Few people in this country have grasped the idea of school-leavers volunteering for social work to fill empty months before starting a career or university. Most, who have, seem to believe the young people involved are a race apart from those who spend weekends on Brighton beaches or taking drugs. To my mind, nothing could be further from the truth. Many of the motives that led me to social work?a

This research examined the extent to which various indicators of coercion were related to treatment retention in a gender-specific treatment program and a traditional outpatient program for pregnant and postpartum women who were mandated to enter treatment. Women who were given custody of their infant stayed in treatment longer than women who did not have custody. There was an interaction effec...

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EMERGENCE OF a healthoriented paradigm of human behavior is particularly felicitous for the social work profession. In its implicit emphasis on growth-enhancing possibilities for human beings, a healthoriented model strikes an affinity with the value base of the profession and stimulates reaffirmation of principles of practice that have always been present. Recent works by Germain and Gitterman...

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This paper presents a model for integrating elements of Transformational Leadership with Confucian Philosophy. The various concepts of each perspective are discussed with special emphasis on efforts to note similarities in the two perspectives. Examples of how leaders could apply the integration of these two perspectives are presented for those working in the social service field.

We prospectively assessed whether providing social services with information on the immunisation status for a cohort of looked after children in the care of an urban unitary authority in England improved uptake rates. The provision of such information did not improve immunisation coverage in these children.

Background Leadership is essential for successful implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) [1]. Line managers, i.e. the managerial level directly above employees, are crucial in this process. However, little empirical research has been carried out on their role in the implementation of evidence within social care. The aim of this study was to explore the role of line managers in the impl...