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}
Xing Jun Chuah, Chin Bee Aw, Pei Ni Ong, Khalisah Binte Samsuri, Satvinder Singh Dhaliwal
{"title":"Receptivity towards Remote Service Delivery among Social Work Clients and Practitioners during COVID Times: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Xing Jun Chuah, Chin Bee Aw, Pei Ni Ong, Khalisah Binte Samsuri, Satvinder Singh Dhaliwal","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2228791","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2228791","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This systematic review aims to identify and synthesize the available evidence on the receptivity toward, perceived advantages and challenges of remote service delivery among social work clients and practitioners during the context of COVID-19.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Two electronic databases were searched from 2020 to 2022. Identified papers were screened against the established eligibility criteria, yielding 15 papers. Two additional papers were further identified through hand-search. As heterogeneity of studies was high, a narrative synthesis was performed to summarize the overall evidence.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our review provides evidence that remote service delivery holds the potential to increase access to services among selected client populations as well as promote a sense of empowerment for clients and opportunities for practice enhancement for practitioners.</p><p><strong>Discussion & conclusion: </strong>The findings from our study highlighted the need for innovative solutions and practical considerations for ongoing remote service, including the careful considerations of social work clients' and practitioners' suitability, the need for provision of training and ongoing support to optimize practitioners' well-being. As the delivery of services transition to face-to-face or remain remote, further research is needed to assess the promise of remote practice in optimizing overall service delivery, while maintaining client-reported satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"800-839"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9744458","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":"Contextualizing Resilience in Young People: The Use of Child and Youth Resilience Measure Revised and Interviews in a Mixed Method Approach.","authors":"Toa Giroletti, Claire Paterson-Young","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2237505","DOIUrl":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2237505","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This paper seeks to understand the role of an innovative Employability Programme on developing the resilience of young people Not in Education Training or Employment (NEET).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Through a mixed-method approach, this paper explores the individual, contextual, and social aspects that impact on individual resilience. Combining the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-Revised (CYRM-R) with qualitative interviews allows for the investigation of how context, relationships, and support shape young people's resilience offering a holistic approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The quantitative results reveal a significant association between higher levels of resilience and factors such as school attendance and living in areas with lower crime rates. Lower resilience is observed among individuals experiencing higher levels of deprivation. Qualitative findings shed light on the multifaceted nature of resilience, highlighting its connection to community and society (sub-themes: education and employment, external pressure, support and access to services) as well as individual and psychological aspects (sub-themes: managing stressful situations and bouncing back).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings emphasize that resilience is not a static or one-dimensional process dependent on a single factor, it is a dynamic and ongoing process influenced by multiple factors. The interactions between young people and families, friends, education providers, and other service providers play a crucial role in promoting resilience.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Overall, this research aids our understanding of how connections between all these levels can boost or limit individual resilience. It can help practitioners and policymakers understand how tailored activities, accounting for multiple aspects, are able to improve individual resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":" ","pages":"981-1003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10096868","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 dynamics of providing street medicine to a geographically diverse homeless population in Hawaii.","authors":"December Maxwell, Johanna Thomas, Mark Plassmeyer","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2211067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2211067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Since Hawaii has the highest rate of per capita of persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) in the United States, the purpose of this qualitative evaluation study was to evaluate the experiences of both the providers and clients of a Street Medicine (SM) program serving one side of the island of O'ahu.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This evaluation used Story Inquiry to qualitatively assess one SM program serving one side of the island of O'ahu in Hawa'i. Since the culture in Hawaii is largely based upon stories, a qualitative approach was taken to better understand the lived experiences of PEH who utilized the SM services, as well as provider perspectives.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings of this evaluation include strengths of increased primary care engagement and improved quality of life for PEH; barriers to success included transportation scarcity and limitations of services available.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings lend implications for new SM programs, including gathering community support, having culturally aware outreach and that mobility and flexibility can overcome health-care barriers for PEH.