Dear readers
Welcome to the first issue of volume 65, which features six articles from five different countries: Turkey, Australia, Canada, Korea, and the United States.
The issue opens with Lee and colleagues’ study examining associations between neighborhood social cohesion and health outcomes based on data from the 2014 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey. Next, Bulut’s adaptation and validation of the Interpretation of Death Scale in the sociocultural context of Turkey will be informative to social workers working with Turkish individuals. Woolford et al. present a systematic review of volunteerism in social and long-term care settings that examines volunteers’ motivations as well as strategies that foster volunteer recruitment, retention, and role satisfaction. The study by Koufacos and colleagues evaluates the impact of the Care Transitions Intervention model on activation of self-care management among veterans discharged from non-Veterans Health Administration hospitals. Gaudet et al.’s qualitative study identifies the intervention strategies adopted by social workers to support dementia caregivers emotionally when they are making living environment related decisions on behalf of their loved ones. Woo and colleagues retirement among Korean older adults and investigate relationships among economic stress, social support, and life satisfaction based on data from the Korean Retirement and Income Study.
The issue closes with two media reviews: first Choi’s review of Cole’s Counseling persons with Parkinson’s disease, a detailed manual for loss-based counseling interspersed with first-person accounts, and then England’s review of the 4th edition of Finn’s textbook Just practice. A social justice approach to social work.
As always, I hope you enjoy reading the informative articles and reviews in this issue.
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