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Authors:Margaret Struthers, Claire Bellamy Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-08-26T07:13:25Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241275814
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Authors:Lisa Morriss Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-08-23T05:29:03Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241275813
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Authors:Jill Hemmington Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 policy orientation toward principles of participation, involvement, shared decision-making and supported decision-making. Yet there is very little research in this area and AMHP practice takes place in the absence of guidelines or clear evidence base. Consequently, more needs to be understood about effective techniques for communication and involvement. This study was conducted with AMHPs from an AMHP service in England. A qualitative methodology was employed to gather indepth information about AMHPs’ communicative practices. MHA assessments were observed and audio-recorded to enable Conversation Analysis to be used to analyse the content and style of communication within interactions. Findings suggest that at a micro, conversational level, AMHPs worked to address obstacles to communication as well as to maintain, or restore, affiliation and alignment in their relationships with service users. Evidence suggests that communicative techniques form part of AMHPs’ broader coordinating and empowering role. The study concludes that there is a need for a more deliberate and deliberative approach to re-engineer how AMHPs and service users work together, providing original evidence for AMHP practice and supporting future training. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-08-22T09:46:38Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268731
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Authors:Lisa Morriss Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-08-21T03:42:41Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241277355
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Authors:Kirsty Oehlers Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 of my own story, as well as the personal account of a family member. These are then contrasted against four Family Court Judgement, where mothers have been found to be incapable of caring for their children. ‘Found poetry’ is then created from the documents presented, to elucidate the argument that a century since my great-grandmother’s forced separation from her children, women with mental illness still face stigma, marginalisation, and hopelessness in the face of outdated, narrow constructions of mothering. Implications for those who work in forensic social work fields are noted in terms of addressing systemic abuses of power against mothers. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-08-19T07:35:40Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241270934
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Authors:Alexandrina Schmidt Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 workers’ and clients’ role performances in welfare encounters that lack non-verbal communication. This study argues that phone mediation illustrates the unequal stakes in welfare encounters: A professional work role and organisational goal attainment are at stake for social workers, whereas the livelihoods of vulnerable clients depend on welfare encounters and the social and economic support provided by them. Such stakes are often taken for granted in routine face-to-face welfare encounters; thus, phone mediation alerts the participants to the consequentiality of welfare encounters. Moreover, this article finds that phone mediation may provide confidential distance, which can be used to support hard-to-reach clients and social work practices. However, mediated encounters also run the risk of being insignificant for client trajectories and restrict the roles of social workers and clients. Overall, the study highlights everyday technologies, such as phones, that are important for the social worker-client relationship, welfare delivery, and clients’ welfare trajectories. It argues for further inclusion of everyday technologies in future research agendas that examine the digitalisation of social work and the importance of non-verbal communication. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-07-26T06:29:57Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268765
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Authors:Autumn Asher BlackDeer Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 have served our people and created a path for future generations, I strive to do the same, honoring their legacy and furthering their work, standing on the shoulders of giants. The present work is a weaving of a storytelling approach with an academic lens to sharing pieces of my journey as an Indigenous scholar towards decolonizing social work. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-07-25T06:20:09Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268730
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Authors:Amy R Krentzman, Julie C Gass Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 exclusively. This study employs grounded theory to investigate this change in measurement strategy; its impact on people in recovery; and its implications for social work research, existing theory, and interventions social workers employ to support client recovery. Thirty-two participants (47% female, M = 40 years in age, 16% BIPOC) in treatment for substance use disorders participated in interviews after completing surveys daily for 28 days that assessed strengths-based, multidimensional aspects of recovery. Participants reported that completion of surveys led them to realize aspects of self that were previously hidden from awareness, use that information to determine where they ‘were at’ in their recovery (doing well, could be doing more, not doing well); and, based on that determination, take steps to strengthen recovery. A minority of participants expressed despair when surveys revealed painful information and these participants did not describe using skills to regulate negative affect. This study found that strengths-based, multidimensional recovery-oriented surveys can provide therapeutic benefit. This grounded theory analysis extends existing theory to include the influence of coping skills on an individual’s ability to derive benefit from the self-monitoring of diverse aspects of their recovery. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-06-21T12:20:00Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241262347
