{"title":"Use of smartphone technology in foster care to build relational competence: voices of caregivers and implications for prudent parenting","authors":"K. Alford, Ramona W. Denby, Efren Gomez","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2018.1558428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2018.1558428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Increasingly, child welfare programs are encouraged to consider how technology can help meet the goals of child protection, permanency, and well-being. Qualitative inquiry was used in this study to explore caregivers’ (biological parents, foster parents, kinship caregivers) perceptions of the use of smartphones to facilitate relational competence (an indicator of well-being) in foster youth. The implementation study (process and satisfaction evaluations) yielded mixed results concerning the viability of using smartphone technology to facilitate healthy, positive connections with appropriate adults. Although foster youth were highly satisfied with how this technology enabled them to forge relationships and establish connections, caregivers reported that the phone itself and the agency’s rules and restrictions usurped their parental authority and responsibility. Foster youth reported gains with respect to relationship building with others, but caregivers felt the acquisition of smartphones, as a method of intervention, compromised their relationship with the youth and the youths’ relationship with others. Caregivers also felt relations between foster youth and their workers were not necessarily enhanced via smartphone usage. Safeguards and recommendations concerning the use of smartphone technology, especially pertaining to prudent parenting, are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"209 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2018.1558428","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41626508","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}
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, M. Denov, Alusine Bah, Léontine Uwababyeyi, J. Kagame
{"title":"Rethinking the meaning of “family” for war-affected young people: implications for social work education","authors":"Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, M. Denov, Alusine Bah, Léontine Uwababyeyi, J. Kagame","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2019.1546947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546947","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines how the experiences and realities of young people affected by war challenge the “typical” portrayal of family in social work education. Using aspects of duoethnography as a method of inquiry, the authors discuss war-affected social work students’ experience of elements of their curriculum and training. The discomforts shared point to important tensions and discords with prevailing traditional social work teaching concepts and approaches. War-affected young people feel that their realities often do not correspond to Western theories of human and child development and resettlement expectations. In making social work education more relevant and useful, there is a need to rethink the portrayal of family as well as teaching strategies. As part of this process, an increased sensitivity among social work educators is paramount, not only to the cultural, religious, geopolitically and ethnically diverse realities of children and families, but also to engaging young people directly in the learning process.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"46 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546947","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45010565","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}
C. Mitchell, Warren Linds, M. Denov, M. D’Amico, B. Cleary
{"title":"Beginning at the beginning in social work education: a case for incorporating arts-based approaches to working with war-affected children and their families","authors":"C. Mitchell, Warren Linds, M. Denov, M. D’Amico, B. Cleary","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2019.1546949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546949","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building on the growing body of work that recognizes the value of participatory arts-based methods such as drawing, collage, Photovoice, and drama in work with war-affected children and young people and their families, this article asks the question, “How can the findings from practice based interventions become central to the work of preparing social workers who are at the beginning of their professional programs?” As the article highlights, there has been only limited attention in the literature on what these methods might mean for social work education, particularly in relation to family practice and especially in working with war-affected children. What could arts-based family practice with this population look like? The article maps out a framework that draws together two bodies of literature, the literature on the arts in social work education, and literature on the arts and war-affected children and their families. Central to this framework is a set of five pedagogical practices that align well with arts-based methodologies: reflexivity, situating one’s self, observation, ethical practice, and taking action. The article concludes that though arts-based methods as central to the social work curricula are not a panacea, “learning by doing” is a promising practice for those starting out in the profession.