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- Who cares for carers' Responsibilization and the discourse of self-care in
health and social care literature during the COVID-19 pandemic. A critical
review-
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Authors: Alicja Palęcka
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
COVID-19 outbreak produced an unprecedented crisis in care sectors. Nursing home workers, healthcare, social care, and clinical social workers (HSCW) often took the burden of managing the crisis in their facilities, risking increased stress, trauma, and burnout. As a response to this issue, increased interest in self-care in health and social work literature could be observed. Yet, the concept of self-care is problematic, as it focuses attention on the individual responsibility to care for oneself, regardless of organisational and structural factors and obstacles. The article provides a critical literature review, focused on risk factors and psychological consequences of the pandemic in health and social care and clinical social work, and on the proposed response, namely, self-care. The aim of the article is to systematise knowledge about approaches to self-care in these sectors and to critically review those approaches. Critiques of self-care are considered, including those informed by Foucauldian perspective of governmentality and responsibilization. The concept of community care is introduced as an implication and an answer to these critiques.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-28T11:24:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231204628
- Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing
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Authors: Kerri Cleaver, Mary Kate Dennis
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-28T04:26:25Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231205998
- A garden of compassion…In memory of Norman K. Denzin
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Authors: Lissette M Piedra
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-26T05:00:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231205542
- In this issue…Onward!
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Authors: Yun Chen, Deirdre Lanesskog, Lissette M Piedra
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-25T11:01:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231205543
- Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging
gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement-
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Authors: Ashlee Reynolds, Steven Roche, Timothy Piatkowski
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
This article reports on a study that provides insights into the challenges faced by practitioners in the Northern Territory (NT) who support families in enhancing child safety and well-being, particularly for children at risk of or exposed to domestic or family violence. Despite increased funding for programs aimed at improving children's safety and well-being, reports and substantiations of child maltreatment in the NT continue to escalate. Interviews with twelve participants from various organizations involved in child protection services, family support services, and residential care shed light on the existing gaps in support services, including limited resources for families escaping domestic violence and inadequate assistance for children transitioning from out-of-home care. The findings emphasize the need for early intervention services targeted at families displaying risk factors for child maltreatment. Additionally, community consultation is crucial for the design and implementation of support programs that align with the unique needs of communities, including the necessity of maintaining connections to community, culture, and family to address concerns related to meeting basic needs. The study calls for a comprehensive approach that integrates community input, cultural safety, and tailored support programs to bridge these gaps and facilitate lasting positive changes. By addressing these challenges, there is a potential to mitigate child maltreatment and improve the well-being of children and families in the NT, contributing to the overall welfare of the community.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-14T03:34:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231202045
- “He went from being a monster to a person:” Using narrative analysis
to explore how victim-offender dialogue (VOD) participants transform
through the VOD process-
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Authors: Danielle Maude Littman, Miriam Valdovinos, Shannon Sliva
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Restorative justice practices such as victim-offender dialogue (VOD) have gained traction in the past few decades as routes towards healing amidst high incarceration and recidivism rates and growing public dissatisfaction with punitive carceral structures. However, little work has sought to understand the nuanced experiences of those who engage in VOD processes, in their own words. In this manuscript, we use narrative analytic methods to explore how a dyad involved in VOD process—the individual who engaged in a crime, and a mother and daughter impacted by this crime—transformed over the course of the process (before, 2 weeks after, and 6 months after the dialogue). We found that, for the participating dyad, engaging in the VOD process cracked open the humanity of the other through the vehicles of religion and forgiveness. Our findings echo—and expand—prior work on “forgiveness” in RJ processes, and suggest the need for future research which explores the nuanced role of religion in VOD. Finally, we advocate for the expansion of facilitated dialogue processes as a process with the potential to catalyze individual and community healing.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-13T03:02:14Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231202050
- The meaningfulness of challenging the controlled drinking discourse. An
autoethnographic study-
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Authors: Siw Heidi Tønnessen
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Being able to control ones drinking is an expression of attitudes in most western societies towards the act of drinking, and if losing control, one breaks with these attitudes. This is what I call the “controlled drinking discourse.” Loss of control can be understood as any drinking of alcohol which starts a chain of reaction that is felt as a physical and psychological demand for alcohol. This is a description of how I related to alcohol for years until a complete crisis of meaning in my life in 2014. In recovery research, different kinds of “doings” are well documented as meaningful, while meaningful ways of thinking is less explored. Ways of thinking is influenced by available discourses. Through an autoethnographic approach, I explore ways of thinking with use of an analytical framework focusing on the relationship between discourses, narratives, and small stories. I also discuss theories on non-drinking, alcoholism, and recovery. Doing a discursively shift in thinking by accepting that controlled drinking is not possible, is for me a meaningful and self-sustainable way of thinking, which keeps me sober and away from crisis of meaning in my life.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-05T10:56:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231200499
- Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St
Helena Island through The World Café-
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Authors: Samantha Phippard, Kerry Ball, Nicole Paulson
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
The World Café (TWC) method is now established as a participatory tool used in community development and qualitative research. However, there is a limited critique of TWC as a social work research method, especially with children. This paper discusses TWC as a method for understanding what matters for children on the British Overseas Territory of St Helena Island. As a social worker, the importance of supporting children’s engagement and voice is well known in participation, necessitating careful ethical consideration. Within this project facilitating authentic conversations with children on a remote island required examining assumptions alongside engaging with colonial legacies to bring forward respectful participation. TWC shares several fractures of other participatory approaches evolving from critical pedagogy, which appeared aligned with social work values and ethics. Facilitated shared learning and allowed children to discuss issues that mattered to them, although handing over dialogue to children required commitment to trust and sharing control with young people. Café events revealed the complex positioning of social roles situating lived experiences, whereby children developed their learning of what mattered to them through interactions and a growing understanding of their global position. The method edged dialogue towards transformative conversations, acknowledging the oppression of marginalised peoples, requires reflection and action from children and young people themselves to elevate their positions from within their own knowledge. This supports the potential for further research to understand if creative methods can create more spaces for dialogue, allowing the emergence of more authentic children’s engagement in research which is more socially just.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-02T10:30:57Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231200484
- Whiteness in our understanding of culture: A critical discourse analysis
of the cultural responsivity practice frameworks in child protection-
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Authors: Caitlin van Noppen, Lobna Yassine, Katarzyna Olcoń
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the conceptualization of cultural responsivity in Australian child protection through the critical Whiteness theory lens. Critical discourse analysis was deployed to examine the cultural responsivity concept in two statutory child protection documents from New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Interrogating the underlying assumptions present in the texts, the study demonstrated a narrow categorization of who is deemed ‘culturally diverse’ and a problematic conceptualization of cultural responsivity. We argue that these texts maintain Whiteness as the unexamined cultural norm and can reinforce the ‘Othering’ effect and racial disproportionality in the child protection system. We conclude with a call to practitioners to remain critical of the widely accepted concepts that inform their practice, such as cultural responsivity to avoid reinforcing racial inequality through their practice.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-09-01T03:47:09Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231200501
- In this issue
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Authors: Lisa Morriss
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-08-22T05:03:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231197714
- Honouring the artistry in qualitative social work research
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Authors: Kirsty Oehlers
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-08-21T10:26:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231197715
- Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on
positionality-
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Authors: Felicity Morrow, Martin Kettle
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
This article describes an unexpected methodological shift made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic during doctoral research, and exemplifies reflexivity in action whilst negotiating my complex positionality as both a researcher and a social worker. The first UK national lockdown was announced after I had conducted 3 months of ethnographic data collection in a local authority adult social work team, thus halting my research. As society shut down, face-to-face research was paused overnight, however, the local authority continued to provide essential services and support. Forging a path forward, I successfully gained a job practising as a social worker within the team and completed a supplementary ethics application to include auto-ethnographic data which would complement the existing ethnography. Although practicing reflexivity and analysing positionality are established and encouraged parts of ethnographic research, how a researcher actively conducts them varies and usually remains unseen. Methodologies are often presented in a sanitised and polished manner, depriving the reader of the messy yet informative reality of research. This article draws upon fieldnotes to practically illustrate and bring this reflexivity on positionality to the fore. As I move from participant-observer to complete-participant, the findings zoom in on my experience of navigating positionality, revealing a micro picture of the details and subtleties of this process. This unexpected research journey enhanced my level of intimacy with the phenomenon, the research site, and the participants. Overall, this example of enacting reflexivity helps to bridge the gap between how positionality is theorised and how it actively practiced. Finally, this article is a call for more open, deeper, and continual reflexivity on our positionality as researchers.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-08-19T02:03:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231196430
- Community-based participatory action research with LGBTQIA+ youth during
the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections from a collaborative autoethnography-
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Authors: Gio Iacono, Leah Holle, Emily Loveland, Christina Borel, Evan Horton, Hannah Olson, Shelley L. Craig, Breana Bietsch
