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{"title":"Navigating Two Worlds: Understanding the Complexities and Health Implications of Black Fatherhood in Toronto","authors":"Davida Grant","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1794497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1794497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article contends that individual and systemic racist notions against Black fathers contribute to Black fathers’ feelings of ineptitude, invisibility and dejection. This article challenges the racial trope that Black fatherhood mainly encompasses absenteeism, intimidating and abusive behavior. The article argues that Black fatherhood is uniquely complex due to Black fathers being burdened with the mental and physical health detriments as a result of navigating state sanctioned violence and systemically racist notions against both them and their children, while simultaneously trying to prevent their consequential stress and hypervigilance from being displaced onto their children. This paper also posits that not addressing these issues increases the risk of these fathers’ mental and physical health being compromised and impairs their ability to parent safely and adequately protect their children. This article serves to provide human service practitioners tangible examples of this social and public health issue from the field of child welfare in addition to practical ways to ameliorate the relationship between human service workers and Black fathers. I conclude with recommendations on how to address the health inequity experienced by Black fathers stemming from racial health and social injustices.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1794497","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46750425","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":"‘Professional Inefficacy is the Exact Opposite of the Passionate Social Worker’: Discursive Analysis of Neoliberalism within the Writing on Self-care in Social Work","authors":"H. Stuart","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1790715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1790715","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social work experiences notable rates of burnout and subsequent attrition. In the social work academic and practice-based literature, self-care strategies are proposed as a means of mitigating the effects of workplace stress and feelings of emotional exhaustion. However, the neoliberal self-care discourse intended to alleviate feelings of distress may in fact be exacerbating professional burnout. Yet discourse analysis allows for a critical examination of neoliberalism’s discourse of social worker self-care.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1790715","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41688354","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":"The Epidemic of Madness: Killing the Community to Save It","authors":"David Wagner","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1787767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1787767","url":null,"abstract":"Note as of August 1, 2020, the number of cases and deaths from the Cornoavirus, despite the so-called “surge” and daily headlines scaring people has remained well below many prior flu epidemics suc...","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1787767","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44993854","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":"Listen to Our Stories and Learn from Us: How Helping Professionals Can Support Institutional Survivors","authors":"Madeline Burghardt, J. Clayton, H. Dougall, C. Ford","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1784078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1784078","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We are three institutional survivors who lived at one of Ontario's large, government-run institutions for people labeled with an intellectual disability. In 2018 we organized and led three workshops in Toronto, Ontario, to teach helping professionals how they can best support survivors. These workshops were called Listen to My Story. In this paper, we have written down our ideas about what people need to do to support people who lived in institutions. The paper starts with a preface that was written by our supporting author, followed by our ideas on things like the importance of telling our story, power and control, healing, and relationships.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1784078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47279898","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":"Deep Transformation toward Decoloniality in Social Work: Themes for Change in a Social Work Higher Education Program","authors":"Linda Harms Smith, Shahana Rasool","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1762295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1762295","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article describes thematic outcomes of a process of engagement around deep transformation toward Decoloniality in a university social work education program. Given the gravity of working toward Decoloniality for social work education in South Africa, it was critical to theorize about this process. Current South African realities evidence ongoing structures of Coloniality and Apartheid which permeate all spheres, not least the domains of knowledge, power, and relationships in higher education. However, a narrow interpretation of Decoloniality relating only to ‘curriculum’ or ‘indigeneity’ as potential for change, is problematic. Ignoring material realities of ongoing Coloniality perpetuates the very oppressive structures it seeks to overcome and so depth transformation which engages with all levels of a social work education program is required. This article engages with thematic areas that emerged and which shaped work toward Decoloniality, among social work educators at one higher education department. These included domains for engagement with Decoloniality (theorists; pedagogy; educators; learners; content; research and discourse; context) and principles for such work (Afrika as the center; attention to power dynamics; race, class, and gender; acknowledgment of structural issues; critical conscientization and voice; Ubuntu). These thematic areas now form the basis of the new social work program at the University.