue seeks to add a Christian perspective to the literature on the implementation of EBP in social work practice, policy, and education. Many scholars and practitioners hail EBP’s impact on client outcomes and argue that it represents a deepening of our ethical commitment to empowering practitioners with a process and tools that lead to the best possible client care, while other scholars point out the limitations of the EBP approach. This special issue of Social Work & Christianity seeks to expand the epistemological and practical discussions about EBP to add a further (and we believe, necessary) complication to the debate over EBP in social work: namely, how can EBP be practiced in the multitude of Christian social work contexts we see around the world? This special issue seeks to further debate the pros and cons of using EBP in social work by asking simply, “How can Christian social workers incorporate EBP into their work?” Papers for this special issue are encouraged to look at EBP as a process that integrates clinical expertise, client circumstances, research evidence, and client values and to formulate a paper discussing one or all of those dimension from a Christian perspective. Papers can employ a variety of methodologies, though special emphasis will be given to papers that use a conceptual lens to build a foundation to either critique or defend EBP from a Christian social work perspective. Papers can be up to 20 pages, double-spaced and in APA style (6th Ed.). Contact mkell17@luc.edu with any questions and to submit papers as email attachments.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Research on Social Work Practice
A Critical Appraisal of the DSM-V: Social Work Perspectives
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Guest Editor: Jeffrey R. Lacasse, Ph.D.
Research on Social Work Practice (RSWP) announces a call for papers to appear in a special issue of the journal dedicated to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version V (DSM-V). The DSM-V is scheduled to be released in May of 2013, and will have an important impact on mental health research and practice alike. The journal seeks papers that will contribute to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the DSM and psychiatric classification and their effects on clients and the public, clinical practice, social/health policy, and mental health research. For this special issue, we are seeking not only empirical work as is usually the custom at RSWP, but also systematic reviews of the empirical literature, critical assessments, and conceptual analyses of the DSM-V. Interdisciplinary-authored papers are welcome. Click here for more information.