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Children and Adolescents:   Article Adoption: Intercountry   Karen Smith Rotabi Published online:02 December 2013Subjects: The practice of intercountry adoption is first considered from a historical framework, beginning with World War II, to other conflicts throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In this historical overview, factors that contributed to the rise of the global circulation…

Article Ecological Social Work   Uschi Bay Published online:03 November 2015Subjects: Ecological social work requires a shift in thinking for social workers because it does not place humans at the center of its concerns. Rather, ecological social work puts the interrelationship between humans and nature at its center. This radically de-centered view of humanity aims…

12 Article Ecological Social Work   Uschi Bay Published online:03 November 2015Subjects: Ecological social work requires a shift in thinking for social workers because it does not place humans at the center of its concerns. Rather, ecological social work puts the interrelationship between humans and nature at its center. This radically de-centered view of humanity…

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Article Criminal Justice: Corrections   C. Aaron McNeece Published online:11 June 2013Subjects: The United States has more than 7 million adults under correctional supervision, with more than 2 million incarcerated. The history and theories behind incarceration are described, along with the current jail and prison inmate populations. Specific problems of juveniles and women are mentioned.…

Article Article Client Violence   Christina E. Newhill Published online:11 June 2013Subjects: Client violence and workplace safety are relevant issues for all social workers across practice settings. This entry addresses why and how social workers may be targets for a client’s violent behavior, and what we know about who is at risk of encountering violence.…

Article Children and Armed Conflict   Susan Mapp Published online:11 June 2013Subjects: The United Nations has defined six grave violations that occur in war that impact children: killing or maiming of children, recruitment or use of children as soldiers, sexual violence against children, attacks against schools or hospitals, denial of humanitarian access for children, and…

Article Abolitionist Social Work   Noor Toraif and Justin C. Mueller Published online:22 March 2023Subjects: Abolitionist social work is a theoretical framework and political project within the field of social work and an extension of the project of carceral abolitionism more broadly. Abolitionists seek to abolish punishment, prisons, police, and other carceral systems because they…

Cuban Revolutionary Literature poner en 2 ENTRADAS PARECIDAS: s Summary Fidel Castro’s arrival in Havana on January 1, 1959, marked the triumph of Cuban revolutionaries over dictator Fulgencio Batista, initiating a new era in Cuban culture. While critics generally agree that Cuban revolutionary literature began after this watershed event, their opinions on when the revolutionary…

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