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{"title":"Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding","authors":"R. Oram, A. Young, Patricia Cartney","doi":"10.1177/14733250231185962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231185962","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns parenting assessments which are integral to child-safeguarding professional processes in England, and which involve Deaf parents whose primary language is British Sign Language (BSL). In an under-researched area of social work, the research aim was to contribute to the existing literature by eliciting the practice wisdom of specialist professionals. Specifically, it draws upon their linguistic and cultural knowledge of the Deaf community when they are involved in parenting assessments with Deaf parents who are subject to safeguarding concerns. Data about these professionals’ actual experiences of navigating Deaf cultural-competency in contemporary child protection practices were collected through seven video-recorded, semi-structured interviews conducted in BSL. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, data were analysed in their source language (BSL). This article focusses on one key theme, termed ‘Professional Recognition’, which incorporates a) the identification of specialist roles and b) the impact of referral processes and protocols on assessment outcomes. The findings highlight participants’ perspectives on the benefits and disadvantages of their specialist role in this context. Although their brokerage skills, cultural competence, linguistic fluency and specialist knowledge of the Deaf community are highly regarded and valued by some colleagues, there is insufficient recognition of their existence by the majority. Secondly, participants are concerned by the inefficiency and inconsistency of the referral processes and protocols which they consider have adverse effects on assessment outcomes, and consequently the parents involved.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49069352","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":"‘Through no fault of their own’: Social work students’ use of language to construct ‘service user’ identities","authors":"E. Skoura-Kirk","doi":"10.1177/14733250221088208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250221088208","url":null,"abstract":"The way social workers discursively construct ‘service user’ identities in everyday interactions (interviews, conversations and text) can affect quality of relationships and practice outcomes. Even though research has focused on the construction of ‘service user’ identities by professionals and service users, little has been done to explore such discursive formulations by pre-qualifying social work students. This is especially relevant, given the strengthening of the ‘expert by experience’ identity in social work education. This paper seeks to make visible mechanisms of student identity constructions as to ‘who a service user is’, and implications for practice through the examination of student written work pre- and post- a module focussing on lived experience. A critical discursive psychology approach was followed, recognising the interplay between localised professional encounters and wider contexts of power relations. The findings show a shift in the ‘service user’ identities employed by the students mainly based on individualistic discourses and deserving/undeserving themes (substance misuse the result of vulnerability, rather than selfishness, domestic abuse narratives denoting resilience rather than victimhood). The effect to practice showed shifts between the reflective, expert, person-centred and critical/radical practitioner, mainly stressing the need for professional growth at an individual level, with less emphasis on addressing social inequality. The paper argues that predominantly individualistic discourses can perpetuate de-politicised or oppressive categorisations of ‘service users’ and calls for further critical engagement with the discursive micro-practises enacted and developed in the social work classroom, if we are to unveil and challenge narrow, or stigmatising categorisations early on.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"700 - 719"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44982477","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":"Nowhere to turn: A Black feminist autoethnography of interpersonal violence","authors":"So’Phelia Morrow","doi":"10.1177/14733250231186755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231186755","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2020, rapper Megan Thee Stallion was shot by her then boyfriend Tory Lanez, a fellow rapper. The incident brought to the surface (again) a long, ongoing conversation about the experiences of Black women survivors of intimate partner violence, much like other high-profile cases (e.g., Tina Turner) have done before. Specifically, these cases show how Black men particularly can uphold patriarchal violence in intimate or romantic contexts. Moreover, these cases show the tensions that can arise when survivors seek help from law enforcement. For example, the idea of racial loyalty and not calling the police on a Black man and how this affects the options available to Black women. In other words, Black women often have nowhere to turn for help when they experience violence. In this article, I employ Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to analyze a personal instance of road rage where I was attacked, to explore how Black women survivors make meaning of their experiences, the thought process behind their decision to involve the police, how Black men uphold patriarchal violence in non-intimate contexts, and how Black women resist or refuse to accept the violence. This analysis reveals the raced and gendered components underlying the private/public nature of interpersonal violence experienced by Black women and the relationship between intimate and non-intimate interpersonal violence. Implications for qualitative social work research and practice include the use of Black Feminist Autoethnography as a methodological framework to identify areas of empowerment, strength, and support for survivors of violence.