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The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (JSSW) is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored jointly by Western Michigan University, the College of Health and Human Services, and the School of Social Work.
The most recent two years of JSSW are only available to subscribers and from computers on the WMU campus. Articles older than two years are available open access to all.
Please note that as of 2020 Volume XLVII, the Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare moved to an online format. Subscription prices will include a single print issue of the most downloaded articles from the volume (March - December) which will be printed and shipped late summer.
Most recently added issue: Volume 51, Issue 1 (2024) Disability Justice in Social Work
Complete Issue
Special Issue
Decolonizing Disability in Social Work: A Conversation on Colonialism
Autumn Asher BlackDeer
The Embeddedness and Reproduction of Ableism in Social Work and a Call to Centre Disability Justice
Amber P.E. Young and Kathleen C. Sitter
Getting to Disability Justice: A Critical Conceptual Review of Disability Models in U.S. Social Work
Kathryn M. Wright
Lessons from Critical and Transnational Disability Perspectives for Social Work
Katie Savin, Eunkyung Chung, Nev Jones, Paul Sterzing, and Vandana Chaudhry
A Path Wayward: Resisting “Evidence-Based” Discourse in Favor of Critical Access, Engaged Relational Pedagogy and a Politicized Somatics
Erin Elizabeth Hipple and Nev Jones
Promoting Justice for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Strategies for Advancing Anti-Oppressive Social Work Education and Practice
Jade Presnell, John M. Keesler, Jessica Curd, and Danny Carroll
Arab Refugees with Physical Disabilities: An Exploration of Barriers within the Resettlement Process
Qusay S. Hussein MSW and Lailea Noel PhD
Mandatory Supporting as a Radical Ethic of Care: Supporting, Not Reporting, Black Disabled Mothers
Siobhan M. Pokorney
The Experience of Growing Up Deaf in a Hearing-Abled Family: A Phenomenological Study
Alison B. Wetmur
Global Deaf and Disability-Led Partnerships for Accessible Emergency Response and Humanitarian Action
Alina A. Engelman, Joe Booze, and Alexia Izquierdo
Dismantling Ableism in Social Work Employment: A Call for Disability Justice
Shannon M. Trecartin, Twyla Smith, and Terrance P. Trecartin
Call to Action: Disability Justice as a Framework to End Punishment of and Advance Liberatory Education for Disabled Students
Jacy Hornsby and Jelena Todic
Anti-Ableist and Disability Justice Pedagogies in Social Work Education
Rose C. B. Singh, Laura Yakas, Laura J. Wernick, Shanna K. Kattari, Elspeth Slayter, and Sarah Taylor
Re-imagining Neoliberal Ideologies in Social Work Education Using Critical Feminist and Disability Theories: A Phenomenological Autoethnographic Account
Stephanie L. Baird and Ami Goulden
Action Steps Toward Dismantling Ableism in Social Work Education
Laura J. Wernick, Rose C. B. Singh, Natasha M. Lee-Johnson, Shanna K. Kattari, and Brendon Holloway
Diverging from Conventional Autism Research Through Meaningfully Including an Adult Autism Community: Processes of Engaging Ottawa’s Adult Autism Community in Critical and Emancipatory Autism Research
Margaret Janse van Rensburg and Courtney Weaver
Historical Trauma and the Disability Community
Susan Neely-Barnes, Melissa Hirschi, and Laura Taylor
