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Meaningful Healthcare and Social Service Access for Homeless Populations: Generating Alliances Through Theories of Therapeutic Landscape Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Ian M. Johnson, Michael A. Light
Poor health can both facilitate and be facilitated by homelessness. The desire for serious illness care to occur at home and increased attention to home-and-community-based health services prompts ...
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African Knowledge Production Incubators: Approaching Indigenous and Decolonized Social Work from the Ground Up Through Stories of Our Lived Experiences Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Nevashnee Perumal, Veonna Goliath, Mbongeni Sithole, Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya, Motlalepule Nathane, Priscalia Khosa
Six social work academics from five universities in South Africa embarked on an African Knowledge Production Incubators project using PALAR methodology. We acknowledged the imperative to decolonise...
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Social Constructions of Sex Trafficking and Needs for a Critical Intersectional and Trauma-Informed Approach: A Critical Review Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Michelle D. Hand
What is known about human trafficking, particularly for the purpose of sexual exploitation, has long been shaped by social constructions, including of gender, such as in mainstream and social media...
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An Ineffectual Sermon: Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Sam Coleman
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Social Work Journals and the Disciplinary Production of Alternative Knowledge(s) Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Jeanette Schmid, Marina Morgensthern
Disciplinary knowledge is reflected, legitimated, and replicated in academic journals, social work knowledge reproducing mainly Western knowledge(s). Hence, there has been an increase in the calls ...
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Social Justice, Anti-Racism, and Disproportionality in Social Work: A Capabilities Approach Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Merlinda Weinberg
Despite social justice as an ethical imperative, racism is an ongoing problem in social work. Using critical race theory, this paper outlines the capabilities approach (CA) as one conceptual orient...
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The Depiction of Mothers with Intellectual Disability: Critical Discourse Analysis of Parenting Capacity Assessments Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Sibusiso Moyo, Laura Pacheco, Marjorie Aunos
The negative construction of parenting with an intellectual disability has been ostensive in society for decades. One of the ways in which this construction is sustained is through texts that legit...
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IRL: An Observation About Having a Car in the Country Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Flower Noble
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Sapna B. Chopra, Ankita Nikalje, Jaya Bhojwani
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Holistic Engagement and White Neoliberal Social Work: Resistance or Accommodation? Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Darren Cosgrove, Loretta Pyles
The article situates key themes on holistic engagement practice (HEP) within the context of white neoliberal social work practice. Through a secondary analysis of qualitative data using a critical ...
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Recovery, Identity, Resistance: Exploring Substance Use Stigma in Rural Ontario Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Sandra R. McNeil
Although much attention focuses on mental health recovery and stigma, less attention is paid to substance use especially in rural areas. This qualitative study draws on Foucauldian and intersection...
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Healing Black Futures: Black Youth Organizing to Redefine Destiny Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Anna Ortega-Williams
Black youth throughout American history have resisted racism and the social injustice it produces. Strategies have historically included rebellion, advocacy, and social protest as well as the const...
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Will Social Work Ever Be Truly Antiracist? Reflections on Furthering Antiracist Social Work Education Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Natallie Gentles-Gibbs
Assertions that the social work profession is racist and has failed to fulfill its mission to advance racial justice are not new. Despite efforts to pursue racial justice as a profession, it appear...
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“Every Crisis is a Time for opportunity”: Immigrant-Refugee Leadership Perspectives in the COVID-19 Era Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Jaclyn Kirsch, Hanna Haran, Arati Maleku
The coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected immigrant and refugee communities, along with community-based ethnic organizations (CBEOs) serving these communities. Our study explored the...
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A Radical Social Work Manifesto in Free Verse Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Rosemary Barbera
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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Safety and Safe Parking for People Experiencing Vehicle Homelessness: A Mixed Methods Study Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Katherine Hoops Calhoun, Daniel Brisson, Jennifer Hope Wilson, Blair Bacon, Elise Cordle
The number of laws criminalizing homelessness is increasing in the United States. Simultaneously, more individuals are experiencing homelessness, and of those, an increasing number are experiencing...
