Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)最新文献

{"title":"Statement of Retraction: Gatekeeping Mental Health Care: A Critical Analysis of mhGAP-HIG Implementation in Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis Through an Anti-Oppressive Lens.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2740305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2740305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149139905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supporting Individuals and Families in Community Centers in Greece: Social Workers' Perspectives on Roles, Challenges, and Effectiveness.","authors":"Amalia Arvaniti, Dimitrios Mimarakis","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2739254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2739254","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Community Centers represent a milestone in the decentralization of the Greek welfare state, functioning as \"one-stop shops\" at the municipal level. This study explores social workers' perspectives on their professional roles, systemic challenges, and structural requirements for enhancing effectiveness.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>An exploratory descriptive qualitative design was employed. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers across four Community Centers in the Attica region of Greece. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis following Schreier's framework.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings reveal a tension between the psychosocial mandate of social work and the administrative responsibilities associated with welfare benefit management. Participants reported role ambiguity, bureaucratization, and boundary encroachment within multidisciplinary teams. These conditions constrained opportunities for psychosocial intervention and limited the exercise of professional expertise. Despite these challenges, social workers demonstrated a commitment to safeguarding professional autonomy and maintaining the social work identity of their practice.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The findings suggest that the effectiveness of Community Centers cannot be adequately understood through service-level evaluations alone. Persistent organizational and structural pressures may undermine practitioners' capacity to provide community-based support, while contributing to the increasing administrative orientation of social work practice. Addressing these challenges requires attention to both organizational conditions and the institutional framework within which frontline services operate.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Structural improvements are needed to strengthen Community Centers, including standardized operational protocols, clinical supervision, and continuous professional development. These measures are essential for safeguarding professional autonomy, strengthening service quality, and sustaining the viability and human-service orientation of community-based organizations in welfare contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149129500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Service Inventory Data to Guide Statewide Anti-Human Trafficking Strategic Planning Initiatives.","authors":"Andrea Nichols, Kathleen Preble","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2744165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2744165","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The current study examined human trafficking service inventory data in Missouri to contribute to an evidence base for prioritizing coalition action in statewide strategic planning initiatives.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Drawing from data derived from an electronic interactive statewide resource guide, the present study engaged in descriptive analyses of counts of human trafficking‑related services (i.e. drop-in centers, employment services, food pantries, youth shelter/residential services, adult shelter, substance use disorder services, therapy/counseling, language access/translation services, legal services, human trafficking education/awareness training, and human trafficking prevention programs). Counts of each of the 11 services were compared in 7 regions in the state of Missouri and analyzed per 100,000 population.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The lowest relative service availability (i.e. least services available per capita) was shown in the most population dense areas for drop-in centers, employment services, food pantries, adult shelter, therapy/counseling, substance use disorder services, and legal services. The lowest relative service availability was shown in moderate and less population dense areas for youth shelter/residential services, language access/translation services, human trafficking education/awareness, and prevention programs.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Results indicated service availability varied throughout the state, and the relative service availability differed by region and service type. Descriptive analysis accounting for population size revealed an important layer of data that can be combined with other data to inform strategic planning efforts.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results suggest potentially prioritizing statewide antitrafficking efforts and directing funding to the regions that show the lowest relative service availability in strategic planning initiatives, while simultaneously considering regional contextual dynamics (e.g. trafficking prevalence, demand for services/unmet needs).</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149119779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decolonial Social Work as an Emerging Intellectual Field: Mapping Its Epistemic Foundations, Thematic Trajectories, and Paradigmatic Status.","authors":"Mel Gray, Emrah Akbas, Qian Meng","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2739257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2739257","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Decolonial social work scholarship has expanded over the past decade, yet the intellectual status of the field remains unclear. Despite publication growth and thematic development, there has been limited attention to the way in which diverse critical traditions have shaped the field's intellectual development. This study sought to move beyond descriptive mapping to theorize the field's intellectual character.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The study examined the field's intellectual development by analyzing a corpus of 227 English-language journal articles (1969-2026) using an integrated bibliometric research design to reveal the conceptual organization, intellectual foundations, thematic evolution, and epistemic architecture of the literature.