information for practice - help
mission
To help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship.
navigation
The site is updated frequently and is broken down into several sections:
- Guidelines: Published by professional and governmental organizations, these evidence-based guidelines provide health care professionals with state of the art treatment for a variety of physical and mental disorders.
- Meta-analyses & systematic reviews: This collection links to abstracts of these types of scholarship. Access to the full text of these articles is on a pay-per-use or paid subscription model.
- Funding: Covers a variety of funding opportunities for research and service.
- Images in the News, News and Videos: These collections of multimedia and text features are curated from popular media, academic sites, and user-contributed sources like YouTube.
- Books: Descriptions of recent books on topics of professional interest.
- Grey Literature: This section covers scientific and technical reports that do not go through the typical proprietary publishing process (e.g., reports from government agencies).
- Open Access Journals: Like the above, this collection links to articles from a variety of scholarly journals, but users can access the full text of these articles without paying.
- Calls: Includes calls for submissions (e.g., for conference presentations) or
nominations for awards.
rss
The home page, archives, and each section above has its own RSS feed. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and you can learn more about it from this YouTube video. Our feeds are formatted in both Atom & RSS 2.0 format. In most browsers' address bars, you'll see an RSS icon appear when you are browsing a page that is available via RSS.
search
There are four search engines available on this site:
- Just this site: Use this when you only want to search content within this site.
- Other relevant sites - Use this when you want to search this site and related sites, such as US National Institute of Mental Health.
- Poverty sites - A specialized search engine that returns results from sites that have a focus on poverty-related scholarship.
- All of the above - Combines all the above search engines.
We are grateful to Google customized search engine software for powering our search engine software.
archives
Archives are kept on a monthly basis, as well as a section basis. Section-based archives are restricted to the 30 most recent days of posts within a section.
for additional help, please contact:
Gary Holden, Editor
Professor
New York University: Silver School of Social Work
One Washington Square North
NY, NY US
gary.holden@nyu.edu