IF 2.5 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag027

Tali Sasson-Shoshan, Adi Vitman Schorr, Yoad Govrin-Yehudain, Dana Klugerman, Shahaf Cohen, Ira Yehuda, Fatma Abas, Maytal Ayal, Sivan Chiko, Rachel Lev-Wiesel

{"title":"The Role of Professional Mission in Buffering Secondary Traumatization.","authors":"Tali Sasson-Shoshan, Adi Vitman Schorr, Yoad Govrin-Yehudain, Dana Klugerman, Shahaf Cohen, Ira Yehuda, Fatma Abas, Maytal Ayal, Sivan Chiko, Rachel Lev-Wiesel","doi":"10.1093/sw/swag027","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sw/swag027","url":null,"abstract":"The Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, resulted in approximately 1,400 civilian deaths and escalated into a war between Israel and its neighbors. This conflict had a profound impact on healthcare professionals, including social workers, who faced the dual burden of addressing the needs of others while managing their own trauma. This study examined the role of personal resources and professional mission in preserving the well-being of 116 Israeli social workers operating within a war-related shared reality. Participants were recruited from three regions with differing levels of exposure: Northern Israel (relocated due to rocket attacks), Southern Israel (directly affected by the massacre and ongoing rocket fire), and Central Israel (exposed to repeated rocket alarms). Self-report questionnaires assessing psychological distress, potency, professional mission, and work-to-family conflict were administered. Findings indicated that potency and professional mission emerged as key differentiating variables in the decision tree model, highlighting their central role in shaping psychological distress outcomes during wartime. In contrast, demographic variables and family-to-work conflict served as significant predictors of psychological distress. These findings underscore the importance of internal and professional resources in mitigating psychological distress among social workers facing a war-related shared reality.","PeriodicalId":21875,"journal":{"name":"Social work","volume":" ","pages":"261-271"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147933729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Navigating Ethical Disparities between Evidence-Based Practice and Advocacy Regarding Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Treatment. 在儿科性别焦虑治疗的循证实践和倡导之间导航伦理差异。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag009

Kevin Theriot

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Harnessing the Power of Simulation: Advancing Social Work Practice through Hospital Committees. 利用模拟的力量：通过医院委员会推进社会工作实践。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag008

Matthew Tvedte, Allison Henry, Amanda Meers, Lisa Volpigno, Pamela Chamorro, Matthew Taylor, Brianna O'Connell, Abigail M Ross

{"title":"Harnessing the Power of Simulation: Advancing Social Work Practice through Hospital Committees.","authors":"Matthew Tvedte, Allison Henry, Amanda Meers, Lisa Volpigno, Pamela Chamorro, Matthew Taylor, Brianna O'Connell, Abigail M Ross","doi":"10.1093/sw/swag008","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sw/swag008","url":null,"abstract":"Committees are a core component of organizational infrastructure and clinical governance in health and hospital systems and a viable mechanism through which to accomplish goals, facilitate departmental initiatives, produce deliverables, and improve departmental functioning. In this article, authors describe the development, evolution, and activities of a hospital social work department simulation (SW SIM) committee, which culminated in the production and deployment of a simulation-based learning (SBL) course designed specifically for social workers employed in a large, urban, quaternary pediatric hospital. With its focus on suicide risk assessment and treatment competencies, a priority identified through departmental surveys in conjunction with social work (SW) leadership, this course was the first to be developed at the institution specifically for social workers that targeted psychosocial (as opposed to medical or interprofessional) competencies. Using development and production of the SBL suicide risk assessment and management course as a case example, this article illustrates the SW SIM committee's collaboration processes with the SW department, SW leadership, key content experts, and the institution's simulation program. The article concludes with a discussion of lessons learned and factors to consider when engaging in committee-led departmental initiatives such as SBL course development.","PeriodicalId":21875,"journal":{"name":"Social work","volume":" ","pages":"176-184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147310519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Hidden Bias: Social Service Professionals' Attitudes toward Physical Disability. 隐性偏见：社会服务专业人员对身体残疾的态度。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag006

Aleksa Owen, Carli Friedman

{"title":"Hidden Bias: Social Service Professionals' Attitudes toward Physical Disability.","authors":"Aleksa Owen, Carli Friedman","doi":"10.1093/sw/swag006","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sw/swag006","url":null,"abstract":"Implicit social cognition, also known as implicit bias, may impact social work practice. Because social workers commonly work with people with disabilities, it is important to understand more about social service professionals' attitudes about physical disability. By using descriptive and inferential statistical tests to quantitatively analyze secondary 2023 data from social service professionals, including social workers and counselors (n = 5,167), this study found that 70.3 percent of respondents reported having no explicit preference for people with or without physical disabilities, 23.7 percent reported preferring people without physical disabilities explicitly, and 6.0 percent reported preferring people with physical disabilities explicitly. For implicit attitudes, most participants had implicit preference for people without physical disabilities (77.8 percent), 13.7 percent had no implicit preference for people with or without physical disabilities, and 8.5 percent implicitly preferred people with physical disabilities. There was a statistically significant relationship between explicit and implicit attitudes, with most people having discordant explicit and implicit attitudes, often with low levels of explicit bias and high levels of implicit bias. This study also found age, gender, disability, having friends/family with disabilities, education, and political orientation correlated with explicit and implicit disability attitudes. The article ends with a discussion of educational interventions to reduce disability-related implicit bias.","PeriodicalId":21875,"journal":{"name":"Social work","volume":" ","pages":"129-138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147321966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emotion as a Skill: A Practical Methodology for Coping with Emotional Risks in Social Work. 情感作为一种技能：社会工作中应对情感风险的实用方法。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag005

