{"title":"The Role of Gender and Marital Status in the Relationship between Caregiving for Older Parents with Alzheimer’s Disease and Depressive Symptoms among Baby Boomer Adult Child Caregivers: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study","authors":"Min-Kyoung Park, J. Cheon, Rachel McPherson","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2226170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2023.2226170","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present study applied a multilevel approach to assess the effects of caregiving for older parents with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on a level of depressive symptoms among adult child caregivers in the Baby Boomer generation. Along with the main effect, this study focused on the interaction effects between AD caregiving, gender and marital status. The present study’s findings revealed that AD caregiving experience is associated with worsening depressive symptoms. However, there are differences between individuals in changes in depressive symptoms. Additionally, the results of the interaction effect showed that in the case of unmarried female caregivers, the level of depressive symptoms associated with AD caregiving worsens faster than their counterparts. These results highlight the need for social policies that address the mental health needs of adult child caregivers who are vulnerable to AD caregiving experience.","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"272 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42112990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protection and Support Services for Sexually Abused Female Children in Ethiopia","authors":"Ashenafi Hagos Baynesagn, Sara Abebe Beyene","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2168834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2023.2168834","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article sought to examine and identify the protection and support services provided for sexually abused female children in a safe home in Ethiopia. This organization works with underprivileged female children at risk or victims of violence and physical and sexual abuse. The qualitative research method was used to show how vulnerable female children were protected and got the support they needed to rehabilitate, recover and rejoin society. Ten sexually abused female children from the safe home were interviewed as the target group, and six key informants also participated in the study. Documents in the safe home were reviewed, and observations were made in the compound. The finding showed that when including the provision of protection and support services for sexually abused female children at the safe home, it helped to address their emotional, social, and spiritual needs with significant service efficiency. Finally, implications for application to service improvement are suggested. Future studies were suggested to examine the experiences of other safe homes in Ethiopia. A quantitative study that evaluates the victims’ psychosocial changes over time in safe homes could also be an area for future studies.","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"114 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42104863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melissa L. Bessaha, Ushana Persaud, Rukhsar Asfe, M. Muñoz-Laboy
{"title":"Community-Based Providers’ Perspectives on Addressing Loneliness and Mental Health Services for Migrant Youth and Emerging Adults","authors":"Melissa L. Bessaha, Ushana Persaud, Rukhsar Asfe, M. Muñoz-Laboy","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2022.2164640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2022.2164640","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Migrant youth and emerging adults (MYEA), ages 15 to 29, who recently migrated to the United States are vulnerable to experiencing chronic loneliness related to discrimination, social isolation, and stigma. Yet, there is limited intervention research on detecting, mitigating, and addressing the effects of chronic loneliness for MYEA. This study examined community-based providers’ perspectives on the effects of social isolation and loneliness on MYEA, and the availability of social and mental health services for this population. This qualitative study utilized focus groups involving 18 providers serving MYEA in the New York metropolitan area. Data analysis involved double-coding by pairs of trained research team members to generate thematic codes. The main recurrent emerging themes were: (1) the importance of social-emotional wellbeing of MYEA; (2) the ways in which the experience of migration itself facilitated social isolation for MYEA; (3) the barriers to supportive services for mitigating chronic loneliness from an organizational perspective; and (4) the tensions between professional mandates and protections for migrant youth clients. Future intervention strategies, from an organizational perspective, must work through interorganizational partnerships building upon community assets to increase social connectedness to support migrant youth’s social-emotional wellbeing through the transition to adulthood.","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"93 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45847587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural Patterns That Facilitate the Trafficking of Children: Narratives from Practitioners Involved in the Rescue and After-Care of Trafficked Children","authors":"C. R. Mbamba, E. B. Amponsah, I. K. Ndemole","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2169805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2023.2169805","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Trafficked children are plagued with a complexity of issues that impede their overall growth and development. As an at-risk population, several factors contribute to the trafficking of children. Although this study recognizes that poverty is a predisposing cause of child trafficking in Ghana, it goes beyond to explore the experiences of practitioners involved in child trafficking interventions on other structural patterns that contribute to child trafficking. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview guide and analyzed thematically following reflexive analysis procedures. Engaging 13 practitioners through qualitative interviews, the study identified the lack of knowledge on what constitutes trafficking on the part of legal guardians, and the involvement of political leaders and elites in the trafficking business as key factors increasing children’s susceptibility to trafficking. This study aids social service workers and those that advocate for human rights to upsurge awareness campaigns, especially in rural areas to educate people on what trafficking is, and the dangers involved. The study also suggests the expedient need for anti-trafficking coalitions in Ghana to advocate for judicial reforms that are not discriminatory to all persons, irrespective of status in government. The study suggests that further research with other agencies working in anti-child trafficking capacities is needed for generalization.","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"126 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49667355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Kranke, Yvonne Mudoh, Debbie Gioia, Emily Solorzano, A. Dobalian