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In-Group Bias and Inter-Group Dialogue in Canadian Multiculturalism Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Kuir ë Garang, Uzo Anucha
ABSTRACT African-Canadians continue to bear the brunt of marginality and stereotyping in Canada even when various mitigating studies and programs have been initiated by the government at federal, state, and municipal levels. These stereotypes continue to affect them in informal settings and state institutions when seeking employment, housing or when in the streets, malls, schools, etc. While social
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Experiences of Microaggression by Black Professionals in Social Services in Portugal Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Sania Bilwani
The study explores the experiences of microaggression by Black professionals in the social service field in Portugal. In depth interviews were conducted with seven participants and the data was ana...
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The Colonial Character of the Drug Treatment Superstructure: Theorizing Collective Cultural Resistance to Varying Manifestations of Coercive Control Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Izaak L. Williams, Pōkā Laenui, William C. Rezentes III
ABSTRACT Despite being one of the smallest racial/ethnic groups in the State of Hawai‘i (~10–21%), Native Hawaiians have persistently and disparately comprised the largest racial/ethnic group in the state public treatment system (≥43%). One outcome of Hawaiʻi’s history as a colonial subject, is that social institutions of the State became characterized by the imposition of social control emphasizing
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Mapping Communities of Mothering: Where Race, Class, Gender, and Space Intersect Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Cynthia Edmonds-Cady
ABSTRACT This manuscript explores the unique construction of community that young, low-income, women create, based on the embodied internal and external spaces they occupy as lone mothers. Issues related to diverse women’s representation, voice, and power, within these socially constructed communities are examined. Attention is paid to how young low-income mothers experience and actively create their
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Interpersonal or Institutional: Understanding Service User Oppression in Social Service Organizations Through Staff Interactions Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Susan Ramsundarsingh, Micheal L. Shier
Abstract Service user experiences of oppression by human service organizations (HSOs) has long been understood through the lens of service providers, with service users largely excluded from research in this area. This qualitative study, the second phase of a mixed methods study, presents the findings of 9 focus groups (n=66) with service users from 13 different HSOs representing seven service areas
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Providers’ Perspectives on Women’s Healthcare Disparities and Barriers Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Jenesse Kaitz, Sukanya Ray
ABSTRACT Women face persistent disparities in healthcare quality, access to care, and treatment rates and outcomes, with women from marginalized identities facing greater difficulties. Little is known about providers’ understanding of these disparities, despite the vital role they play. This qualitative study explored interdisciplinary providers’ (psychologists and primary care physicians) perceptions
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Foregrounding the Freedmen’s Bureau: A Heterodox Welfare State History Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Joshua R. Gregory
ABSTRACT The Freedmen’s Bureau was the first national U.S. welfare institution. This fact has not, however, motivated scholars to draw duly substantive connections between the Bureau and the welfare state. This article traces empirical patterns of labor, gender, and race from their first nationalization under the Bureau to their formative influence on the evolution of what is considered to be the welfare
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Social Work & Corrections in the Progressive Era: What We Remember, What We Obscure Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Sam Harrell
ABSTRACT Summary The social work profession in the US developed alongside and within the professionalization of policing and corrections. Social workers are credited as some of the earliest policewomen, probation officers, and juvenile correctional facility superintendents. Still, our professional relationship to corrections in Progressive Era US history is underexplored and uninterrogated. How does
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Macro MI: Using Motivational Interviewing to Address Socially-engineered Trauma Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 David O. Avruch, Wendy E. Shaia
ABSTRACT Decades of social science data have illuminated how oppression and inequality on the macro levels of society can manifest as trauma and deprivation on the individual or micro level. However, clinical pedagogies within human services fields (social work, substance use disorder treatment, psychology, psychiatry) do not adequately reflect these advances. This creates barriers for service providers
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The Canadian Social Work Review: A Canadian Character of Social Work? Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Jeanette Schmid, Marie Christine Bois
ABSTRACT Noting that scholarly journals represent a particular repository of knowledge, we use content analysis to explore the constructions of social work represented in the Canadian Social Work Review – Revue canadienne de service social over 2010–2019. This journal is the only formal bilingual (French-English), peer-reviewed social work journal in the country. Rather than broadly reflecting Canadian
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“JPHS Special Issue - The Politics of Policing: Global and Comparative Perspectives” Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Ragini Saira Malhotra
(2022). “JPHS Special Issue - The Politics of Policing: Global and Comparative Perspectives”. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 106-107.
