Research Archive
Timothy Ray Brown, long known only as the “Berlin Patient” had HIV for 12 years before he became the first person in the world to be cured of the infection following a stem cell transplant in 2007. He recalls his …
An Evaluation of its Effectiveness in Changing Financial Behaviors and Improving Self-Sufficiency Download Executive Summary Report! Financial Social Work Research Report United Way, of Erie Pennsylvania (highest poverty rate of any major PA city) conducted an extensive three-year research …
By Dr. Bonnie Cleaveland “arious debunked mental health theories continue to exert inappropriate influence over the decisions of family courts.” – Nichols (2013) We all agree we want what’s best for children. To do that, we must base our legal …
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) by three Harvard economists provides conclusive evidence that the Moving to Opportunity experiment worked. Prior research failed to document any significant economic gains for older children and adults …
By: Sharon E. Chin The alarming increase in the sheer number of homeless children and youth within the past few years requires a closer look at the population and their needs. This raises questions like: What are the needs of …
Dr. Lawrence M. Berger is the 12th director of the venerable Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a professor and chair of the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social …
Are you a qualified social worker eligible for AASW membership who has supervised or managed a social work team and who has worked closely for at least 3 months with an overseas-qualified social worker within Australia? If so, Dr Allen …
Neoteny refers to when a species’ traits that are typically associated with juvenile stages of development are carried into adulthood. A common example is the Mexican salamander, or axolotl. At full maturity, the axolotl continues to look like a …
A central tenet of CG Jung’s analytical psychology is that the unconscious has drives strong enough to override conscious will. Hence, he stressed ‘listening’ to dreams and fantasies that arise from unconscious stirrings through active imagination and other forms of …
Research class, it was probably a dreaded class for many social workers. You probably sat there making an elaborate doodle out of your bell curve, or playing around on your computer or phone. You asked yourself, why do we need …
