{"title":"Beyond the Auditable: Pathology, Professional Vision, and the Limits of Oversight for Regulating Psychotropic Drugs in Foster Care","authors":"Katherine Gibson","doi":"10.1086/724689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724689","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws from an 18-month ethnographic study of professional practices with psychotropic drugs in Illinois to demonstrate how psychotropic drugs are framed in policy and regulated in practice. I first show that disordered youth—rather than dysfunctional institutions—have been centered as the object of policy intervention. I then illustrate that whereas centering the disordered child as an object of intervention in public discourse requires one set of discursive maneuvers, another set of practices—namely, audits—is required to center the child as an object of knowledge around which professionals are organized. As auditors elicit treatment rationales in which drugs treat neurochemical disorder, prescribers and other professionals learn to represent youth in ways that pathologize them. Although audits can play an important role in the regulation of psychotropic drugs in foster care, child welfare systems must address the limits of audits, as well as their unintended effects.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"320 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48108648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System: The Role of Social Network Quality","authors":"Abigail Williams-Butler, Reiko K. Boyd, K. Slack","doi":"10.1086/724564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724564","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), we find that supportive social networks are associated with higher parental resilience, better parental emotional competence, and lower levels of parental distress. Social networks high in negativity had more negative parenting outcomes, but this relationship was moderated by the positive aspects of social networks. Social network positivity was more important than social network negativity in predicting positive outcomes. Findings may inform prevention strategies utilizing social networks and have critical implications for culturally sensitive practices and programs designed to amplify the strengths of Black mothers.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"231 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41856528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead","authors":"J. Mathias, Amy Krings, Samantha Teixeira","doi":"10.1086/724522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724522","url":null,"abstract":"Social work has traditionally been concerned with the welfare of humans, a mission that some scholars want to expand to include other beings. How can concern for nonhumans and the natural environment best be integrated with the profession’s commitment to social justice? Although commentators have made several proposals, few have critically examined the dilemmas or trade-offs that may await a more expansive social work. Examining such challenges in environmental movements past and present, we identify three logics by which some varieties of environmentalism have perpetuated inequity among humans. We then explore how diverse movements for environmental justice—which make equity among humans central to environmental activism—offer a path forward. Environmental justice foregrounds dilemmas raised by integrating concern for humans and nonhumans, and it offers principles for addressing these dilemmas that are rooted in a living tradition of practice. This makes environmental justice the best paradigm for environmental social work.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"569 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47047436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Limits of Human Rights Discourse within Sovereign Territory: Examining US Refugee Policy Formation","authors":"Odessa Gonzalez Benson","doi":"10.1086/723201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723201","url":null,"abstract":"Human rights denote universality, moral normativity, and the international community. Citizenship rights, meanwhile, denote particularity, collective identity, and sovereign territory. Yet some argue that human rights are realized only through the nation-state. Refugee resettlement allows introspection into the tensions between the human and the citizen, as the “refugee” embodies the transition from internationally governed refugee camps to national political communities. This study examines rights discourse surrounding the US Refugee Act as a crucial moment of policy formation and how policy discourse made sense of human rights approaching US borders. I argue that human rights discourse in US policy brings refugees to the door but abandons them as soon as they enter the sovereign space. There, US policy discourse materializes not citizenship rights but neoliberal citizenship. Refugee resettlement reveals the limits of human rights and the contradictory ways that the market and the state encroach on the neoliberal constitution of citizenship.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"398 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43591270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize","authors":"Jennifer Mosley","doi":"10.1086/724758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724758","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135026480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis","authors":"M. A. Cascio","doi":"10.1086/723523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48725160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State","authors":"Jeremy R. Levine","doi":"10.1086/723265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49122298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It’s Like Night and Day”: How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid","authors":"C. Barnes, Jamila Michener, E. Rains","doi":"10.1086/723365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723365","url":null,"abstract":"Research characterizes public assistance programs as stigmatizing and stressful (e.g., psychological costs) but obscures differences across programs or the features of policy design that contribute to varied bureaucratic encounters. Using 83 interviews with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Medicaid beneficiaries, and 60 interviews with staff from those programs, we examine how people differentiate their experiences across programs. We find that WIC staff members describe the program as facilitating, rather than constraining, personal interactions with clients. In contrast, SNAP and Medicaid workers report pressure to process clients expeditiously and accurately, leading several caseworkers to express frustration and suspicion of the information provided by recipients. WIC participants in all three programs described positive, supportive interactions with WIC staff and viewed the program as a source of social support. In contrast, participants reported stigmatizing encounters with SNAP and Medicaid staff and inaccessible caseworkers.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"3 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43608395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}