Improving Social Work.(Letter to the Editor)

By Fellner, Irv
Publication: Social Work
Date: Sunday, January 1 2006

I am joining the discussion about improving this journal. All the points made by the editor-in-chief (January, 2005, pp. 5-6) and by the letters (January 2005, pp. 93-94) are valid and should be implemented as well as possible.

When I was practicing social work, before I retired, I had articles published in Social Work, Social Casework, Child Welfare, Federal Probation, and other journals. Today I couldn't have an article published in this journal because I do not h

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