Journal of evidence-informed social work最新文献

{"title":"Should social workers be engaged in these practices?","authors":"Gary Holden, Kathleen Barker","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1422075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1422075","url":null,"abstract":"We recognize that there are social workers who conduct critically important work every day. It is also apparent that the boundaries of social work as a profession are unclear (Hill, Fogel, Donaldson, & Erickson, 2017). We also know that there is a smaller subset of social workers, degreed and often licensed professionals, who engage in practices that may fall beyond those fuzzy borders. These workers’ practices would not receive universal acclaim and, in some instances, might appear highly questionable. That said, some of these practices seem to have proponents among social work scholars (e.g., Benn, Gioia, & Seabury, 2009; Raheim & Lu, 2014). The question we focus on here is that Should social workers be engaged in these practices? A useful historical marker is the work of Specht and Courtney (1994) who provided a comprehensive examination of mission drift in the field. In the first chapter of their volume they asserted that “[w]e believe that social work has abandoned its mission to help the poor and oppressed and to build community” (Specht & Courtney, 1994, p. 4; cf., Chernus, 1995). They conclude with a “proposal for a community-based system of social care” which sounds similar to the recent Community Led Support approach undertaken in the UK (Bown, Carrier, & Jennings, 2017, p. 152). Our goal here is to provide some evidence to inform reconsideration of Specht and Courtney’s work as well as subsequent contributions. Over the past 15 years, we have gathered examples of “ideas” and “activities” associated with social workers as examples of possible deviations from the mission of social work (for a masters level program evaluation course in social work). Pignotti and Thyer explored multiple facets of these phenomena in a very systematic fashion (e.g., Pignotti & Thyer, 2009a, 2009b, 2012, 2015; Thyer & Pignotti, 2010, 2015, 2016). Just as Specht and Courtney, as well as Pignotti and Thyer likely concluded, it would be difficult if not impossible to arrive at an estimate regarding the prevalence of these ideas and activities across the entire profession. We would agree with such a conclusion. We will present data that are not only informed by the aforementioned authors but also that offer a slightly different view of these phenomena by focusing on ideas and activities that appear to go beyond the fuzzy boundaries of typical practice. A recent set of Internet searches (July–September 2017) confirmed some elements of our prior list of examples and added many new listings (see Table 1). How were these searches conducted? Because we were looking for practitioner web sites and there is no specialized database for that purpose, we employed a series of Google searches using search strings like (MSW OR CSW OR ACSW OR RSW OR LCSW OR LICSW OR LMSW) AND (some term like healing or angels). In addition, we used content that we discovered in some of those results as one might when doing snowball sampling or reference harvesting in systematic reviews. In addi","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"15 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1422075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35711045","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":"Why I love social work.","authors":"Joel Fischer","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1422074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1422074","url":null,"abstract":"My mother was a caseworker at the Cook County Department of Public Aid in Chicago. Her best friend, my calabash auntie, was the Associate Director of the agency. My parents were very progressive, “parlor pink” members of the Communist Party in the 1930’s. So, I had a very liberal/progressive childhood, full of tales of fighting oppression and concern for those who had to struggle to survive. Chicago was very oppressive to minorities in those days, so I attended some demonstrations while I was in high school, commonplace today, but so atypical then that I never talked about it with my friends. I decided I was going into social work one day when I was walking across the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana when I was a sophomore. I cannot recall the exact circumstances; maybe I was hit by a bolt of social work lightning or something. But that afternoon I made up my mind; I was not only going to be a social worker in order to help people who were discriminated against and had to struggle their whole lives. I was going to be a social work professor so I could spread “the word” many times over. And I did. My first real job was as a caseworker at the same Cook County Department where my mother had worked; I then received my MSW at the University of Illinois in Chicago; I worked for three years as a clinical social worker for the Veterans Administration in San Francisco; I spent three years earning an imaginary brain tumor and a doctorate in social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley; and I completed my career as a professor for 40 years at the University of Hawai`i, Manoa, School of Social Work. It ain’t that easy, loving social work. It’s kinda hard to admit, but over the course of my career, the disappointments about social work far outnumber the times when I felt proud about our profession. Take my first disappointment. My first job was as a caseworker at Cook County, where my mother also had been a caseworker. In those days—the good old days—we had almost no technological support. We were supposed to write our notes about each client meeting, and then bring them down to the typing pool and dictate them into a primitive recordingmachine so they can be typed up by the workers in the typing pool. This, of course, required a briefing. Accordingly, on the first day of my new job, there I was talking with a woman who had been working at the typing pool for many, many years. She asked me my name, and of course, I told her: Joel Fischer. She paused, then looked aroundwith her eyes turned up to the ceiling in what I now know was her trying to remember something. Turns out, she was trying to remember ME! Back down to earth, she said, “We used to have a woman in the pool, over 20 years ago, whose name was Ruth. She had a baby while she was working here, and we all went over to her apartment to see him. I’m pretty sure his name was Joel, too. What a coincidence.” My eyes got bigger than hers. “That was my mother,” I exclaimed! “I’m that J","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"15 1","pages":"14-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1422074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35705109","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":"Direct payments and personal budgets: Putting personalization into practice.","authors":"Reviewed By Peter A Kindle","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1416717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1416717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"15 1","pages":"98-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1416717","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35670619","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 Families Experiencing Homelessness: Current Practices and Future Directions, edited by M. E. Haskett, S. Perlman, and B. A. Cowan","authors":"Daniel Horn","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1386601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1386601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"218 1","pages":"459 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75613399","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":"Reentry Program and Social Work Education: Training the Next Generation of Criminal Justice Social Workers.","authors":"Nancy D Franke,&nbsp;Dan Treglia,&nbsp;Ram A Cnaan","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1367345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1367345","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Social work plays a marginal role in opposing the trend of mass incarceration and high rates of recidivism, and social work education offers limited opportunities for students to specialize in working with people who are currently or were previously incarcerated. How to train students of social work to work against mass-incarceration is still challenging.