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New issue online: Social Work in Schools Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/JP...
including
Building perspectives and innovation in school social work:
Maria Kjellgren, Jennifer Rafter, Prospera Tedam, Marelize Vergottini and other important articles
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A new issue of Groupwork journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/GP... with editorial: Focus on Practice by Nick Pollard. Articles include: Internship Supervisors' Perspectives of Group Work Within Social Work Practice by
Shirley Simon, Kristina Lind, Teresa Kilbane and more important
new work
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Social Work in Schools: new issue online now journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/JP... including An Interprofessional Skills Development Program for Pre-Service School-Based Professionals (Erika Gergerich and Stacey Gherardi) and other important articles
September 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Editors of Whiting & Birch journals at the European Conference on Social Work Education in Salzburg, Austria. Prospera Tedam and Mark Doel presented their study on anti-racism in Social Work. Prince Agwu showcased his research on children's health rights and school health in Nigeria.
July 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The third part of the Luso-Hispanic Groupwork series now online. Articles in Spanish and Portuguese with English translations. Important perspectives on social work with groups in contexts including young entrepreneurs and community care and support
journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/GP...
July 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Using the generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots of Perplexity and ChatGPT as a teaching and learning tool for practice teachers and students within social work placement: article by Margarita McGovern in Vol 22 1-2 now online journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/JP...
May 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The value of using a storybook to protect the psychological health of children during COVID-19 in resource-limited communities by Maude Mthembu Tanisha Raniga
Michael Boecker journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SW...
An African perspective on the effects of Covid on child mental health
March 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Transformative online groupwork in a large not-for-profit organisation in Australia:
by Neil Richard Hall and Andrew King in Groupwork and Technology Vol 32 now online journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/GP...
'the same level of client feedback and outcomes were achieved using online groupwork'
March 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Article in vol 22 1-2: Using the generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots of Perplexity and ChatGPT as a teaching and learning tool for practice teachers and students within social work placement, by Marguerita McGovern journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/JP...
March 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The second of our special issues on child welfare in Africa. Includes: The roles of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa: A scoping review. By Priscilla Gutura, Jeff Zwelithini Khosa. And other important articles
March 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Student prize winning articles: Addressing unmet needs in adolescent eating disorder treatment with an ongoing remote-access peer support group by Emily Baronfeld and Supporting the researchers of traumatic experiences
by Casey Wynne
whitingbirch.net Groupwork latest and previous issues online
March 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Groupwork vol 30 no 3 includes work by previous prizewinners including: Addressing unmet needs in adolescent eating disorder treatment with an ongoing remote-access peer support group by Emily Baronfeld and Supporting the researchers of traumatic experiences
by Casey Wynne
March 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Groupwork Student Essay Prize 2025: opportunity for students to publish and to win a prize of $100. We value work with groups in the diverse contexts in which student practitioners operate. Support and mentoring in the writing process may be offered. Details www.whitingbirch.net/data/ip/ip00...
March 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Strategies to use online forums to teach social work students critical reflection: article now online at journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/JP... by Sharif Haider, Open University.

A research study involving tutors, with a discussion of the practical implications of teaching at a distance.
February 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
On advance publication at whiting.birch.net: journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/JP...
Developing an effective IPE learning activity for midwifery and medical students: Use of a quality improvement model and researcher-teacher partnership methodology’
Authors
February 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We are committed to publishing in languages other than English because so much good research and practice is excluded from the English-language world. This is the second issue about groupwork in Spanish and Portuguese with English translations.
February 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The first of two issues with important articles on child welfare in Africa. Edited by Marcus Chiu, Prince Agwu and Ebenezer Cudjoe journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SW...
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We are profoundly grateful to Professor Marcus Chiu and Professor Jerome Carson for their outstanding work as Co-Editors. They will publish a valedictory issue. We are delighted to announce that the new Co-Editors are Xue Yang and Ebenezer Cudjoe more details www.whitingbirch.net
January 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New Co-Editor Xue Yang is Assistant Professor in the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD in Psychology and MPhil in Social Work. www.whitingbirch.net/cgi-bin/scri...
January 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New Co-Editor Ebenezer Cudjoe has contributed to the Review as an Editorial Board member and Guest Editor. He is Lecturer in Childhood Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. www.whitingbirch.net/cgi-bin/scri...
January 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We are committed to publishing in languages other than English because so much good research and practice is excluded from the English-language world. This is the first of two issues about groupwork in Spanish and Portuguese with English translations.
January 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Papers from across Ireland from social work, nursing, speech and language therapy, social care, community work, youth work and medicine. Practitioners, educators and researchers share theoretical papers, innovative practice and empirical research in practice teaching and learning part 2 to follow
January 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Whiting and Birch is an independent publisher of academic and professional journals in health, social work and social policy. David Whiting was at the IASWG Symposium in Madrid June 2024. For our books and journals see our website www.whitingbirch.net
December 6, 2024 at 3:24 PM