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
We use a collaborative autoethnography (CAE) methodology to explore how our research team conducted community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and other sexually and gender diverse youth (LGBTQIA+) youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, which required us to modify our original research approach. This paper describes the authors’ processes and provides critical reflections on continuing to use CBPAR during the pandemic with LGBTQIA+ youth to develop and evaluate a mental health intervention (i.e., Tuned In!) that aims to address their mental health needs. Our CAE revealed three main themes: 1) Enhancing Accessibility; 2) Centering the Voices of LGBTQIA+ Youth; 3) Prioritizing Relationships and Community Building, and an over-arching theme of Trust that facilitated our efforts. Taken together, our findings illuminate practical approaches to engage LGBTQIA+ youth through research despite myriad obstacles brought on by the pandemic.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-08-14T06:45:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231194783
- Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist
professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child
safeguarding-
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Authors: Rosemary Oram, Alys Young, Patricia Cartney
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
This paper concerns parenting assessments which are integral to child-safeguarding professional processes in England, and which involve Deaf parents whose primary language is British Sign Language (BSL). In an under-researched area of social work, the research aim was to contribute to the existing literature by eliciting the practice wisdom of specialist professionals. Specifically, it draws upon their linguistic and cultural knowledge of the Deaf community when they are involved in parenting assessments with Deaf parents who are subject to safeguarding concerns. Data about these professionals’ actual experiences of navigating Deaf cultural-competency in contemporary child protection practices were collected through seven video-recorded, semi-structured interviews conducted in BSL. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, data were analysed in their source language (BSL). This article focusses on one key theme, termed ‘Professional Recognition’, which incorporates a) the identification of specialist roles and b) the impact of referral processes and protocols on assessment outcomes. The findings highlight participants’ perspectives on the benefits and disadvantages of their specialist role in this context. Although their brokerage skills, cultural competence, linguistic fluency and specialist knowledge of the Deaf community are highly regarded and valued by some colleagues, there is insufficient recognition of their existence by the majority. Secondly, participants are concerned by the inefficiency and inconsistency of the referral processes and protocols which they consider have adverse effects on assessment outcomes, and consequently the parents involved.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-07-04T07:03:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231185962
- Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping
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Authors: Jordana Salma, Bita Mirhashemi, Megan Kennedy
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 social connectedness, increased transparency and quality of findings, and self-empowerment were key strengths of using arts-based approaches for data collection. Challenges identified included resource limitations, cultural and language barriers, and barriers to meaningful engagement. Only a small number of studies have utilized arts-based methods with immigrant and racialized older adults. Arts-based approaches require unique methodological adaptations with this population but have the potential to increase engagement in research activities, authenticity of research findings and empowerment of older adults.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-06-28T05:08:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231185961
- Nowhere to turn: A Black feminist autoethnography of interpersonal
violence-
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Authors: So’Phelia Morrow
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
In July 2020, rapper Megan Thee Stallion was shot by her then boyfriend Tory Lanez, a fellow rapper. The incident brought to the surface (again) a long, ongoing conversation about the experiences of Black women survivors of intimate partner violence, much like other high-profile cases (e.g., Tina Turner) have done before. Specifically, these cases show how Black men particularly can uphold patriarchal violence in intimate or romantic contexts. Moreover, these cases show the tensions that can arise when survivors seek help from law enforcement. For example, the idea of racial loyalty and not calling the police on a Black man and how this affects the options available to Black women. In other words, Black women often have nowhere to turn for help when they experience violence. In this article, I employ Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to analyze a personal instance of road rage where I was attacked, to explore how Black women survivors make meaning of their experiences, the thought process behind their decision to involve the police, how Black men uphold patriarchal violence in non-intimate contexts, and how Black women resist or refuse to accept the violence. This analysis reveals the raced and gendered components underlying the private/public nature of interpersonal violence experienced by Black women and the relationship between intimate and non-intimate interpersonal violence. Implications for qualitative social work research and practice include the use of Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to identify areas of empowerment, strength, and support for survivors of violence.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-06-24T01:59:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231186755
- ‘It is like talking to very good robots’: Experiences of online
support groups for parents with babies during the COVID-19 lockdown in the
United Kingdom-
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Authors: Siân E Lucas, Laura Bellussi
