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• Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice.

  Vol. 25 No. 1 (2024)

• Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice.

  Vol. 24 No. 1 (2023)

• Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice.

  Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022)

• Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice.

  Vol. 23 No. 1 (2022)

• Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice.

  Vol. 22 No. 2 (2021)

• Vol. 22 No. 1 (2021)

• Vol. 21 No. 2 (2020)

  Welcome to the newest issue (Vol. 21, No. 2) of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice. This issue of Critical Social Work includes four peer-reviewed articles.

  The first article by Kohli and Fineran (2020), “Immigrant Latino Fathers’ Perceptions of Child Abuse and Neglect,” explores the lived experiences of child abuse and neglect for immigrant Latino fathers whose children are involved in the child protection process. The next article by Ricciardelli et al. (2020) “The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States: A Mixed Methods Approach to Exploring Forced Exclusion,” explores the conceptual links between the criminalization of intellectual disability and immigration in the United States. In the third peer-reviewed article of this issue, “The Three-Legged Stool of Voter Engagement: Social Work’s Role in Mobilizing the Vote Among Marginalized Communities,” Sandler et al. (2020) address low voter engagement among members of historically oppressed groups. The article describes the conceptualization of voter engagement as a three-legged stool, consisting of voter registration, regular voting, and basing voting decisions on self-interest. Finally, for their article, “Social Work and Obesity: License to Oppress,” Wood et al. (2020) use a grounded approach to analyze accredited graduate social work programs’ curriculum throughout the United States, with the goal of understanding how obesity and weight-based oppression were integrated into learning outcomes of diversity, social justice, and cultural humility.

  We welcome your feedback on any of the publications included in this or any of our issues. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did. Thank you again for your continuing support.

  Amy Alberton
  Managing Editor

• Vol. 21 No. 1 (2020)

  Welcome to the newest issue of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice. This issue of Critical Social Work includes three peer-reviewed articles and a book review.

  The first article by Chalmers et al. (2020), “Recognizing Animals as an Important Part of Helping: A Survey Exploring Knowledge and Practice Among Canadian Social Workers,” builds on previous research which provides evidence for the beneficial role of companion animals on human health and wellbeing across the life span. To this end, the authors present findings from a survey which explored social workers’ knowledge of human animal interactions in social work. The next article by Jemal, Bussey, and Davis (2020), “Transformative Consciousness: Scale Development and Content Validity,” outlines the development of the Transformative Consciousness of Oppression and Privilege Scale. Unlike prior critical consciousness measures, this scale was developed for the general population, integrates identities that are oppressed and privileged, incorporates the social-ecological framework, assesses cognitions, and attempts to reduce the impact of social desirability bias. In the final peer-reviewed article of this issue, “The Revival of Anti-Racism: Considerations for Social Work Education,” Ladhani and Sitter (2020) begin with an exploration of anti-racism discourse and guiding theory. The go on to examine the shift from anti-racism to anti-oppressive practice in social work education and associated critiques and implications. They identify challenges to implementing anti-racism education standards, and the teaching and learning of anti-racism from the perspectives of both educators and students and suggest possible solutions. Finally, Liechty (2020) provides a refreshing review of Titus Hjelm’s book, “Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years After the Sacred Canopy.”

  We welcome your feedback on any of the publications included in this or any of our issues. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did. Thank you again for your continuing support. Amy Alberton Managing Editor

• Vol. 20 No. 1 (2019)

  Welcome to the newest issue of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice. This issue of Critical Social Work includes five peer-reviewed articles. In this issue, the authors address a series of issues of importance to our thinking and practices in a way that advances our understanding of the human condition temporally and spiritually.

