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Exploring Social Work Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Contributors to Burnout since the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Tasha M Childs, Aidyn L Iachini, Melissa Reitmeier, Teri Browne, Dana DeHart, Ala Bengel, My’Ashia Haynesworth
Burnout has a historic and disproportionate impact on social workers and is one important contributor to the ongoing health and behavioral health workforce crisis in the United States. Little is known, however, about social workers’ experiences of burnout and their perceptions of factors that contribute to burnout since the COVID-19 pandemic. This study sought to explore this by answering the following
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“I Was Told to Think Like a Middle-Aged White Woman”: A Survey on Identity and the Association of Social Work Boards Exam Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Maria Elena Torres, Sunny Maguire, Jennie Kogan
The release of the 2022 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) exam passage rate report confirmed what many test takers who failed their exam believe. The ASWB exams are biased, with differential passage rates based on the test taker’s race, age, and “English as a second language” status. However, the report only offered basic descriptive statistics and lacked insight into the test takers’ experience
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Applying a Novel Approach to Understanding Social Worker Job Retention during the Pandemic Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Derrick Alan Kranke, Bridget Kranke, Emily Solorzano, Debbie Gioia, Aram Dobalian
The job demands–resources (JD-R) theory explicates factors that facilitated social worker burnout prepandemic. Authors believe the JD-R theory can illustrate how certain factors facilitated social worker job retention in the novel context of the pandemic because a sizable group of social workers resisted burnout-related turnover. Disseminating these factors can benefit the profession. Qualitative cross-sectional
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Anti-Asian Hate’s Impact on Asian American Social Workers: Implications for Professional Training and Education Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Clifford S Bersamira, Sophia B Lau, Yeonjung Jane Lee, Jaron Yamauchi
This article explores the impact of recent incidents of anti-Asian hate and violence against Asian American social workers, clients, and communities. Asian Americans represent a small but growing proportion of the U.S. population. Yet, Asians are underrepresented in the social work profession—approximately 3.6 percent of the social work workforce and 2.1 percent of licensed social workers are Asian
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Factors Associated with Israeli Social Workers’ Intention to Stay in the Profession Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Naama Nebenzahl-Elitzur, Maya Kagan, Ester Zychlinski
The phenomenon of social workers leaving the profession occurs frequently, underscoring the importance of understanding factors contributing to the intention to stay (ITS) in the profession. Based on the job demands–resources theory (JD-R), this study examined selected social worker workplace “demands” (i.e., their organizational sector of employment and level of work–family conflict) and “resources”
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A Community Social Work Paradigm: Thoughts and Reflections Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Shlomit Weiss-Dagan, Inbal Aviv, Ayala Eliyahou, Drorit Levy, Ayelet Makaros, Smadar Freiberg, Amit Zriker
Community social work (CSW) is often regarded as a practice with a variety of intervention models. The objectives of the present article are to examine CSW’s philosophical and theoretical roots and to bridge the gap in the literature regarding the theoretical and philosophical origins of CSW and to conceptualize these theoretical bases as a paradigm with ontological, epistemological, axiological, and
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How to Work with Muslim Clients in a Successful, Culturally Relevant Manner: A National Sample of American Muslims Share Their Perspectives Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 David R Hodge, Tarek Zidan, Altaf Husain
Despite the growing size of the American Muslim community, little research exists on the provision of culturally relevant services to members of this population. The purpose of this study was to identify American Muslims’ perceptions regarding what practitioners should know about Muslims and Islamic culture to provide successful mental health services to members of this community. To conduct this study
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Trauma-Informed Cultural Humility Mental Health Practice: Centering History among African American Women Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sunghyun Hong
Social work has made significant strides in providing mental health services. However, advancement in mental health practices grounded in social work values, such as trauma-informed care and cultural humility mental health practice (CHMHP), is still lacking. One possible reason is that many strategies overlook clients’ historical contexts, particularly the collective history held by the community to
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Termination of Parental Rights Is Common and Should Not Be Seen as a Proxy for Child Abuse. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mical Raz,Frank Edwards
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The Need for Expanding the Conceptualization and Investigation of Domestic Violence among Immigrants from South Asia: Implications for Practice. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Abha Rai
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The End of the World as We Know It? ChatGPT and Social Work. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Lauri Goldkind,Lea Wolf,Alexis Glennon,Juan Rios,Laura Nissen
