Disciplines & Professions: Social Work

Web Sites

Grassroots: Social Science Search
http://www.andrews.edu/SOWK/grassroots.htm

Contains information relative to content and practice including field work, research, values and ethics, as well as issues of concern, such as cultural and ethnic diversity, populations at risk, social welfare policy and service, and social and economic justice.

Information for Practice
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip/

Maintained by New York University, this site is designed to "help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship."

Open Directory's Social Work Directory
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Social_Work/

Links to associations, licensure exams, schools of social work, and social work as a profession, as well as related topics of humanitarian organizations.

Social Work and Social Services Web Sites
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/websites.html

An extensive topical index of social problems and social services that lists both informational and service sites under each topic. Topics range from abuse to autism to voting and welfare.

Social Work Search
http://www.socialworksearch.com/

General subject index directs you a comprehensive collection of social work-related sites.

Yahoo!'s Social Work Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Social_Work/

Browse general categories. Child advocacy and education are the most extensive. Also lists annotated Web directories.

Databases

Social Services Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)

Over 78,000 bibliographic references of current research in the social services discipline. Covers 1980 to the present, and entries include abstracts.

Social Work Abstracts Plus (National Association of Social Workers, available through SilverPlatter)

Contains more than 35,000 records from social work journals and related fields. Spans 1977 to the present. Includes sections to aid in searching, such as finding word variants.

Print Resources

An Author's Guide to Social Work Journals. 4th ed. Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers, 1997.

Though mainly intended for those who wish to publish articles, this guide is a useful overview of more than 200 journals in social work, social welfare, and human services. Describes the audience and editorial focus of each journal. Arranged alphabetically.

Barker, Robert L. The Social Work Dictionary. 4th ed. Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers, 1999.

Defines nearly 8,000 terms commonly used in social work and related professions. Organized alphabetically.

Edwards, Richard L., and June Gary Hopps, eds. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 19th ed. Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers, 1995.

Alphabetical list of articles on various topics within social work and related disciplines. Articles provide references and places for further information. Volume 3 includes a section of biographies of notable people and an index.

Ginsberg, Leon. Social Work Almanac. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers, 1995.

Provides facts and statistics on population, children, crime, education, health and mortality, mental health, and the social work profession. Organized into topic chapters.

Trattner, Walter I., ed. Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America. New York: Greenwood, 1986.

Covers colonial America to the late 19th century. Provides biographical information on people important to American social welfare. Organized alphabetically. Index provided.