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The Critical Dialogue Cornerstone: Suggested Practices to Guide Implementation, Facilitation and Evaluation Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Alexis Jemal, Liliane Windsor, Christina Inyang, Christina Pierre-Noel
ABSTRACT There has been an increased focus on utilizing critical consciousness-focused interventions to address complex, multidimensional socio-cultural problems, particularly health inequities. These interventions usually incorporate a critical dialogue component. However, there’s little guidance on how to implement, facilitate and evaluate critical dialogue to develop critical consciousness (i.e
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The McDonaldization of Social Work: a critical analysis of Mental health Care Services using the Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) in Canada Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Marjorie Johnstone, Catrina Brown, Nancy Ross
ABSTRACT In this paper, we report on a provincial consultation in Canada, of the adoption of the CAPA model, which was designed to improve mental health service delivery to mental health stakeholders. While the delivery of mental health services in Canada is largely the purview of the medical profession, the implementation of an interdisciplinary team approach has included the social work profession
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The Keepers and the Kept: Social Work and Criminalized Women, an Historical Review Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Sandra M. Leotti
ABSTRACT Current trends in women’s criminalization reflect historical patterns of racism, gender conformity, and enforcing normality. This paper traces key shifts in policy and discourse on women’s punishment in the United States from the mid 19th century to contemporary times. Additionally, this paper reflects on social work’s role in the history of responding to criminalized women and its involvement
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Toward A Just and Humanizing System: A Critical Structural Analysis of the Human Services Field Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Ann M. Aviles
ABSTRACT This paper advances a critical conceptual discussion and paradigm shift regarding the preparation of human and social service students. This work looks to make apparent the racial and class realities of preparing a primarily white, female, upper/middle-class human service professional to work in a field that overwhelmingly serves poor Black and Brown communities. The frameworks/concepts of
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Perspectives on Mediatised Discourses about and State Intervention into Dowry-related Abuse and Intimate-partner Violence among Indian Migrants in Australia: Implications for Health and Human Services Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Arjun Rajkhowa, Surjeet Dhanji, Sunita Kotnala
ABSTRACT Dowry-related abuse and intimate-partner violence among Indian immigrants in Australia have received considerable attention in the national media in recent years. Media reportage and commentary on these issues have highlighted the testimonies and experiences of migrants who have faced dowry-related abuse and intimate-partner violence, untangling the complex context-specific issues (around
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A Critical Community Practice Theory for Forging Alliances across Difference Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Jason M Sawyer, Shane R. Brady
ABSTRACT Increasingly diversity practice skills are imperative to socially just practice in community. Conceptually driven constructs and approaches grounded in ideology dominate practice across difference in communities. This project centers a setting historically challenged by urban renewal, segregation, racism, and systemic oppression. Using critical grounded theory, authors develop a tentative
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Abortion, Science, and Morality in the Turnaway Study: New Perspectives for the Helping Professions Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Sam Coleman
(2022). Abortion, Science, and Morality in the Turnaway Study: New Perspectives for the Helping Professions. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 96-105.
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Examining Profiles of Poverty by Race in America: Policy Implications of a Multi-Dimensional Measure Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Anupama Jacob
ABSTRACT A looming question for U.S. social policy is whether the over 50-year old federal poverty measure paints an accurate picture of the poor in America today. A panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), commissioned by Congress to address the key shortcomings of the federal measure, proposed an alternative poverty measure in the early 1990s that laid the groundwork for the
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Learning and Unlearning: Two Social Workers’ Autoethnographic Exploration into Mad Studies Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Kathleen MacPhee, Lynsey Wilson Norrad
ABSTRACT Mad studies focuses on the lived experiences of people involved with the mental health system, a system that is structured so that well-intentioned social workers can become complicit in the oppression of individuals with “mental illness.” Mad studies offers social work an alternative to the biomedical construction of mental health. This autoethnography explores the ways in which two seasoned
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Homelessness and the Paradox of Welfare Austerity: Echoes from History in the Era of COVID-19 Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Ryan F. Savino
ABSTRACT The scale of homelessness in the United States is a product of systematic political and economic restructuring. Austerity politics thrive in an environment that obscures these historical realities. Examining the devolution of homeless services not only illuminates the myriad paradoxes embedded in fiscal conservativism–it also provides a blueprint for reform. COVID-19 has only accentuated inequality
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From “Patient” to “Activist”: Treatment Experiences, Changing Perceptions, and Resistance of Mental Health Survivors Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Zion Barnetz, Shiran Gefen
