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Flood risk, vulnerability and environmental justice : Evidence and evaluation…
Flooding has only relatively recently been considered as an environmental justice issue. In this paper we focus on flooding as a distinct form of environmental risk and examine some of the key evidence and analysis that is needed to underpin an environmental justice framing of flood risk and flood impacts. We review and examine the UK situation and the body of existing research literature on fl…
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- Vol. 31 no. 2, May 2011.pp. 216-240
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- 02610183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Environmental justice in Cuba
‘Environmental justice’ refers to the human right to a healthy and safe environment, a fair share of natural resources, access to environmental information and participation in environmental decision-making. Some analysts have argued that environmental justice is undermined by the political economy of capitalism. This paper builds on this analysis by evaluating the environmental justice situati…
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- Vol. 31 no. 2, May 2011.pp. 241-265
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- 02610183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Who bears the brunt? Distributional effects of climate change mitigation poli…
Climate change scholars generally urge that CO2 emissions need to be cut rapidly if we are to avoid dangerous risks of climate change. However, climate change mitigation policies are widely perceived to have regressive effects — that is, putting a higher financial burden as a proportion of household income on poor than on rich households. This is one of several major barriers to the adoption of…
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- Vol. 31 no. 2, May 2011 .pp. 285-307
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- 02610183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Bridging sustainability and the social economy : Achieving community transfor…
Sustainability and the social economy are two approaches that provide critiques of mainstream economic growth based on the failure to integrate environmental and social concerns. This article explores the potential for community transformation by bridging these two approaches — bringing more environmental considerations into the social economy and using the social economy to advance equity conc…
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- Vol. 31 no. 2, May 2011.pp. 308-324
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- 02610183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Discrimination, Mastery, and Depressive Symptoms Among African American Men
Purpose: This study examines the influence of discrimination and mastery on depressive symptoms for African American men at young (18—34), middle (35—54), and late (55+) adulthood. Method: Analyses are based on responses from 1,271 African American men from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). Results: Discrimination was significantly related to depressive symptoms for men ages 35 to 54…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 269-277
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- 10497315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Correlates of Psychological Distress and Major Depressive Disorder Among Afri…
This study examines the demographic correlates of depressive symptoms, serious psychological distress (SPD), and major depressive disorder (MDD; 12-month and lifetime prevalence) among a national sample of African American men. Analysis of the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) data set provides first-time substantiation of important demographic differences in depressive symptoms (measured…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011 .pp. 278-288
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Prevalence, Comorbidity, and Course of Depression Among Black Fathers in the …
Black men are disproportionately exposed to adverse social and economic factors that may be linked to depression. Little is known about depression among Black fathers, although depression is a significant health problem and detrimental to the instrumental and affective support of their families. The authors use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the prevalence,…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011 .pp. 289-297
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- 10497315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Engaging Nonresident African American Fathers in Intervention Research: What …
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of African American nonresident fathers who engaged in parental monitoring and to assess the relationship between engaging in monitoring and race-related socialization with their preadolescent sons on their psychological well-being. We also examined the moderating influences of demographic factors on the effects of a parent…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 298-307
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Being There in Spirit, Fire, and Mind: Expressive Roles Among Nonresidential …
Objective: This exploratory qualitative study examined factors contributing to expressive father role negotiation, salience, and commitment in a sample of nonresidential African American fathers (n = 18). Method: Two focus groups were conducted between 2000 and 2001 in a Midwestern city to understand factors that strengthen and diminish bonds between nonresidential African American fathers and …
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 308-318
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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The Nurturant Fathering Scale : A Confirmatory Factor Analysis With an Africa…
Objective: The objective of this study was to test the factor structure of the Nurturant Fathering Scale (NFS) among an African American sample in the mid-Atlantic region that have neither Caribbean heritage nor immigration experiences but who do have diverse family structures (N = 212). Method: A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted in order to evaluate the factor structure of the …
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 319-327
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Use of Professional and Informal Support by Black Men With Mental Disorders
This study utilized data from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) to investigate the use of professional services and informal support among African American and Caribbean black men with a lifetime mood, anxiety, or substance use disorder. Thirty-three percent used both professional services and informal support, 14% relied on professional services only, 24% used informal support only, …
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011 .pp. 328-336
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Use of Professional and Informal Support by Black Men With Mental Disorders
This study utilized data from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) to investigate the use of professional services and informal support among African American and Caribbean black men with a lifetime mood, anxiety, or substance use disorder. Thirty-three percent used both professional services and informal support, 14% relied on professional services only, 24% used informal support only, …
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 328-336
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Social and Cultural Factors Influence African American Men’s Medical Help S…
Objective: To examine the factors that influenced African American men’s medical help seeking. Method: Thematic analysis of 14 focus groups with 105 older, urban African American men. Results: African American men described normative expectations that they did not go to the doctor and that they were afraid to go, with little explanation. When they did go, men reported that they were particularl…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011 .pp. 337-347
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Does Individual Development Account Participation Help the Poor? A Review
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to review the current empirical research regarding the financial effects of participation in Individual Development Account (IDA) programs. Methods: Peer-reviewed outcome studies identified through electronic bibliographic databases and manual searches of article reference lists are reviewed. A total of 1 randomized controlled trial, 1 quasi-experimental…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 348-362
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The Signature Pedagogy of Social Work? An Investigation of the Evidence
Objective: Many professions use some form of internship in professional education. Social work has utilized field instruction throughout much of its history. Recently, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) designated field instruction as social work’s signature pedagogy. A systematic review was undertaken to examine evidence related to this designation. Method: Twenty-five primary databas…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 363-372
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Conflict in Small Groups : The Meaning and Consequences of Process Conflict
Through three studies of interacting small groups, we aimed to better understand the meaning and consequences of process conflict. Study 1 was an exploratory analysis of qualitative data that helped us to identify the unique dimensions of process conflict to more clearly distinguish it from task and relationship conflict. Study 2 used a broader sampling of participants to (a) demonstrate why pr…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 127-176
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- 10464964
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- Small Group Research
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Predicting Group Attendance Using In-Session Behaviors
A session-level analysis examines the relationship between intimate behaviors of an individual group member and of the other group members in a session, and individual group member attendance in the following session. Specifically, the model proposed by Kenny, Mannetti, Pierro, Livi, and Kashy (2002) for analyzing individual and group effects in small groups is used to examine session attendanc…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011 .pp. 177-198
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The Reciprocal Effects of Self-View as a Leader and Leadership Emergence
Although it is often assumed that an individual’s self-view as a leader has an impact on that individual’s emergence as a leader, there is currently no empirical evidence of this effect in the literature. Longitudinal social network analysis is used to study both the impact of an individual’s self-view as a leader on leadership emergence and how the process of leadership emergence influences an…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 199-224
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Moderators of the Relationship Between Group Helping Norms and Individual Hel…
Researchers have recently devoted increasing attention to employee helping behavior at the work group level of analysis. Despite this surge in interest, possible moderators of the relationship between group helping norms and individual helping behavior have not been empirically examined. In a study of 147 employees and their supervisors working in 30 groups of a telecommunications company, we f…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 225-248
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Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism
Why are the unfree regimes of the former Soviet world proving so durable? A lack of ideology and—perhaps surprisingly—a degree of openness are proving to be not so much problems for authoritarianism as bulwarks of it.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 5-16
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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