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Call for Papers
British Journal of Social Work
Deadline: June 7, 2013 (abstracts)
Guest Editors: Charlotte Williams, PhD, RMIT, Melbourne Australia, Mekada Graham, PhD, California State University DH, Los Angeles
'A World on the Move': Migration, Mobilities and Social Work (Vol 44 Issue 4 June 2014)
 A world of people are on the move - including international students, economic migrants, itinerant peoples, Gypsy/Travellers, those within global care chains as well as those without proper authorisation whose irregular status leave them vulnerable to human rights violations including slavery. It is estimated that some 191 million people or 3% of the world's population live outside of their country of birth and over half of these are women. Women migrants are particularly vulnerable to labour market exploitation, human trafficking, sexual violence and sexually transmitted diseases. Refugees fleeing natural disaster, famine, persecution and conflict form a distinct category within this movement. Migrants and their descendants provide an important focus for consideration in that they are often over represented amongst those in need of welfare support and benefits, subject to discriminations and marginalisation and human rights abuses and importantly form a significant but undervalued core of the workforce of social service provisioning. Neither has this movement come without a significant intersection with issues of racial and ethnic discrimination, xenophobia and exacerbated social disadvantage and inequities. This movement of peoples across and within national contexts has demanded far reaching change from within the profession, highlighting issues in interventions, in the training of social workers and in the types of research they undertake. How do contemporary debates, theorizing, writing and research reflect this? The aim of this special issue is to draw out an engagement between domestic politics of ethnic diversity and wider concerns of international migration and mobilities with the purpose of reinvigorating the debate of social work's role in responding appropriately to this central and global concern. Click here for more information.
 

Call for Presentations
2014 Annual Rural Health Conference
Deadline: July 31, 2013
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA)'s Annual Rural Health Conference is the nation's largest rural health conference, created for all of those with an interest in rural health care, including rural health practitioners, hospital administrators, clinic directors and lay health workers, social workers, state and federal health employees, academics, community members and more. Click here for more information. 

Call for Papers
Journal of Family Strengths
Deadline: August 15, 2013
Editors-in-Chief: Alvin Sallee (University of Houston-Downtown), Angelo Giardino (Texas Children's Health Plan), Robert Sanborn (CHILDREN AT RISK)
The Journal of Family Strengths (JFS), formerly the Family Preservation Journal, is inviting submissions of manuscripts for consideration for the Fall issue, Volume 13.  The deadline for manuscripts is August 15, 2013. JFS is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal produced by the CHILDREN AT RISK Institute in partnership with the Center for Family Strengths at the University of Houston-Downtown and the Texas Medical Center Library. JFS is devoted to presenting theoretical, policy, practice, and evaluation articles on the strengths perspective in family-centered practice to improve services that promote and sustain family systems. The Journal's goal is to facilitate family, worker, supervisor, educator and agency interchange. The overall goal is to promote research and evaluation, and to disseminate information for best practices that support family-centered practice. The Journal of Family Strengths is an online only journal, and the submission and peer review process are completed entirely online. Authors are encouraged to take advantage of the online format of the Journal by including videos, interactive charts or links to online resources. Manuscripts should conform to American Psychological Association style with an optimal length of 20 pages, double spaced. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers

Psychology of Violence: The Measurement of Violence & Victimization
Deadline: August 25, 2013

Edited by John Grych and Sherry Hamby
Psychology of Violence invites manuscripts for a special issue on the measurement of violence and victimization, including self-report, observational, and experimental techniques for assessing violence and mechanisms proposed to cause violence. It is our hope that this special issue will help propel the study of violence forward and become a resource for anyone looking for guidance on conducting state-of-the-art research on violence. Violence research was launched in part by the realization that people would disclose involvement in violence on confidential self-report surveys, whether this involvement involved victimization, perpetration, or both.  Many surveys have now been developed to measure violence and related constructs.  The field has also seen advances in experimental approaches to the study of violence, from Milgram's obedience experiment to modern techniques such as the Hot Sauce paradigm.  Our success in measuring violence has transformed research, intervention, and policy.  However, existing measurement strategies have also produced unresolved controversies, such as questions about gender patterns in intimate partner violence and the impact of exposure to media violence.  No field of science can rest on its laurels and the need for innovation is ever present. This issue is intended to address the primary methodological  limitations getting in the way of better understanding the causes, rates, and consequences of violence, especially those pertaining to measurement, and to offer potential solutions to these problems. It will focus on all facets of the measurement of violence, including but not limited to those suggested below.  We conceptualize violence broadly, including child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, bullying, community violence, teen dating violence, elder abuse, sexual aggression, conventional crime, psychological aggression, suicidal behavior, and stalking, and papers addressing any form of violence are welcome. Click here for submission information. Inquiries regarding topic or scope for the special issue or for other manuscripts can be sent to John Grych, john.grych@marquette.edu, or Sherry Hamby, sherry.hamby@sewanee.edu.

Call for Papers
Changing Work and Family Relationships in a Global Economy
Deadline: October 18, 2013
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) invites submissions for the 2014 Conference, Changing Work and Family Relationships in a Global Economy, to be held June 19-21, 2014 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. We seek fresh and innovative scientific contributions on work and family issues from investigators in diverse disciplines. We value all disciplinary perspectives on the issues, including, but not limited to, anthropology, business and management, economics, family studies, political science, psychology, public health, social work, sociology, and related fields. The voices of all stakeholders are needed to understand and address work and family issues to advance knowledge and practice. We also encourage policy advocates, policy makers, and work-life practitioners to submit evidence-based contributions. New for 2014 is the addition of practitioners to the program committee, in an effort to encourage practitioner and policy-oriented submissions and promotion of researcher and practitioner/policy maker collaboration.  Also new is organizing the meeting to kickoff with a preconference of meetings of Early Career Scholars, WFRN officers, committees, and member volunteers on June 18. Click here for more information.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Social Work and Christianity: The Black Church and Social Reform

Deadline: December 1, 2013
Guest Editors: Tanya Brice, MSW, PhD - Baylor University & Kimberly Hardy, MSW, PhD - University of Connecticut
The Black Church has historically been the center of the African American community. While the Black church is often stereotyped by "the preacher, the music, and the frenzy," as described by W.E.B. DuBois in Souls of Black Folks (1903), this institution played a central role in the development of social institutions within the African American community. From its inception, this church served as a social service and reform institution for its congregants and for the African American community. This spirit of social reform is a lasting characteristic of the seven major historically Black denominations. The Black Church, as an institution, was instrumental in the development of mutual aid societies, schools and colleges, orphanages, homes for wayward or delinquent children, and homes for the elderly. The Black Church is truly a "nation within a nation," as was described by E. Franklin Frazier in The Negro Church in America (1964). This significant history is largely missing in the social work literature.This special issue of Social Work and Christianity seeks to explore the contribution that the Black Church has made to social work practice, policy, research, and education. Submissions in the following areas are particularly requested:
-Conceptual offerings that provide definitional clarity and theoretical frameworks examining the historical roots of the Black Church
-Articles that examine the Black Church as an institution of social reform, including articles on community practice; organizational practice; policy practice; social reform in rural or urban settings; examination of social issues
-Articles focused on research or research methods that use the Black Church as a context
-Articles focused on the history of the Black Church in social work education and practice
All authors are strongly encouraged to contact the special edition editors at blackchurchstudy@gmail.com by September 1, 2013 to discuss ideas for paper submissions. The deadline for all paper submissions is December 1, 2013. If there are any additional questions about submission, please contact the guest editors at the e-mail address listed above.