Publications
The
NASW
Press is a leading scholarly press in the social
sciences. It serves faculty, practitioners, agencies,
libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the
United States and abroad. Known for attracting expert
authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information
to more than 200,000 readers through its scholarly
journals, books, and reference works.
NASW
News began publishing in 1956 and is the official
newspaper of the National Association of Social Workers.
The
News is a primary information vehicle for
practitioners, administrators, researchers, faculty,
and students, including the association's more than
145,000 members. Its readers also include members of
the U.S. Congress, governors, major daily newspapers,
international associations of social work, social welfare
agencies, libraries, and schools of social work.
Articulate
and authoritative,
NASW News has won many
awards for its quality journalism and scope of coverage.
The
News keeps readers abreast of current
events in social work and related fields. It offers
in-depth news and features developments in social work
practice, public policy, U.S. legislation and regulations,
social research, and NASW programs and events.
NASW Press publishes a wide variety of
high quality books for the
social sciences. NASW Press books are powerful resources
for your classroom, practice, or personal library. Look
for new titles that address challenging social work
topics, reference works that are the most comprehensive
and best-known in the profession, and texts on aging,
children and families, clinical social work, community,
diversity, ethics and policy, health and mental health,
management, practice, professional issues, research,
and violence.
NASW
Press publishes the journal
Social
Work quarterly. Widely read by practitioners,
faculty, and students, it is the official professional
journal of NASW and is provided to all members as a
membership benefit. NASW Press also publishes four specialty
journals.
Health
& Social Work carries articles on the latest
advances in areas such as aging, clinical work, long-term
care, oncology, substance abuse, depression, and maternal
health.
Children
& Schools publishes articles on innovations
in practice, interdisciplinary efforts, research, program
evaluation, policy, and planning.
Social
Work Research prints exemplary research to
advance the development of knowledge and inform social
work practice.
Social
Work Abstracts is the primary source of articles
on social work and social welfare, as well as on related
fields, with hundreds of abstracts from U.S. and international
journals published in each issue.