Social Work and Social Sciences Review sets out to reinforce and expand the links between international social work practice and the various social science disciplines which inform it. The Editors welcome articles and proposals from any area in the social sciences,particularly with relevance to the development of social work knowledge. For example, social policy and its relationship with, and impact upon, social work has never been more important. In many countries, particularly in the Western world, recent years have seen a plethora of social policy initiatives introduced, each designed to improve the lives of social work service users at different stages in the life course. In the UK for instance, policy areas include: The New Social Justice Strategy, for example, Troubled Families, Valuing People and Youth Transitions. However the impact of welfare reform, the austerity crisis and the current disassembling of the welfare state have, many critics claim, sharpened social inequalities and reduced social mobility.

The Review welcomes in particular articles which draw upon an interdisciplinary field which includes other cognate disciplines; and where there is overlap in explaining social problems, in terms of both empirical foci and methods of analysis. The boundaries between social work and other social science disciplines – for example, health studies, sociology,psychology, economics and public sector management – are porous and shifting;and there are clear historical links between social policy and social work. The bureaucratisation of social work and health care, coupled with extensive partnership arrangements with the private, voluntary and 3rd sectors, has characterised a recent transformation of organisational culture and introduced a range of different professionals and others involved in the delivery of care to any one individual or family. The consequences of recent social policy developments, in particular the cuts in welfare spending, will impact upon the economic and social well-being of vulnerable people, while at the same time constraining the options and resources available to social workers.'

Social Work & Social Sciences Review is published three times per year.
ISSNs (print) 0953-5225 (online) 1746-6105

Information for authors, guidelines for reviewers, and ethics statement
Information for authors and reviewers, and the ethics statement are all available for download below. Authors should submit papers here


Welcome to our new Editors
After two impressive years Marcus Chiu and Jerome Carson are ending their term as Co-Editors and we would like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to the Review. We are as delighted to announce that the new Co-Editors are Professor Xue Yang and Dr Ebenezer Cudjoe (Eben).

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. She was trained in areas of health psychology, behavioural medicine, social work, counselling, and social psychology. She is a certified health coach and health psychologist, and an expert on adolescent mental health, behavioural addiction and structural equation modelling.

Ebenezer Cudjoe has made an important contribution 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. His interests include child protection, child welfare, mental illness in the family, residential care and qualitative methodology.”

Article of the week
Maude Mthembu, Tanusha Raniga, and michael Boecker discuss the experience of the use of a story book to protect the psychological health of children during COVID-19. A topical sbject in the light of current discussions about the damage of the pandemic to children's mental health, particularly in less wealthy countries. Article can be found here.


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