{"title":"Strategies used by inpatient VA social workers to facilitate their emotional well-being and job retention during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"D. Kranke, Yvonne Mudoh, Debbie Gioia, Emily Solorzano, A. Dobalian","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2167899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2023.2167899","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created many unprecedented stressors among inpatient social workers. Stressors can impact provider turnover and quality of care to clients. Recent research suggests strategies that social work providers can engage in to facilitate peer support and address individual concerns during the pandemic. The purpose of this study is to explore the presence of nuanced strategies—emotional connectedness and emotional preparedness—that facilitated inpatient social workers’ well-being who retained employment during the pandemic. Researchers conducted thematic analyses of 12 social workers in two US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers across the US. Sample consisted of (n = 10) females, and (n = 9) who worked in the VA setting for less than two years. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted via Microsoft Teams software since in-person interviews were avoided out of precaution. A priori themes and open coding were applied. Results illustrate social workers endorsed multiple strategies of both emotional connectedness and emotional preparedness. Emerging themes included frustration tolerance and concerns with addressing events that precipitated the pandemic. Physical contact was avoided for fear of infection. Findings demonstrate that engaging in strategies of emotional connectedness and emotional preparedness facilitated social workers’ well-being and job retention. Future research should assess if these strategies are also utilized among outpatient social workers in other settings and roles when delivering crucial social services.","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"105 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43066311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin J Downing, Ellen Benoit, Lauren Coe, Dominique Brown, Jeffrey T Steen
{"title":"Examining Cultural Competency and Sexual Abuse Training Needs Among Service Providers Working with Black and Latino Sexual Minority Men.","authors":"Martin J Downing, Ellen Benoit, Lauren Coe, Dominique Brown, Jeffrey T Steen","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2022.2157524","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01488376.2022.2157524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Black and Latino sexual minority men (SMM) with a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) may be reluctant to disclose such experiences or may appraise them as consensual because of cultural norms. Anticipated stigma, medical mistrust, and concerns that providers lack training in sexuality may complicate their efforts to obtain treatment for long-term health consequences of CSA. It is important to examine the training needs of service providers working with SMM who may disclose sexual abuse. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 35 substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and allied health service providers across the New York City area. Themes included the importance of training in cultural competence, trauma-informed care, and assessment of-and counseling for-CSA. Further education in these areas can enable providers to recognize indicators of abuse in their clients' sexual histories and to more effectively and safely respond to this information. Future studies are encouraged to test a trauma-informed approach to screening for CSA history with Black and Latino SMM who present to SUD treatment and allied health service providers. This research should consider provider perspectives in developing such an approach and will likely involve training and evaluation to ensure adequate preparedness and effective service delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"79-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10723252/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46085520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sabriya Linton, Angie Lisbeth Cruz, Kimberly Arnold
{"title":"Public service providers' perspectives on and responses to the health and social consequences of gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia.","authors":"Sabriya Linton, Angie Lisbeth Cruz, Kimberly Arnold","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2237517","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2237517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Service providers' perspectives on, and responses to the health and social impacts of gentrification have been underexplored. This study's objectives were to assess health and social service providers' perspectives on the causes and impacts of gentrification and their responses to gentrification's impacts. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 service providers sampled using maximum variation and snowball sampling, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Inductive thematic analysis was used. Providers characterized gentrification as increases in community-level social and economic advantage and displacement of Black and Brown people. Neighborhood divestment and speculative development were reported determinants of gentrification. Revitalization and economic growth were reported positive effects of gentrification; negative ramifications included inflated housing costs, residential displacement, and reduced access to health and social services. Providers enacted multiple solutions to mitigate the negative consequences they observed, including educating residents on housing rights and collaborating with other organizations to expand outreach to displaced residents. Service providers are integral to contributing to knowledge on the causes and impacts of gentrification, and absolving problems resulting from gentrification. . Additional research documenting service provider's responses to the impacts of gentrification are needed to inform how future community development strategies are developed to create more benefits than harms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 4","pages":"494-509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487345/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10588046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine E McKinley, Leia Y Saltzman, Katherine P Theall