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many face-to-face group activities for new parents moved online. In this article, we share findings from 14 interviews conducted during the first lockdown in the United Kingdom with parents of babies under 12 months about their experiences of participating in online groups. Attendance at groups was treated as a survival mechanism or even a panacea for some parents, providing well-rounded entertainment and support for parents, their children and the parenting relationship. However, reviews of the online groups were mixed, with some deemed more adequate than others for online delivery. Parents expressed concerns about the lack of informal spaces in online contexts to share private conversations and the unnatural group conversations affected by the custom of taking turns to talk. These experiences highlighted what was important to parents: the need for the embodiment of connection. The peculiarity of the online setting saw the emergence of parenting display work; parental awareness of online impression management and self-presentation strategies. While online technologies are ubiquitous, online groups for parents are nascent, and these technologies require careful analysis and evaluation from users and facilitators.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-06-21T09:18:00Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231185066
- Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient
tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants-
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Authors: Prince Chiagozie Ekoh, Kathleen Sitter
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Visual elicitation methods, such as diagramming, are growing in their use with vulnerable populations, trauma-informed research, and social work studies where the use of traditional oral interviews alone may be lacking in their ability to increase access to different areas of human consciousness. The adoption and designing of innovative diagramming and visual methods have the potential to push the boundaries of data collection in understanding the experiences of forced migrants. However, scholars have seldom adopted this method in forced migration research. In this article, the authors explore three diagramming methods-timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps-to highlight the possibilities of their use for social work research with forced migrants. The benefits of utilising these methods in support of the unique characteristics and challenges of forced migrants are also discussed. The article concludes by identifying several limitations while advocating for the adoption and documentation of the use of diagramming in studies with forced migrants.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-05-30T12:18:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231180321
- The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis
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Authors: Marina Morgenshtern, Jeanette Schmid
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Using the contents of journals has been an underutilized research approach in social work. Journal archives represent what has been legitimated in the discipline as well as what forms the dominant social work canon. To theorize about journal archival sourcing as a research method, we cite the limited extant examples, drawing out from these the methodology used. We then make a case for the value of journal mining and in particular from the vantage point of critical social work and critical discourse analysis, position the Foucauldian history of the present as an appropriate tool for analysis. We draw this article together by describing how to employ this research method and argue that this might be an exceptionally useful tool at this point of the discipline’s history.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-05-23T12:12:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231178259
- Understanding Muslims’ interactions with non-Muslims: Laying the
foundation for culturally sensitive social work engagement-
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Authors: Morgan E Braganza, David R Hodge
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 assist social workers engage with Muslims in an ethical and effective manner, this qualitative study sought to answer the following questions: how do Muslims experience interactions with non-Muslims and what have they learned from their encounters that might facilitate positive interactions' To answer these two questions, we used narrative inquiry with a sample of 10 Muslim social work students and recent alumni. The findings suggest that Muslims may be treated either positively or negatively by non-Muslims in interactions in various contexts, that they are frequently unable to voice their religious perspectives, and that their religious difference is often portrayed in single-sided or negative ways as well as prioritized against their wishes while ignoring other aspects of their social identities. As a result, many tend to avoid interactions with non-Muslims. The paper offers strategies to foster more respectful interactions with Muslims, such as attending to how much their religious difference is prioritized, and providing opportunities to share their perspectives.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-05-13T05:48:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231175161
- Somali parenting in Western contexts: Acculturative stressors and family
strengths-
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Authors: Johara Suleiman, Wendy Haight, Sookyoung Park, Shelby Flanagan
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 Scandinavia. A total of 19 studies were identified that focused on Somali immigrant families, discussed parenting, and were written in English. Ten were published in peer-reviewed journals including in social work, mental health, and nursing. The other studies were reported in a book chapter and eight graduate-level theses. The studies were qualitative, and identified several themes related to parental strengths and stressors as they acculturated to Western countries. Stressors included conflicts between Western and Islamic values within racist contexts, shifting from communal to nuclear family parenting, and changes in family dynamics. Strengths included strong ties to spirituality, a deep commitment to family, and a strong love of and pride in their cultural identity. Implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-05-11T03:28:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231175506
- Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research
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Authors: Katrin Bain
