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CHOICE Review
Barker's fifth edition adds more than 1,000 terms and updates some 2,000, now offering 9,000 defined terms, some internationally recognized and some in common if improper use (with explanations why competent professionals consider their use improper). It is valuable for human services professionals and for academic readers, first-year students to seasoned experts. Barker explains that definitions for every term have been evaluated, edited, and modified by a panel of not less than three experts and two editors. This edition holds place as an invaluable and highly acclaimed ready reference for definitions, organizations, concepts, and values relevant to social work and human services. Biographies are included for distinguished deceased members of the social work profession. A chronology of significant policies and practices and a list of acronyms are also included. The author invites practitioners to participate in compiling future editions. Complementary titles include The Encyclopedia of Social Work: 2003 Supplement, ed. by Richard A. English, Social Workers' Desk Reference, ed. by Albert R. Roberts and Gilbert J. Greene (2002), and The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work, ed. by Martin Davies and Rose Barton (2000). ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. All collections. S. G. Marvin West Chester University
Booklist Review
The first edition of this Dictionary, published in 1987 with more than 3,000 terms, was widely regarded as providing social work professionals with a superior up-to-date, comprehensive dictionary. It is published by the leading social work organization in the U.S., the National Association of Social Workers. The vocabulary was originally compiled from entries in the indexes of major social work journals and textbooks and those of related disciplines and from suggestions from colleagues, students, and members of related professions. The terms selected were those that developed within the profession as well as those that social workers adopted from anthropology, sociology, law, medicine, psychology, public administration, and economics. That technique was followed in producing this second edition of nearly 5,000 terms. A random sampling of entries illustrates the rich diversity and the interdisciplinary nature of terms retained, often without change, from the 1987 edition and those new to the 1991 edition. Among terms retained are such acronyms or initialisms as MADD, PCP (drug), and PPBS; latinisms (e.g., parens patriae); private organizations (Lutheran Social Services, Russell Sage Foundation); government agencies (Public Health Service); court cases (Roe v. Wade); laws (Civil Rights Act of 1964); and many phrasal terms (living will, psychoactive drugs, purposeful expression of feelings). New terms include aquaintance rape, Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1990, PACs, panic attack, parental leave, pathological gambling, literacy volunteer programs, and public interest research group. Within the clearly written definitions, cross-references are noted with italics. Following the dictionary proper are two appendixes that were in the 1987 edition and two new ones. The first, "Milestones in the Development of Social Work and Social Welfare," is a 1750 B.C.-1991 chronology. "NASW Code of Ethics," the second appendix, substitutes the 1990 revision for the 1979 code. New to this edition are the directory of state boards regulating social work (address, administrator, chairperson) and the addresses of NASW chapter offices. Medium-size and large public libraries, academic libraries, and social service agency collections will welcome this revision of The Social Work Dictionary whether or not they acquired the first edition. This volume is a model professional dictionary and is an excellent companion to the NASW's Encyclopedia of Social Work [RBB Ap 1 87]. (Reviewed Sept. 1, 1991)