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 5","pages":"743-764"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207830","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":"How to Evaluate a Tailor-made Social Work Intervention? Some Practice-Based Solutions with Single-Case Designs.","authors":"Willem Landman, Stefan Bogaerts, Marinus Spreen","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2192709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2192709","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>With the increased attention to the principles of evidence-based practice (EBP), social workers are challenged to adapt their daily interventions accordingly when treating clients. They usually work with individual clients, all with their own specificities. Single-Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs) can be used to inform a social worker about the effectiveness of an intervention at the individual client level. In everyday social work practice, however, it is difficult to meet methodological requirements of SCEDs to find causal explanations. A concern is that repeated measurements prior to an intervention are required in most situations. This study aims to provide researchers with alternatives to repeated measurement when using the logic of SCED to apply EBP in their everyday practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this study, we reviewed published single-case designs between January 1 and December 31, 2019, on types of SCEDs in the social domain, and how is dealt with baseline conditions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>SCEDs and quasi-experimental alternatives are hardly published in situations when baseline data are not available. Four underused quasi-experimental strategies that can be employed when repeated measurement during baseline is not possible are as follows: retrospective baselines, theoretical inference, multiraters, and triangulation with qualitative data.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>The suggestions to work with single-case designs with quasi-experimental elements are meant to enable social workers to evaluate their interventions in a way that enhances mere narrative evaluations of the experiences of an intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 5","pages":"595-622"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207829","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":"Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Reasons for Vaccine Hesitancy Among New York State Refugees.","authors":"Lindsey Disney, Rukhsana Ahmed, Yohan Moon, Stephanie Carnes","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2201240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2201240","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Resettled refugees in the U.S. face a disproportionately high risk of COVID-19 exposure, infection, and death. This study examines COVID-19 vaccination status among adult participants and their minor children, reasons for vaccine hesitancy, and predictors of vaccine uptake, as well as sources of COVID-19 news and information and trust in those sources.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The data in this study were drawn from the Telehealth and COVID-19 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in New York Refugee Communities Survey (<i>N</i> = 353), conducted March-May, 2022.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The multivariate results indicate that in this sample of resettled refugees, those who reported higher levels of educational attainment, were from Afghanistan, and those who had fewer concerns about the vaccine were more likely to accept vaccination. The participants in this study identified local health workers, clinics, and community organizations - places where social workers are present - as both the largest source of nonsocial media COVID-19 news and information and the most trusted source of COVID-19 news and information.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The implications from this study provide social workers with an understanding of the social and behavioral factors impacting vaccine uptake in refugee communities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers must challenge inequalities that persist against marginalized groups, such as racial and ethnic health disparities. Social work practitioners can play an essential role in decreasing unjust health disparities by providing accurate, culturally appropriate information on public health concerns such as COVID-19 to their refugee clients and within interprofessional collaboration.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 5","pages":"653-667"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207834","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}
Lora Passetti, Jennifer Smith Ramey, Brooke Hunter, Mark Godley
{"title":"Predicting Response to Services for Homeless Adolescents and Transition Age Youth (TAY) with Substance Use And/Or Mental Health Disorders: Implications for Youth Treatment and Recovery.","authors":"Lora Passetti, Jennifer Smith Ramey, Brooke Hunter, Mark Godley","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2202663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2202663","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This paper examines patterns of response to a multi-disciplinary wrap-around program for homeless adolescents and transition-aged youth with substance use and/or mental health disorders.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A cluster analysis of outcome data from 148 youth was conducted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cluster 1 (<i>n</i> = 67) demonstrated significant decreases in risky behavior (e.g., engaging in unprotected sex, crime, and substance use) and poor interpersonal relationships (e.g. more interaction with family and friends and lower rates of violence) but experienced relatively fewer interactions with family and friends. Cluster 2 (<i>n</i> = 57) demonstrated a significant decrease in poor life functioning (e.g., lower rates of employment/education, better quality of life, and less symptoms of internalizing disorders). Cluster 3 (<i>n</i> = 24) experienced significant increases in risky behavior, poor life functioning, and poor interpersonal relationships.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Clusters 1 and 2 improved over six months of care. Cluster 3 deteriorated despite receiving similar services and used more opioids and stimulants.