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 the uses, benefits and limitations of written vignettes as part of semi-structured interviews and focus groups with social workers and related professionals. It provides clear guidelines on how to design a vignette. This includes the choice of scenario, characteristics of the protagonist, type of vignette, research setting, length, vignettes in semi-structured interviews and pre-testing. Text-based vignettes have been successfully used in social work research on six continents in a variety of research contexts including single context, comparative, cross-sectional, longitudinal and replication studies. Written vignettes are a useful tool to elicit (professional) values, attitudes and decision-making processes in a time efficient manner that produces focused, in-depth knowledge without the need to use real practice examples that could potentially include sensitive data or breach confidentiality. Vignettes have been used to explore a wide range of topics including but not limited to adult safeguarding, care planning, child protection and multi-agency working together. There is some debate whether vignette responses mirror real-life actions. The value of vignette data goes beyond documenting real-world decision-making. It can uncover tacit social work knowledge and unquestioned beliefs to show how they interplay in decision-making.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-05-10T05:24:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231175386
- Encountering bodies and identity dynamics of social worker: A case of a
cleft lip and palatesurgeries department-
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Authors: Dan Liu, Ke Cui
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 encounters between clients (children with CLP and their parents) and social workers in concrete interactive situations. It allows us to symmetrically reflect on how encounters between the bodies of clients, the social worker and medical professionals co-construct and redefine the social worker’s identities. Three body-related identities emerge and coexist as the practice proceeds: a normal person with a normal life, a learner without embodied knowledge of a particular illness and a professional with both medical and social work authorities. These three dimensions show how mutual embodiment in contextualised interactions affects the social worker-client relationship. About implications for social work practice, we draw attention to the situated identities of social worker in a specific context, and explain how embodiment serves as a critical tool to improve our understanding of practitioners’ dynamic identities through embodied reflexivity.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-05-09T11:03:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231174117
- Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to
qualitative social work research-
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Authors: Yayoi Ide, Liz Beddoe
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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, the concept is difficult to pin down and the challenge for researchers is to address how to become reflexive and do reflexivity in research practice. In social work, reflexivity has further been developed and applied in practice contexts. The practice terms, critical reflection and reflection or reflectivity are interrelated in ways that aim to explain reflexivity in the profession which, in turn, can offer an enhanced understanding of reflexivity applied in research. This exploratory article promotes practising reflection – questioning, analysing and evaluating oneself in employing reflexivity in all the research stages: methodological construction, data collection and data analysis by undertaking three key self-focused activities: (1) thinking about one’s own thinking; (2) observation of emotions/thoughts, role boundaries and power dynamics in research relationships; and (3) exploration of perceptual experiences. Maintaining the reflexive stance is achieved through reflectivity. The article is largely descriptive but draws on experience in a doctoral study of cultural competence and promotes the effective use of reflexivity in qualitative social work research.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-04-28T07:42:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231173522
- “You have to continue doing the work”: Black women essential workers
coping amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism-
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Authors: Sarah M Godoy, Lyneisha Dukes, Mimi Chapman, Steven Day, Rachel W Goode
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 qualitative approach and purposive sampling techniques to interview 22 essential workers who identified as Black women. Research took place in a large southeastern portion of the United States. Data collection included a brief demographic questionnaire and individual interviews. Thematic and content analysis were used to identify themes and quantify the types of mechanisms used to cope with the pandemics. Four themes were identified to reflect these essential workers’ experiences coping with the pandemics: pervasive distress; varied responses to emergent events; mechanisms for survival; and the persistent obligation to remain strong. Predominant coping mechanisms included the use of social support, faith and spirituality, and increased food consumption. Despite concerns related to imminent threats to their health, widespread uprisings against police brutality, and shifts in caretaking responsibilities, these women’s narratives demonstrated a persistent obligation to remain strong. Moreover, contextual factors related to their roles as essential workers and caretakers, such as others’ reliance on them, contributed to the necessity for survival and their display of strength during such turbulence. These findings highlight the emotional toll essential workers experienced while managing their work-related responsibilities and navigating caregiving roles. Future research should focus on the development of culturally relevant coping strategies to mitigate unwanted effects from pandemic-related stress and dismantling systems of oppression to improve general wellbeing for essential workers and their families.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-04-06T09:53:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231167822
- Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity
in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young
people-
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Authors: Eleanor Mary Staples, Debbie Watson, Katie Riches
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 have been in public care, or are adopted, assemble a coherent narrative of their care journey, adverse experiences and identity. Interview data presented here was produced with 17 participants (foster carers, adoptive parents and social work professionals in care or adoption teams) who were part of a project which sought to understand how aspects of life story work could be transformed into everyday care conversations between children and the adults who care for them (see www.difficultconversations.info). Our analysis highlights the way participants understood and constructed temporal elements of children’s experiences and identities: their pasts, presents and futures, in the context of having conversations about care with them. Through the discussion, we indicate a need to loosen the configuration of children’s life stories and identities as ‘pre-care’ and ‘post-care’, and instead move toward an acceptance of children’s multiple selves and multiple important others as existing across time.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-04-06T07:26:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231168605
