Resource Guide:
Social Work
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Careers in Social Work
- National Association of Social Workers
- Council on Social Work Education
- Association of Social Work Boards
- Clinical Social Work Federation
- Virginia Department of Social Services
- Administration for Children & Families
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
- The Social Work Career Center
- Social Programs that Work
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Social Work
- Social Work Administration
- Social Services
- Social Workers
- Social Work, Ethics
- Social Work, Methods
- Social Work with Children
- Social Work with Criminals
- Social Work with Drug Addicts
- Social Work with Juvenile Delinquents
- Social Work with Minorities
- Social Work with Older People
- Social Work with People with Social Disabilities
- Social Work with the Homeless
- Social Work with Youth
- Social Workers, Biography
- Social Workers, Certification
- Social Workers, Job Stress
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Credo Reference
- Education Research Complete
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Environment Complete
- ERIC
- Health Source – Consumer Edition
- JSTOR
- Legal Collection
- MasterFILE Premier
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- PsycInfo
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- PubMed
- Women’s Studies International
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Social Work
- Social Work and Society
- Social Work Education
- Journal of Social Work Education
- Social Work in Public Health
- Social Work Research
- Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice
- Social Behavior and Personality
- Social Choice and Welfare
- Social Issues and Policy Review
- Social Problems
- Social Research
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Encyclopedia of social work | REF HV 35 .E56 |
| Handbook of social work in child and adolescent sexual abuse | HV 6570 .H36 2007 |
| Social work with Latinos : a cultural assets paradigm | HV 3187 .A2 D444 2006 |
| Handbook for working with children and youth: pathways to resilience | BF 723 .R46 H357 2005 |
| Fundamentals of Substance Abuse Practice | HV 4998 .J65 2004 |
| Human services for older adults: concepts and skills | HV 1461 .H36 1990 |
| Helping the abuser: intervening effectively in family violence | HQ 809.3 .U5 S777 |
| The witness stand a guide for clinical social workers in the courtroom | e-Book |
| Social work practice with immigrants and refugees | e-Book |
| Mental disorders, medications, and clinical social work | e-Book |
| Culturally diverse parent-child and family relationships a guide for social workers | e-Book |
| Communicating with vulnerable children a guide for practitioners | e-Book |
| Building on women’s strengths a social work agenda for the twenty-first century | e-Book |
| Best practices for social work with refugees and immigrants | e-Book |