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ALS Association Leadership Development and ALS Clinical Management Conference
Deadline: July 5, 2008
January 22-25, 2008
Newport Beach, CA
http://charityadvantage.com/iaswr/ALS_Call.pdf
The ALS Association will be hosting a 3-day clinical conference for allied heath care, behavioral health and social work professionals. The conference will focus on exchanging research, treatment updates, and information regarding best practices and emerging trends. Funding and benefits, end-of-life rights, psychosocial and allied issues will also be featured. They are looking for proposals about innovative solutions for clinical management, patient issues, support for caregivers, outreach strategies, and community or funding support. Individual speakers, panel discussions, and research updates are welcome. Speakers should plan on a 30 or 60 minute time slot.
International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy 3rd International Conference
Deadline: July 31, 2008
March 27-29, 2009
New York, NY
This symposium will cover global updates, training and dissemination, and new adaptations. Workshops are provided for all levels of practitioners in interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT): introductory workshop; adolescent depression; geriatric depression; and adapting IPT for developing countries. Abstracts should be sent by email to: hv2009@columbia.edu. 1. Abstracts should be submitted in English and should be no longer than 250 words. No figure or table can be included. 2. The first line of the abstract should contain the title (capitalized); the second line should include the initial of the first name and the family name of each author; the third line should contain the affiliation(s) of the authors. 3. Below the text of the abstract, please provide the following information of the presenting author: family name, first name, ordinary mail address, phone, fax number and email address. 4. Please specify the type of session for which your contribution is proposed: paper or poster. 5. Paper presentations will be 15 minutes long and should focus on specific IPT related research projects.
World Psychiatric Assocation International Congress
Deadline: July 31, 2008
April 1-4, 2009
Florence, Italy
http://www.wpa2009florence.org/
This Congress aims to provide a high-quality, comprehensive overview of all evidence-based treatments currently available for all mental disorders. It is the follow-up to the 2004 WPA International Congress "Treatments in Psychiatry: An Update", which was the second most attended psychiatric congress worldwide in that year, with almost 7,000 participants.
26th Annual Conference of the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD)
Deadline: August 15, 2008
March 18-22, 2009
Phoenix, AZ
Theme: Twenty-six years of BPD: BSW Generalist Practice: The Future is NOW!
Call for Ron Federico Memorial Lecture Series
Call For Board Sponsored Submissions
Call for BSW Student Poster Session
17th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect
Deadline: August 15, 2008
The Conference theme, Focusing on the Future: Strengthening Families and Communities, reflects the resolve to ensure that every child enjoys a healthy family life in a nurturing community. It emphasizes the need for prevention and comprehensive services to address co-occurring disorders and highlights evidence- based approaches to improving practice and systems. The goals of the 17th National Conference include disseminating state-of-the-art information on research, practice, policy, and system reform, facilitating the exchange of information across disciplines and among individuals, groups, and institutions, reaching out to strengthen and sustain collaboration, and highlighting the positive contribution of research to practice. Any questions, please email 17conf@pal-tech.com or by phone at 703-528-0435.
32nd Annual Rural Health Conference
Deadline: November 7, 2008
May 5-8, 2009
Miami Beach, FL http://www.ruralhealthweb.org/go/left/programs-and-events/nrha-conferences/annual-conference
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) invites individuals with an interest in rural health research, evaluation of education programs or significant educational innovation to submit abstracts for presentation during the NRHA's 32nd Annual Conference. The submissions will be considered for presentation by members of the NRHA's Research and Education Constituency Group.
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Journal Publications
Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal
Deadline: July 15, 2008
The editorial board of The Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal invites manuscripts for an issue regarding current issues/developments in child welfare practice. The Journal takes an interdisciplinary approach to child welfare, as broadly defined to encompass those areas of law that directly affect the interests of children. The editorial board’s goal is to ensure that the Journal is of interest and value to all professionals working in the field of child welfare, including social workers, attorneys, psychologists, and medical professionals. The Journal’s content focuses on practice issues and the editorial board especially encourages contributions from active practitioners in the field of child welfare. All submissions must include a discussion of practice implications for legal practitioners. The main text of the manuscripts must not exceed 20 double-spaced pages (approximately 5000 words). Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to kozakiew@msu.edu. Inquiries should be directed to: Joseph Kozakiewicz, Editor, The Michigan Child Welfare Journal, School of Social Work, 238 Baker Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, 517.432.8406.
