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Social work using interpretative phenomenological analysis: A methodological approach for practice and research Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Ellen Paladini-Stone
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Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Lauren E Gulbas, ClaraGrace Pavelka, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Luis H Zayas
Decades of research have established a significant association between people struggling with an eating disorder and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Despite a robust literature indicating a link between these two mental health conditions, few studies have explored how differential risk factors interact over time to produce this comorbidity. Using the lens of syndemic risk, this study applied a critical
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Age logics in social work: The case of harm reduction for people over the age of 50 with long-term substance use problems residing in wet eldercare facilities in Sweden Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Håkan Jönson, Tove Harnett
Age is a commonly used criterion in social work, whether for entry and exit or for decisions about the appropriate measures for clients. This study introduces the concept of age logics in social work and investigates the use of age in ‘wet’ eldercare facilities. Wet eldercare facilities are harm reduction arrangements open to people over the age of 50 with long-term substance misuse. No treatment is
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Understanding Muslims’ interactions with non-Muslims: Laying the foundation for culturally sensitive social work engagement Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Morgan E Braganza, David R Hodge
The North American Muslim population is growing rapidly, but little research has been conducted to help social workers interact with members of this population in a culturally sensitive manner. To ...
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Somali parenting in Western contexts: Acculturative stressors and family strengths Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Johara Suleiman, Wendy Haight, Sookyoung Park, Shelby Flanagan
This scoping review describes the available research on the experiences of Somali immigrant parents acculturating within Western countries including the U.S., Canada, South Africa, England, and Sca...
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Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Katrin Bain
Text-based vignettes are widely used within qualitative social work research yet there is little guidance on how to construct and integrate them into the research process. This article discusses th...
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Encountering bodies and identity dynamics of social worker: A case of a cleft lip and palatesurgeries department Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Dan Liu, Ke Cui
This article highlights social work practices for children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) and their families in a hospital. Embodiment is the main theoretical perspective used to analyse complex e...
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Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Yayoi Ide, Liz Beddoe
Reflexivity is acknowledged as a crucial concept and is pivotal in the methodology of qualitative research. Various practices of reflexivity are adopted in the social science disciplines. However, ...
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“You have to continue doing the work”: Black women essential workers coping amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Sarah M Godoy, Lyneisha Dukes, Mimi Chapman, Steven Day, Rachel W Goode
This study sought to examine the experiences of Black women essential workers and their perspectives on wellbeing and coping during the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and structural racism. We used a q...
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Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Eleanor Mary Staples, Debbie Watson, Katie Riches
This article uses Feminist New Materialist theoretical perspectives on time and temporality to critically explore the social work practice of life story work, designed to help children who are or h...
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Unpacking support: A strengths-based investigation into the needs of incarcerated individuals’ loved ones Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Eman Tadros, Abigail Henson, Sarah Presley
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. As a result, a growing body of critical research has sought to understand the impact of the carceral experience, not ...
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Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Ida Krag-Rønne Mannsåker, André Vågan
Hospital social workers advocate, facilitate and communicate with patients, families, healthcare professionals, and communities. These activities, in which hospital social workers relate to differe...
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Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Molly C Driessen
Undergraduate students who experience campus sexual assault (CSA) are faced with a wide array of potentially detrimental mental health and educational outcomes that may significantly impact their s...
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Praxis of cross-cultural social work practice (CCSWP): A critical discourse analysis of graduate student and faculty perspectives on cultural competence and relevant constructs Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Eunjung Lee, Marjorie Johnstone, Toula Kourgiantakis, Ran Hu, Vivian Leung
To examine how social work students and faculty perceive and embody cultural competence, we conducted five focus groups with graduate students (N = 16) and faculty members (N = 10) from Canadian sc...
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“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Logan Knight, Susan Yoon
The study of resilience has largely relied on definitions and conceptualizations of resilience produced by academia, with little of the knowledge produced being grounded in the experience and persp...
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Black women social workers: Workplace stress experiences Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Collina D Cooke, Julia F Hastings
Black women social workers (BWSWs) represent essential workforce members who are burdened by ongoing COVID-19 circumstances. Strategies to deal with highly stressful situations on the job, such as ...
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Experiences of parents of autistic children who adopted a cat Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Gretchen K Carlisle, Angélique Lamontagne, Jessica Bibbo, Rebecca A Johnson, Leslie A Lyons
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication. Autistic children suffer from social cognitive difficulties. There is...