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41823493","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 is like talking to very good robots’: Experiences of online support groups for parents with babies during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom","authors":"Siân E. Lucas, Laura Bellussi","doi":"10.1177/14733250231185066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231185066","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, many face-to-face group activities for new parents moved online. In this article, we share findings from 14 interviews conducted during the first lockdown in the United Kingdom with parents of babies under 12 months about their experiences of participating in online groups. Attendance at groups was treated as a survival mechanism or even a panacea for some parents, providing well-rounded entertainment and support for parents, their children and the parenting relationship. However, reviews of the online groups were mixed, with some deemed more adequate than others for online delivery. Parents expressed concerns about the lack of informal spaces in online contexts to share private conversations and the unnatural group conversations affected by the custom of taking turns to talk. These experiences highlighted what was important to parents: the need for the embodiment of connection. The peculiarity of the online setting saw the emergence of parenting display work; parental awareness of online impression management and self-presentation strategies. While online technologies are ubiquitous, online groups for parents are nascent, and these technologies require careful analysis and evaluation from users and facilitators.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45077981","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":"Positionality—An analytical building block","authors":"Lissette M. Piedra","doi":"10.1177/14733250231183294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231183294","url":null,"abstract":"The most resonant aspect of qualitative inquiry for me has always been its utter humanness—messy and context-driven. Moral judgment of right and wrong disappears; insight prevails. When done well, qualitative methods transcend our limited, biased understandings and generate profound insights on the human condition unobtainable through other approaches. Among such processes, reflexive attention to one’s social position is foundational for a qualitative study, but while we recognize it as important, we tend not to think of such attention as an analytic tool. Arguably, for the astute qualitative researcher, the heart of Dunbar, Rodriguez, and Parker’s direction depends on acknowledging and—to use Forrest Stuart’s term—embracing our positionality (Stuart, 2017). In this essay, I revisit the concept of positionality—that of the researcher and the participants—and how it can be leveraged to reveal aspects of the lived experience that might otherwise remain hidden, a process which includes accepting the transgressive role of researcher (Stuart, 2017) and actively searching for information that disconfirms working theories and hypotheses (Gilgun, 2006, 2015). In doing so, I demonstrate how both researchers’ and respondents’ positionality can be used to enhance the rigor of qualitative research.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"611 - 618"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47076348","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…A reader’s positionality","authors":"Yuxiang Chen","doi":"10.1177/14733250231183262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231183262","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to this issue of Qualitative Social Work. As a new addition to the editorial team, I have been pleasantly surprised by howmuch I have enjoyed crafting these “In this issue” pieces. Prior to taking on this role, my engagement with academic journals was primarily instrumental and focused on finding empirical or conceptual discussions directly relevant to my own areas of interest. Working as an assistant editor pushes me to carefully read a variety of studies outside my tiny little bubble. While contemplating how to distill the insights from these wonderful studies into concise and accessible summaries for our readers, I am prompted to constantly ask myself questions such as: Who am I as a social work researcher? What connections can I draw between these studies and my own? What are my personal intuitions, biases, and blind spots when attempting to glean insights from these articles? How have my understandings (or the lack thereof) in these various topical, conceptual, or methodological domains shaped my approaches to social work research? I realized that these are questions about positionality—my positionality, as a reader, when I try to engage in dialogue with the intellectual community. In her opening editorial, Lissette M. Piedra draws our attention to positionality—a widely discussed topic in qualitative research. However, Piedra presents a unique perspective on this matter by viewing positionality not simply as a reflexive assessment of potential researcher bias, but as a dynamic “analytical building block” internal to qualitative research process. She encourages us to explore how the researcher’s positionality directly influences their decisions throughout the research design and execution processes. Furthermore, she emphasizes that participants’ positionality also plays a crucial role in shaping their interactions with the researcher, a critical examination of which could enhance analyses of the studied phenomenon. We invite you, our readers, to actively bring your own positionality into dialogue with the 10 studies featured in this issue, since reading