Empirically Supported Interventions for Community and Organizational Change
Deadline: August 1, 2008
Scholars are invited to submit chapters for publication consideration in the book, Empirically Supported Interventions for Community and Organizational Change, to be published by LYCEUM Books, Inc. This publication will disseminate information on empirically supported interventions for making macro-level practice decisions in a community or organizational setting. These chapters will report data that were generated by using methods that meet scientific research standards. Chapters will provide practice guidelines, based on evidence, for making decisions in selecting interventions that demonstrate sustainable changes in the delivery of services and improvements in the quality of these services. A cohesive and systematic format for writing a chapter will be provided by the editors. Chapters should be around 20 pages (double-spaced MSWord document using 12-point Times New Roman font with 1” margins) in length (not including references, tables, figures) using the APA reference and citation system (refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.). Tables and figures (including legends, notes, sources) should be no larger than 4 ½ x 6 ½ inches using an 8-12 point font. Please contact Dr. Maria Roberts-DeGennaro at mdegenna@mail.sdsu.edu (619) 594-6259 (PST) or Dr. Sondra Fogel at sfogel@cas.usf.edu (813) 974-7347 (EST) by May 23, 2008, if you are interested in submitting a chapter for publication consideration. The chapters are to be submitted electronically on or before August 1, 2008 to both Maria Roberts-DeGennaro (mdegenna@mail.sdsu.edu) and Sondra Fogel (sfogel@cas.usf.edu) . All works must be original, previously unpublished, and not under submission to another publication.
Environmental and Occupational Justice
Deadline: August 1, 2008
http://www.ajph.org/
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) intends to publish a theme issue that will feature current research and contributions of environmental justice and community-based participatory research projects to the fields of environmental and occupational health. Key topics to be addressed include exposure assessment, especially as it relates to cumulative risk; environment-related diseases; community based approaches to improving exposure and disease surveillance for populations that are hard to track; and evaluation of partnerships designed to promote health research, education, and prevention/ intervention programs for low-income, immigrant, and minority populations who may be disproportionately exposed to environmental and occupational stressors. Research articles and briefs that address these issues and provide innovative insights into the influence of economic and social factors on the health status of individuals exposed to environmental toxicants and occupational hazards and their impact on public health will be considered. Papers that address novel models, approaches or theories on, but not limited to, capacity building; health communication strategies that consider culture, language, and literacy; policy change; and community-based partnerships will be considered for Field Action Reports. Analytic essays on new research and communication strategies to address emerging environmental or occupational health problems will be considered for the Framing Health Matters; Government, Politics, and Law; and Health Policy and Ethics forums. All manuscripts will undergo the standard peer review process by the AJPH editors and peer referees as defined by AJPH policy. Submit manuscripts at http://submit.ajph.org.
European Journal of Social Work
Deadline: August 31, 2008
This special issue aims to capture the changing landscape of race/ethnic relations and the response of the social professions through opening a dialogue. It invites papers offering debate, commentary, research reports, practice studies and policy theorization with the aim of comparing and contrasting approaches, discourses and practice orientations in the field. Send submissions to guest editors:
Charlotte Williams, Professor of Social Justice, Head of School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England, c.f.williams@appsoc.keele.ac.uk, Tel: (+44) 01782 584349
Mekada Graham, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Oklahoma, OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center, 4502 E. 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74135-2512, USA, mgraham@ou.edu, Tel: (+1) 918 660 3358
CMS Health Care Financing Review
Deadline: September 5, 2008 http://www4.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareFinancingReview/
The journal, Health Care Financing Review is looking for manuscripts concerned with psychosocial issues and long-term care. The long-term care (LTC) system serves people with diverse needs, including those with advanced chronic conditions, long-term disabilities, and people who are approaching the end of life. An integral part of addressing each individual's comprehensive care needs is appropriate psychosocial assessment, care planning, and intervention. This issue of the Review will focus on research that speaks to the importance of psychosocial care and its relationship to the overall well-being and quality of life for people receiving LTC services in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other settings. Of particular interest are manuscripts that address processes of care and outcome measurement in psychosocial care, as well as cost effectiveness of LTC psychosocial services. Information on submission can be found at the website above.
Special Issue of Child Maltreatment
Deadline: September 20, 2008
The goal of this special edition is to advance the research regarding fathers and CAN, inform child abuse service and policy strategies that target the entire family system, and illuminate the gaps, opportunities, and recommendations for future scholarship in this area. For the purposes of this call for papers we use the term “father’ to refer not only to biological fathers, but also to the broader scope of men who play a parenting or other significant role in the family. All submission will be peer-reviewed. Manuscripts should be no more than 30 double-spaced pages, inclusive of all tables, figures, and references, and be in APA format. Articles should be submitted electronically to the Child Maltreatment website above.
Children & Schools
Deadline: September 30, 2008
http://charityadvantage.com/iaswr/disciplinary.pdf
Children & Schools will publish a special issue on positive alternatives to traditional disciplinary practices in schools. Papers submitted should focus on the growing evidence about the utility and improved outcomes associated with positive and alternative approaches to behavioral problems and the role of the school social worker in developing, implementing, and evaluating positive school disciplinary policies and practices. In addition, they are interested in papers that focus on: overcoming barriers/obstacles facing school social workers in implementing positive alternatives to suspension, the role of school social workers in shaping and evaluating school discipline policies and practices, the “pushout” phenomena and implications for school social work practice, the impact of school climate on school discipline policies and procedures, and positive teacher-student relationships and classroom discipline.
Journal of Aging & Social Policy
Deadline: September 30, 2008
The Journal of Aging & Social Policy has announced a call for papers for a special issue concerned with older workers and aging policy. This journal issue will address both the feasibility of late life employment (e.g., in terms of appropriate job opportunities and employer incentives, workers’ ability and willingness to remain in or reenter the labor force) as well as relationships between expected demographic trends and current policies and programs. Interested authors should submit a prospectus of no more than two pages in length by. Please direct inquiries to: Bob Geary, Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, bob.geary@umb.edu, (617) 287-7308.
Social Work
Deadline: October 1, 2008
This special issue on Integrative Reviews seeks manuscripts that meet the following guidelines:
1. Provide a comprehensive and integrative review of the empirical literature to advance an argument on a topic of importance to social work. Reviews may describe a social work issue in its sociocultural context, clarify the etiology of a particular problem, or assess the effectiveness of a policy or intervention.
2. Approach the social work issue using interdisciplinary sources, e.g., integrating research from the biological and social sciences.
3. Reflect interdisciplinary collaborations. Manuscripts that reflect collaborations between researchers and practitioners or policymakers are especially encouraged.
4. Approach the issue through research using diverse methodological approaches, for example, consider qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research.
5. Translate technical research reports into language comprehensible to practitioners, policymakers, and researchers with other areas of expertise.
6. Draw clear social work practice, policy, or research implications from the published data.
Health & Social Work
Deadline: November 30, 2008
This is a call for a wide range of papers on issues related to population aging and development. Empirical papers are strongly encouraged. Topics may include, but are not limited to, studies of impacts of population aging on economic and social developments, studies and evaluations of policy and program reforms and innovations, and impacts of population aging on well being of individuals and communities in developing and developed countries. Comparative frameworks and single-country case study designs are acceptable. Studies that examine the cultural adaptation or indigenization of intervention models across countries are encouraged, as are studies that aim to explore effective intervention models from developing countries. Conceptual papers that delineate the processes and challenges involved in program and policy reforms and innovations, defining concepts, adapting measures across countries and languages are also solicited. Manuscripts should be submitted to: Dr. Terry Lum at tlum@umn.edu
Special Issue of AFFILIA on Critial Feminisms
Deadline: December 2008
Affilia is planning a special issue examining the contributions critical feminisms can make in contemporary social work. Papers are invited that explore and define this broad topic in a number of ways. Historical and theoretical papers are welcomed, as are empirical research papers using quantitative or qualitative methodologies. Manuscripts may not exceed 20 pages double-spaced, all inclusive, for quantitative papers, and 25 pages double-spaced and all inclusive for historic, theoretical, or qualitative papers. All papers should follow the APA style. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Please send submissions to: Dr. Christina Gringeri, College of Social Work, 395 South 1500 East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108; or you may submit them electronically to christinagringeri@socwk.utah.edu.
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
http://www.apa.org/journals/dhe/callforpapers.html
Be among the first to publish in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Multidisciplinary in perspective, this new journal publishes empirical research, descriptions of promising practices and policies, provocative commentaries and constructive critiques, as well as insightful book reviews that support efforts to transform institutions, articulate culturally competent outcomes, inspire colleagues, and engage campus, governmental, and private sector leaders. Authors should submit their manuscript electronically via the Manuscript Submission Portal http://www.jbo.com/jbo3/submissions/dsp_jbo.cfm?journal_code=dhe. Complete instructions for preparation of your manuscript are featured on the Instructions to Authors web page http://www.apa.org/journals/dhe/submission.html.
