World-Wide Web Resources
Social Work

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University of Kentucky Libraries' Databases

  • Social Services Abstracts (1980 - ; updated monthly) Available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • Social Work Abstracts (SWAB) (WebSPIRS) (1977 - ) Produced by the National Association of Social Workers. Limited to four concurrent users. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions or request a password at any campus library.


  • Adult Children of Alcoholics Resources

  • Administration for Children and Families, from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

  • American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work

  • The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. Contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government.

  • Children's Institute International, a private, non-profit organization specializing in the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect.

  • Children's Mental Health Services Research Center, University of Tennessee.

  • Clinical Social Work Federation, the Clinical Social Work Federation is a confederation of 31 state societies for clinical social work.

  • Code of Ethics, from the National Association of Social Workers.

  • Cognitive and Developmental Disabilities Web Sites, compiled at the University of Wisconsin.

  • Community Resources, from Galaxy.

  • CTI Human Services, Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Human Services. From the Department of Social Work Studies at the University of Southampton.

  • CUSSN, Computer Use in Social Services Network.

  • Deaf Resources Page, from the Office of Special Education, University of Virginia.

  • Department of Health and Human Services, United States government.

  • E-Mail Discussion Lists for Social Workers

  • The Future of Children, journal from the Center for the Future of Children at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

  • Information & Referral Resource Network, lists agencies throughout the United States that provide a wide variety of human services to the public.

  • National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

  • The National Association of Social Workers

  • National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

  • National Institute for Social Work, in the United Kingdom.

  • National Organizations, from SWAN.

  • The New Social Worker, The Magazine for Social Work Students and Recent Graduates.

  • Online Career Center, from the New Social Worker.

  • Pat McClendon's Clinical Social Work Page

  • PRAXIS, international and comparative social development resources from the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Social Security Administration

  • Social Welfare Resources, from SOSIG, the Social Science Information Gateway.

  • Social Work and Social Services Web Sites, from The George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.

  • Social Work Links, from Yahoo.

  • Social Work-Related Resources, from the University of Tennessee.

  • Social Workers Links,from Nerd World Media.
  • Social Work Resources, from NYU's Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work

  • SWAN, Social Workers Advocating Network technologies.

  • Task-Centered Model of Social Work Practice

  • University of Tennessee College of Social Work

  • World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers, from Colorado State University. Jointly sponsored by New York University's Ehrenkranz School of Social Work and the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

  • The Wounded Healer, Child Abuse Resources.

    • To request a purchase for the Social Work collection in the University of Kentucky Libraries, use this form.

    This page was last updated 12 August 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Laura Whayne at lwhayne@engr.uky.edu.

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