{"title":"Centering Historical Oppression in Prevention Research with Indigenous Peoples: Differentiating Substance Use, Mental Health, Family, and Community Outcomes.","authors":"Catherine E McKinley, Leia Y Saltzman, Katherine P Theall","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2178596","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2178596","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this pilot study was to understand how historical oppression relates to changes in outcomes for people who participate in the culturally grounded Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) program (i.e., alcohol and drug use, symptoms of anxiety, parenting practices, and communal mastery [CM]). This nonexperimental and longitudinal design used repeated measures regression analysis and generalized estimating equations (GEE) to examine postintervention changes according to reported levels of historical oppression among 24 participants in eight families. How do postintervention changes differ for WHF participants reporting lower and higher levels of historical oppression? Results indicated that participants reporting lower historic oppression reported greater postintervention improvements as indicated by declines in alcohol use, anxiety, and poor parental monitoring. All participants reported increases in CM, regardless of the level of historical oppression. Given historical oppression drives psychosocial conditions, such as substance abuse, mental health, and family challenges, settler colonial oppression must be addressed within social service interventions. Social service providers must work redress historical oppression rather than replicate them. The WHF program holds promise to center structural determinants in social service programs. Future inquiries assessing longitudinal changes in perceptions of historical oppression change and how they are associated with psychosocial outcomes are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 2","pages":"133-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10554570/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41155058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle-Ann Rhoden-Neita, Joseph Strickland, Andie Riffer, Dennise Moreno
{"title":"Community Violence Intervention in African American Communities: Resilience and Coping among Outreach Workers.","authors":"Michelle-Ann Rhoden-Neita, Joseph Strickland, Andie Riffer, Dennise Moreno","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2237542","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2237542","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>African American communities are at risk of negative psychological and physical health problems associated with structural and community violence. Street outreach, a community-based social service violence intervention, can build resilience and coping to buffer against these negative effects. Using qualitative case study, the authors explored the effects of street outreach on the resilience and coping of ten outreach workers in two Southside communities in Chicago. Findings from the thematic analysis indicated individual level factors (such as internal state, perceptions, experiences, and future goals) and system level factors (such as family, work, community, culture, and the broader society) related to the workers' experiences of community violence, street outreach utilization, and resilience. The authors presented these factors using Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems framework. Additionally, the workers' scores on the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10 corroborated the individual level factors but lacked the system factors. The authors concluded that outreach programs could help to build the resilience and coping capacity of workers by implementing workplace policies and procedures that promote mental health, trauma healing, and career advancement. Future studies should include quantitative outcome data to analyze the effects of street outreach programming on workers' resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"530-545"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10691586/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41776808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Association of Independent Living/Transitional Living Program Services to Educational Attainment among Older Foster Youth.","authors":"Lionel Scott, Tony White","doi":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2221285","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01488376.2023.2221285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among a sample of 312 older youth transitioning from foster care in the state of Missouri, this study examined whether participating in independent living (IL) classes and living in an IL or transitional living program (TLP) is associated with completing high school with a diploma or GED and entering college. Most of the youth reported participating in IL classes (80%), with 25% having lived in an IL/TLP between ages 17-19. Results of multinomial logistic regression analysis indicated that having lived in any type of IL/TLP was associated with greater odds of completing high school with a diploma or GED as well as entering college. Participating in IL classes was not associated with high school completion. but completion of IL classes was associated with greater odds of high school graduation with a diploma or GED. These findings lend support for the positive role that living in an IL/TL setting, or the completion of IL classes can play in the academic achievement of older youth transitioning from foster care. Future evaluation research is needed that elucidates specific components of IL services and transitional living programs that successfully address the academic needs of older foster youth and contribute to greater educational attainment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47419,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Service Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"252-261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10584075/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45566748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}