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Self-Differentiation, Psychological Flexibility, and Difficulties in Practice in Social Workers and Social Work Students Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Ayelet Gur, Sharon Egozi, Yoav Schweitzer
Practicing social work involves unique difficulties, which may vary with seniority. This study aimed to identify these difficulties among social workers and social work students and to examine the associations between psychological flexibility (PF), self-differentiation (SF), and difficulties in practice in both groups. Ninety-one social work students and seventy-five social workers completed the following
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The Mass Incarceration Trauma Framework: A Conceptual Model for Understanding Trauma among Individuals Who Experience Incarceration Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Maria Morrison
The Mass Incarceration Trauma (MIT) framework is a conceptual model for understanding the role of trauma in the lives of individuals who experience incarceration in the United States. This population faces poverty, violence, and discrimination across the life span. The MIT framework is guided by an ecological systems perspective, a foundational theoretical approach in social work that recognizes that
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The Administrative Burden Framework: A New Horizon for Research and Practice in Social Work? Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Noam Tarshish
Social work is widely recognized as a human rights profession. The commitment to protect and advocate for social and economic rights has been incorporated into official definitions and codes of ethics of the profession globally, undergirding social work models and services. However, despite the overwhelming recognition of the importance of social work advocacy, a unified framework for research and
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Compassion Fatigue Syndrome in Social Workers and Its relationship with Emotional Intelligence Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Evaristo Barrera-Algarín, Rebeca Castro-Ibáñez, Ana Vallejo-Andrada, Rocío Martínez-Fernández
A study was conducted on how emotional intelligence and compassion fatigue (CF) interact in social workers. The hypothesis was that social workers with higher emotional intelligence were less likely to suffer/develop CF. A sample of 264 subjects was selected from among 2,014 active social workers in Seville (Spain). They were administered a sociodemographic questionnaire (α = .710), the Emotional Intelligence
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Refuge for Rover: A Social Return on Investment of a Program Assisting Victim-Survivors of Domestic and Family Violence with Their Pets. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Gemma Catherine Ma,Jioji Ravulo,Ursula McGeown
Pets are likely to be present in as many as 70 percent of domestic and family violence (DFV) cases, and the bond between victim-survivors and their animals can be particularly strong. Animals can also be victims of DFV, and concern for their animal's safety can cause victims to delay leaving their abusive situations. Programs like the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals New South
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Voter Registration in the United States: A Call for Change. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Intae Yoon,Natalie Ames
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Another Dobbs? The Supreme Court and the Administrative State. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Vicki Lens
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Correction to: Building Competence in Practice with the Polyamorous Community: A Scoping Review. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-10-04
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Disability Justice and the Americans with Disabilities Act: An Opportunity for Social Work. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Caroline L Muster
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 61 million Americans have a disability, which translates to about 26 percent of the national population. The most common types of disability are physical (13.7 percent), or those that impact mobility, and intellectual (10.8 percent), or those related to cognitive processing. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has reported that 32 percent
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Final Thoughts: Hope, Kindness, and Gratitude. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Anna Scheyett
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Who Is Helping Us? Exploring the Transition to Parenthood in Infant-Family Professionals during the COVID-19 Era. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Tanika Eaves,Joshua Neitlich,Maegan Emmert
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Fostering Community-Engaged Research on Criminal Legal Innovations with Logic Models Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Matthew W Epperson, Samantha Guz, Sophia P Sarantakos
There is a persistent disconnect between research and practice, both in the social work profession as well as in the criminal legal system. Community-engaged research has been suggested as an approach to bridge this divide, but specific tools are needed to integrate research and practice efforts. This article presents three distinct logic model development processes that occurred in collaborative research
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Social Workers’ Experiences of Support in the Workplace during the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Jillian Landers, Elissa Madden, Wesley Furlong
This qualitative study included in-depth semistructured interviews with 17 social workers from across the state of Texas that took place during the summer of 2021. The purpose of this study was to describe social workers’ experiences of workplace support during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide implications for how to improve support in the workplace. The interviews were analyzed using a phenomenological
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Misophonia: A Review of the Literature and Its Implications for the Social Work Profession Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Daniel Holohan, Kenneth Marfilius, Carrie J Smith