- Unpacking support: A strengths-based investigation into the needs of
incarcerated individuals’ loved ones-
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Authors: Eman Tadros, Abigail Henson, Sarah Presley
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 only on those currently or previously incarcerated, but also on those connected to incarcerated individuals. Much of this research identifies the barriers and difficulties loved ones of incarcerated individuals (LOIs) encounter; however, few of these studies highlight the ways LOIs navigate and overcome such barriers. By using this deficits-framework, LOIs can be mischaracterized as solely powerless or disordered. Also, while many studies importantly identify difficulties in navigating the carceral experience of a loved one, few allow LOIs to speak directly to their needs. Drawing upon deidentified Facebook posts from an online LOI group, the current study takes a strengths-based approach to showcase how LOIs attempt to address their needs and assuage difficulties by engaging in storytelling, advice and information sharing, and advocacy work.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-04-06T07:14:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231167803
- Strengthening the relationships between different parties:
Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work-
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Authors: Ida Krag-Rønne Mannsåker, André Vågan
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Hospital social workers advocate, facilitate and communicate with patients, families, healthcare professionals, and communities. These activities, in which hospital social workers relate to different parties and aim to strengthen relationships between them, have been referred to in the literature as boundary spanning. This study explores hospital social workers’ boundary-spanning competencies associated with their boundary-spanning activities. The data were from in-depth interviews with 19 hospital social workers in Norway. A hybrid analysis was performed, combining initial inductive coding of themes with subsequent deductive coding based upon a conceptual framework. Four themes emerged: (1) Being informed, (2) Content knowledge, (3) Tailoring and (4) Self-knowledge. The findings contribute to specifying central boundary-spanning competencies. Implications of the study for social work practice and education are provided, along with recommendations for further research.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-03-25T10:25:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231167821
- Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The
perspective of social workers in Hong Kong-
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Authors: Tsz Chung Ngai
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Amid recent political conflicts and the implementation of the national security law, Hong Kong society has undergone tremendous changes. Among other effects, the new law has spawned controversial social discourses, including about social workers’ responsibility to uphold human rights and promote social justice per the Hong Kong Social Workers Registration Board’s Code of Practice. This article, based on an analysis of interviews with six social workers in Hong Kong, examines how social workers understand social justice according to those discourses. The findings and this article’s discussion of them offer insights into social workers’ roles in an increasingly turbulent sociopolitical context.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-03-14T12:07:21Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231164417
- Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault
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Authors: Molly C Driessen
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 sense of wellbeing. Many researchers have focused on documenting these consequences of CSA, but there is a dearth of research on students’ post-assault experiences. Specifically, there is a lack of scholarship exploring students’ lived experiences of navigating their post-assault lives in their campus environment through the lens of resilience. The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon of resilience among undergraduate students who have experienced CSA, through a qualitative phenomenological inquiry. This study used critical conceptual understandings of resilience, including socio-ecological and intersectional feminist theoretical perspectives and social work discourses of resilience, to further complicate how the phenomenon is often described in scholarship. The findings revealed four key themes of the phenomenon to include resilience within the context of agency, coping, connection, and hope. Recommendations and implications across social work research, policy, and practice are presented, specifically those identified by the participants as recommendations for change in addressing CSA and supporting student experiences of resilience.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-03-03T09:57:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231161552
- Praxis of cross-cultural social work practice (CCSWP): A critical
discourse analysis of graduate student and faculty perspectives on
cultural competence and relevant constructs-
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Authors: Eunjung Lee, Marjorie Johnstone, Toula Kourgiantakis, Ran Hu, Vivian Leung
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 schools of social work. We interrogated how different theoretical frameworks related to cross-cultural social work practice (CCSWP) have been circulated and reified in social work education, and how certain dominant frameworks have been translated to embodied cross-cultural interactions in social work practice. To examine the praxis of CCSWP, which is often subtle and embedded in the semantics of languages and discourses, we were informed by critical theories of power, language, and discourses to analyze the data. The interview transcripts of both student and faculty focus groups showed similar dominant discursive patterns: (1) critiquing the conceptual use of cultural competence, (2) having a preference for terms such as cultural humility, cultural safety, or other constructs, and (3) describing the embodied practice of these constructs mainly as a general practice and omitting cross-cultural work. Participants differed in their expressed opposition to cultural competence and the exact terms they preferred as an alternative. Overall, participants discursively changed from a critical debate on semantic and conceptual differences between these constructs to negating them altogether as meaningless, effacing the very notion of cross-cultural social work and its embodied practice. In the end, cultural competence was discounted as both oppressive and anti-oppressive, a position which is reflected in the contested scholarship on cultural competence.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-02-07T07:38:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231153047