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Authors:Sarah Vicary, Alys Young, Natalia Rodríguez-Vicente, Rebecca Tipton, Jemina Napier, Celia Hulme Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. This paper explores the notion of time when undertaking interpreter-mediated Mental Health Act Assessments (MHAAs) from the perspective of Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs). It is based on one theme that emerged from a reflexive thematic analysis of 17 semi-structured interviews with AMHPs undertaken as part of a larger corpus (Author’s own 2023). We found when carrying out interpreter-mediated MHAAs, AMHPs perceive time as luxury; something that they do not have in abundance, and which is made more problematic through the additional exigences when an interpreter is required. The luxury of time to which participants refer is determined ostensibly by resource availability underpinned by risk. Systemic and structural barriers also pertain. Driven by time’s omnipresence, these findings demonstrate fluctuations in how AMHPs use spoken/signed language interpreters and give rise to contradiction and sometimes passivity in practice. These findings are important considerations when undertaking any social work service that might require interpreter-meditation and are especially significant during a MHAA when a person’s liberty is at issue. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-06-19T03:52:33Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241257096
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Authors:Lissette M Piedra Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-06-13T05:00:59Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241262571
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Authors:Karl Mason Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. Story completion methods have not yet been used in social work research, but the method has significant potential in this area. This paper reports on findings of a qualitative story completion study, which set out to understand professional responses to discriminatory abuse in English safeguarding adults practice. Fifty-six social worker and social care worker participants responded to a ‘story stem’, which refers to the opening lines of a story, continuing a story they choose to tell in response. In this instance, the story stem introduces a fictional scenario involving a social worker who is visiting an adult who has experienced discriminatory abuse. Story completion was chosen because it does not require self-report and this was useful given the under-reporting of discriminatory abuse. Story completion is appropriate for studying taboo or sensitive topics because it is less exposing, producing stories rather than accounts of one’s practice. Story completion also allowed contrast and comparison across different characteristics that might be targeted in discriminatory abuse, spotlighting divergent responses to discrimination based on transgender identity, race and mental ill-health. Dramaturgical narrative analysis was used to make sense of the resulting stories and three narratives were identified: anxious allies, affirmative advocates and administrative assessors. There were a small number of outliers who did not complete stories based on the guidelines provided. The results suggest workforce development needs in relation to discriminatory abuse. The article concludes with a reflection on the ways in which social work research can draw on story completion methods in the future. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-06-12T07:36:24Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241262062
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Authors:Yun Chen, Lissette M Piedra Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-06-08T01:59:27Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241262572
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Authors:Anna Parisi, Amy Blank Wilson, Kathleen Farkas, Suzanne Brown, Melissa Villodas, Jon Phillips Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 within correctional facilities. This qualitative study examined facilitator experiences delivering a cognitive behavioral intervention to incarcerated women with mental illnesses. Qualitative open coding techniques were used to analyze facilitator notes from each session to learn more about the challenges facilitators experienced and the strategies they used to address them. Teaching interpersonal conflict skills was identified as the primary challenge facilitators faced throughout intervention delivery. Two aspects of teaching interpersonal conflict skills were found to be particularly difficult: how facilitators worked with participants to identify interpersonal conflicts, and how facilitators fostered discussions of conflict during intervention sessions. This study provides initial insights into the complexities inherent in delivering interventions to system-involved women with mental illnesses. Our results highlight the need for future research and interventions that address dynamics at the intersection of interpersonal conflict, gender, and mental illness. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-05-21T08:06:43Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241255868
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Authors:Qihao Zhan Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-05-14T03:15:15Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241255753
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Authors:Peter Simcock, Jill Manthorpe, Anthea Tinker Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 experiences of the deafblind population. However, one strategy for facilitating the inclusion of deafblind people in qualitative research is the involvement of tactile sign language interpreters, and some have argued that phenomenological methods, such as IPA, be avoided where interpreters are involved. Nevertheless, those promoting IPA encourage flexibility and creativity in its use. Using the example of a UK based study exploring vulnerability among older deafblind people, this paper illustrates how tactile sign language interpreters were involved in IPA research. The criteria for evaluating the management of interpreters in qualitative research devised by Squires are used to frame critical reflection on the necessary adaptation of IPA, and the authors contend that IPA study involving tactile sign language interpreters can successfully give voice to older deafblind people when careful attention is paid to the interpreters’ credentials, role, and positionality, and it is acknowledged that IPA research is completed with not through the interpreters. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-04-29T03:00:08Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241250140
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Authors:Jane F Gilgun Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 is based but that the transcripts were incomplete. In my enthusiasm for what I did say, I left things out. In this article, I added to the material that Karen had access to, such as laying out the principles of pragmatism that underlie qualitative social work research and practice and how I coped with the effects of hearing stories about violence and gained from it. I also added to the theory of violence that Karen wrote about and to her descriptions of my relationships with other feminists. I gave a brief account of deductive qualitative analysis that I did not mention at all in the interviews. I realize more than ever that there are differences between interviews, which are spontaneous utterances, and articles, that authors write over time, reflect upon, and revise countless times. Then editors have a go at them. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-04-25T10:10:45Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241248954
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Authors:Kelly Bolton, Debra Nelson-Gardell Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-04-25T09:52:44Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241252222