itself is an analytical process of integrating new ideas into your own systems of knowledge. This issue starts with two articles exploring the merits of two participatory research methodologies in social work. McGookin utilized photovoice as the primary data","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"619 - 622"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45904744","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":"Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants","authors":"Prince Chiagozie Ekoh, Kathleen Sitter","doi":"10.1177/14733250231180321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231180321","url":null,"abstract":"Visual elicitation methods, such as diagramming, are growing in their use with vulnerable populations, trauma-informed research, and social work studies where the use of traditional oral interviews alone may be lacking in their ability to increase access to different areas of human consciousness. The adoption and designing of innovative diagramming and visual methods have the potential to push the boundaries of data collection in understanding the experiences of forced migrants. However, scholars have seldom adopted this method in forced migration research. In this article, the authors explore three diagramming methods-timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps-to highlight the possibilities of their use for social work research with forced migrants. The benefits of utilising these methods in support of the unique characteristics and challenges of forced migrants are also discussed. The article concludes by identifying several limitations while advocating for the adoption and documentation of the use of diagramming in studies with forced migrants.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643299","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 value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis","authors":"Marina Morgenshtern, Jeanette Schmid","doi":"10.1177/14733250231178259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231178259","url":null,"abstract":"Using the contents of journals has been an underutilized research approach in social work. Journal archives represent what has been legitimated in the discipline as well as what forms the dominant social work canon. To theorize about journal archival sourcing as a research method, we cite the limited extant examples, drawing out from these the methodology used. We then make a case for the value of journal mining and in particular from the vantage point of critical social work and critical discourse analysis, position the Foucauldian history of the present as an appropriate tool for analysis. We draw this article together by describing how to employ this research method and argue that this might be an exceptionally useful tool at this point of the discipline’s history.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42226361","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":"Understanding Muslims’ interactions with non-Muslims: Laying the foundation for culturally sensitive social work engagement","authors":"Morgan Braganza, D. Hodge","doi":"10.1177/14733250231175161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231175161","url":null,"abstract":"The North American Muslim population is growing rapidly, but little research has been conducted to help social workers interact with members of this population in a culturally sensitive manner. To assist social workers engage with Muslims in an ethical and effective manner, this qualitative study sought to answer the following questions: how do Muslims experience interactions with non-Muslims and what have they learned from their encounters that might facilitate positive interactions? To answer these two questions, we used narrative inquiry with a sample of 10 Muslim social work students and recent alumni. The findings suggest that Muslims may be treated either positively or negatively by non-Muslims in interactions in various contexts, that they are frequently unable to voice their religious perspectives, and that their religious difference is often portrayed in single-sided or negative ways as well as prioritized against their wishes while ignoring other aspects of their social identities. As a result, many tend to avoid interactions with non-Muslims. The paper offers strategies to foster more respectful interactions with Muslims, such as attending to how much their religious difference is prioritized, and providing opportunities to share their perspectives.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44118365","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":"Somali parenting in Western contexts: Acculturative stressors and family strengths","authors":"Johara Suleiman, W. Haight, Sookyoung Park, S. Flanagan","doi":"10.1177/14733250231175506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231175506","url":null,"abstract":"This scoping review describes the available research on the experiences of Somali immigrant parents acculturating within Western countries including the U.S., Canada, South Africa, England, and Scandinavia. A total of 19 studies were identified that focused on Somali immigrant families, discussed parenting, and were written in English. Ten were published in peer-reviewed journals including in social work, mental health, and nursing. The other studies were reported in a book chapter and eight graduate-level theses. The studies were qualitative, and identified several themes related to parental strengths and stressors as they acculturated to Western countries. Stressors included conflicts between Western and Islamic values within racist contexts, shifting from communal to nuclear family parenting, and changes in family dynamics. Strengths included strong ties to spirituality, a deep commitment to family, and a strong love of and pride in their cultural identity. Implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47237070","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}