Scaling Up Social Problems

Strategies for Solving Social Work’s Grand Challenges

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12384592
AutoresMaria Rodríguez (0000-0003-1401-2099, University of Washington, autor correspondente), 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)
Ano2016
Volume27
Fascículo2
Páginas139-149
Data de publicação2016-07-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoResearch on Social Work Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7315 • E-ISSN: 1552-7581
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1049731516658352
OpenAlexW2464360489
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas34

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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