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors devised and implemented an in-school social service agency devoted to working with people pre and post release from a prison system. The agency is a field practicum setting where interested students study and practice reentry work. In this article, the authors describe and assess the educational merit of this in-school agency.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings from surveys of students and alumni suggest that the program attained its educational goals of connecting classroom education to practice experience and training students for careers in the criminal justice system. The authors also discuss pending challenges.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The experience of the Goldring Reentry Initiative suggests that by developing their own social work agencies, the authors may be able to heighten their students educational experience and expand their contribution to social work practice broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"14 6","pages":"409-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1367345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35507064","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":"Personal Accounts of Poverty: A Thematic Analysis of Social Media.","authors":"Mary A Caplan,&nbsp;Gregory Purser,&nbsp;Peter A Kindle","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1380547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1380547","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The field of social work seeks to enhance human well-being by addressing the needs of people living in poverty. Three billion people around the world use the internet daily, and 65% of them use social media. This article qualitatively identifies emergent themes about the lived experiences of poverty from people who reported either being poor or having have been poor, using selected social media posts (N = 1,495) on the website Reddit. We found that the experiences of poverty bring arduousness and hardship, which necessitates an arsenal of survival strategies and skills. It was also found that some people who were poor experienced the saving grace of unexpected charitable acts, which eased their burden. Moreover, these experiences manifest in vestigial feelings and behaviors even when one is no longer poor. An understanding of the lived experiences by poor people themselves is a foundational task for social work educators, practitioners, and researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"14 6","pages":"433-456"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1380547","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35555536","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":"Practice Evaluation Strategies Among Social Workers: Why an Evidence-Informed Dual-Process Theory Still Matters.","authors":"Thomas D Davis","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1367344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1367344","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Practice evaluation strategies range in style from the formal-analytic tools of single-subject designs, rapid assessment instruments, algorithmic steps in evidence-informed practice, and computer software applications, to the informal-interactive tools of clinical supervision, consultation with colleagues, use of client feedback, and clinical experience. The purpose of this article is to provide practice researchers in social work with an evidence-informed theory that is capable of explaining both how and why social workers use practice evaluation strategies to self-monitor the effectiveness of their interventions in terms of client change. The author delineates the theoretical contours and consequences of what is called dual-process theory. Drawing on evidence-informed advances in the cognitive and social neurosciences, the author identifies among everyday social workers a theoretically stable, informal-interactive tool preference that is a cognitively necessary, sufficient, and stand-alone preference that requires neither the supplementation nor balance of formal-analytic tools. The author's delineation of dual-process theory represents a theoretical contribution in the century-old attempt to understand how and why social workers evaluate their practice the way they do.</p>","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"14 6","pages":"389-408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1367344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35398718","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":"Prevalence of Sexual Assault Victimization Among College Men, Aged 18-24: A Review.","authors":"R Lane Forsman","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1369204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1369204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The current review provides summary and evaluation of prevalence data for the sexual victimization of college men ages 18 - 24.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Potential studies were selected by searching electronic bibliographic databases. Studies were initially selected for inclusion if they (1) assessed prevalence rates of sexual victimization on college campuses and (2) were published in a scholarly journal (3) in the English language. Utilizing this strategy, 3,973 studies were initially identified, of which 5 underwent complete review.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All 5 studies returned results for sexual victimization of men on college campuses. However, identified prevalence data varies widely from 3.2% - 28.7% of the males surveyed. When incapacitation as a form of victimization was included in the study, college men as a whole appear to be most vulnerable to this form of sexual violence, though sexual minority males may have more heterogeneous experiences of victimization.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Conceptualization of sexual victimization and wording of items attempting to assess prevalence rates likely lead to underestimation of true prevalence. Even with an incomplete understanding of prevalence, results suggest that continuing to assess prevalence may not be the most pressing need at this time. Research into the kinds of victimization college men face as well as education, prevention, and intervention within these areas may likely do more to positively advance the knowledge base.</p>","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"14 6","pages":"421-432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1369204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35343171","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":"Research Methods in Child Welfare, by A. J. L. Baker and B. J. Charvat","authors":"Christopher J. Wretman","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1374224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1374224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"36 1","pages":"457 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87170975","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 Center for Evidence Based Practices at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University.","authors":"Lenore A Kola,&nbsp;Debra R Hrouda,&nbsp;Patrick E Boyle,&nbsp;Paul Kubek","doi":"10.1080/23761407.2017.1357515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1357515","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP), a multidisciplinary center located at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS), has been in operation for the past 17 years. It is a joint project of MSASS and the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and funded primarily through the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, as well as a variety of contractual agreements with agencies throughout the state and the country. The CEBP provides technical assistance for service innovations that improve quality of life and other outcomes for people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Clinical and programmatic consultation, as well as training, are provided to both public and private agencies to help them build capacity to implement and sustain research-supported interventions practices. CEBP staff also provide instruction to students in the classroom and field experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":90893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evidence-informed social work","volume":"14 5","pages":"368-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23761407.2017.1357515","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35392235","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}