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1762295","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41708434","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":"Cultural Complexity Thinking by Social Workers in Their Address of Sustainable Development Goals in a Culturally Diverse South Africa","authors":"Z. Zimba","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1732270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1732270","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The global agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides social workers an opportunity to redefine their contributions pertaining to socioeconomic development, human rights and the environment. This is specifically so for social workers in South Africa, whose contributions have been narrowed. Therefore, this paper identifies potential contributions by social workers in relation to the SDGs using cultural complexity thinking in a diverse country. The paper also points out difficulties faced by social workers on their contribution in the SDGs in a culturally diverse South Africa. The paper concludes that social workers must stand alongside their service users as partners in contributing to justice and equality by achieving the SDGs.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1732270","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45990276","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":"Diasporic Dreamer","authors":"Lulama Moyo Hawkes","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1759764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1759764","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1759764","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47344857","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":"Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local & Global Perspectives in Social Work","authors":"Otrude Nontobeko Moyo, T. Nomngcoyiya","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1760416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1760416","url":null,"abstract":"This “Southern African” region special issue is an attempt by guest editors to connect localglobal perspectives in social work. The word “encouraging” is used strategically to connect two ideas: 1) nurture the voice of those who are writing Southern African and have been historically been marginalized 2) provide a forum for mutual exchange of ideas that connect local-global perspectives in social work as a quest to for global justice. The guest editors of this special issue on “Southern Africa” are Prof. Otrude N. Moyo (University of Michigan – Flint, USA) and Dr. Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya (University of Fort Hare, South Africa). While the call was extended to the Southern African region, our presumed local context, manuscripts received came mainly from South Africa, due to the fact that the call for paper was widely shared with scholars and members from the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). Further, this special issue is realized as part of the scholarly partnership between Prof. Moyo and Dr. Nomngcoyiya extended through the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program – IIE, whose partnership focus was South Africa. Therefore, as guest editors we are encouraged by the responses and desire of social work scholars to engage critical dialogs about global issues experienced within local contexts. We realize that the African continent is vast, our efforts are open to all but, given our own positionalities, this special issue represent a small part of the continent. The African continent continues to be disproportionately impacted in global injustices, it is for this reason that the Journal of Progressive Human Services (JPHS) in the Special Issue on Southern Africa continues to provide a platform for scholars located in the global south to continue to contribute and share their visions on the theme “Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local and Global Perspectives in Social Work”. This is our second special issue and we are encouraged by JPHS’s scope of covering professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective and by stimulating ideas and debates about global social issues experienced locally, serves as a platform to develop analytical tools needed for building a caring and just society. The reader must know that our scholarship presented here is emerging, in attempts to situate the historical experiences of global political economic context for example, the article titled: Quzzing the “social” in social work by Mbazima S. Mathebane engages the “social” in social work in Africa as a system of colonial social control, highlighting the continued experience of coloniality today. Through the critical interrogation of the “social”, the article demonstrates how western social work as a colonial instrument in the form of a helping profession institutionalized the subjection of Africans through the systematic destruction of indigenous ways of solving problems and their replacement with alien an","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1760416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47096390","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":"To Be a Crowned Crane","authors":"Lulama Moyo Hawkes","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1759756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1759756","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1759756","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45915250","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":"Quizzing the ‘Social’ in Social Work: Social Work in Africa as a System of Colonial Social Control","authors":"M. S. Mathebane","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2020.1732273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1732273","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social work is generally presumed as an embodiment of social justice and human dignity as well as a solution to the many social ills unraveling modern societies. However, a dialectical-historical investigation of forces and events that shaped social work in Africa reveals how the profession was produced within the dynamics of the modern capitalist system as a direct response to social challenges of the modern era with a prime object of maintaining social order and sustaining coloniality. Through critical interrogation of the question of the social, the article demonstrates how western social work as a colonial instrument in the form of a helping profession institutionalized the subjection of Africans through the systematic destruction of indigenous ways of solving problems and their replacement with alien and vaunted Euro-North American systems of psychosocial care. The article uncovers the underlying ethical indictment of western social work linked to its historic failure to embody and address the inherent and prevailing challenges of social and cognitive justice within itself. Thus, the article reaffirms the need to ‘work and research back’ to the African roots as a way of stemming the tide and addressing the coloniality embedded in social work and the devastating effects of coloniality on the African social fabric and its inherent systems of psychosocial support.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2020.1732273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42986716","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}