Children and families in high risk low income communities are facing increasing stress due to rising poverty, increasing violence and isolation, and decreasing resources.[...]

With increasing poverty among families with young children, increasing violence in cities, and increasing stress in families, the needs of preschool children with emotion[...]

Academic institutions as community members, creators of knowledge, and educators of current and future citizens and practitioners have the potential to play a significant[...]

The needs of emotionally disabled children and their families are not optimally served within traditional mental health service delivery systems. Policies are inadequate,[...]

Over the last two decades child and family poverty has increased while resources for families at risk have decreased. Families in large urban areas, faced with increasing[...]

The United States is a society diverse in culture, race, ethnicity, religion, and income; one struggling with a past involving oppression. inequality, and buried knowledg[...]

Since 1993, a faculty collective has team-taught a feminist social work practice course. The course, designed to heighten student knowledge of feminist practice, was expe[...]

Environmental degradation is well-known as a major cause of conflict as communities suffer from the effects of climate change, threat of toxins and depletion of natural r[...]

Environmental migrants are caught at the nexus of the climate crisis and the global migrant crisis. The problems of the migrant crisis are recognized globally as they are[...]

The relationship between social justice, environmental sustainability, and positive peace has been well established by theorists who highlight the need for multidisciplin[...]

Three years after the first inspiration, January 1999 will see the publication of Diversity in Single-Parent Families: Working from Strength. This book, which I co-edited[...]

Homelessness imposes severe mental, physical, and social deprivation on a significant number of children in the United States. The extreme poverty of homeless families pu[...]

The number of families with children living in poverty and experiencing housing instability and homelessness has increased dramatically over the last two decades. Current[...]

Children and families from immigrant and refugee communities entering new lives in the United States are at risk of traumatic adjustment. Federal policies impact them dir[...]

Child poverty negatively impacts the development of children; family homelessness compounds the issues. Both have dramatically increased over the last two decades with fa[...]

Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis. The editorial staff is committed to developing a journal that will allow authors to add[...]

The World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) recognised the interconnection across peace, security, development, and environmental sustainability. Likewise,[...]

The increase in female-headed single-parent families, and the high rates of poverty among them, caused by changing economic and social support structures, is an internati[...]

The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development, established by the United Nations in 1983, links peace, security, development and[...]

Changing political, social, and economic realities in the United States, as well as the rest of the world, suggest that the Army will need to review how it accomplishes f[...]

Bullying and mobbing are secretive, targeted, and widespread forms of abuse in the workplace (European Foundation, 2002). This behavior is designed to ostracize, isolate,[...]

Work in the human services-whether on the frontlines or as a policy analyst, gram writer, researcher, manager, or teacher-is potentially satisfying and rewarding. It can [...]

This is my story about educating social work students (and faculty) about poverty and privilege in the first and third worlds. The story is one of shared learning. Throug[...]

Globally, organizations continue to be challenged regarding their impact on citizens, cultures, and the environment. As a result sustainability has become an important cu[...]

The voices of adult children from lesbian and gay parent homes are missing from the literature. This qualitative study begins to fill that gap. Participants reflect on th[...]