Pub Date : 2022-03-06DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2048590
Ann M. Aviles
ABSTRACT This paper advances a critical conceptual discussion and paradigm shift regarding the preparation of human and social service students. This work looks to make apparent the racial and class realities of preparing a primarily white, female, upper/middle-class human service professional to work in a field that overwhelmingly serves poor Black and Brown communities. The frameworks/concepts of The Racial Contract, Structural Competency, and The nonprofit Industrial Complex are employed to examine and understand social systems and structures of pertinence to human services. Finally, implications for human services, both in terms of human service curricula and practice are considered.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2042928
Arjun Rajkhowa, S. Dhanji, Sunita Kotnala
ABSTRACT Dowry-related abuse and intimate-partner violence among Indian immigrants in Australia have received considerable attention in the national media in recent years. Media reportage and commentary on these issues have highlighted the testimonies and experiences of migrants who have faced dowry-related abuse and intimate-partner violence, untangling the complex context-specific issues (around culture and matrimony, and migration pathways, among others) that such testimonies raise. Demands for state intervention in response to emerging concerns about dowry-related abuse among Indian migrants in Australia have dominated public discourse on the issue. This article comments on the emergence of discourses prioritizing state intervention in this domain, highlighting the views of community and government representatives, and discussing the authors’ perspectives on the implications of these emergent discussions for practitioners in health and human services.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2037121
A. Jacob
ABSTRACT A looming question for U.S. social policy is whether the over 50-year old federal poverty measure paints an accurate picture of the poor in America today. A panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), commissioned by Congress to address the key shortcomings of the federal measure, proposed an alternative poverty measure in the early 1990s that laid the groundwork for the Supplemental Poverty Measure adopted in 2010. However, while, internationally, poverty scholars have argued that poverty is more aptly understood as a constellation of deprivations – a multi-dimensional concept, U.S. poverty measurement continues to focus on economic deprivation. Amartya Sen’s groundbreaking capability approach that focuses on individuals’ capacities provides the framework for the author-created multi-dimensional poverty index encompassing three dimensions Sen considers intrinsically valuable capabilities: education, health, and living standard. Drawing on publically available secondary data, this study adopts a comparative framework to examine national-level racial differences in profiles of poverty, pre-and post-the Great Recession (2005–2010), based on the federal poverty measure, the NAS measure, and the proposed multi-dimensional measure. This multi-dimensional perspective thus offers insights into the type of capability disadvantages contributing to poverty among the citizenry by race.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2037821
Sam Coleman
Among its guarantees of physical and mental well-being, a just and healthy society provides its people self-determination in reproduction. For women, control over reproduction is key to attaining well-being and equality with men, but the United States falls woefully below that ideal today, and the flashpoint of struggle for improvement is the availability of induced abortion. Despite the commonality of abortion in today’s America – at least one in four women will have had one in her lifetime (Jones & Jerman, 2017) – arguments about the procedure are as bitter as ever, and an ideological fog obscures crucial facts and concepts concerning abortion’s significance for women and their families.
{"title":"Abortion, Science, and Morality in the Turnaway Study: New Perspectives for the Helping Professions","authors":"Sam Coleman","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2022.2037821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2022.2037821","url":null,"abstract":"Among its guarantees of physical and mental well-being, a just and healthy society provides its people self-determination in reproduction. For women, control over reproduction is key to attaining well-being and equality with men, but the United States falls woefully below that ideal today, and the flashpoint of struggle for improvement is the availability of induced abortion. Despite the commonality of abortion in today’s America – at least one in four women will have had one in her lifetime (Jones & Jerman, 2017) – arguments about the procedure are as bitter as ever, and an ideological fog obscures crucial facts and concepts concerning abortion’s significance for women and their families.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42349387","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2042925
Ragini Saira Malhotra
{"title":"“JPHS Special Issue - The Politics of Policing: Global and Comparative Perspectives”","authors":"Ragini Saira Malhotra","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2022.2042925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2022.2042925","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43503694","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2021.2012742
Jason M Sawyer, Shane R. Brady
ABSTRACT Increasingly diversity practice skills are imperative to socially just practice in community. Conceptually driven constructs and approaches grounded in ideology dominate practice across difference in communities. This project centers a setting historically challenged by urban renewal, segregation, racism, and systemic oppression. Using critical grounded theory, authors develop a tentative practice theory to forge alliances across differences of power, identity, orientation, and/or culture from data derived in practice. Findings expose three core process dimensions: knowledge development, quality communication, and relationship care; key guiding components, practical skills, and barriers in each to guide evidence-informed community practice and expand the diversity practice lexicon.