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"63 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546949","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47962333","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 essential role of the father: fostering a father-inclusive practice approach with immigrant and refugee families","authors":"S. Bond","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2019.1546965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546965","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies have consistently found that fathers continue to be excluded from mainstream clinical social work practice when clinicians do not actively encourage their participation either because of lack of knowledge of how to engage fathers or biases against considering father involvement important. This holds especially true of immigrant and refugee fathers. With the majority of research studies focused on women and their children, a tremendous gap exists for male refugees and immigrants. Immigrant males and fathers in particular tend to be either forgotten or excluded from mainstream research. A significant gender bias exists in refugee research with less attention paid to boys, men, and fathers. This article provides an overview of the essential role of fathers in child development, the barriers that immigrant fathers face, their resilience through the immigration process, and how clinicians can establish a father-inclusive practice. A review will be presented on (1) the essential role of fathers in child development, (2) demographics of immigrant fathers, (3) the shifting of paternal roles and family structures, (4) social stressors and barriers for immigrant fathers, (5) the resilience of immigrant fathers, (6) barriers for fathers in clinical practice, (7) guidelines for father-inclusive practice, using a culturally informed socioecological family systems model.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"101 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546965","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41981837","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":"Intergenerational resilience in families affected by war, displacement, and migration: “It runs in the family”","authors":"M. Denov, Maya Fennig, M. Rabiau, M. Shevell","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2019.1546810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546810","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues for an expansion of the focus on resilience as a characteristic of the individual to one of resilience as a familial and intergenerational experience. Drawing upon a case study of a young person’s tumultuous journey from war to refuge, the authors explore the impact, challenges, and opportunities inherent within the context of war-induced flight, migration, and resettlement, with special attention to individual, family and intergenerational resilience. The authors demonstrate that in the face of adversity and loss, war-affected families do not only run from war, but are also able to repair, grow, and even pass down their adaptive capacities from the “recovery repertoire” to the next generation. Given the capacity for intergenerational resilience, it is the authors’ contention that interventions and practices aimed to support the psychosocial well-being of war-affected children must therefore consider the prominence of not only daily stressors, but also protective factors at each level of youth’s socioecological system to bolster resilience. Additionally, we argue that social work practice and interventions must broaden service options to include attention to caregiver mental health along with the mental health of the war-affected child to capture the complexities of the intergenerational transmission of both trauma and resilience.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"17 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546810","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44222526","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}
Emily K Hamovitch, Mary C Acri, Lindsay A Bornheimer
{"title":"An analysis of the relationship between parenting self-efficacy, the quality of parenting, and parental and child emotional health.","authors":"Emily K Hamovitch, Mary C Acri, Lindsay A Bornheimer","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2019.1635939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1635939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The relationship between parenting self-efficacy, the quality of parenting, and parental and child emotional health has been conducted with Caucasian families and young children. The purpose of this study was to examine these relationships in ethnically diverse and impoverished families with children who have behavior problems. We examined the relationships between parenting self-efficacy, parenting practices, child externalizing problems, and caregiver depression. Participants included 213 caregivers of children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), who rated their parenting self-efficacy and completed questionnaires on parenting practices (APQ and FAD); child externalizing behaviors (Iowa Connors Inattention and ODD subscales); and caregiver depression (CESD). Data were examined using Chi-Square tests, a Linear Regression, and a One-Way ANOVA. Results demonstrate parenting self-efficacy was positively associated with positive parenting and inversely associated with inconsistent discipline. Among parents who perceived themselves as being a “better than average parent,” there was a greater percentage of youth who met cutoff for inattention problems as compared to youth who did not meet this cutoff. Lastly, depression scores were lowest for caregivers identifying as below average parents. This study underscores the need for involving parents and enhancing parenting self-efficacy in interventions targeting Disruptive Behavior Disorders.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 4-5","pages":"337-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2019.1635939","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38325736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Associated with the Decision-Making Process in Kinship Diversion","authors":"Qi Wu, Susan M. Snyder","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2018.1542650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2018.1542650","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the past two decades, child welfare professionals have given kinship care priority as the preferred least restrictive, most family-like placement option when a child has to be removed from his or her family. However, the available literature lacks investigation into what factors drive the decision to use kinship care, specifically an understanding of why some children are diverted from child welfare system (CWS) into unpaid kinship arrangements while other children enter the traditional foster care system. This study uses baseline (Wave 1) data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being II (NSCAW II), which provides information about children and caregivers in different types of kinship care. The data were analyzed using multinomial logistic regression based on the multiple imputed data files using NSCAW II weights. Results show important predictors of a child being diverted into private kinship care included the child’s age, caseworker’s educational background, and caseworker’s assessment of harm level. Important predictors of a child being diverted into voluntary kinship care included the maltreatment type, family structure, caseworker’s educational background, and caseworker’s assessment of risk level. Differentiating between the types of kinship diversion has important implications for practice and policy. Examining a variety of factors can help child welfare scholars develop a comprehensive understanding of the decision-making processes used in selecting kinship diversion for out-of-home placements.