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Decolonial social work emerged as a multidimensional intellectual field in which Indigenous scholarship functioned as an epistemic anchor, shaping multiple areas of decolonial social work thinking, while decolonial and critical race theory, epistemic justice scholarship, and critical and international social work perspectives converged around shared concerns with coloniality, knowledge production, and professional transformation without losing their distinctive intellectual identities.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The study contributes a fresh interpretation of the development and contemporary intellectual character of decolonial social work. Rather than being organized around a single canonical tradition, decolonial social work possessed a coherent yet plural intellectual foundation that drew upon multiple interacting intellectual lineages.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149119732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementing Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR) in Supported Housing for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness: Occupational Therapists' Experiences of Professional Discretion During Early Implementation.","authors":"Maria Holknekt, Carolina Klockmo, Urban Markström, Maria Lindström","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2733438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2733438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR) is a collaborative, person‑centered, activity- and recovery‑oriented intervention model developed for supported housing (SH) for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). ELR promotes long-term recovery through collaboration between residents, occupational therapists (OTs), and housing staff. While ELR has demonstrated positive effects and cost‑effectiveness in a randomized controlled trial (RCT), implementing collaborative models across health and social care boundaries remains challenging. This study aimed to explore how OTs experienced the interplay between their professional discretionary space, understood as their capacity to act, and the early implementation of ELR within collaborative, cross-sector rehabilitation in SH.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from 14 OTs across ten Swedish municipalities involved in the ELR RCT; two participants provided written responses to the same interview guide. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three themes were identified: (1) Organizational and normative constraints shaping professional discretion in collaborative rehabilitation; (2) Professional identity and method alignment legitimizing professional discretion in rehabilitation; and (3) Relational and reflective practice with participants shaping professional discretion. OTs described how residents with SMI were often a low-priority group within municipal services, limiting opportunities for sustained rehabilitation. Organizational cultures, fragmented collaboration, and competing mandates constrained discretionary space and challenged fidelity to the ELR model.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Sustainable implementation of complex collaborative interventions requires organizational conditions that support professional discretion, trust-based collaboration, continuous engagement with residents, and active leadership. Together, these factors enable the integration of activity- and recovery-oriented rehabilitation into routine practice and reduce dependence on individual champions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149077076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the Pathways of Resistance to ICE Deportation: A Preliminary Framework.","authors":"Roberta Greene","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2739236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2739236","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This article provides a preliminary description of the pathways activists took to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation operations in a mid-sized southern U.S. city. The findings establish a preliminary framework to define the context of anti-deportation resistance and inform anti-oppressive social work practice strategies.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using a qualitative case study design, content analysis was conducted on regional newspaper coverage alongside semi-structured interviews with a targeted sample of activist respondents to examine mechanisms of resistance.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This exploration of the lived experiences of ICE resistors and their grassroots networks demonstrates how community-led anti-deportation initiatives can expand practitioners' understanding of resistance and advance anti-oppressive social work methods.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although further research is needed, the proposed framework establishes core terminology and conceptual assumptions that social workers can use to support and engage communities in collective grassroots resistance activities against immigration enforcement.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149070626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Media for Social Justice Amidst Artificial Intelligence: Towards Equalizing Marginalized Media Access and Anti-Oppression.","authors":"John C Hayvon","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2713498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2713498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the relationship between intersectional marginalization, digital media, and anti-oppressive resistance. Grounded in Merriam's case study framework, the study prioritizes views of participants of their everyday media engagements, with emphasis on resulting community capacity to resist systemic social injustices. Utilizing purposive sampling, a cohort of 14 participants identifying with multiple intersecting social statuses of marginalization - including racialized identities, gender diversity, Indigenous ancestry, socioeconomic marginalization, and lived trauma - participated in in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis revealed six key themes: first, daily experiences of marginalization may cause media selection to prioritize immediate psychological respite and emotional regulation. Participants further considered the flexible utility of story-based AI companions for continuous, peer-level support during times of heightened stress. Second, online social justice discourse is discussed by participants as often punitive as opposed to collaborative. Participants report how existing digital norms on social media may potentially silence authentic, non-conforming perspectives, even when rooted in a participant's own lived experience of structural marginalization.In relation, participants report how diversity and inclusion themes may be commercialized by industrial media for visibility and market optimization, with grassroots creators leveraging AI-driven video-creation tools to provide deeply analytical and derivative commentary. Lastly, a unique case of media featuring social work emerged in participant responses, highlighting how online discourse on social justice ideologies can inadvertently draw attention away from on-the-ground realities aligned with traditional social work practice. Implications for AI-deployment in social work and resistance in a landscape of technology and media conclude the study.