SSA Magazine - Spring 2008

Spring 2008

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• Welcome: From the Visiting Committee Chair: David Vitale, Chair of SSA's Visiting Committee, discusses the influence of the late Rev. Kenneth B. Smith.
• Beyond the Books: These five strategies improve urban education by focusing on the people in the school.
• Back from War: An array of views on the returning vets who have been scarred by their experiences—and how well we're helping them
• Leading a Research Party: Sarah Gehlert's transdisciplinary program is conducting groundbreaking research on how living in a distressed community may be a cause of breast cancer.
• Conversation - Don't Shoot: SSA professor Jens Ludwig and Roseanna Ander, program officer for the gun violence program at the Joyce foundation, discuss the costs and prevention of gun violence.
• Theory in Practice: Therapists need to understand not just how to use, but why to use a variety of clinical perspectives.
• Hip-Hop Generation: The rise of hip-hop gives insight into today's world.
• Voice of the People: Social service agencies advocate for their clients surprisingly often.
• Inside Social Service Review: The following are summaries of three articles that appeared in the June 2008 issue of Social Service Review.
• Reassessing Social Work's First Critic: Have we been wrong about Abraham Flexner?
• A Bumpy Road: The difficult path from welfare to work
• A Voice from the Field: Casa Central - A home away from home
• Behind the Numbers - False Perceptions: The damage done by stereotypes about Asian Americans' model behavior

View web-only content:

• An extended Conversation: Don't Shoot, a conversation about gun violence, with Jens Ludwig and Roseanna Ander
• Speaking Out: A Q&A about the rules of lobbying and advocacy, with Jennifer Mosley