Global Social Work

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• Use AND to combine your concepts, e.g., adoption AND eastern europe
• Use OR to combine synonyms, related terms, e.g., domestic violence OR family violence; teenagers OR adolescents OR youth
• Use the * (asterik)  to search for the root word and any ending, e.g., parent* will retrieve parent, parents, parenthood, parenting.
• Try using the Advanced Search to combine keywords and subject headings, author and title, etc.

Sample Subject Headings-Use the Advanced Search, change "Any field" to "Subject"

• social service-cross-cultural studies
• social policy-cross-cultural studies
• social work with children-(name of place), e.g., romania
• social work with women-(name of place)
• public welfare-(name of place)
• adoption-(name of place)

A keyword search in Quicksearch will generally be a broader search than a subject search and can help you focus your topic and results.  Examples:

• international social work
• international adoption
• international social service
• international development
• multicultural social work
• social service AND  human rights
• social welfare AND global
• social welfare AND  human rights AND culture