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Authors:Karen M Staller Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 social work and its connection to the Chicago School as well as her decades-long feminist investigation of male violence. Starting from an ontological worldview in the inherent goodness of humankind, Gilgun seeks to explain deviations from that path. She has spent a lifetime at the intersecting seams of gender, violence, and abuse of power. Gilgun’s career offers lessons for a next generation. Her work reminds us of the importance of the deep historical connections between qualitative social work and the Chicago School. It illustrates the time and dedication required to seriously investigate difficult topics using qualitative methodologies. It offers a bittersweet reminder that choosing the path less traveled—or resisting dominant views in the academy—can be a solitary experience but that building intentional communities of like-minded souls serves as a protective factor. Finally, Gilgun’s career embodies the idea that serious research agendas are animated by large and important questions. Her scholarship has grappled head-on with the basic philosophical question of how evil can exist in a world rooted in goodness. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-04-25T09:43:14Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241248959
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Authors:Christina E. Hyland, Eunjung Lee Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 of oppression. Eleven participants partook in three individual face-to-face interview sessions and one arts-based body map activity, respectively, at a local SIHY resource centre in a metropolitan city in Canada. Guided by Interpretative Phenomenological Approach (IPA), our findings illustrated how body mapping (1) enabled a deepened understanding of SIHY’s eating struggles as both a form of suffering and an embodied means of coping with food insecurity and other systemic and relational trauma(s); (2) provided a transformative experience leading to greater self-compassion and healing; and (3) served as a trauma-informed method that fostered choice and validation. We attest that, as a creative and supportive clinical and research tool, body mapping taps into the unspoken, expressive, embodied, and somatic aspects of eating struggles, food insecurity, poverty, and other forms of oppression deepening knowledge and informing social work research and practice. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-04-12T03:42:58Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241245717
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Authors:Mariann Iren Vigdal, Thomas Solgaard Svendsen, Christian Moltu, Jone Bjornestad, Lillian Bruland Selseng Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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, 17 people in recovery drew network maps and reflected on how friendships had developed during the long-term process. We analysed the narratives by way of a thematic narrative approach.ResultsParticipants presented the friendship-formation process through four distinct storylines: (1) ‘I don’t make friends easily’; (2) overcoming barriers to building friendships; (3) ‘birds of a feather flock together’; and (4) ‘having “regular” friends makes me feel like an “average” person’.ConclusionPeople in long-term recovery from problematic substance use felt haunted and hindered by past experiences when building friendships. These experiences created a social divide between those who had experienced problematic substance use and those who had not. The valuable insights that social workers can gain from this study can support friendship development for people in long-term recovery on multiple levels. By understanding someone’s self-perceptions and their perspectives on others, social workers can engage with barriers when people in recovery enter social environments such as work. We emphasise the significance of a long-term approach to overcoming barriers to building new friendships. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-03-26T10:05:06Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250241242028
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Authors:Lauren E Gulbas, ClaraGrace Pavelka, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Luis H Zayas Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 case study design to identify the social and contextual conditions that give rise to the circumstances in which eating disorders and suicidal behaviors cluster together. Specifically, we draw on life history and clinical ethnographic interviews with an adolescent and her mother to illustrate the intersections between psychosocial and structural processes. Through our analysis, we develop a model for syndemic risk that foregrounds poverty, racism, heterosexism, and gender oppression as critical to the production of mental health comorbidities. As we delineate in our findings, multiple forms of oppression led to a higher risk of exposure to stressful and traumatic experiences, including physical maltreatment, emotional abuse and neglect, sexual coercion, and peer victimization. These events contributed to the emergence of psychological and social vulnerabilities associated with heightened eating disorder and suicide risk. Ultimately, our qualitative study contributes to understanding how syndemic risk factors interact and mutually reinforce one another over time to shape comorbid psychopathology. In doing so, our findings shift understandings of mental illness as emerging from individual vulnerabilities to a conception of mental health that is framed within a multidimensional perspective. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-01-08T12:24:42Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250231225170
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Authors:Håkan Jönson, Tove Harnett Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. 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 provided, and residents can continue to consume alcohol and other substances for the rest of their lives. At wet eldercare facilities, age is used to mark a shift in ambition: earlier efforts to treat are replaced by attempts to provide care and dignity. The article uses wet eldercare facilities as the example with which to (i) introduce age logics as an analytical tool for critical studies of age in social work; (ii) understand how age logics are used in harm reduction arrangements for older people; and (iii) propose a method to increase age awareness and identify and challenge problematic uses of age in social work. The empirical data consists of interviews with 31 residents, 11 caseworkers and 12 staff members at two Swedish wet eldercare facilities. The analysis identifies four types of age logics linking chronological age with its meanings: (a) the logic of changeability; (b) the logic of lifestyle; (c) the logic of function; and (d) the logic of administrative fit. Together they construct an ideal type of the ‘older addict’, which justified existing arrangements. Citation: Qualitative Social Work PubDate: 2024-01-04T12:40:53Z DOI: 10.1177/14733250231224364
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