Misophonia is a chronic condition that describes aversion to specific auditory stimuli. Misophonia is characterized by physiological responsivity and negative emotional reactivity. Specific sounds, commonly referred to as “triggers,” are often commonplace and sometimes repetitive. They include chewing, coughing, slurping, keyboard tapping, and pen clicking. Common emotional responses include rage,
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In the Meantime: RE/UN/DIScover Heuristic for Small-Scale Antioppressive Action within Systems and Organizations. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Elizabeth King Keenan
The dehumanizing effects of neoliberal, white dominant regulations, laws, policies, and cultural assumptions seep into the everyday practice of social workers in frontline and mid-level positions. Many social workers are learning various antioppressive practices and becoming aware of how microaggressions and other oppressive dynamics can manifest in workplaces but lack models to guide efforts for small-scale
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Social Work in the Postpandemic World: Reflections from India. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Meenu Anand
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Suicide Risk among University Students in Spain: Implications for Social Work. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Pastora Reina-Aguilar,Rosa María Díaz-Jiménez,Francisco Caravaca-Sánchez
Suicide is a phenomenon that affects university students all over the world, and although vulnerability has been revealed in universities, there are still few studies that include large populations, a large number of universities and students pursuing different degrees. The study presented here aims to detect the risk of suicide in Spanish university students pursuing different areas of study. A total
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Emotional Distress in a Marginalized Population as a Function of Household-Level Social Determinants of Health. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Victor Lushin,Rebecca Rivera,Marquis Chandler,Jo Rees,Justyna Rzewinski
Low-income, underrepresented communities of color are disproportionally affected by emotional distress. Little is known about malleable, household-level determinants of emotional distress, addressable by feasible, stigma-neutral interventions. The present study addressed this knowledge gap by analyzing secondary data from a cross-sectional community needs assessment survey in a marginalized urban community
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Standards of Care in Social Work: Ethical and Risk Management Implications. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Frederic G Reamer
Social workers are sometimes named as defendants in malpractice lawsuits. These lawsuits allege negligence, specifically that social work defendants owed a duty to the plaintiff, breached this duty, and the defendant's actions caused harm. Plaintiffs in litigation cases typically allege that social workers violated or failed to meet prevailing standards of care in the profession. It is essential that
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Does the Field of Social Work Have Debts to Pay? Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Mary Ager
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Social Workers Should Stand against Physical Punishment of Children Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Shawna J Lee
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the leading professional organization for social work that established the Code of Ethics and sets the policy agenda for the profession. Guided by the Code of Ethics and the Grand Challenges for Social Work goal to “build healthy relationships to end violence,” the NASW Social Work Speaks policy compendium should reassert its statement against the
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Implementation Challenges of T Visa Eligibility for Human Trafficking Survivors: A Role for Social Work Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 William C Carlson
The passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) and subsequent creation of a residency process for nonresident survivors of human trafficking (the T Visa) are notable milestones in the United States’ effort to address the problem of human trafficking and provide essential supports to trafficking survivors. However, current implementation of the statute’s eligibility
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Mutual Efficacy, Self-Efficacy, and Collective Efficacy Theory: An Examination of Empowerment and Activism Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Michael C Gearhart
Empowerment refers to the ways in which individuals and groups gain greater control over their lives. To date, the majority of studies focus on empowerment at the individual level. Further, research typically focuses on how to make people feel empowered and not how communities exercise their power. The present study utilizes collective efficacy, a community-level theory, to explore community characteristics
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A Case for Social Workers as Investigators in Public Defender Offices Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Amy L Hurd
Social workers play a critical role in modern public defender offices, whether performing mitigation work for pretrial negotiations and sentencing hearings or helping clients to secure access to basic human needs. Although social workers have held in-house positions in public defender offices since at least the 1970s, their service is largely limited to mitigation practice and traditional social work
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Social Workers’ Perspectives on Extreme Risk Protection Orders Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Kelsey M Conrick, Emma Gause, Frederick P Rivara, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Megan Moore
Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), which allow for the temporary restriction of firearm access for individuals at substantial risk of harming themselves and/or others, are a promising policy tool to address increasing rates of firearm-related suicide, homicide, and mass shootings. Social workers frequently assess clients at risk of firearm-related harm, positioning social workers to play a key
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Moral Disengagement in Social Work Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Frederic G Reamer
In recent years, social workers have paid increased attention to ethical issues. The profession’s literature has burgeoned on topics such as ethical dilemmas in social work practice, ethical decision making, boundary issues and dual relationships, ethics-related risk management, and moral injury. This noteworthy trend builds on social work’s rich and long-standing commitment to the development of core
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“The Yo-Yo Effect”: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Social Workers’ Experiences with Job Flexibility during the Pandemic Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Derrick Kranke, Debbie Gioia, Nikola Alenkin, Yvonne Mudoh, Emily Solorzano, Aram Dobalian
Social work turnover from the emotional overload of providing care during the pandemic has created staff shortages and exposed many gaps in service delivery. Those social workers who sustained employment during this pandemic are asked to take on flexible/additional roles to fill in those gaps in services to their most vulnerable clients. This qualitative study (N = 12) of U.S. Department of Veterans
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When Does Resilience Become Epistemic Injustice? Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Renada M Goldberg
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Emotionally Preparing Doctoral Students as They Enter Academia. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Derrick Kranke
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Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: An Evidence-Based Social Work Intervention for Addiction, Stress, and Chronic Pain. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Eric L Garland
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Reimagining Suicide Prevention as a Social Justice Issue: Getting Back to Social Work's Roots. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Heath Hightower,Joanna Almeida,Juliana Anderson
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“Am I the Only One Who Feels Like This?”: Needs Expressed Online by Abortion Seekers Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Madison Lands, Emma Carpenter, Taryn Valley, Laura Jacques, Jenny Higgins
In the United States, abortion is safe and common, but highly stigmatized and frequently targeted by legislation that aims to restrict access. Numerous obstacles impede access to abortion care, including logistical barriers like cost and transportation, limited clinic availability, and state-mandated waiting periods. Accurate abortion information can also be hard to access. To overcome these barriers
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Burned Out, Engaged, Both, or Neither? Exploring Engagement and Burnout Profiles among Social Workers in Spain Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Xoán M Lombardero-Posada, Evelia Murcia-Álvarez, Francisco J Aguiar-Fernández, Ana B Méndez-Fernández, Antonio González-Fernández
Few studies have analyzed the existence of homogeneous groups (profiles) in burnout and engagement among professionals, and none in social workers. This study with 448 social workers from Spain mainly examined their profiles in burnout and engagement and the characteristics of each profile in relevant job-related variables. Cluster analyses yielded four distinct profiles: the first, Burned Out, showed
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Counternarratives: An Antiracist Approach in Social Work Education, Practice, and Research Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Julie Berrett-Abebe, Sarah C Reed, Stephanie Burrell Storms
Given renewed attention to racial equity in the social work profession, the authors suggest the use of counternarratives, an established tool of critical race theory, as an accessible method to challenge racism and examine privilege in social work education, practice, and research. Counternarratives use the technique of storytelling to elevate the lived experiences of marginalized individuals and communities
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Ethical Practice in a Post-Roe World: A Guide for Social Workers Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Frederic G Reamer
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, concluding that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion. The court’s decision in Dobbs immediately introduced challenging ethical issues for social workers who serve people who become pregnant. Key questions concern social workers’ ability to protect clients’ privacy and confidentiality, documentation
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What We Lose When We "Don't Say Gay": Generational Shifts in Sexual Identity and Gender. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Lauren Bochicchio,Avery Jane Carmichael,Cindy Veldhuis,Ana Stefancic
At a time when anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is on the rise in more than a dozen states across the United States, social work providers and researchers must be acutely aware of the ways in which their practice may unintentionally invalidate the identities of LGBTQ+ youth. Concurrently, language used in the LGBTQ+ youth community to describe both sexual identity and gender has moved away from monosexual and
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From Colorblindness to Critical Investigations: Examining Structural Racism in Social Work Research Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Katie R Lauve-Moon, Shelby Enman, Vanessa Hentz
Current and persistent racialized inequalities in the United States raise important research questions investigating the social structures and systems that underlie racist outcomes. Consequently, social workers are called to centralize race and racism in their research agendas and utilize critical race theories and methodologies to examine institutional racism. This study investigates the extent to
