The purpose is to determine the effects of work limitations coaches on their values and engagement compare them in terms various demographic characteristics. 339 working branches Turkey participated research voluntarily. Data were collected using “Personal Information Form”, “Short Form Work Limitation Scale”, “Work Values Scale” Engagement Scale”. Independent Student T-Test, One-Way Analysis V...

This report describes an exploration of Google Trends in an attempt to determine its usefulness for social work research. Web searches on Google Trends related to social work were undertaken for the period 2007-2013. Hits related to jobs and education dominated. Emerging trends related to social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, but also came up for words such as evidence, technolog...

Most accounts of social work values contain two central conceptual strands: social work ethics and anti-discriminatory practice. Within social work, relatively little attention has been paid to the potential of feminist approaches to ethics, grounded in identity to bring these two strands together. Narrative ethics is an approach which, like the feminist ethic of care, takes identity as its sta...

Using a function algebra characterization of exponential time due to Monien 5], in the style of Bellantoni-Cook 2], we characterize exponential time functions of linear growth via a safe course-of-values recursion scheme.

This short book for adolescents is one of a series giving information in story form, about careers. It is a useful idea and the essential facts about social work are correctly conveyed. Most important of all, is the skilful way in which the author has woven into her story the kind of personality needed for this type of work. Apart from the inappropriate dust cover (showing a nurse in uniform) t...

Action research by social work practitioners provides a particularly direct means of overcoming the often cited practice/research divide within the profession. This article draws from a project within a UK local authority fostering recruitment team that examined aspects of recruitment including the impact of foster carer involvement. Characteristics of the project that contributed to its effect...