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pt. 1. The world of the military: The importance of understanding military culture / Lynn K. Hall ; No one leaves unchanged : insights for civilian mental health care : professionals into the military experience and culture / Jose E. Coll, Eugenia L. Weiss, and Jeffrey S. Yarvis -- pt. 2. Special populations: Civilian social worker's guide to the treatment of war-induced post-traumatic stress disorder / Jeffry S. Yarvis and Joan Beder ; Care coordination in military traumatic brain injury / Glenn W. Parkinson, Louis M. French, and Silvia Massetti ; Working with survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military / Margret E. Bell and Annemarie Reardon ; When they return from Iraq/Afghanistan : the needs of the wounded / Joan Beder and Helen Jones ; Helping the combat medic and corpsman : adapting to both primary and secondary traumatic stress down range and beyond / David Cabrera, Charles R. Figley, and Jeffrey S. Yarvis ; The battle within : understanding the physiology of war-zone exposure / Victoria E. Bruner and Pamela Woll -- pt. 3. Clinical challenges: Those who have served in Afghanistan/Iraq: coming home / Joan Beder ; Family resilience and the fortunes of war / Mark Chapin ; Assessing and responding to suicidal risk among OIF/OEF veterans / Christie Jackson and Yvette Branson ; Operation Iraqi Freedom/operation enduring freedom : exploring wartime death and bereavement / Jill Harrington LaMorie ; Spouses and their families in the modern military system : problems, assessment, and interventions / Blaine Everson and C. Wayne Perry ; Substance use disorders in veterans : a clinical overview of assessment and treatment of substance use disorders in veterans and service members / Monica Roy and W. Christopher Skidmore -- pt. 4. Services: Animal assisted intervention / Joan Beder, Laurie Sullivan-Sakaeda, and Tamar P. Martin ; VA integrated post-combat care : a systemic approach to caring for returning combat veterans / Deborah Amdur. [et al.] -- pt. 5. Unique concerns for practitioners: Ethical challenges when working with the military / Nancy Beckerman ; The cost of caring requires self care / Charles R. Figley and Joan Beder.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the underlying dimensions of professional suitability. Method: Data were collected from a province-wide mail-out questionnaire surveying 341 participants from a random sample of registered social workers. Results: The use of an exploratory factor analysis identified a 5-factor solution on professional suitability: social consciousness suitability, ethical suitability, practice suitability, and personal suitability, and distractors. This factor solution accounted for 47.4% of variance and achieved strong internal consistency with an overall Cronbach's α value of .89, and subscales values ranged between .89 and .72. Conclusion: The identified underlying dimensions of professional suitability provide groundwork for the development of a psychometrically sound instrument for assessing performance of social work students and/or practicing social workers.

This article describes a particular approach – a methodology – for examining the ways in which social workers conceptualize children and childhood and the significance of this for developing social work practice. The research described was carried out in Iceland working directly with Icelandic social work practitioners. The methodology adopted used an action research approach, in which young people, who had interacted with social services, were engaged as research consultants. The article evaluates such an approach, paying particular attention to the approach as a method of generating new knowledge, and its usefulness for the development of social work practice.