Jinhui Lai, Yuan Wang, Caiyun Qi

{"title":"Emotion as a Skill: A Practical Methodology for Coping with Emotional Risks in Social Work.","authors":"Jinhui Lai, Yuan Wang, Caiyun Qi","doi":"10.1093/sw/swag005","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sw/swag005","url":null,"abstract":"Emotional risks are ubiquitous in social work practice and pose significant threats to the health and well-being of practitioners and clients. Emotional skills are recognized as the best practice approach for coping with these risks. However, existing research on emotional skills is almost all from the fields of medicine, education, and psychology, and little attention is paid to it in the social work literature. To address this gap, the study explored Chinese social workers' experiences and perceptions of using emotional skills in practice through semistructured interviews (N = 28). The study suggests that emotion can be used as a practical skill for social workers, who have developed two patterns of practice for emotional skills: \"self-directed\" emotion management and \"other-directed\" emotion management. In the practice of coping with emotional risk in oneself and others, social workers navigated three stages of identification, understanding, and management and employed relevant professional skills (such as body scanning, empathy, and communicating emotions to others). The study results are pragmatic, and the action plan model of emotional skills has significant implications for social work practice and education.","PeriodicalId":21875,"journal":{"name":"Social work","volume":" ","pages":"139-147"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146143403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How Social Workers Can Help Rebuild Syria Post-Transition. 社会工作者如何帮助重建过渡后的叙利亚。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag001

Emily Cury

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The Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) Negotiated Rulemaking and Social Work: How Changes to Federal Loans Undermine the Profession, the Social Safety Net, and Access to Care. 重新构想和改善学生教育（RISE）：协商规则制定和社会工作：联邦贷款的变化如何破坏职业、社会安全网和获得护理的机会。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag015

Lisa de Saxe Zerden, Valerie Arendt, Halaevalu F Ofahengaue Vakalahi, Brianna M Lombardi, Ramona W Denby

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An Antiracist/Antioppressive Framework for Social Work Supervision: The SHARP Framework Applied to Reflective Supervision. 反种族主义/反压迫的社会工作监督框架：夏普框架在反思性监督中的应用。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag004

LaShonda Godwin, Maura Tennor, Allison Howard, Christopher S Beegle, Claire Meringolo, Wendy Shaia

{"title":"An Antiracist/Antioppressive Framework for Social Work Supervision: The SHARP Framework Applied to Reflective Supervision.","authors":"LaShonda Godwin, Maura Tennor, Allison Howard, Christopher S Beegle, Claire Meringolo, Wendy Shaia","doi":"10.1093/sw/swag004","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sw/swag004","url":null,"abstract":"Social work supervisors have the power to shape the next generation of social workers. Thus, it is imperative that social work supervision take an antiracist/antioppressive approach to effect transformational change for the individuals and families with whom we work rather than supporting and maintaining systems and practices that cause harm. This article proposes applying the SHARP (structural oppression, historical context, analysis of role, reciprocity and mutuality, and power) framework to reflective supervision (RS) for this purpose. RS emphasizes important factors for social work supervision such as collaborative meaning making and emotional learning. However, alone, RS does not explicitly address the pervasive issues of racism and oppression that inevitably show up in social work practice. Therefore, authors apply the SHARP framework to RS to promote critical consciousness, mutual accountability, and transformational social work practice. This article introduces the SHARP framework and RS, outlines how each component of SHARP enhances RS, and suggests practical applications.","PeriodicalId":21875,"journal":{"name":"Social work","volume":" ","pages":"148-156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146133165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Role of Supervision in Enhancing Social Workers' Professional Resilience. 监督在提升社会工作者专业弹性中的作用。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag002

Talia Meital Schwartz Tayri, Eti Dahan Heller, Ayelet Gal

{"title":"The Role of Supervision in Enhancing Social Workers' Professional Resilience.","authors":"Talia Meital Schwartz Tayri, Eti Dahan Heller, Ayelet Gal","doi":"10.1093/sw/swag002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sw/swag002","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how supervision enhances social workers' professional resilience, as reflected in their job satisfaction. Drawing on Herzberg's two-factor theory and a professional resilience framework, authors surveyed 2,542 licensed social workers in Israel to elucidate the mechanisms by which high-quality supervision impacts job satisfaction. Path analysis revealed that supervision had significant direct and indirect effects on job satisfaction, accounting for 30 percent of its variance. Specifically, effective supervision was found to positively affect autonomy, enhance a sense of recognition, and improve promotion prospects while also buffering against the adverse effects of perceived stress. These findings underscore the dual role of supervision in providing both emotional support and structured guidance, which are essential for fostering professional growth and mitigating occupational stressors in demanding work environments characterized by austerity measures and high caseloads. Based on these insights, authors advocate for an integrated supervision model in which external supervisors provide emotional support and clinical guidance, while internal supervisors focus on training, protocol adherence, and performance metrics. Such a dual approach promises to enhance social workers' job satisfaction, reduce their burnout, and ultimately improve the quality of their client services, offering valuable implications for both clinical practice and policy development in social work.","PeriodicalId":21875,"journal":{"name":"Social work","volume":" ","pages":"166-175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Psychiatric Diagnosis in Clinical Social Work. 临床社会工作中的精神病学诊断

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Social work Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swag012

Mark L Ruffalo

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