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Special Issue on People with Disabilities and Social Welfare
Deadline: January 31, 2009
Papers relating to changes in the processes, products, or performances of social welfare policies and programs in relation to disabilities are sought. Among the topics that will be considered for this special issue include: psychosocial impact of disability; multicultural issues and disability; congenital versus acquired disabilities; women and disabilities; GLBT individuals and disability; social work’s role in empowering people with disabilities; person-centered planning; children and disability; impact of disability on the family; disability-specific issues (i.e. cancer, amputations, blindness, learning disabilities, mental illness, neuromuscular diseases, etc.); special populations and disability (i.e. veterans, low-income individuals); sexuality and disability; vocational impact of disability; Americans with Disabilities Act; and assistive technology. Please send Microsoft Word copies of completed mss. limited to 25-30 pages of text to the Special Editors, Frederick F. MacDonald and Barbara Barton at swrk-jssw@wmich.edu All mss. will be peer reviewed. Please include a title page with author name, affiliation, address, email address, phone and FAX numbers. A second page without the author’s name should include the title and an abstract of 150 words or less and key words.
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
Deadline: September 1, 2009
The Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work is inviting submissions for the Special Issue: Evidence-Based Multicultural Social Work Practice, Programs, and Policies. This Special Issue welcomes all articles related to the following topics:
• Evidence-based or evidence-informed discussions pertaining to culturally competent social work practice or human services provision with multicultural populations
• Evidence-based or evidence-informed discussions pertaining to social work programs that have an impact on diversity issues and multicultural populations
• Evidence-based or evidence-informed discussions pertaining to social work policies that have an impact on diversity issues and multicultural populations.
Submit 2 hard copies and an electronic version of the manuscript to: Editor, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, Mo Yee Lee, Ph.D., Professor, College of Social Work, 325W Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, Columbus, OH43210
Phone: 614-292-9910 Fax: 614-292-6940 E-mail: lee.355@osu.edu.
The Open Social Science Journal
http://bentham.org/open/tosscij/
The Open Social Science Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in all areas of social science. Topics covered in this interdisciplinary journal include: cultural, family, youth, gender, sexuality and race studies; social work; social policy; behavioral science; community psychology; accidental injury & safety; evaluation studies. It aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments and research and theory in the field. The emphasis will be on publishing quality articles rapidly and freely available worldwide. Instructions for submission can be found on the website.
Effective Use of Metrics in Social Work Practice in Health Care
Deadline: July 9, 2008
October 5-7, 2008
Cleveland, OH
This invitational summit will bring together social work leaders currently engaged in measuring important aspects of social work practice, outcomes, and performance measures especially as they relate to the cost and quality of care. We know social problems increase the cost of care; we need measures to demonstrate that. This two day summit will include a series of presentations interwoven with discussion and planning. The goal is the creation of a measurement tool that can be replicated for health care settings across the health care continuum. Particular areas of interest include measures of psychosocial acuity, meaningful productivity measures, impact of social work interventions on the institutional “bottom line’, and the relationship of social acuity to the cost and clinical outcomes of care. Travel and expenses will be covered for invited participants funded through a grant provided by the Cleveland Clinic Department of Social Work with additional support from the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care. As this is a ‘working meeting’– only a very small number of participants will be invited to participate. If you believe you have something to add to this discussion, please submit a 1-2 page description of your current practice in measuring social work practice as described above. The abstracts should be sent to Alice Palmer of the Cleveland Clinic Department of Social Work at PALMERA2@ccf.org and to Charles L. Robbins, President of the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care at crobbins@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
2008 Leadership Training Institute: Increasing Diveristy in Research Leadership
Application Deadline: August 1, 2008
October 19-22, 2008
The Leadership Training Institute is a 4-day intensive institute for early to mid-level social and behavioral researchers who are women and/or persons of color interested in advancing their careers. The goals of the LTI are specifically designed to help researchers: establish career goals that match with personal and professional priorities, address specific challenges and opportunities for diverse researchers, navigate the funding world at various career stages, build networks to support research and career advancement and expand research team management and leadership skills. There are limited seats available and an application must be submitted.
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