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Toward a creative and imaginative research approach: Collage as a method of inquiry in social work 走向富有创造力和想象力的研究方法：拼贴画作为社会工作的一种调查方法

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268734

Mostafa Hosseini

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How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices 对话如何增强能力和参与：为批准的心理健康专业人员交流实践提供证据

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268731

Jill Hemmington

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The role of phone mediation: Social workers’ and vulnerable clients’ role performances in mediated welfare encounters 电话调解的作用：社会工作者和弱势服务对象在调解式福利接触中的角色表现

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268765

Alexandrina Schmidt

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An Indigenous scholar’s journey towards decolonizing social work 土著学者的社会工作非殖民化之旅

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268730

Autumn Asher BlackDeer

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‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity 我喜欢检查自己"：基于优势的戒毒研究中对照组的经验，对自我监控和测量反应的影响

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241262347

Amy R Krentzman, Julie C Gass

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Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people 通过 "做 "与 "不做 "发出声音：在涉及老年聋盲人的解释现象学分析研究中与触觉手语翻译合作

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241250140

Peter Simcock, Jill Manthorpe, Anthea Tinker

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Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth 身体图谱是与街头流浪青年就饮食斗争和食物不安全问题进行谈判的场所

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241245717

Christina E. Hyland, Eunjung Lee

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Women and homelessness 妇女与无家可归

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Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241242223

Lisa Morriss

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Social work using interpretative phenomenological analysis: A methodological approach for practice and research 运用解释现象学分析开展社会工作：实践与研究的方法论

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Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1177/14733250241238416

Ellen Paladini-Stone

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Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color 重新思考合并症：有色人种少女的综合症风险、饮食失调和自杀行为案例研究

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Qualitative Social Work Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1177/14733250231225170

Lauren E. Gulbas, ClaraGrace Pavelka, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Luis H. Zayas

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