{"title":"Grief, Social Support, Spirituality, and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in Assisted Living in Kansas.","authors":"Kyoung Hag Lee, Jung Sim Jun","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2211970","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2211970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this study was to explore the roles of grief, social support, as well as spirituality on the depressive symptoms of older adults in assisted living in Kansas. This study tested three hypotheses: a high level of grief will be related to a high level of depressive symptoms; high levels of social support (family, friends, and significant persons) will be associated with a low level of depressive symptoms; and high levels of spiritual experience and coping will be associated with a low level of depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study recruited 316 older adult residents aged 65 or over from seven assisted living facilities in Kansas. This cross-sectional survey was done by face-to-face interviews using the purposive sampling method. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to test the three sets of variables in relation to depressive symptoms: socio-demographics, social support factors, and spiritual factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants' mean age was 82.6 years, ranging from 65 to 102; 70.9% were female. Married participants consisted of 18.7%, and over 64% were widowed. Hierarchical multivariate regression results indicated that a high level of grief was significantly related to a high level of depressive symptoms. On the other hand, high levels of social support from friends and spiritual coping were significantly associated with a low level of depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>Assisted living facilities may consider developing appropriate bereavement, social support, and spiritual intervention programs, which will alleviate the depression issues of older adult residents after the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 6","pages":"765-779"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41241818","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":"The Impact of Adolescents' Character Strengths on Quality of Life in Stressful Situations During COVID-19 in China: A Moderated Mediation Approach.","authors":"Zhiwen Zhang, Jingying Wang, Wenjie Duan","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2231438","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2231438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the relationship between adolescents' character strengths and quality of life during the COVID-19 lockdown and to further explore the role of strengths use and perceived threats.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 804 adolescents from Wuhan, China were recruited to complete an online survey. The data collection was conducted between April and May 2020, during the lockdown of Wuhan due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the suspension of school attendance for adolescents and the transition to online teaching. Mini Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire (Mini-Q-LES-Q) was used to measure adolescents' quality of life, while their character strengths, strengths use, and perceived threats were measured using the Three-Dimensional Inventory of Character Strengths (TICS), the Chinese version Strengths Use Scale (SUS) and Perceived threats of COVID-19 questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results of the study indicated that adolescents' character strengths could positively affect their quality of life, and strengths use played a partially mediating role, while the moderating effect of perceived threats was not significant.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusions: </strong>In the face of persistent pandemic effects or other similar stressful events in the future, the development of adolescents' character strengths and strengths use can effectively improve adolescents' quality of life, which provides a theoretical reference for future social work intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"881-895"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9743023","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}
Kevin White, Nancy Rolock, Erin Hambrick, Rong Bai, Anna Bender, Kylie Evans, Roni Diamant-Wilson, Keith Bailey
{"title":"Longitudinal Evaluation of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics with Adoptive Families in Tennessee.","authors":"Kevin White, Nancy Rolock, Erin Hambrick, Rong Bai, Anna Bender, Kylie Evans, Roni Diamant-Wilson, Keith Bailey","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2245819","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2245819","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study evaluated effectiveness of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) with adoptive families who received post adoption services in Tennessee.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Researchers obtained a sample of 552 families who received post adoption services in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Most families (77%) had adopted children through public child welfare services. A quasi-experimental design examined wellbeing outcomes for an NMT group (<i>n</i> = 319) versus a services-as-usual (SAU) group (<i>n</i> = 233) in intent-to-treat analyses. Then, the SAU group was contrasted to an NMT subgroup that had high adherence to the NMT model (<i>n</i> = 109) in an analysis of treatment-on-the-treated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Intent-to-treat models indicated no differences on outcomes between the NMT and SAU groups. However, the results of treatment-on-the-treated analyses showed slightly greater reduction on the Behavior Problems Index over time for the NMT with high adherence group as compared to SAU.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>Adoptive families may face challenges that could be addressed through developmentally sensitive, trauma-informed services, such as NMT. The results of this study suggest that the NMT might benefit adoptive families if greater attention is paid to implementation adherence, or fidelity.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"1004-1025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9989909","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}
Shelby L Clark, Francie Julien-Chinn, Aubrey Jones, Sarah Jen, Taylor Dowdy-Hazlett, Mary Kate Hunt
