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{"title":"A garden of compassion…In memory of Norman K. Denzin","authors":"Lissette M Piedra","doi":"10.1177/14733250231205542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231205542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135864053","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":"Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement","authors":"Ashlee Reynolds, Steven Roche, Timothy Piatkowski","doi":"10.1177/14733250231202045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231202045","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a study that provides insights into the challenges faced by practitioners in the Northern Territory (NT) who support families in enhancing child safety and well-being, particularly for children at risk of or exposed to domestic or family violence. Despite increased funding for programs aimed at improving children's safety and well-being, reports and substantiations of child maltreatment in the NT continue to escalate. Interviews with twelve participants from various organizations involved in child protection services, family support services, and residential care shed light on the existing gaps in support services, including limited resources for families escaping domestic violence and inadequate assistance for children transitioning from out-of-home care. The findings emphasize the need for early intervention services targeted at families displaying risk factors for child maltreatment. Additionally, community consultation is crucial for the design and implementation of support programs that align with the unique needs of communities, including the necessity of maintaining connections to community, culture, and family to address concerns related to meeting basic needs. The study calls for a comprehensive approach that integrates community input, cultural safety, and tailored support programs to bridge these gaps and facilitate lasting positive changes. By addressing these challenges, there is a potential to mitigate child maltreatment and improve the well-being of children and families in the NT, contributing to the overall welfare of the community.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134911713","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":"“He went from being a monster to a person:” Using narrative analysis to explore how victim-offender dialogue (VOD) participants transform through the VOD process","authors":"Danielle Maude Littman, Miriam Valdovinos, Shannon Sliva","doi":"10.1177/14733250231202050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231202050","url":null,"abstract":"Restorative justice practices such as victim-offender dialogue (VOD) have gained traction in the past few decades as routes towards healing amidst high incarceration and recidivism rates and growing public dissatisfaction with punitive carceral structures. However, little work has sought to understand the nuanced experiences of those who engage in VOD processes, in their own words. In this manuscript, we use narrative analytic methods to explore how a dyad involved in VOD process—the individual who engaged in a crime, and a mother and daughter impacted by this crime—transformed over the course of the process (before, 2 weeks after, and 6 months after the dialogue). We found that, for the participating dyad, engaging in the VOD process cracked open the humanity of the other through the vehicles of religion and forgiveness. Our findings echo—and expand—prior work on “forgiveness” in RJ processes, and suggest the need for future research which explores the nuanced role of religion in VOD. Finally, we advocate for the expansion of facilitated dialogue processes as a process with the potential to catalyze individual and community healing.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135781093","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 meaningfulness of challenging the controlled drinking discourse. An autoethnographic study","authors":"S. Tønnessen","doi":"10.1177/14733250231200499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231200499","url":null,"abstract":"Being able to control ones drinking is an expression of attitudes in most western societies towards the act of drinking, and if losing control, one breaks with these attitudes. This is what I call the “controlled drinking discourse.” Loss of control can be understood as any drinking of alcohol which starts a chain of reaction that is felt as a physical and psychological demand for alcohol. This is a description of how I related to alcohol for years until a complete crisis of meaning in my life in 2014. In recovery research, different kinds of “doings” are well documented as meaningful, while meaningful ways of thinking is less explored. Ways of thinking is influenced by available discourses. Through an autoethnographic approach, I explore ways of thinking with use of an analytical framework focusing on the relationship between discourses, narratives, and small stories. I also discuss theories on non-drinking, alcoholism, and recovery. Doing a discursively shift in thinking by accepting that controlled drinking is not possible, is for me a meaningful and self-sustainable way of thinking, which keeps me sober and away from crisis of meaning in my life.