  The first article by Mayor (2019), “It’s Just Not What We See: Trauma Training for Teachers Working with Syrian Refugee Students,” examines perspectives on existing trauma training held for teachers who work with Syrian refugee students. The next article by McGuire, Short and Martin (2019), “Whosoever Will May Come: Challenging Homonormativity through Radical Inclusivity in an LGBTIQ2S+ Faith Community,” explores the perceptions of inclusion and representation of members of Toronto, Ontario’s largest LGBTIQ2S+ religious community across embodied social identities including sexual and gender identity, race, age, socioeconomic status, and ability. Our third article by Ricciardelli, Nackerud, Cochrane, Sims, Crawford and Taylor (2019), “A Snapshot of Immigration Court at Stewart Detention Centre: How Social Workers Can Advocate & Advance Social Justice Efforts in the United States,” describes detainment and deportation processes, and their implementation at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. Further, social work’s ethical role in relation to immigrant populations and immigrant policy issues are discussed. The fourth article by Schmid and Morgenshtern (2019), “Pulling Together the Threads: Current Understandings of Contextualized Social Work Education,” presents alternative social work paradigms, paying attention to Indigenized, Indigenous, culturally authentic, local, developmental, and decolonized models of social work. The authors then conceptualize contextualized social work. Finally, in “Gaining Insight into Youth Programming and the Inclusivity of Girls,” Vokes, Barry, Wilson, Pulla, and Shacter (2019) examine factors that influence girls’ participation in youth recreational programs through the lens of a modified Brofenbrenner Ecological Model with a focus on girls’ health and well-being.

  We welcome your feedback on any of the publications included in this or any of our issues. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did. Thank you again for your continuing support.

  Amy Alberton Managing Editor

• Vol. 19 No. 2 (2018)

  Welcome to our new platform and to the newest issue of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice. This issue of Critical Social Work includes six peer-reviewed articles as well as an inaugural op-ed piece. The first peer-reviewed article, “The Promise and Deception of Participation in Welfare Services for Unemployed Young People,” examines the role of welfare services in the participative citizenship of young people outside the labour market (Matthies, Närhi, & Kokkonen, 2018). The next article, “A Landscape of Intersecting Discourses: Navigating Professional Identity as a Newly Qualified Social Worker” presents the social contexts that influence the lived experience of professional identity for newly qualified social workers in Australia (Moorhead, 2018). Our third article, “Privilege as a Moving Target: Re-imagining Privilege for Social Work Practice” draws on phenomenological research conducted with 20 direct practitioners in Ontario, Canada. The author suggests an alternative theoretical of social constructionism for considering the evolving and shifting dimensions of privilege and its implication for social work practice (Taiwo, 2018). The fourth article, “Responding to Neoliberalism: The Case of the Look at My Life Project,” presents a case study of a not-for-profit organization’s program that was able to successfully respond to neoliberalism within prison in Ontario, Canada (Woods, Gopal, & George, 2018). In “Shifting the Ground in Nepali Social Work: A Decolonizing Perspective,” Yadav (2018) argues that Nepali social workers should emphasize and engage in decolonizing social work practices in Nepal by addressing structural problems perpetuating injustice and inequality in Nepal. The author of our final peer-reviewed article, “Circumcision and the Oppression of the Medical Colonizer: A Critical Reflection,” wished to remain anonymous. This article provides a critical reflection of medical circumcision on baby boys in western society. Finally, our inaugural op-ed piece, “First Nations Elementary & Secondary School Education – A National Dilemma,” offers a critique of the Canadian provincial and federal governments’ approaches to remedying the dire conditions of elementary and secondary school education for First Nations youth (McCue, 2018). Finally, in the journal’s inaugural reflection piece Forrest (2018) shares a life lesson uncovered through caring for someone with a disability.

  We welcome your feedback on any of the publications included in this or any of our issues. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did. Thank you again for your continuing support.

  Amy Alberton
  Managing Editor

• Vol. 19 No. 1 (2018)

• Vol. 18 No. 1 (2017)

• Vol. 17 No. 2 (2016)

• Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016)

• Vol. 16 No. 1 (2015)

• Vol. 15 No. 1 (2014)

• Vol. 14 No. 2 (2013)

• Vol. 14 No. 1 (2013)

• Vol. 13 No. 2 (2012)

• Vol. 13 No. 1 (2012)

• Vol. 12 No. 1 (2011)

• Building Bridges and Crossing Boundaries: Dialogues in Professional Helping

  Vol. 11 No. 3 (2010)

  Guest Editors

  • John Coates, PhD, Professor, Department of Social Work, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, jcoates@stu.ca
  • Fred H. Besthorn, PhD, LMSW, M.DIV, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, fred.besthorn@wichita.edu

• Vol. 11 No. 2 (2010)

• Special Indigenous Issue

  Vol. 11 No. 1 (2010)

  Guest Editor: Raven Sinclair, PhD, RSW, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina (Saskatoon Campus), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  
  

• The Third Special Issue on Spirituality

  Vol. 10 No. 1 (2009)

  Guest Editors

  • John Coates, PhD, Professor Department of Social Work St. Thomas University Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

  • Jeannette Waegemaker Schiff, PhD, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada