Social work is not likely to be fully legitimized in Saudi Arabia until its claim to professional status has gained public recognition. Most important, this recognition is not likely to come about until social work has demonstrated its ability to deal with the local needs of Saudi society and to show that it truly reflects the Saudi economic, political, religious, and sociocultural milieu. The goal of this study is to discover how well these ends have been achieved to date. / Four methods of data collection were used to achieve these objectives: review of institutional sources, structured interviews with faculty members in social work, structured interviews with selected leaders in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and self-administered questionnaires with social work practitioners in three ministries. / The results indicate that the social work profession has not yet received wide societal acceptance in Saudi Arabia. Social work practice and training programs are based on nonindigenous models imported from the industrialized Western world. Moreover, social work service is still facing many problems concerning its functions, administration authority, goals, and coordination. / Recommendations are made in the concluding chapter for strengthening the social work profession and its services within the Saudi context. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-05, Section: A, page: 1893. / Major Professor: Shiman Gottsachalk. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.

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Social work's conceptualization as to what it is that entitles an individual or entity to moral consideration, or as having moral status, is thoroughly anthropocentric, and is articulated in complete disregard of the context of our fundamental evolutionary continuity and our embeddedness within an evolving natural world, and flies in the face of the reality that we already inhabit mixed communities and a wider household. It is deemed to be obvious that we are islands of moral value in an otherwise valueless natural world.

Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-127)

Over the past 20 years researchers and health care practitioners have come to realize in addition to high prevalence rates, individuals with co-occurring disorders did not represent a homogeneous group (Drake, et al., 1998: 2001; Lehman, et al., 1994: 2000; Mueser, et al., 2000). It is essential to consider the heterogeneity of co-occurring disorders when considering new treatment modalities. Thus, it becomes pivotal to identify these differences for treatment approaches and program goals. Research shows that heterogeneity of treatment populations can be reduced through empirically-derived homogeneous groups based on multivariate analysis (Ries, et al., 1993; Lehman et al., 2000; Mueser, et al., 2000). The purpose of the current study was to address a significant void in knowledge on the heterogeneity of co-occurring disorders by determining if homogeneous subgroups exist within an outpatient population presenting for treatment and if so how many groups exist and what makes up group membership. Identification of subgroups can provide a mechanism to better understand the interrelationships between determinants that contribute to the etiology and problem severity at an individual and group level. Secondly, in an effort to improve service delivery, empirically-derived subgroups hold important clinical implications for treatment models. The exploratory research was conducted through a retrospective analysis seeking a parsimonious model of subgroups made up of individuals with co-occurring disorders entering an outpatient program using a latent class analysis (LCA). The best fitting statistical model in the latent class analysis was one in which the overall sample was composed of three (3) subgroups. The three-class model that included alcohol use, illegal drug use, education level and serious depression was identified as best fitting the data.