Examining the service-related experiences and outcomes of caregivers involved in a system of care who experienced everyday discrimination.

Individuals who report everyday experiences of discrimination are at heightened risk for adverse health outcomes and tend to report underutilization of health services. Systems of care (SOCs) have the potential to engage members of minority groups and to reduce health disparities. We examined the service-related experiences of predominantly Latinx caregivers enrolled in a SOC for their children with severe psychological health needs.

Towards a Human Rights Culture in Social Work Education.

A human rights perspective must be embedded in the institutions, organisations or agencies where social work students find themselves. This paper will focus on one particular strategy that could be helpful to the process of solidifying a commitment to human rights for our students. Using a pedagogical tool from a school of social work in the USA originally developed to combat the social injustice of racism, the example transcends the academic institution and offers a solid link in connecting human rights, social justice and social work.

Are curriculum decisions based on the evidence? How social work faculty members make choices in curriculum decisions.

An important step in translating evidence-based practice and empirically supported interventions into large-scale service improvements is to develop an understanding of practitioners' education and training in these practices. This understanding begins with discovering the factors that influence the decision-making process by social work faculty regarding curriculum content for master's level social work programs. This exploratory study uses quantitative and qualitative survey data to examine the decision-making process used by 42 master's level social work programs to select the models of direct practice taught in their master's level social work programs, and whether evidence-based practice and research evidence influences those decisions.

The value and purpose of the traditional qualitative literature review.

Both meta-analysis and traditional literature or narrative reviews strive to compile a great deal of information in an accessible and succinct manner. In recent years, social work researchers have been turning toward meta-analysis to identify issues in large areas of research. In order for meta-analysis to be a rigorous and objective source of information there are a certain set of assumptions that must be met about how to carry out the process of including and excluding various studies.

Cultural responsiveness in long-term-care case management: moving beyond competence.

Case mangers must deal with the ever-changing makeup of their client population as well as those who provide managed services to these clients. There is great ethnocultural diversity in the elder population, and statistics contend that it will only increase with time. Similarly, the majority of long-term-care providers have been consistently female and of color.

The concept of race in research: using composite variables.

Researchers who study differential outcomes based on racial classifications should acknowledge the sociopolitical forces that influence the concept of race. In this article, logistic regression findings based on a traditional methodological approach to race are compared to an approach that used a composite variable incorporating race/ethnicity and immigration status. Participants were 258 ethnically diverse low-income women drawn via convenience sampling from the Women, Infants, and Children's Program (WIC) in or near a northeastern city.