ABSTRACT The mental health survivors movement, composed of former and current mental health service consumers- turned activists is one of the most promising innovative and subversive phenomenon in the field of mental health (source, year). Although scholarly writing on this movement is slowly cumulating, much more empirical and theoretical work is needed to further our understanding of, and ability
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Sex Trafficking of Black Girls: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Practice Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-24 Monique Constance-Huggins, Shaneé Moore, ZaDonna M. Slay
ABSTRACT Child sex trafficking is a troubling, yet hidden, social problem in the United States. Black girls are particularly vulnerable given the intersection of their race and gender as they navigate biological, psychological, and social vulnerabilities. Yet, little light is shed on their experiences, and consequently, strategies to practice with them are lacking. To resist the universal focus on
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Insights from the shelter: Homeless shelter workers’ perceptions of homelessness and working with the homeless Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Yok-Fong Paat, Jessica Morales, Aaron I. Escajeda, Ray Tullius
ABSTRACT Using in-depth face-to-face interviews, this study explored 34 homeless shelter workers’ perceptions of homelessness and working with the homeless. We asked the following questions: 1) What were the barriers that homeless shelter residents faced in combating homelessness, from the perspective of the homeless shelter workers? 2) What were the challenges that homeless shelter workers encountered
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Resistance and Submission: A Case Study of the Training of DV Advocates Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-06 Stéphanie Wahab, Gita Mehrotra, Ericka Kimball, Steph Ng Ping Cheung, Kelly Myers
ABSTRACT Domestic violence work typically happens within the confines of significant macro forces that shape most social work practice, including but not limited to neoliberalism, criminalization and professionalization. Using the concept of professional resistance, we discuss and present our case study research that sought to understand how these intersecting macro forces shape domestic violence advocacy
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“We Were in White Homes as Black Children:” Caribbean Youth’s Stories of Out-of-home Care in Ontario, Canada Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Charlotte Akuoko-Barfi, Tearney McDermott, Henry Parada, Travonne Edwards
ABSTRACT This article reports on narrative interviews conducted as part of the Rights for Children and Youth Partnership Project exploring the experiences of 25 Black Caribbean youth (ages 16–26) who have navigated the child protection system in Ontario, Canada. An introduction to transracial fostering in Ontario is provided, and participants’ reflections on the significance of caregivers’ race in
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Does Social Work Ignore Socio-economic Class? An Exploratory Analysis of Selected Literature Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Cheryl A. Hyde
ABSTRACT Social work espouses a commitment to social justice, including advocating on behalf of economically disenfranchised populations. This article explores the question of whether this commitment is reflected in selected leading social work journals. A keyword search in Social Work abstracts, a content analysis of three core social work journals, and a secondary thematic analysis of articles in
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A Thought Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Anonymous
(2021). A Thought. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 175-175.
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Age and Downward Mobility: From the Poorhouse to the Present Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-04 David Wagner
ABSTRACT This article provides an overview of the problem of poverty and downward mobility for the elderly in the United States from the 19th Century to today. Using the author’s research with the history of poorhouses (also known as poor farms, workhouses, almshouses, and later county homes and hospitals) he describes the situation of many older people as they faced poverty, family estrangement, personal
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Social Control of Deviance and Knowledge in Social Work from an Anti-oppressive Perspective Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Daniele Scarscelli
ABSTRACT This paper will examine the relationship between social control of deviance, ethical principles and social work. I will address this issue by adopting a specific social work theoretical perspective, that of “critical social work”. In this article a specific phase of social workers’ control of deviance in social work will be examined: the phase in which they collect information through specific
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Resisting Unmet Expectations as Service User Ethics: Implications for Social Work Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Alise de Bie, Andrea Daley, Lori E. Ross, Sean A. Kidd
ABSTRACT This paper takes up a call from activists and scholars in Mad and Disability Studies to pay more explicit attention to resistance. Drawing on conceptualizations of predictive, normative, and ideal expectations, we describe three ways 2SLGBTQ service users who have experienced psychosis resist unmet expectations of just treatment. These include: (1) defending self-respect through resistant
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Double Erasure Under 21st Century Virtual Capitalism Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Vanessa Robinson-Dooley PhD, LCSW, CNP, Hans Skott-Myhre PhD, PhD
ABSTRACT This article traces the mechanism of social erasure under various regimes of global capitalism. It proposes that the current regime of virtual global capitalism has shifted the way that erasure functions in the 21st century. The article delineates new mechanisms of erasure called “double erasure.” The article then traces double erasure in the lives of Black men. Finally, proposals are made
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Understanding–And Misunderstanding–the White Working Class: Two Must-Read Studies for the Helping Professions Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-19 Sam Coleman
(2021). Understanding–And Misunderstanding–the White Working Class: Two Must-Read Studies for the Helping Professions. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 76-85.