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‘Rocky road’ & ‘brick walls’ – Multiple meanings of resilience in a social work context through the lens of critical realist Informed grounded theory Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Wendy Sims-Schouten, Manisha Thapa
This study seeks to build an explanation of the multiple meanings of resilience in a social work context, centralising the interplay between human agency (meaning-making, motivations and intentiona...
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Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Abby E Blankenship, Alison L Drew, Vanessa M Jacoby, Sophie K Zolinski, Alyssa R Ojeda, Katherine A Dondanville, Allah-Fard M Sharrieff, Jeffrey Yarvis, Michelle Acker, Tabatha H Blount, Cindy A McGeary, Stacey Young-McCaughan, Alan L Peterson, Tessa K Kritikos, Ellen R DeVoe
Active-duty military fathers are frequently away from their families throughout their military career and are faced with readjusting to family and garrison life after each separation. For fathers o...
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Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Jitka Navrátilová, Pavel Navrátil, Monika Punová, Veronika Smutná
Even though Czech social policy cites child protection as one of its main priorities, there continue to be groups of children whose needs remain unnoticed. As many as forty thousand Czech children ...
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Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Russell Turner, Anjelica Hammersjö
Seeking and receiving social support following violent and abusive relationships is a complex process, involving a range of barriers for anyone. LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence face ad...
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Can service users speak? Dissenting voices and subaltern speech in social work Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Håvard Aaslund
Service user involvement and participatory research are central concepts in social work practice and research. Inspired by Spivak’s essay “Can the Subaltern Speak,” this article draws on the postst...
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Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Jenni-Mari Räsänen, Suvi Raitakari, Kirsi Juhila
This paper studies the creation of organisations via people processing (Prottas 1979), taking as its case study a new and developing family centre that aims to offer various social and health servi...
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“Shared care” through instant messaging updates in youth care; an interaction analysis Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Keun Young Sliedrecht, Wyke Stommel, Ellen Schep
In this article, we analyse WhatsApp interactions in a youth care setting. In family-style group care, young people temporarily live in the family of professional foster parents (PFP), while they r...
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Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Phoebe Long Franco, Marissa C Knox, Lauren E Gulbas, Krista Gregory
Self-compassion has previously been shown to buffer healthcare professionals from burnout and other forms of mental distress, yet research is lacking on how self-compassion can be developed and int...
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“Band-Aids on Bullet Holes”: Experiences of pediatric hospital social workers after 1 year of the COVID-19 pandemic Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 John L McKenna, Abigail M Ross, Elizabeth R Boskey
COVID-19 has continued to bring devastation to children and families, even 1 year into the pandemic. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has also led to renewed attention to systemic racism...
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“We’ll dance harder and love deeper”: LGBTQIA+ resilience and resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Kristie L Seelman, Brendon T Holloway, Grace MacIntyre, Elizabeth Mynatt
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. Two years into the pandemic, there have been over one million COVID-19 deaths in the Uni...
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Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Lee J Henley, Nicky Stanley-Clarke, Emily Thompson, Zoey Henley, Yary Chhay, Solida Kea
Community-based harm reduction workshops are delivered to reduce a range of community-based risks. In this instance, a community-based non-government organisation (NGO) delivered workshops to 18 vi...
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Children’s narratives about well-being in the face of difficult life experiences: Renegotiated self-understandings as turning points Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Stina Michelson
Children who experience family-related adversity have stories to tell about well-being in the face of difficulties. These stories provide knowledge about how children handle their experiences and m...
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Who knows what about you? Managing topic shifts during ‘conversational’ social care assessments in England Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Val Williams, Jon Symonds
Social care assessments in England are envisaged as conversations, implying an informal and congenial encounter, in which both parties have equal roles. However, a fundamental task during an assess...
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Using ethnography to understand the lives of street sex workers Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Rebecca Stockdale
This article examines the value of using ethnographic methodology in research with women involved in street sex work in an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The aim is to draw attention to...
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What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Nicole Moulding, Michele Jarldorn, Kate Deuter
Intersecting gender and other social inequalities are pertinent to women’s mental health across the life course. Gendered violence and other forms of gender inequality in particular play a key role...
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Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 David Monteiro
Interactional closings constitute a crucial aspect of social interaction and, in social work practice, are organized around participants’ orientation to an asymmetrical distribution of tasks betwee...