{"title":"\"Without Compassion We Don't Have a Social Work Field\": A Thematic Analysis Exploring Social Workers' Experiences with Compassion.","authors":"Shelby L Clark, Francie Julien-Chinn, Aubrey Jones, Sarah Jen, Taylor Dowdy-Hazlett, Mary Kate Hunt","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2232799","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2232799","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Evidence establishing the importance of compassion in the context of social work practice is emerging. Compassion, stemming from the Latin words <i>com</i> and <i>pati</i>, means to suffer with. Given the proximity social workers have to vast experiences of suffering, compassion may play a central role in providing meaningful care to individuals, communities, and systems. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore social workers' definitions of and experiences with compassion.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants included 12 social workers working across levels of practice in two Midwestern states in the United States. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thematic analysis demonstrated three themes present in the data. Consistent with previous conceptual scholarship, the findings illustrated that compassion is a central component of social work practice. Additionally, results from the study demonstrated that social workers find compassion to be an imperative component of ethical practice and suggested that both barriers to and facilitators of compassion are present across levels of social work practice.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>This study adds to the growing body of social work scholarship exploring compassion and highlights implications for the social work discipline across levels of practice to more overtly center compassion in education, practice, and policy. Further research is needed to better understand multilevel barriers to compassion and develop strategies for overcoming them. Moreover, additional research is needed to holistically understand how to leverage and build upon the facilitators of compassion identified by participants in order to foster compassionate social workers, social work organizations, and systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"954-980"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9837446","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}
Pascale Desrumaux, Ida Princia Moughogha, Willys N'dong Nguema, Naouële Bouterfas
{"title":"Impact of Organizational Justice, Support, Resilience, and Need Satisfaction on French Social Workers' Psychological Well-Being.","authors":"Pascale Desrumaux, Ida Princia Moughogha, Willys N'dong Nguema, Naouële Bouterfas","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2232766","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2232766","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Based on an approach to psychological health at work and on social exchange theory, this study tested the relationships between the four dimensions of organizational justice (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational), supervisor and coworker support, resilience and psychological well-being (PWB).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using a cross-sectional design with one measurement, a sample of 369 French social workers responded to an online questionnaire. Analysis were based on correlations, and on mediations with Hayes and Preacher's (2014) method.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed that satisfaction of the three psychological needs, procedural justice, supports, and resilience explained PWB. Mediation analyses showed that satisfaction of the need for autonomy played a mediating role between interpersonal justice, procedural justice, and PWB. Satisfaction of the needs for competence and autonomy played a mediating role between coworker support and PWB. Satisfaction of the three needs played a mediating role between resilience and PWB.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>The results pointed out the relevance of need satisfaction in predicting PWB. These findings confirm the relevance of justice, support, and resilience for social workers' well-being, and of the importance of need satisfaction that plays a critical role.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"934-953"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9886305","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}
Jaegoo Lee, Jinwon Kim, Heekyung Lee, Jinhee Park, Jason Mallonee, Jeoung Min Lee
{"title":"Differential Associations Among Cyberbullying Victimization, Parental Monitoring, and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Male and Female College Students.","authors":"Jaegoo Lee, Jinwon Kim, Heekyung Lee, Jinhee Park, Jason Mallonee, Jeoung Min Lee","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2230204","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2230204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to examine the role of parental monitoring and help seeking in the relationship between cyberbullying victimization and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in male and female college students.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were collected for 336 college students (71.72% female and 28.28% male) aged 18 to 24 or older years from two universities in the Midwest and the South Central regions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Logistic regression indicated the interaction term of cyberbullying victimization and parental monitoring was negatively related to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in a male group (<i>B</i> = -.155, <i>p</i> < .05, Exp(<i>B</i>) = .86).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Male students whose parents monitored about being safe on the computer had dramatically fewer suicidal thoughts/behaviors. In both male and female groups, seeking professional help was not a significant moderator that weakened the relationship.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There is a need for additional research on the importance of prevention and intervention efforts to foster open dialogue between students and their parents.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"851-867"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9693814","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":"Retention and Turnover of Social Workers in China: Experimental Evidence from Beijing.","authors":"Zhengyi Dong, Lun Yang","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2230224","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2230224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The aim of this study was to identify the critical factors that influenced the turnover and retention of social workers and to propose strategies for enhancing professional social work teams.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A discrete-choice experiment (DCE) method was employed to approach to assess social workers' preferences regarding both income-related and non-income-related factors affecting their willingness to remain or leave their positions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both income-related and non-income-related measures significantly affected social workers' the willingness to retain in their roles. Specifically, increasing the base salary had a stronger effect compared to performance pay. Among the non-income factors, providing career development opportunities had the strongest effect, followed by improving management, while honors had the weakest effect. Furthermore, it was observed that the effects of these improvements varied depending on the social workers' backgrounds and the types of social work clubs they were associated with. For instance, promoting career development was found to be more effective in well-developed clubs, while income incentives appeared to be more impactful in less developed clubs.