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Defund the Police: Moving Towards an Anti-Carceral Social Work Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Leah A. Jacobs, Mimi E. Kim, Darren L. Whitfield, Rachel E. Gartner, Meg Panichelli, Shanna K. Kattari, Margaret Mary Downey, Shanté Stuart McQueen, Sarah E. Mountz
ABSTRACT This article addresses social work’s place in the movement to “defund the police.” We argue that social work’s collaboration with police and use of policing constitutes carceral social work. In defining carceral social work, we specify the ways in which coercive and punitive practices are used to manage Black, Indigenous, other people of color, and poor communities across four social work
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Parkside or Maine: The Way Life Spozed to Be Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Robert Steven Chance
(2021). Parkside or Maine: The Way Life Spozed to Be. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 73-74.
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Dual Elegy Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Robert S. Chance
(2021). Dual Elegy. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 75-75.
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A Brief History of the Journal of Progressive Human Services 1976-2020 Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Marcia B. Cohen
(2021). A Brief History of the Journal of Progressive Human Services 1976-2020. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 70-72.
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Critical Difference Engagement: Toward a Critical Practice Approach to Mobilize Differences in Community Practice Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Jason M. Sawyer
ABSTRACT Although community practice increasingly deals with differences across race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and their intersections, approaches continue to be dominated by historical precedent, conceptual frameworks, practice wisdom, and case study. Informed by intervention development, community-engaged research, critical perspectives, and rooted in practice;
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pandemic Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-08-22 Robert Steven Chance
I. Among dozens of developed nations progress faltered; the only moving thing was the virus of a pandemic. II. The world is of three kinds; developed, developing, and undeveloped in which there evo...
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Introducing, Notes from the Field Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Flower Noble
This is Flower Noble, the new Senior Editor of the Journal of Progressive Human Services: Radical Thought and Praxis. I have recently taken over Marcia Cohen’s role as Senior Editor due to her well...
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Navigating Two Worlds: Understanding the Complexities and Health Implications of Black Fatherhood in Toronto Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 David J. Grant
ABSTRACT This article contends that individual and systemic racist notions against Black fathers contribute to Black fathers’ feelings of ineptitude, invisibility and dejection. This article challenges the racial trope that Black fatherhood mainly encompasses absenteeism, intimidating and abusive behavior. The article argues that Black fatherhood is uniquely complex due to Black fathers being burdened
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‘Professional Inefficacy is the Exact Opposite of the Passionate Social Worker’: Discursive Analysis of Neoliberalism within the Writing on Self-care in Social Work Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 Heather Stuart
ABSTRACT Social work experiences notable rates of burnout and subsequent attrition. In the social work academic and practice-based literature, self-care strategies are proposed as a means of mitigating the effects of workplace stress and feelings of emotional exhaustion. However, the neoliberal self-care discourse intended to alleviate feelings of distress may in fact be exacerbating professional burnout
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The Epidemic of Madness: Killing the Community to Save It Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 David Wagner
Note as of August 1, 2020, the number of cases and deaths from the Cornoavirus, despite the so-called “surge” and daily headlines scaring people has remained well below many prior flu epidemics suc...
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Listen to Our Stories and Learn from Us: How Helping Professionals Can Support Institutional Survivors Journal of Progressive Human Services (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Madeline Burghardt, Joe Clayton, Harold Dougall, Carrieanne Ford
ABSTRACT We are three institutional survivors who lived at one of Ontario's large, government-run institutions for people labeled with an intellectual disability. In 2018 we organized and led three workshops in Toronto, Ontario, to teach helping professionals how they can best support survivors. These workshops were called Listen to My Story. In this paper, we have written down our ideas about what