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Editors' Choice Articles

The editors have selected their choice articles from the latest issues of The British Journal of Social Work. Click through to read the articles online for FREE.

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Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs): An International Human Rights Intervention and Its Connection to Social Work
David K. Androff

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The Social Work Profession and Subjective Well-Being: The Impact of a Profession on Overall Subjective Well-Being
John R. Graham andMicheal L. Shier

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Editorial to Special Issue on Risk and Social Work: Critical Perspectives
Joanne Warner andElaine Sharland

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‘A Friend and an Equal’: Do Young People in Care Seek the Impossible from their Social Workers?
Alison McLeod

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Narrative and Rhetoric in Social Work Education
Kris Rutten, André Mottart and Ronald Soetaert

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The social worker versus the General Social Care Council: An analysis of Care Standards Tribunal hearings and decisions
Kenneth McLaughlin

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Bullying of Lesbian and Gay Youth: A Qualitative Investigation
Faye Mishna, Peter A. Newman, Andrea Daley, and Steven Solomon

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The descriptive tyranny of the Common Assessment Framework: Technologies of categorization and professional practice in child welfare
Sue White, Chris Hall, and Sue Peckover

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What's in a Name: ‘Client’, ‘Patient’, ‘Customer’, ‘Consumer’, ‘Expert by Experience’, ‘Service User’—What's Next?
Hugh McLaughlin

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Choosing Language: Social Service Framing and Social Justice
Colleen Vojak

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Tensions in the Delivery of Social Work Services in Rural and Remote
Scotland

Colin Turbett

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39:2

Publishing voice: training social workers in policy practice
Idit Weiss and Einat Peled

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Post-Adoption Contact and Openness in Adoptive Parents’ Minds: Consequences for Children’s Development
Elsbeth Neil

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Child Welfare and Information and Communication Technology: Today’s Challenge
Susan Tregeagle and Michael Darcy

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Barriers To Retaining And Using Professional Knowledge In Local Authority Social Work Practice With Adults In The UK
Ann McDonald, Karen Postle and Carol Dawson

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Statutory Social Workers: Stress, Job Satisfaction, Coping, Social Support and Individual Differences
Stewart Collins

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‘There Are Wonderful Social Workers but it’s a Lottery’: Older People’s Views about Social Workers
Jill Manthorpe, Jo Moriarty, Joan Rapaport, Roger Clough, Michelle Cornes, Les Bright, Steve Iliffe, and OPRSI (Older People Researching Social Issues)

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Learning from experience: Developing a research strategy for social work
Paul Bywaters

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Understanding Methods paradigms in an historical context: the case of social pedagogy
Walter Lorenz

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Liquid social work: Welfare interventions as mobile practices
Harry Ferguson

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Resilience across cultures
Michael Ungar

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Social work practice to support survival strategies in sub-Saharan Africa
Siobhan Laird

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