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Peer engagement in programs for this population are important. Recommendations for cluster 3 include targeted outreach, medication assisted treatment, and additional research-supported treatments. Further research is needed to test these interventions over longer periods of time.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 5","pages":"668-685"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207833","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":"A Network Analysis of Brief Measure of Perceived Courtesy and Affiliate Stigma During COVID-19 in Hubei China.","authors":"Wenjie Duan, Jingying Wang, Zichuan Wang","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2192716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2192716","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The current study aims to test perceived affiliate and courtesy stigma in Hubei province China during the early periods of COVID-19 by using network analysis.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In this study, 4,591 participants (3,034 female, mean age = 26.64) from the Hubei Province of China were recruited to conduct network analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The network analysis found network connections between <i>Estranged</i> - <i>Blamed</i>, <i>Shamed</i> - <i>No Strong Point</i>, and <i>Rejected</i> - <i>Plague</i> were the strongest. The most important stigma features (nodes) of COVID-19 (i.e. <i>Plague</i>, <i>No Strong Point</i>, <i>Discriminated</i>, and <i>Disgusting</i>).</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusions: </strong>This study uncovered the most central features of perceived affiliate and courtesy stigma on COVID-19, proposing these features (and associations between features) could be prioritized for anti-stigma interventions for the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 5","pages":"623-636"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207828","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 Effectiveness of a Parents as Teachers Home Visitation Program on School Readiness: An Application of Complier Average Causal Effect Analysis.","authors":"Jeremy Pais, Leslie P Sexer","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2201233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2201233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this study is to evaluate an encouragement trial of a Parents as Teachers (PAT) home visitation intervention on the school readiness of preschool children using an innovative analysis to address issues of selective enrollment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Families were given the opportunity to enroll in a PAT program through a randomized lottery. The PAT program is assessed using standardized measures of school readiness before and after the two-year program. A comparison of three different analyses is used to evaluate the program - Average Treatment Effect (ATE) analysis, Intent-to-Treat (ITT) analysis, and Complier Average Causal Effect (CACE) analysis. CACE is an innovative analysis developed specifically to diagnose bias arising from selective enrollment in the context of an encouragement trial.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>All three analyses (ATE, ITT, and CACE) provide statistically significant evidence of an effective PAT program. However, the effect sizes for the CACE analysis are over twice as large as the other two analyses. The Cohen's D for CACE is .934 compared to .424 for ATE and .381 for ITT.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides evidence of an effective PAT program. The comparison of ATE, ITT, and CACE analyses reveals the potential for meaningful under-reporting of the program's impact if selective enrollment is ignored. CACE analysis demonstrates how selective enrollment can bias evaluations of home visitation interventions in general.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 5","pages":"637-652"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207832","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}
Gaurav R Sinha, Christopher R Larrison, Ian Brooks, Ugur Kursuncu
{"title":"Comparing Naturalistic Mental Health Expressions on Student Loan Debts Using Reddit and Twitter.","authors":"Gaurav R Sinha, Christopher R Larrison, Ian Brooks, Ugur Kursuncu","doi":"10.1080/26408066.2023.2202668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2202668","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The primary objective of this study was to identify patterns in users' naturalistic expressions on student loans on two social media platforms. The secondary objective was to examine how these patterns, sentiments, and emotions associated with student loans differ in user posts indicating mental illness.</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>Data for this study were collected from Reddit and Twitter (2009-2020, <i>n</i> = 85,664) using certain key terms of student loans along with first-person pronouns as a triangulating measure of posts by individuals. Unsupervised and supervised machine learning models were used to analyze the text data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results suggested 50 topics in reddit finance and 40 each in reddit mental health communities and Twitter. Statistically significant associations were found between mental illness statuses and sentiments and emotions. Posts expressing mental illness showed more negative sentiments and were more likely to express sadness and fear.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>Patterns in social media discussions indicate both academic and non-academic consequences of having student debt, including users' desire to know more about their debts. Interventions should address the skill and information gaps between what is desired by the borrowers and what is offered to them in understanding and managing their debts. Cognitive burden created by student debts manifest itself on social media and can be used as an important marker to develop a nuanced understanding of people's expressions on a variety of socioeconomic issues. Higher volumes of negative sentiments and emotions of sadness, fear, and anger warrant immediate attention of policymakers and practitioners to reduce the cognitive burden of student debts.</p>","PeriodicalId":73742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-based social work (2019)","volume":"20 5","pages":"727-742"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207831","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}