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149032143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supporting GBV Survivors with Complex Harm Reduction and Mental Health Needs: The Community Crisis/Outreach Response (CCOR) Model's Viability.","authors":"Cj DeLuzio Chasin, Laverne Blake, Anna Morgan, Madison Hammond","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2730432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2730432","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Toronto's gender-based violence (GBV) shelters have seen a sharp increase in clients with complex needs related to mental health and/or substance use, despite often being ill‑prepared to serve them. Ernestine's pilot-tested a new theory-informed Community-Crisis/Outreach Response Model of nonresidential GBV service, which critically features a specialized and intensive stream of service.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>We conducted an evaluation, analyzing demographic information, service-use patterns and a client survey (<i>N</i> = 60) soliciting additional information about experiences accessing the program, and self-reported changes/benefits. Comparisons were also made exploring the impact of systemic barriers on service experience (e.g., related to racism and ableism).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Individualized and person-centered supports showed different service-use patterns by stream. Clients in both streams tended to access the support they sought, reporting benefits and satisfaction. Those served by the specialized stream spent more time working toward their goals, but did show progress.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This pilot program illustrates the importance of addressing needs related to gender-based violence simultaneously along-side mental health and harm reduction needs for the benefit of the whole person. Survivors facing additional barriers (i.e., related to ableism, mental health, or harm reduction needs) tended to require more intensive, specialized support to progress toward their goals, and the CCOR Model offers this support.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Ernestine's Community Crisis/Outreach Response Model, featuring a specialized community crisis/outreach case worker, is a viable model for supporting diverse survivors of GBV, including those with complex needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149019087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Principles to Practice: Implementing Housing First in the <i>Primer la Llar</i> Program (Barcelona).","authors":"Marta Llobet-Estany, Araceli Muñoz, Jezabel Cartoixà-García, Belén Campomar","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2733435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2733435","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The Housing First model has established itself as a benchmark in addressing chronic homelessness, yet little attention has been paid to how its principles are being applied in everyday practices. This study analyzes its implementation in the <i>Primer la Llar</i> program in Barcelona, focusing on how teams understand and bring these principles into their daily work.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>A longitudinal qualitative study was conducted between 2016 and 2020. Data were collected in three phases through interviews with professionals involved in the program, including local government staff, as well as staff from the social service organizations providing support. The analysis examined how key principles of the model - unconditional support, focus on recovery, and harm reduction - were understood and implemented.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The implementation of the model involved processes of learning, interpretation, and adjustment. Concepts that were initially unfamiliar took on meaning through applicational practice, interaction with participants, and team discussion. At the same time, some tensions arose related to uncertainty, ethical responsibility, and the balance between self-determination and the professional duty of care.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The findings highlight the importance of reflexivity, collective deliberation, and organizational support in the implementation of Housing First programs. They also underscore the role of daily practices as key arenas for translating evidence-based principles into context-sensitive actions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study contributes to the development of evidence-based social work and provides guidance for professionals and policymakers on homelessness and professional practice in this area.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148978989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutional Factors Affecting Social Work Masters Licensure Exam Pass Rates in the US.","authors":"Tae Kuen Kim, Eun Kyung Lee","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2026.2733439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2026.2733439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study analyzed the Association of Social Work Boards licensing examination data to empirically examine the impact of institutional factors on social work licensure examination pass rates that have not been addressed in previous research.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a robust statistical method called mixed-effects modeling, the analysis focused on the impact of characteristics of social work programs or schools, such as racial diversity, age diversity, gender ratio, and the size of institutions, on licensing exam pass rates, while accounting for differences across states.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After analyzing data from 279 institutions, we found that there is a significant difference in pass rates across states. The results showed that institutions with a more age-diverse student body have lower pass rates. The results also indicated that smaller institutions have lower pass rates than larger ones, even when controlling for student body characteristics.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These results imply that institutional investment in tailored academic and licensure preparation infrastructure, especially within institutions serving high proportions of non-traditional or adult learners, may be an effective institutional strategy to enhance overall program pass rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148957523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}