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"161 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2018.1542650","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60147281","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":"Social work practice with war-affected children and families: the importance of family, culture, arts, and participatory approaches","authors":"M. Denov, Meaghan C. Shevell","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2019.1546809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546809","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT War and armed conflict not only gravely impact individual children, but the entire family system, with the impacts of war further compounded by the complexities of displacement, flight, migration, and resettlement to new contexts. These processes can cause destabilizing ruptures in the social fabric, networks, and services that support and protect children and families, ultimately hindering their potential protective capacities and potentially contributing to negative long-term intergenerational effects. The family plays a vital role in shaping children‘s mental health and well-being in conflict and post conflict settings, and thus the family needs to be accorded greater consideration in designing psychosocial support services for war-affected populations. With growing numbers of war-affected refugees resettling in Canada and the U.S., it is critical that psychosocial programs and interventions address their unique needs, as individuals, families, and communities. Moreover, there is a greater need for culturally responsive practice with war-affected refugee children and families that accounts for the diversity and heterogeneity of their needs and lived experiences. In this Special Issue entitled: “Children of War and their Families: Perspectives on Social Work Practice & Education”, we suggest that factors such as fostering a family approach, allotting careful attention to context and culture, alongside an emphasis on linking the arts and participation with social work practice, can be key social work contributions to research, education, and practice with this important and often overlooked population.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546809","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42981584","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":"Culture, migration, and identity formation in adolescent refugees: a family perspective","authors":"M. Rabiau","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2019.1546950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546950","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Looking through a cultural lens at the family system level, expressions of distress in adolescent refugees are explored using the constructs of postmigration cultural identity formation and cultural idioms of distress. Asylum-seeking minors have heightened risk of developing mental health problems. Family is an important protective factor, and a sustained lack of parental figures further increases these young peoples’ vulnerability to mental health problems. The family plays a significant role as an anchor to cultural identity. Case studies from a cultural consultation service in a clinical psychiatry department were used to illustrate two potential trajectories regarding identity formation and the impact on expressions of distress and family functioning. Case analysis also emphasized the clinical relevance of exploring meaning making and cultural idioms of distress in the face of trauma and loss at the individual and the family level. Clinical implications focus on a family and a cultural lens to emphasize the importance of contextualizing expressions of distress in adolescents who had to flee from war-affected areas.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"100 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2019.1546950","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60146875","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":"Conceptualization of power sharing between partners in couple relationships: a scale development study in Turkey","authors":"Fatma Arıcı Şahi̇n, İbrahim Keklik","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2018.1542649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2018.1542649","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, the Power Sharing in Couple Relationships Scale (PSCRS) was developed to measure the distribution of power as experienced by individuals in heterosexual marriages or cohabiting relationships. Three sets of participants partook in the study: 27 individuals were in the pilot group; 400 individuals (female = 200, male = 200) were in the exploratory factor analysis group and 242 persons (female = 139, male = 103) were in the confirmatory factor analysis group. Factor analyses resulted in a structure consisting of 30 items and five dimensions, namely, friendship, power over, reactivity to relational stress, openness to influence, and making a relational claim. Results showed evidence for satisfactory psychometric properties.","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"253 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10522158.2018.1542649","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42541345","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}