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Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Dorte Caswell, Tanja Dall
The need for professional reflection has been argued extensively in social work literature. A separate literature has demonstrated the potential of using conversation analytic research (CA) in inte...
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‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Lisa Bostock, Juliet Koprowska
Social workers carry much of the frontline authority to define risk to children and discuss it with families. Assessment reports and other institutional documents record professional views about fa...
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(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions? Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Joseph Webb, David Wilkins, Richard Martin
Supervision is widely recognised as a core activity for social work. In this paper, we explore the nature of decision-making in supervision, using a collection of twelve audio-recordings from one c...
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‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Katherine Reid, Mark Brough
There’s a particular ‘common sense’ required of the contemporary neoliberal subject to ‘self-regulate, self-fashion, and self-produce’ (Houghton, 2019: 618). Crucially, this work on the self happen...
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“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Brendon T Holloway, Donald R Gerke, Jarrod Call, C Riley Hostetter, Jennifer C Greenfield, Brittanie Atteberry-Ash, N Eugene Walls
Transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals experience a variety of systemic barriers that impact their ability to access healthcare, often leading to negative health outcomes. Previous research ha...
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The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Mari Dalen Herland
Research on child sexual abuse has underacknowledged the multifaced, tacit and embodied dimensions, leaving the literature without a full picture of events that are often unspeakable, especially wi...
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“Do I understand you right then?”: (re)formulations of users’ initial problem descriptions in social services’ online chat Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Nataliya Thell
In anonymous online text-based counselling provided by social services, counsellors face specific communicative and professional challenges. Among other things, they need to ensure that they have u...
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Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Eve Mullins, Steve Kirkwood
Warmth and respect are considered essential skills for relationship building in social work. However, these skills are often treated as common sense, and how to be respectful and warm, particularly...
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Conversation analysis in social work research: a scoping review Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Marie Flinkfeldt, Clara Iversen, Sabine Ellung Jørgensen, David Monteiro, David Wilkins
Given the emphasis on communication in social work, the empirical study of social work interactions is an important area for research. By examining recordings of naturally occurring social interact...
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Transferring from wheelchair to bed: (Re)subjectifying and partner-positioning a person with late-stage dementia in the care task Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Ali Reza Majlesi, Anna Ekström, Lars-Christer Hydén
Assisting people into bed is in many ways centered around the person’s body—it is the body that needs to be moved and laid down. As a result, the body’s material and tangible properties—the body as...
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Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Marie Hatlelid Føleide
In arrangements for children’s participation in child welfare systems, professionals’ interpretations of children’s views on family and their own constructions of family will impact children’s cond...
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The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Lisa Warwick, Liz Beddoe, Jadwiga Leigh, Tom Disney, Harry Ferguson, Tarsem Singh Cooner
Supervision is a core component of professional support and development in social work. In many settings, and perhaps particularly in children’s services, it is valued as crucial in safe decision-m...
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A weak case for solitary confinement: Categorisation, collegiality and accountability arrangements in a special residential home Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal, Jakob Cromdal
This article is a single case analysis of trouble talk taking place between teachers and care workers at a Swedish special residential home for boys and young men (aged 12–20). The topic of the talk is a potentially unwarranted solitary detention of a student. Using sequential- and Membership Categorisation analyses, we examine the participants’ methods for talking about the event as institutionally
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‘They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Claire Cunnington, Tom Clark
There is a well-established literature examining how perpetrators of child sexual abuse (CSA) neutralise the norms and beliefs that ordinarily prohibit such behaviours. However, there has been subs...
