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Toward a creative and imaginative research approach: Collage as a method of inquiry in social work Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Mostafa Hosseini
Qualitative research in social work employs various scientific approaches to explore the diversity and depth of human life, with interviews and observations being commonly used. Situated within an arts-based research (ABR) framework, this study explores participants’ experiences of collage-making, and how collage can be used as a methodological approach for collecting empirical data. Four themes emerged
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Book review: Time Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Margaret Struthers, Claire Bellamy
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How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Jill Hemmington
Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) undertake Mental Health Act (MHA) interviews and they make the ultimate decision, based on doctors’ medical recommendations, to detain an individual in hospital without their consent. AMHPs are required to embed the statutory guiding principle of Empowerment and Involvement as well as to maximise service users’ self-determination and this is part of a broader
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Themes do not emerge. An editor’s reflections on the use of Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Lisa Morriss
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‘A home to dream love into’ – An autoethnographic analysis of mothering with mental illness Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Kirsty Oehlers
This paper examines the links between mothers, mental illness, estrangement from children, and systemic power and control, through a critically creative autoethnographic methodology. A historical and contemporary discursive analysis of two kinds of documentation is made. Firstly, my great-grandmother’s psychiatric hospital records from almost one hundred years ago are analysed, incorporating parts
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The role of phone mediation: Social workers’ and vulnerable clients’ role performances in mediated welfare encounters Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Alexandrina Schmidt
Welfare encounters are increasingly being conducted using communication devices which comprises mediated encounters. This article contributes to studies on the integration of mediated encounters into social work practice. The study adopts a symbolic interactionist perspective and is based on interviews with 24 social workers and 17 vulnerable clients. It examines the role of phone mediation in social
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An Indigenous scholar’s journey towards decolonizing social work Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Autumn Asher BlackDeer
Tonóéva Mo'⊙htáeváótséva ná-heševehe. Ná-tsėhéstahe. I seek to begin this work in a good way by introducing myself and my nation; I am Dr Autumn Asher BlackDeer, sovereign member of the mighty Southern Cheyenne Nation. It is an honor to be of the Little Calf bloodline, to be part of the legacy of my grandfather Sam B. Deer, a sacred arrow keeper, medicine man, and camp crier for our people. As my ancestors
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‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Amy R Krentzman, Julie C Gass
New definitions of addiction recovery are aligned with social work’s strengths-based orientation: recovery from addiction is not only a process of reducing pathology but also a process of flourishing and thriving. In response to new recovery definitions, researchers are now designing studies that measure strengths-based, multidimensional aspects of recovery instead of measuring substance use or symptoms
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Examining facilitator experiences delivering an intervention to system-involved women with mental illnesses Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Anna Parisi, Amy Blank Wilson, Kathleen Farkas, Suzanne Brown, Melissa Villodas, Jon Phillips
Gender differences have been found in the experiences and needs of individuals involved in the criminal legal system, underscoring the importance of interventions tailored to address the needs of system-involved women. Despite this recognition, there remains a gap in understanding how to effectively implement interventions for women with mental illnesses—a population that is increasingly prevalent
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Book review: Breaking apart intimate partner violence and abuse Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Qihao Zhan
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Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Peter Simcock, Jill Manthorpe, Anthea Tinker
There is a dearth of qualitative research into deafblind people’s experiences, impoverishing our understanding of the phenomenon and contributing to deafblind people’s social exclusion. As an approach which seeks to amplify the perspectives of participants from so called ‘vulnerable groups’, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) appears ideally suited to qualitative research exploring the
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“I may have benefited more than anyone else”: Responses to Staller’s (2024) Write-Up of Jane Gilgun’s Career Interviews Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Jane F Gilgun
This commentary is a response to an invitation the editorial board of Qualitative Social Work extended to me to comment on an article that reports on my career interview as a qualitative social work researcher. The article appears in the present issue of the journal (Staller, 2024). The editors and I agree that Karen Staller did an exemplary job of interpreting the transcripts on which the article
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Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Kelly Bolton, Debra Nelson-Gardell
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“To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”: Jane F. Gilgun’s journey as a feminist qualitative social work practice researcher Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Karen M Staller
In 2021, Jane Frances Gilgun retired after nearly 40 years on the faculty at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities, USA. This article—tracing a sliver of her rich intellectual biography—was crafted from a career interview conducted for by Debra Nelson-Gardell for QSW, in four sessions, between December 2021 and March 2022. Gilgun is known for her extensive writing on qualitative methodology in
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Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Christina E. Hyland, Eunjung Lee
Inspired by critical trauma and embodiment theories, this study aims to illustrate how an arts-based approach such as body mapping assists in exploring the lived experiences of youth, potentially serving as a trauma-informed approach. This qualitative study collaborated with street-involved and homeless youth (SIHY) who have eating struggles while living in situations of food insecurity and other forms
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Stories of building friendships during long-term recovery from problematic substance use Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Mariann Iren Vigdal, Thomas Solgaard Svendsen, Christian Moltu, Jone Bjornestad, Lillian Bruland Selseng
BackgroundBuilding friendship is crucial for attaining and upholding recovery from problematic substance use. However, how people who have used substances problematically develop friendships needs to be investigated more from a first-person perspective.AimTo provide insight into how people in long-term recovery find meaning in their experience of building friendships.MethodIn semi-structured interviews
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Social work using interpretative phenomenological analysis: A methodological approach for practice and research Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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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Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review. Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Jordana Salma,Bita Mirhashemi,Megan Kennedy
This scoping review aims to describe the range of research studies using arts-based data collection methods with immigrant and racialized older adults. A secondary aim is to identify challenges and strengths of using these approaches with this population. This review uses Arksey and O'Malley's five-stage scoping review framework with a final number of 16 references included for the study. Enhanced
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Understanding Muslims’ interactions with non-Muslims: Laying the foundation for culturally sensitive social work engagement Qualitative Social Work (IF 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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 1.7) 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...