[more], Lauren A. Ricciardelli, Larry Nackerud, Adam E. Quinn, Adelaide K. Sandler, Mary E. Hylton, Jason Ostrander, Tanya R. Smith, Jennifer Wood, Margaret Lane, Amber M. Mattheus, A Mixed Methods Approach to Exploring Forced Exclusion, Social Work’s Role in Mobilizing the Vote Among Marginalized Communities, Immigrant Latino Fathers’ Perceptions of Child Abuse and Neglect, The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States, The Three-Legged Stool of Voter Engagement. Critical Social Work offers the opportunity for constructive dialogue in the interest of achieving social justice. London: Routledge . This issue of Critical Social Work includes four peer-reviewed articles. Arguing that the critique of positivism, the unreliability of generalizations about humans, and the influence of new social movements have undermined the credibility of mainstream social work practice and theory, the author advocates the need for social work … Finally, for their article, “Social Work and Obesity: License to Oppress,” Wood et al. Thank you again for your continuing support. 21, No. [more], Wendy McGuire, Michelle Short, Kari Martin, Lauren A. Ricciardelli, Larry Nackerud, Katherine Cochrane, India Sims, Latifa Crawford, Demetria Taylor, Shannon G. Vokes, Erinn N. Barry, Ciann L. Wilson, Victoria M. Pulla, Jora I. Shacter, Trauma Training for Teachers Working with Syrian Refugee Students, Challenging Homonormativity through Radical Inclusivity in an LGBTIQ2S+ Faith Community, How Social Workers Can Advocate & Advance Social Justice Efforts in the United States, Current Understandings of Contextualized Social Work Education, A Snapshot of Immigration Court at Stewart Detention Center, Gaining Insight into Youth Programming and the Inclusivity of Girls. We recognize the historical nature of both human capability and social justice. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did. Welcome to the newest issue (Vol. This paper articulates a perspective on critical social work that draws from poststructuralism and critical theory. 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. 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. 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. (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. 211-223. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did. About the journal Critical and Radical Social Work: An international journal is an exciting new journal that promotes debate and scholarship around a range of engaged social work themes. 21, No. 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. Thank you again for your continuing support. Welcome to the newest issue of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice. We welcome your feedback on any of the publications included in this or any of our issues. 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. We welcome your feedback on any of the publications included in this or any of our issues. Google Scholar 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 authors then conceptualize contextualized social work. (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. Welcome to the newest issue of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice. Critical Social Work offers the opportunity for constructive dialogue in the interest of achieving social justice. Ife, Jim (1999) `Postmodernism, Critical Theory and Social Work', in Bob Pease and Jan Fook (eds) Transforming Social Work Practice: Postmodern Critical Perspectives, pp. 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. This issue of Critical Social Work includes five peer-reviewed articles. 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. This issue of Critical Social Work includes five peer-reviewed articles. The next article by Ricciardelli et al. 2) of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice. (2020) address low voter engagement among members of historically oppressed groups. We recognize the historical nature of both human capability and social justice. Further, social work’s ethical role in relation to immigrant populations and immigrant policy issues are discussed. 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. 2) of Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice.This issue of Critical Social Work includes four peer-reviewed articles. Welcome to the newest issue (Vol.