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Brokering Resources during a Pandemic: Exploring How Organizations and Clinics Responded to the Needs of Immigrant Communities during COVID-19. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Benjamin J Roth,Bongki Woo,John Doering-White
Though COVID-19 has had sweeping implications, many immigrant groups in the United States have been disproportionately affected. The purpose of the present study is to explore the impact of COVID-19 on immigrant communities and how local immigrant-serving organizations (ISOs) have responded during the pandemic. The authors conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with executive directors and program
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Examining Historical and Contemporary Policing Disparities in the Black Community: Implications for Social Work. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Betty L Wilson,Nikki R Wooten,Ronald O Pitner
An alarming number of unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police in the United States. Though research suggests that police violence is not a new phenomenon in Black communities in the United States, several shocking high-profile incidents of unarmed Black people killed by police in recent years have catapulted this problem more sharply into our nation's consciousness. Despite recent efforts
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Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Call for Disability Justice in Social Work. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Elspeth M Slayter,Shanna K Kattari,Laura Yakas,Rose C B Singh,Ami Goulden,Sarah Taylor,Laura J Wernick,Lamont D Simmons,Dana Prince
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On the Frontlines: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Workers' Well-Being. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Talia Meital Schwartz Tayri
The crisis created by the spread of COVID-19 brought increasing needs and referrals to social welfare services in many countries. However, at the same time, social services suffered from staff cutbacks and service closures, resulting in significant workload increases to address the hardships associated with the pandemic. This article investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Israeli social
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Predicting Intimate Partner Violence Reassault and Homicide: A Practitioner's Guide to Making Sense of Predictive Validity Statistics. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Millan Alexander AbiNader,Jill Theresa Messing,Andrea Cimino,Richelle Bolyard,Jacquelyn Campbell
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An Examination of Suicidal Behavior among Black College Students with Exposure to Police Violence. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Hannah Szlyk,Robert Motley,Sean Joe,Lucy Nonas-Barnes,Enoch Azasu
There is limited research about suicidal behaviors among Black emerging adults (peak age of suicide risk) who report exposure to police violence. The current study applies an integrated approach to examine individual, immediate environment, and community-based risk and protective factors of suicide among Black college students who reported previous exposure to police violence. A purposive sample of
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Forget the "Five Stages": Ask the Five Questions of Grief. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Judith L M McCoyd
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Social Work and Social Justice: A Conceptual Review Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Brittanie E Atteberry-Ash
As a profession, social work has codified within its ethical guidance and educational policies a commitment to social justice. While a commitment to social justice is asserted in several of our profession’s guiding documents, social work continues to lack consensus on both the meaning and merit of social justice, resulting is disparate and sometimes discriminatory practice even under a “social justice”
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African-Centered Social Work in the 21st Century: A Content Analysis. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Husain Lateef,Adrian Gale,Donte Boyd,Hassan Arab,Emmanuel Amoako,Ed-Dee Williams
Endorsement of African-centered theory and practice are widespread within Black communities across the United States. The usage of African-centered frameworks is also common among many Black social workers. However, past research suggests that African-centered theory and subsequent models of practice are marginalized within social work literature and curricula. Since advocacy began for the inclusion
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The Experiences of Caretaking and Financial Stress among Social Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Julie A Cederbaum,Lisa de Saxe Zerden,Abigail M Ross,Jennifer R Zelnick,Hee-Eun Helen Pak,Betty J Ruth
Social workers have engaged in promotive, preventive, and intervention work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that social workers are disproportionately women, and the essential nature of practice during the pandemic, how social workers experience caretaking and financial stressors warrants examination. Data are drawn from a larger cross-sectional survey of U.S.-based social workers (N = 3,118)
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Social Workers’ Views of Ways to Engage Communities in Refugee Resettlement Social Work (IF 2.855) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Nicole Dubus
The refugee crisis has been keenly felt by communities as they perceive the new arrivals as threats to the community’s resources. Preparing the community for future arrivals can help, as can involving the community in the welcoming of refugees. This study explores how social workers engage communities to support refugee resettlement programs. Social workers are on the frontlines of providing services