Social Casework

Taylor, Ronald L.

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500401pmid: N/A

Marriages in which incest has taken place can benefit from marital therapy and can even achieve renewal. Fears of intimacy and abandonment—as expressed in sexuality and marital interactions—are discussed and a model for treatment is proposed.

Lewis, Harold

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500402pmid: N/A

This article develops guidelines to assist social workers in making ethical assessments in practice. It provides an understanding of the necessary background information to guide such assessments and proposes a procedure to help in making choices in ambiguous situations.

McClelland, Robert W.; Battle, Stanley F.

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500403pmid: N/A

By the time clients are treated by social workers, their problems are often well-advanced. Prevention can be as crucial in social work as it is in public health. An epidemiological model—using child abuse as its example—demonstrates how intervention might shift from amelioration to prevention.

Meystedt, Diana M.

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500404pmid: N/A

Religion plays a particularly significant part in the lives of many rural people, but the importance of this characteristic in social work has not been adequately explored. Workers need to know that religion offers useful resources for service and an important avenue for understanding and treating clients.

DiGiulio, Joan Ferry

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500405pmid: N/A

The use of marketing strategies can enhance the delivery of social services. This article shows how agencies can adapt marketing techniques and use them to pinpoint potential markets, improve public image, evaluate external opportunities, and maximize internal strengths.

Robbins, Susan P.

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500406pmid: N/A

In a study of Seminole youth on Florida reservations, delinquency was found to be related, in varying degrees, to attachment to teachers, school, and police. The work suggests that the young people acquired functional behaviors from both Indian and Anglo cultures.

Evans, Ron L.; Miller, Robert M.

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500407pmid: N/A

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500408pmid: N/A

Chambré, Susan Maizel

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500409pmid: N/A

Stein, Herman D.

doi: 10.1177/104438948406500410pmid: N/A