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The Dutch American Social Research Foundation aims to foster intercultural understanding and exchange among students and professionals active in social services or research in the Netherlands and United States. Each year the foundation will invite a few individuals to write a paper on a topic of interest. The paper should raise awareness of similarities and differences inherent to the two countries’ social service systems, identify areas that warrant further study, and serve as a forum for cultural exchange among social service professionals in both countries.

Pauline Lewin — DASRF Director

A scholarship winner will address these four items in their paper.

  1. Introduce your topic; Discuss the types of organizations involved in treating the clients you work with. Discuss how the professionals in your field are educated and trained.
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  2. Discuss treatment strategies presently being used in your country, and cultural factors that play a role in determining the duration and use of a particular strategy. Identify any new strategy or approach that is gaining momentum in your country. Discuss its history, the factors involved in its growing popularity and its major features and/or characteristics.
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  3. In what way do you feel treatment strategies for the clients you work with differ most markedly from those in the United States/the Netherlands? What, if anything, do you feel American and Dutch social service professionals could learn from each other?
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  4. Identify possible areas of cross-cultural research or study that warrant further investigation.

Invitees must agree to the following terms:

  1. I am aware that award papers, while remaining the property of the writer, will be posted on the DASRF site, and that portions of the paper may be quoted by the foundation for promotional purposes and/or may be used to foster cross-cultural discussion among site visitors.
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  2. I understand that the foundation maintains the right to withhold posting a winning paper or retract a paper at any time, for any reason.
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