{"title":"Shifting Sand: Reconnecting Social Work Values to Historical Biblical Foundations","authors":"K. Brown","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i4.248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i4.248","url":null,"abstract":"The profession of Social Work, historically rooted in a Christian faith helping tradition, began a digression from its religious roots while struggling to differentiate itself from other social sciences and define a unique professional identity. To distance from an ambiguous reputation as a disorganized collection of liberal-minded but well-intended social interventions and practitioners, the profession took a positivist/scientist turn. In the ensuing absence of clear, foundational principles such as those historically defined with a Christian faith, the profession attempted to define a values base embedded in a set of ethical codes designed to regulate professional behaviors. Over multiple iterations, the code has grown in length and specificity in an attempt to balance diversity while defining morality. Despite these developments this paper contends that Social Work’s key values are so thoroughly engrained in a Judeo-Christian tradition that the fundamental values currently espoused by the profession mark a recapturing of its historical moral foundations.","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127214786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of: The Rise & Triumph of the Modern Self","authors":"J. Vanderwoerd","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i4.230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i4.230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"24 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125670315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral Injury and US Army Social Work Officers","authors":"Dexter R. Freeman, Samuel Odom","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i4.290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i4.290","url":null,"abstract":"Uniformed social work officers, serving as healthcare providers and soldiers, are frequently confronted with the complex and conflicting responsibilities to uphold loyalty, duty, respect, and commitment to their unit’s mission while also upholding their professional and personal values, principles, and duties as social work professionals and servants of humanity. As Army social work officers return home, many carry spiritual and emotional wounds as warriors and healthcare providers. This paper discusses the results of a qualitative study that examined the occurrence of potential moral injurious events that social work officers experienced during their deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2007- 2009. The authors also examine the challenges that these healthcare professionals experienced, resulting in a potential existential crisis that was caused by the wounding of their soul.","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132405206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of: Embodying Integration: A Fresh Look at Christianity in the Therapy Room","authors":"Daniel Guzmán","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i4.264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i4.264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115444555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love Your Neighbor Collaborative: A Multi-Sector Collaborative to Target Health Disparities for Vulnerable Populations","authors":"Jennifer R. Costello","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i3.275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i3.275","url":null,"abstract":"The Love Your Neighbor Collaborative (LYNC) is a multi-sector collaborative of nonprofit community-based organizations, faith communities, educational institutions, local government, and local supportive businesses to target health disparities for the vulnerable population of individuals in homelessness, and near homelessness, throughout the city of Riverside, California.. The goal of LYNC is to reduce and prevent homelessness by building a coalition of RAOs, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations to work collaboratively with the city of Riverside to create a stronger, more integrated collective effort resourcing those who are in homeless situations or, at risk of losing their home.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127729590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma and Congregations: Surveying Congregations on Trauma Frequency, Educational Preparedness, Competency, and Experiences","authors":"Erin Albin Hill, Gaynor I. Yancey","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i3.296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i3.296","url":null,"abstract":"Congregations throughout the nation are often the first responders when an individual or family needs extra support and care after a traumatic experience. Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, church leaders were tasked with providing extra pastoral care in a unique way that kept every individual physically safe. A survey was completed to learn more about the educational preparedness of pastors specific to trauma, frequency of conversations about trauma before and during COVID-19, competency of church leaders before and during COVID-19, and experiences of collective trauma within congregations. This article focuses on the results of that survey to bring awareness to the lived experiences of church leaders and congregants when dealing with trauma","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124596421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Congregations: Vibrant Contexts for Social Work Practice","authors":"J. Costello, Gaynor Yancey","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i3.323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i3.323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129548323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Congregational Social Worker’s Role in Benevolence Ministry: A Case Study of Five Models","authors":"J. W. Ward, Jess Gregory Jones","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i3.298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i3.298","url":null,"abstract":"Benevolence is often a way for the church to engage with the local community, however, churches often struggle with how to do so most effectively. This paper provides a description of five church models from Baptist congregations in Central Texas. This paper will summarize each church’s approach and synthesize the approaches to form recommendations for congregational social work, including roles of the social worker in the congregation and suggestions for how churches might work with social workers to enhance and better articulate policies and practices around benevolence ministries. A highlight of the literature surrounding congregational community ministries will also be included. This article aims to advance the role of social workers in congregations and giving tangible tools for both social work and congregational engagement with benevolence funds.","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122189610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian Congregations and Social and Political Action: A Review of the Literature","authors":"H. Deal","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i3.303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i3.303","url":null,"abstract":"Movements like Black Lives Matter, immigration, and the ever-widening income gap have ignited the conversation on social justice activism and Christian congregations (Miller & Polson, 2019). For social workers, congregations are valuable sites to develop stronger, more inclusive, and more just societies (Miller & Polson, 2019). There is significant research on Christian congregations that are active in social justice work--the types of work they do, motivations to engage, and the types of congregations who choose to engage. This review of literature focuses on the history of Christian congregational social justice activism, social service provision, understanding why congregations become involved in social justice work, creates the distinction between social service provision and political action, and which congregations are typically involved in social justice work. Social justice activism and activities are those that go beyond offering social service programs and who have a political activity sphere and focuses on systems change.","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128198606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of :Thinking About Adoption: A Practical and Theological Handbook for Christians Discerning the Call to Parent by Adoption","authors":"Julia Pizzuto-Pomaco","doi":"10.34043/swc.v49i4.257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v49i4.257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159660,"journal":{"name":"Social Work & Christianity","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126627665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}