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The uses of small talk in social work: Weather as a resource for informally pursuing institutional tasks Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-04 Clara Iversen, Marie Flinkfeldt, Sylvaine Tuncer, Eric Laurier
Welfare organisations across the world are becoming more streamlined with less time for building relationships with clients, rendering non-governmental organisations increasingly important for welfare provision. In this paper, we investigate an understudied area in social work: the small talk through which volunteer organisations conduct social work tasks in interaction with clients. The data consist
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Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 Elin Nilsson, Anna Olaison
The Swedish Social Services Act stipulates an individual perspective that promotes self-determination. In practice, this means that relatives lack formal rights to intrude on a person with dementia’s right to self-determination in decisions about elder care services. However, the Social Services Act also states that family members who are caring for a close relative should be offered support. This
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Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Lisa Morriss, Karen Broadhurst
We write this editorial to add our voices to those calling for far greater attention to and tailoring of provision for mothers involved with the family courts, who are experiencing mental health difficulties. Certainly, in the UK, but much further afield, there is a consensus that more needs to be done to ensure that unmet mental health need should not, and MUST not, be a key factor which results in
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Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision? Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Jon Symonds, Sabine Jorgensen, Joseph Webb, Eve Mullins, David Wilkins
Reflective supervision is widely recommended as an effective way to support social workers to think about their practice and to make better decisions. Although previous research has proposed methods of pursuing reflective supervision, little is known about how supervisors attempt this in actual supervision meetings. One proposed method for supervisors is to elicit third person perspectives so that
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Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Karen Winter, Judy Sebba, Priya Tah, Paul Connolly, Jennifer Roberts, Sharon Millen
There is wide ranging research that uses innovative methods to seek the views of children in out-of-home care. In the area of education, this group of children increasingly participate in research that involves various educational interventions (including book-gifting, tutoring, paired reading), that are designed to improve their educational attainment and achievements. Despite the overall growth in
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Creating safety: Group reflections on surviving as a female, social work early career academic in the neoliberal academy Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Michelle Newcomb, Katherine Saxton, Esha Lovrić, Sera Harris, Danielle Davidson
Female social work early career academics (ECAs) face many challenges within a neoliberal university context. The tension between balancing the social justice mission of the profession against the consumer model of higher education is conflicting and contributes to feelings of isolation and alienation. This article documents a group of female ECAs experiences by drawing on critical, post-modern and
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Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Lise Lafferty
This paper critically reflects on conducting research with people in prison, including gaining trust and building rapport, and the power imbalances of conducting research in the prison setting. Navigating trust and power is key to successful prison-based research, but these navigations are not confined to the researcher–participant interaction and extend to include researcher entry into the prison
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Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Rahel More
This study critically explores the meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria. The aim was to gain insights into what it means to be a mother/father with intellectual disability in Austria by analyzing how parenting with intellectual disabilities is publicly discussed, how social work professionals perceive supporting
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Examining the role of lived experience consultants in an Australian research study on the educational experiences of children and young people in out-of-home care Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Philip Mendes, Jade Purtell, Sarah Morris, Emily Berger, Susan Baidawi, Levita D’Souza, Jenna Bollinger, Natasha Anderson, Geordie Armstrong
Children and young people’s access to and engagement in education is a key determinant of future positive outcomes. Children and young people in out-of-home care disproportionally experience educational disruptions and disengagements affecting their ability to participate in schooling, further and higher education. There is increasing international interest in the participation of young people with
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Reflections on social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of faculty members and lessons moving forward Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Wendy L Haight, Johara Suleiman, Shelby K Flanagan, Sookyoung Park, Laura JS Soltani, William C Carlson, Jacob R Otis, Kenneth S Turck
This focused ethnography examines the experiences of social work faculty members during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted participant observations of the pivot to distance learning, research and service, and overall responses of the social work community at a Research 1, public university. This article focuses on in-depth, zoom-recorded, individual
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Japanese parents’ experiences supporting their school-aged children’s acculturation to the U.S. Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Misa Kayama, Wendy Haight
The 19th century roots of social work in social justice movements within immigrant communities continue to thrive in contemporary social work. Yet relatively little attention has focused on the challenges faced by Asian immigrants, currently the second largest immigrant group in the U.S. Indeed, Asians in the U.S. have long been stereotyped as a “model minority,” perpetuating the myth that Asian children
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“I Don’t Know What World I Live in Anymore”: Social work student narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Sarah Jen, Grace Brandt, Kortney Carr, Michael R Riquino, Sarah J Cole, Megan S Paceley
As an ongoing collective trauma event, the COVID-19 pandemic has produced varied experiences and narratives among diverse populations, which have implications for meaning-making and healing post-pandemic. This study examined narratives from six social work students to better understand how individuals make meaning out of the pandemic experience. Holistic content analysis was utilized to identify a
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Understanding service navigation pathways and service experiences among homeless populations Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.691) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Eunwoo Lee, Wonhyung Lee, Stephanie Duncan
Previous homelessness research examined common pathways into homelessness, yet not much is known about how people navigate through services while experiencing homelessness. This study explored the service pathways of homeless individuals in the U.S. context, which show their connection with multiple organizations and their lived experiences of using services over time. We conducted 12 semi-structured