Scaling Up Social Problems
Strategies for Solving Social Work’s Grand Challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12384592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Rodríguez (0000-0003-1401-2099, University of Washington, corresponding author), Laysha Ostrow (0000-0003-3481-0565, University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA), Susan P Kemp (0000-0001-7481-8911, University of Washington) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-149 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research on Social Work Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7315 • E-ISSN: 1552-7581 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049731516658352 |
| OpenAlex | W2464360489 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 34 |
The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative aims to focus the profession’s attention on how social work can play a larger role in mitigating contemporary social problems. Yet a central issue facing contemporary social work is its seeming reticence to engage with social problems, and their solutions, beyond individual-level interventions. Social work research, we contend, must more consistently link case and cause, iteratively developing processes for bringing micro-, mezzo-, and macrostreams of information together. We further argue that meaningful engagement with the initiative requires social work scholars and practitioners to actively scale up practice and research inquiry. We detail two key strategies for employing a scaled-up social work practice and research ethos: (a) employing a critical economic lens and (b) engaging with diverse publics. As proof of concept for these arguments, we offer an early example of progressive era social workers scaling up responses to a pressing social issue: infant mortality
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |