Journal of Family Social Work Special Issue – call for papers
Special Issue - Rural Families and Reshaping Social
Services
NOW ACCEPTING PAPERS
Journal of Family Social Work
Special Issue
Rural Families and Reshaping Social Services
Guest Editors: Jeanne Cook and Keith A.
Alford
Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2012
The Journal of Family Social Work announces a Call
for Papers for a Special Issue on “Reshaping Human Services for
Rural Families.” Prior to the recent economic crisis in the
U.S., many rural families were struggling to meet their basic needs.
During the best of times, service providers in rural locales have had to use
creative strategies to develop and deliver needed resources to families in
those communities. Within the current economic and political
environments, the constraints on funding for services have expanded as the
needs for those services have grown. Programs have been combined,
services have been reduced, and funding cuts have been severe in virtually
every category of public funding. At the same time, private nonprofit
agencies have seen their donations shrink and their client applications
swell. Generally, much of the emphasis on where and how to cut
services is based on the number of people served. As a result, rural
programs and service locations have been lost.
The goal of this Special Edition of JFSW is to
examine families in rural communities and identify creative strategies and
program approaches that identify and meet rural families’ needs. In
particular, articles are solicited which address rural families across the
life cycle, innovative approaches to service delivery with rural families,
health care reform and rural America, mental health and emotional well
being, the role of rural churches as collaborators in service delivery,
public policy and rural families, disparities among culturally diverse
populations, and social and economic development in rural communities.
Each issue of the Journal of Family Social Work
contains research articles, conceptual and practice articles, creative
works, letters to the editor, and book reviews devoted to innovative family
theory and practice subjects. In celebrating social workers' traditions of
working with couples and families in their life context, the Journal
of Family Social Work features articles which advance the capacity
of practitioners to integrate research, theory building, and practice wisdom
into their services to families. It is a journal of policy, clinical
practice, and research directed to the needs of social workers working with
couples and families. The Journal of Family Social Work
receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne
Manuscripts website located at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wfsw.
ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised
manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal
communication between authors, editors, and reviewers via a web-based
platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via
http://scholarone.com/services/support/.
If you have any other requests, please contact the journal's editor at
jfamilysocialwork@gmail.com.
Journal of Family Social Work
Editor-in-Chief: Pat Conway, PhD, LCSW
Volume 15, 2012, 5 issues per year
Print ISSN 1052-2158 Online ISSN 1540-4072
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