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47909685","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":"Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café","authors":"Samantha Phippard, Kerry Ball, Nicole Paulson","doi":"10.1177/14733250231200484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231200484","url":null,"abstract":"The World Café (TWC) method is now established as a participatory tool used in community development and qualitative research. However, there is a limited critique of TWC as a social work research method, especially with children. This paper discusses TWC as a method for understanding what matters for children on the British Overseas Territory of St Helena Island. As a social worker, the importance of supporting children’s engagement and voice is well known in participation, necessitating careful ethical consideration. Within this project facilitating authentic conversations with children on a remote island required examining assumptions alongside engaging with colonial legacies to bring forward respectful participation. TWC shares several fractures of other participatory approaches evolving from critical pedagogy, which appeared aligned with social work values and ethics. Facilitated shared learning and allowed children to discuss issues that mattered to them, although handing over dialogue to children required commitment to trust and sharing control with young people. Café events revealed the complex positioning of social roles situating lived experiences, whereby children developed their learning of what mattered to them through interactions and a growing understanding of their global position. The method edged dialogue towards transformative conversations, acknowledging the oppression of marginalised peoples, requires reflection and action from children and young people themselves to elevate their positions from within their own knowledge. This supports the potential for further research to understand if creative methods can create more spaces for dialogue, allowing the emergence of more authentic children’s engagement in research which is more socially just.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49348078","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":"Whiteness in our understanding of culture: A critical discourse analysis of the cultural responsivity practice frameworks in child protection","authors":"Caitlin van Noppen, Lobna Yassine, Katarzyna Olcoń","doi":"10.1177/14733250231200501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231200501","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the conceptualization of cultural responsivity in Australian child protection through the critical Whiteness theory lens. Critical discourse analysis was deployed to examine the cultural responsivity concept in two statutory child protection documents from New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Interrogating the underlying assumptions present in the texts, the study demonstrated a narrow categorization of who is deemed ‘culturally diverse’ and a problematic conceptualization of cultural responsivity. We argue that these texts maintain Whiteness as the unexamined cultural norm and can reinforce the ‘Othering’ effect and racial disproportionality in the child protection system. We conclude with a call to practitioners to remain critical of the widely accepted concepts that inform their practice, such as cultural responsivity to avoid reinforcing racial inequality through their practice.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43055541","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":"Honouring the artistry in qualitative social work research","authors":"Kirsty Oehlers","doi":"10.1177/14733250231197715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231197715","url":null,"abstract":"It is with great gratitude that I have accepted an Associate Editor position at Qualitative Social Work thanks to the belief the other Editors have in me, a non-traditional academic and writer. I currently work part-time as a teaching focussed academic at Curtin University in the isolated city of Perth,Western Australia. The rest of my time I run a counselling centre where I work in private practice as a child and family therapist, specialising in Family Court referred families. As a joyful contrast, I also engage in gender diversity counselling with children, young people, and their families. My journey into social work research has been a convoluted one, as I previously sawmyself as a creative writer first, however once I realised that creativity could be encapsulated within qualitative research, I was hooked! If I think back to the pathway to my love affair with words, it probably began in a much more simplistic form. That of the note thrown across the room in class where short, coded sentiments were secretly passed backwards in forwards in a type of exchange, not that dissimilar to a semi-structured interview, where a topic (usually a love interest) was examined and explored, and thoughts, feelings, and beliefs were sought and offered. I have kept somany of those notes, and perhaps one day I’ll consider coding and analysing them to consider how adolescent identities have shifted (or not). This is only one of many ideas that stem from awell of late-night thoughts! After all, qualitative research asks or even demands, that we innovate and expand the ‘known’ way of doing research. My first attempt at research was in my first year of my social work degree, where we had to choose a specific cohort of people to conduct an ethnography with. My nineteen-year-old self chose ‘boys who lived at boarding school’ as the subjects for my ethnography. I have no idea how that passed any form of ethics, but in all honesty, I found it fascinating. Conducting the interview in situ was eye-opening, as I sat with male students and asked them to open up about their boarding school experiences. To my amazement, they divulged and shared secrets, joys, pain, heartache, and some very entrenched patriarchal views. That was the beginning of my desire to challenge, expose, reveal, or unfurl ideas that may otherwise remain hidden. It felt as though interviewing those boys allowed them to see alternatives to","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"813 - 818"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46915900","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":"In this issue …","authors":"L. Morriss","doi":"10.1177/14733250231197714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231197714","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to this issue of Qualitative Social Work. We are very honoured to have two new Editorial Board members. You will have read the brilliant Editorial by Kirsty Oehlers which reflects the creativity and innovation she brings to