- “You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors
of sex trafficking define resilience-
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Authors: Logan Knight, Susan Yoon
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 perspectives of those outside academia. The voices of marginalized and stressed populations are particularly rarely integrated into sanctioned institutional discourses of knowledge, reproducing inequality where these institutions have influence. Specifically, little research has explored the ways in which survivors of sex trafficking define and conceptualize resilience. Thus, academic inquiry into survivor resilience may risk missing what is important to survivors themselves regarding the issue. Using thematic analysis, this study explored survivors’ responses to the question “What does ‘resilience’ mean to you'”, which resulted in five themes: resilience as (1) resistance, (2) transition, (3) a sustained force over time, (4) transformation, and (5) resources. Participants defined resilience as being primarily a person-centered phenomenon, rather than a process-centered phenomenon, that was the output of their inherent and enduring personal power to survive or overcome and adversity, and to shape their lives in preferred ways despite adversity. Differing from academic definitions of resilience in several significant ways, participants conceptualized resilience as being promoted by external resources and opportunities but existent even in the absence of such resource and opportunities. Findings suggest that for resilience inquiry to resonate with survivors, it must first acknowledge the inherent power of survivors.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-02-03T01:25:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231152263
- Experiences of parents of autistic children who adopted a cat
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Authors: Gretchen K Carlisle, Angélique Lamontagne, Jessica Bibbo, Rebecca A Johnson, Leslie A Lyons
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication. Autistic children suffer from social cognitive difficulties. There is no specific treatment for ASD, but ongoing individualized care can lead to an improvement in symptoms. Adopting a pet into a family with an autistic child is increasingly recognized as beneficial for improving some of the child’s social skills. Cats are the second most common pet in the homes of autistic children. Previous studies showed that adopting calm-tempered shelter cats to autistic children decreased anxiety and improved the child’s social skills. In the present study, we aimed to qualitatively explore the experience of parents of autistic children who adopted a shelter cat. 11 families participated in the study, and were asked 6 open-ended questions every 2 weeks for 18 weeks after the cat's adoption. Five main themes emerged from the analysis: benefits of cat adoption, challenges of cat adoption, parent-cat bonding, child-cat bonding, and family impact of cat adoption. Adoption leads to the creation of a strong relationship between the family members and the shelter cat, and an improvement in the child’s social skills, with some difficulties related to the maintenance of the cat. These findings highlight the beneficial impact of adopting a shelter cat into a family with an autistic child, and open the door for future research to generalize these results.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-01-14T05:23:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231151946
- Black women social workers: Workplace stress experiences
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Authors: Collina D Cooke, Julia F Hastings
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 those experienced in 2020, were absent from the research literature leaving intervention strategies to support highly stressed BWSWs unknown. This study aimed to uncover the various ways BWSWs experienced their organizations as they performed work duties. Atlas.ti. 9 was used to analyze verbatim transcripts from 17 semi-structured qualitative interviews given by BWSWs across the United States in February 2021. Hermeneutic phenomenology was implemented to interpret interview data. The convenience sample was drawn from professional organizations where BWSWs claimed membership and volunteered to be electronically interviewed for 2 hours generating themes such as stress perceptions, institutional barriers to efficient work productivity and recommendations for workplace support. BWSWs reported high stress work environments in the past year. Some believed that their health and mental health declined because of the inability to find work-home life balance. Findings suggest BWSWs persevere regardless of high levels of stress and being unsupported in the workplace in order to maintain a livelihood. BWSWs play a crucial role in the lives of vulnerable populations, but need to attend to ways to be healthier given the polarization associated with racism, classism, and sexism experienced. Thematically, the data revealed stressful situations in the workplace and how organizations have failed to implement strategies in order to improve social worker health. Suggestions for workplace supports were also identified.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-01-14T03:08:45Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231151954
- ‘Rocky road’ & ‘brick walls’ – Multiple meanings of resilience
in a social work context through the lens of critical realist Informed
grounded theory-
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Authors: Wendy Sims-Schouten, Manisha Thapa
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 intentionality) and social structures (enduring patterns, social rules, norms and laws). Specifically, this research provides insight into how care-experienced people (aged 17–50 years old) and social workers and affiliated practitioners in England make sense of ‘resilience’ and ‘resilient’ behaviours. Critical realist informed grounded theory (CRGT) provides unique opportunities here, with critical realist’s primacy of ontology as the starting point and grounded theory providing the epistemological force, contextualising research and imbedding this more firmly into practice. Drawing on the four stages of retroductive argumentation proposed by Kempster and Parry (2014) and developed by us, we identify a number of key themes, namely, ‘Having/Building an Ability’ – ‘Rocky Road’ and ‘Brick Walls’ – Resilience as Resistance – ‘Compliance’, as well as causal factors impacting upon the themes (such as traumatic life experiences, protective factors, external support systems, political agendas, structure-agency relationships and stigma, discrimination and marginalisation). The research highlights how multiple causal mechanisms, including interpretations of situations by individuals (in this case care-experienced individuals and social workers/affiliated practitioners) interact and generate multiple meaning in relation to process and outcomes of resilience. The research thus provides insight into deeply embedded interpretations of resilience, which should be viewed in light of the stratified non-linear dynamics of embodied experiences, material/institutional forces and social relationships, that co-constitute subjectivity, as well as having an ongoing influence on body–brain systems.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-01-12T07:45:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250231152264
- Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty
military fathers during reintegration-
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Authors: 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
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 of very young children, reintegration can have unique challenges due to the tremendous developmental progression occurring in early childhood and the impact of lengthy deployment separations. While much of the research on military families focuses on extreme negative experiences (e.g., reactions to war injuries and posttraumatic stress disorder), little is known about the common experiences of military families. This qualitative study explores the reintegration experiences of 15 active-duty U.S. Army fathers with a child under six in their home during the deployment. Homecoming experiences were coded and analyzed to distinguish four adjustment factors and five adaptation challenges. Most fathers described having mixed experiences during reintegration, with 93% referencing at least one factor making adjustment easier (e.g., communication with their spouse during deployment), and 80% referencing at least one factor making adjustment difficult (e.g., child’s initial hesitation or perceived rejection). Adjustment facilitators included: spending quality time with family, individual and family growth, quality communication during deployment, and the service member’s parental perspective taking. Challenges to adjustment included negative postdeployment reactions of children, difficulty readjusting to family and civilian life, and service member psychological changes. These findings expand our understanding of the reintegration experience of active-duty fathers with young children and identify common challenges and facilitators that can be addressed through culturally informed supportive services across the deployment cycle.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-01-10T06:50:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250221150378
- Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice
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Authors: Jitka Navrátilová, Pavel Navrátil, Monika Punová, Veronika Smutná
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 with at least one incarcerated parent have failed to gain public attention, find no support in the national legislative framework, and are only slowly attracting the attention of helping professionals. Guided by our research question—“What are the needs of children whose parent leaves the household due to incarceration'”—we describe the individual needs of children of incarcerated parents in their own voices through phenomenological optics. These needs, recorded via individual interviews and focus groups, contextualized using the theoretical methodology of the capability approach, which serves as the framework for assessing the relationship between the stated needs of these children and their overall well-being.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-01-06T09:49:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250221151030
- Navigating survivorhood' Lived experiences of social support-seeking among
LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence-
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Authors: Russell Turner, Anjelica Hammersjö
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 additional barriers to both seeking and receiving appropriate help, yet few studies have explored the way these barriers are navigated from the experiential viewpoint. Knowledge of the subjective journey to access social support may help improve social work practice with LGBTQ people leaving abusive relationships. This study explored the lived experiences of support-seeking through in-depth interviews with LGBTQ survivors of IPV in Sweden (n = 7, age range 18–56). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used for interview design, conduct, and analysis to offer a detailed, first-person, and contextual account of the support-seeking process. Drawing on a phenomenological analysis of lifeworlds, five main themes were produced which illuminate some of the shared experiential features of participants’ journeys to access support. Within each main theme, the analysis also highlights divergences relating to participants’ differing lifeworlds. The analysis thus provides an in-depth, phenomenological understanding of the support-seeking process, including the barriers to, but also the individual and social enablers of, seeking support. Support-seeking processes for LGBTQ survivors of IPV may, at the experiential level, be more diffuse than current theoretical models suggest, with relational ‘strategies of navigation’ being of primary concern to individuals. For policy and practice, the importance of the wide range of generic professionals, who may be the first point of contact, should be emphasised, as well as the role of family and friends as a support and catalyst in the support-seeking process.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-01-04T12:34:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250221150208
- Can service users speak' Dissenting voices and subaltern speech in
social work-
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Authors: Håvard Aaslund
Abstract: Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
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 poststructural and postcolonial theory to unpack the assumptions about essentialism, representation, and division of labor underlying the concepts of involvement, participation, and voice. The article combines Spivak’s theory about the subaltern and Rancière’s theory about politics as dissensus to shed light on how the space for authentic service user voice risks being minimized, corrupted, and co-opted. I discuss the challenges arising from this for understanding service user involvement and participatory knowledge production and suggest possible steps toward handling these challenges.
Citation: Qualitative Social Work
PubDate: 2023-01-03T04:49:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/14733250221150206
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