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>The study highlighted the importance of both income-related measures and non-income factors in addressing the issue of turnover and promoting stability within professional social work teams. Additionally, the observed heterogeneity in the effects of these improvements emphasized the need for tailored retention strategies that consider the diverse backgrounds of social workers and the specific organizational contexts they operate in.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"868-880"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9683828","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":"The Impact of Suicidality and Spirituality on Substance Use Day Treatment Discharge.","authors":"Hannah E Brown, Cory B Dennis","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2230186","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2230186","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Although spirituality seems to protect against suicidality and substance misuse, in 2022 81% of United States residents believe in God and yet prevalence of these global health issues are increasing. 12-Step programs are inherently spiritual in their approach to recovery.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used a clinically mined dataset built from everyday clinical data that a substance use day treatment program in a midwestern state of the USA originally collected for their treatment purposes. Data included information from 444 client files from three day treatment sites within the same agency. Using logistic regression, we analyzed the relationships between suicidality, spirituality, and treatment discharge.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Suicidality and spirituality, including 12-Step involvement prior to treatment, did not have a statistically significant effect on substance use day treatment discharge. However, treatment length and age were associated with completed treatment.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>While spirituality and suicidality are important concepts with relevance to recovery, they did not affect whether clients completed substance use day treatment. However, because recovery is not just about abstinence or risk reduction, suicidality and spiritually likely have relevance for the overall recovery process.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"840-850"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9740018","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":"I'm About to Explode, I'm About to Strangle: Emotional Experiences of Turkish Veterans and Their Spouses Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.","authors":"Filiz Er, Veli Duyan","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2213231","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2213231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The aim of this study is to examine in depth the experiences of Turkish veterans diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and their spouses in the dimension of affective development in the light of their trauma experiences with a qualitative design and phenomenological approach.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study group of the research consisted of 21 veterans diagnosed with PTSD and accepted as veterans, and the spouses of the 21 veterans. The data of the study were collected through in-depth interviews with the participants used a semi-structured interview form (Appendıx). Data analyses were performed used the MAXQDA 2020 software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Study, the main themes determined as pretraumatic positive emotions and posttraumatic negative emotions. There were 4 themes under negative emotions after trauma and 24 sub-themes under 4 themes.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>As a result of the study, it was understood that trauma experience and PTSD affect the affective development dimension of veterans and their spouses at different levels, and these effects have negative elements. According to these findings, it was determined that veterans and their spouses need psychosocial services that address the affective development dimension.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 6","pages":"780-799"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41241819","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}
Lauren Barks, Catherine E McKinley, Kristi Ka'apu, Charles R Figley
{"title":"Is Self-Care a Stand-In for Feminized Social Privilege? A Systematic Review of Self-Care Facilitators and Barriers to Self-Care Practices in Social Work.","authors":"Lauren Barks, Catherine E McKinley, Kristi Ka'apu, Charles R Figley","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2231446","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2231446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this systematic review is to fill the gap in a critical understanding of peer-reviewed empirical research on self-care practices to identify structural, relational, and individual-level facilitators and barriers to self-care practices in social work.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We followed the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis for this systematic review of peer-reviewed quantitative and qualitative empirical research articles focusing on self-care in social work among adult social work practitioners and students.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-one articles related to empirical studies of self-care were identified in the systematic review process with samples of social work practitioners (<i>n</i> = 15), social work students (<i>n</i> = 3), and social work educators (<i>n</i> = 3).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Social workers engaged in self-care practices are more likely to be healthy, work less, be White, and have higher socioeconomic professional status and privilege, indicating current conceptualizations of self-care may not be accessible and contextually and culturally relevant for many social workers.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Overwhelmingly, results indicated social workers reporting greater sociostructural, economic, professional, and physical health privilege engaged in more self-care. No articles directly assessed institutional factors that may drive distress among social workers and clients. Rather, self-care was framed as a personal responsibility without integration of feminized and racialized inequities in a sociopolitical and historical context. Such framings may replicate rather than redress unsustainable inequities experienced by social workers and clients.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"914-933"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869108/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9740466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}