{"title":"A Critical Community Practice Theory for Forging Alliances across Difference","authors":"Jason M Sawyer, Shane R. Brady","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2021.2012742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2021.2012742","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Increasingly diversity practice skills are imperative to socially just practice in community. Conceptually driven constructs and approaches grounded in ideology dominate practice across difference in communities. This project centers a setting historically challenged by urban renewal, segregation, racism, and systemic oppression. Using critical grounded theory, authors develop a tentative practice theory to forge alliances across differences of power, identity, orientation, and/or culture from data derived in practice. Findings expose three core process dimensions: knowledge development, quality communication, and relationship care; key guiding components, practical skills, and barriers in each to guide evidence-informed community practice and expand the diversity practice lexicon.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46610639","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2056866
Alexis Jemal, Liliane Windsor, Christina Inyang, Christina Pierre-Noel
There has been an increased focus on utilizing critical consciousness-focused interventions to address complex, multidimensional socio-cultural problems, particularly health inequities. These interventions usually incorporate a critical dialogue component. However, there's little guidance on how to implement, facilitate and evaluate critical dialogue to develop critical consciousness (i.e., reflecting and acting on sociopolitical inequities). This conceptual paper: 1) introduces critical dialogue and the tools used to implement critical dialogue from the literature; 2) details the development of the Community Wise intervention to present how Community Wise incorporated a critical dialogue component; 3) provides a brief overview of a proposed framework of critical consciousness development that the critical dialogue component of Community Wise could support; 4) provides an anecdotal exploration of the critical dialogue sessions used in the first pilot test of the intervention through the proposed framework of Transformative Consciousness; and 5) suggests practice guidelines for group work that incorporates facilitated critical dialogue.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-03DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2021.2007456
Karen MacPhee, Lynsey Wilson Norrad
ABSTRACT Mad studies focuses on the lived experiences of people involved with the mental health system, a system that is structured so that well-intentioned social workers can become complicit in the oppression of individuals with “mental illness.” Mad studies offers social work an alternative to the biomedical construction of mental health. This autoethnography explores the ways in which two seasoned social workers and graduate students experienced a Mad studies informed social justice class. Through the use of journal entries and discussion, we explore the process of learning new ways of thinking and working alongside individuals from a more socially just perspective.
{"title":"Learning and Unlearning: Two Social Workers’ Autoethnographic Exploration into Mad Studies","authors":"Karen MacPhee, Lynsey Wilson Norrad","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2021.2007456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2021.2007456","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mad studies focuses on the lived experiences of people involved with the mental health system, a system that is structured so that well-intentioned social workers can become complicit in the oppression of individuals with “mental illness.” Mad studies offers social work an alternative to the biomedical construction of mental health. This autoethnography explores the ways in which two seasoned social workers and graduate students experienced a Mad studies informed social justice class. Through the use of journal entries and discussion, we explore the process of learning new ways of thinking and working alongside individuals from a more socially just perspective.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45831227","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}
Pub Date : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2021.2006538
Ryan F. Savino
ABSTRACT The scale of homelessness in the United States is a product of systematic political and economic restructuring. Austerity politics thrive in an environment that obscures these historical realities. Examining the devolution of homeless services not only illuminates the myriad paradoxes embedded in fiscal conservativism–it also provides a blueprint for reform. COVID-19 has only accentuated inequality and stirred social unrest. Nevertheless, these forces have failed to overturn entrenched power structures. As a necessity for sustaining life, a means of accumulating wealth, and inroads to social capital, housing is key to creating a more equitable post-COVID world.
{"title":"Homelessness and the Paradox of Welfare Austerity: Echoes from History in the Era of COVID-19","authors":"Ryan F. Savino","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2021.2006538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2021.2006538","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The scale of homelessness in the United States is a product of systematic political and economic restructuring. Austerity politics thrive in an environment that obscures these historical realities. Examining the devolution of homeless services not only illuminates the myriad paradoxes embedded in fiscal conservativism–it also provides a blueprint for reform. COVID-19 has only accentuated inequality and stirred social unrest. Nevertheless, these forces have failed to overturn entrenched power structures. As a necessity for sustaining life, a means of accumulating wealth, and inroads to social capital, housing is key to creating a more equitable post-COVID world.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46781805","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}
Pub Date : 2021-11-12DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2021.1987736
Zion Barnetz, Shira Gefen,
ABSTRACT The mental health survivors movement, composed of former and current mental health service consumers- turned activists is one of the most promising innovative and subversive phenomenon in the field of mental health (source, year). Although scholarly writing on this movement is slowly cumulating, much more empirical and theoretical work is needed to further our understanding of, and ability to learn from, this pioneering movement. Acknowledging mental health survivors as a population under continuous repression, and recognizing the various benefits of activism and of attempts at resistance, the current study endeavors to promote understanding of the process involved in mental health survivors’ transition from service consumers to activists. To approach this aim, the Present study explored the personal journey of ten Israeli mental health survivors-turned-activists. The findings describe difficult and crushing encounters with the mental health system. Participants describe a process of continuous experiences of dehumanization and humiliation leading survivors to the understanding that the system will not meet their needs and wants, but rather that they must develop their own voice, conceptions, and ways of coping. This understanding stands as a basis for a new look at one’s need and wants, which is manifested as developing more efficient and autonomous ways of coping, including through as social activism. The findings and discussion stress the challenges facing the professional community to confront the harsh and disturbing testimonies provided by mental health Survivors, and call upon professionals, both practitioners and researchers, to search for ways to cooperate with these novel attempts at change.
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