Practicing counselors (N=34) were asked to complete tasks related to counseling and service delivery with the cancer patient. The results support conclusions that counselors are likely to provide less counseling and case services to cancer patients than to patients with other equally devastating disease-related disabilities. (Author)

A curriculum model for training minorities to work specifically with predominantly Black clients of mental health agencies is reviewed. Focus is on the University of Georgia Community Mental Health Practice with Minorities Project, in which Black students are educated to work with urban Black populations. (Author/MH)

Three interactive approaches used in teaching aging content are described, including a review of the literature and a discussion of four propositions that the interactive approach addresses. Implementation recommendations are given. (Author/MH)

Describes a continuum of services to families in their homes to prevent the necessity of child placement. Presents four categories of services--general case management, the comprehensive social worker, the in-house team, and the intraagency team--to aid families who demonstrate psychological difficulty and resource deficits. (Author/JAC)

Suggests that current outmoded and inadequate conceptions of the therapeutic process are a major obstacle to the advancement of clinical social work practice. Presents an integrative ecosystem model that expresses the distinctive social work concern with person, situation, and helping relationship, in their reciprocal psychodynamic and…

Specific skills to be mastered by social work students are identified and a competency based framework for teaching them is delineated. Embodied in this approach is a task centered method of instruction and a "micro" or transactional approach to assessing and advancing students' skill levels. (Author/MLW)

Evaluates a new adoption placement program at the Ville Marie Social Service Centre (Montreal, Quebec) in which biological mothers can choose from among three profiles of adoptive parents when selecting a home for their babies. A review of staff observations is also described. (BB)

Describes a caseload weighting system used by a voluntary child welfare agency which successfully increased caseworker-client contact and improved the quality of the delivery of child and family services. (BB)

Provides impressionistic reflection of how human service agencies in San Jose, California have helped refugee families from war-torn Cambodia and Bosnia. Summarizes some of the lessons learned from working with refugee families. Notes that the experiences have influenced the capacity- building, empowering, and mentoring aspects of a new…

This study examined the degree to which local systems of care in Vermont shared responsibility for children and adolescents and four service delivery outcomes over a 4-year period. Results indicated that greater caseload integration is associated with less referral for residential treatment and higher rates of incarceration. (Contains references.)…

This article describes the results from the first year of a longitudinal study of a school social work caseload in a large midwestern school district. The purpose of the investigation was to examine the relationship among case characteristics, types of services provided, and case dispositions. Data were collected using a management information…

Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (BRYCS), a public-private partnership between the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, provides national technical assistance to public child welfare. After a series of "community…

Although social work is witnessing growing interest in spiritual and religious issues, little guidance has appeared in the literature to assist practitioners in addressing the unique spirituality of rapidly increasing non-Western populations. This article discusses the significant cultural/spiritual beliefs, practices, and values of Hindus, the…

This article explores what it takes to prepare practitioners to work effectively in the infant-family field and describes efforts to meet training needs. A multifaceted effort to prepare and support practitioners who work with infants, toddlers, and families has been central to the growth of the infant-family field. Part C of IDEA and Early Head…

Supervision of offenders in the community remains a critical component of the correctional processes in the United States. With almost six million offenders under correctional supervision in the community, there has been relatively little attention and few resources devoted to the style and quality of supervision received by these offenders. As a…