her Associate Editor role. Having published in our New Voices section, Kirsty will be taking the lead and as you can see, very much welcomes your submissions. We are also excited to have a new European Review Essay Editor, Dr Caroline Leah. Caroline will be introducing herself and her vision for the Review Essay section in the next European-led issue. We have 12 articles in this issue, on topics including mental health, child protection, and dis/abilities, using a range of methodological approaches. We begin with an article by Talin Gharibian and David McCarty-Caplan who write about their exploratory study which examined the intersections of Middle Eastern and North African American cultural identity, and attitudes towards mental health and substance use in the United States. The authors note that ‘the unique experiences of MENA communities are rendered nearly invisible within much of the extant scientific literature on public health and substance abuse within the U.S., despite growing recognition that research about these communities remains limited’. Based on their interviews with 15 people, the authors identified five primary themes: lack of understanding, shame and stigma, denial, collective identity, and resistance. The article concludes with four important recommendations for social workers. The following article is by Louise Morley and Frances Crawford who are both based in Australia. Their article reflects on the humanistic conceptualisation of Martin Buber’s I/thou notion of personhood. I was interested to read how their engagement with Buber’s work was sparked by the reflections of two social work interviewees in a larger study. It reminded me of Les Back’s (2019, np.) argument that ‘fostering a different kind of attentiveness to the world is a resource in the service of hope’. The authors, attentive to the social workers discussion of personhood, have used this as a basis for their own reflections. Wemove to an article by Rahel More, based on their doctoral research, which critically explores the meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria. The author collected data from Austrian virtual internet discussion groups (newsgroups), interviews with six social work","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"819 - 822"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41694452","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":"Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality","authors":"Felicity Morrow, M. Kettle","doi":"10.1177/14733250231196430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231196430","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes an unexpected methodological shift made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic during doctoral research, and exemplifies reflexivity in action whilst negotiating my complex positionality as both a researcher and a social worker. The first UK national lockdown was announced after I had conducted 3 months of ethnographic data collection in a local authority adult social work team, thus halting my research. As society shut down, face-to-face research was paused overnight, however, the local authority continued to provide essential services and support. Forging a path forward, I successfully gained a job practising as a social worker within the team and completed a supplementary ethics application to include auto-ethnographic data which would complement the existing ethnography. Although practicing reflexivity and analysing positionality are established and encouraged parts of ethnographic research, how a researcher actively conducts them varies and usually remains unseen. Methodologies are often presented in a sanitised and polished manner, depriving the reader of the messy yet informative reality of research. This article draws upon fieldnotes to practically illustrate and bring this reflexivity on positionality to the fore. As I move from participant-observer to complete-participant, the findings zoom in on my experience of navigating positionality, revealing a micro picture of the details and subtleties of this process. This unexpected research journey enhanced my level of intimacy with the phenomenon, the research site, and the participants. Overall, this example of enacting reflexivity helps to bridge the gap between how positionality is theorised and how it actively practiced. Finally, this article is a call for more open, deeper, and continual reflexivity on our positionality as researchers.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47970204","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":"Community-based participatory action research with LGBTQIA+ youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections from a collaborative autoethnography","authors":"G. Iacono, Leah Holle, Emily K. Loveland, Christina Borel, Evan Horton, Hannah Olson, Shelley L. Craig, Breana Bietsch","doi":"10.1177/14733250231194783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231194783","url":null,"abstract":"We use a collaborative autoethnography (CAE) methodology to explore how our research team conducted community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and other sexually and gender diverse youth (LGBTQIA+) youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, which required us to modify our original research approach. This paper describes the authors’ processes and provides critical reflections on continuing to use CBPAR during the pandemic with LGBTQIA+ youth to develop and evaluate a mental health intervention (i.e., Tuned In!) that aims to address their mental health needs. Our CAE revealed three main themes: 1) Enhancing Accessibility; 2) Centering the Voices of LGBTQIA+ Youth; 3) Prioritizing Relationships and Community Building, and an over-arching theme of Trust that facilitated our efforts. Taken together, our findings illuminate practical approaches to engage LGBTQIA+ youth through research despite myriad obstacles brought on by the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45328644","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}