Dear readers,

The year 2009 marks for the Social Work Review, the journal edited by the Sociology and Social Work Faculty - University of Bucharest, in collaboration with Polirom Publishing House, the eight year of existence. As a novelty, the year 2009 also marks the 80th anniversary of a similar journal called the Social Work that was published between 1929- 1936.

Social Work Review is aiming to be a meeting place for ideas, a mean of dissemination of researches, good practices and experiences in the field of social work. Articles from all areas of social work are welcomed. There will be published innovative articles, researches, and comments of policies, practices and their implications for social workers. Social Work Review appears four time a year: March, June, September and December. Each article is peer-reviewed by two reviewers.

We are getting ready to start a phase that is adapted to the international requirements on specialty publications. The new Advisory Board includes prestigious professors from Europe and the United States of America. In trying to be more of use to the practitioners, we partnered with the Romanian National College of Social Workers who provides subscription to this journal to the members of this nationally-representative professional organization.

The issue no. 4/2010 focuses on the evaluation on social services. The coordinating editors are associate professor Nicoleta Neamtu from "Babes-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca and associate professor Stefan Cojocaru from Alexandu Ioan Cuza University Iaşi.

Starting with issue no. 3/2010 Revista de Asistenţă Socială (Social Work Review) is under evaluation by Thomson Database. The Review can be recommended at the following link.

Issues no. 1 and 2/2011 are dedicated to international social work, under the coordination of Associate Professor Doru Buzducea, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of the Review. We are looking forward to receiving innovative articles, studies and research that cover a large range of social work. The deadline for the submission of articles to be published is December 1, 2010 and March 1, 2011, respectively. The articles may be sent to: dbuzducea@yahoo.com or the review’s e-mail address: revassoc@yahoo.com.

Issue no 3/2011 is coordinated by Professor Livia Popescu, Ph.D. and Associate Professor Adina Rebeleanu, Ph.D., from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. The main theme is social policies and vulnerabilities. The deadline for submission of articles is June 1, 2011.

Issue no. 4/2011 is coordinated by Associate Professor Mircea Alexiu, Ph.D., Head of Social Work Department at the West University in Timisoara. The main theme is social work education and training. The deadline for submission of articles is September 1, 2011.