Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1682432
Eunjung Lee, Rupaleem Bhuyan
ABSTRACT Applying selected psychoanalytic constructs from Freud and Klein to recent pervasive rhetoric around anti-immigration in the United States, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of media and policy representations of immigrants in recent news coverage in the United States regarding the Trump Administration’s response to (1) asylum claims related to domestic violence and gang violence and (2) undocumented immigrants. We illustrate how feared bad object/immigrants are constructed alongside the imagined good object/nationalism, as exemplified by Trump’s motto – “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). We argue how this paranoid-schizoid position reifies racism veiled under nationalism and discuss how social workers could work together toward the depressive position re-imagining America-as-the-whole.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1682400
B. Rasmussen, Ann Marie Garran
ABSTRACT Understanding unconscious dynamics of racism is essential to considering some of the challenges inherent in providing therapeutic services when differences abound. Beyond ideas of cultural competency, this paper theoretically explores the possible dynamic interactions that occur below the surface of conscious efforts to help. Using the film Get Out as a case study, concepts of consciousness, double-consciousness, projection, projective identification, envy, and splitting illustrate a rich and complex unconscious dyadic interchange. The implications for various aspects of therapeutic involvement – from therapy to supervision to agencies practices – are explored.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1682393
L. Fleischer
ABSTRACT Psychoanalytic social work scholars lament the marginalization of psychodynamic theory in contemporary social work academia. Modern conflict theory applied to social work theories of pathogenesis and cure can serve as a means to explore this marginalization. Unconscious fantasy is important for understanding the resistance to psychodynamic theory in social work education. I offer some psychoanalytically informed strategies that might begin to restore psychodynamic theory in mainstream social work academia.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1686873
Eunjung Lee, B. Rasmussen
Understanding and supporting a person-in-environment (PIE) have been a center for social work practice (Kondrat, 2013). Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic approaches have contributed to our understanding of intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics in clinical social work practice,mostly in the realms of “the person” and the “environment,” of maternal functions, and family and group dynamics. Several scholars apply psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches to expand the scope of “environment” into the social issues (e.g., racism) and conflicts (e.g., hate crime and after-war reconciliation) on community, national, and international levels (Hirvoner, 2017; Rasmussen & Salhani, 2010; Zevnik, 2017). In this special issue, we like to align with this scholarship and further expand its scope to various levels of governing institutions (e.g., social work profession, media, schools, governments and laws), especially how psychodynamic approaches help social workers better understand diversity, power, and the working of the institutions in serving clients. Invigorating the “social” environment in social work from psychoanalysis and psychodynamic approaches, we draw from scholarships in socio-analysis. In a book titled On Socio-Analysis, Bain (1999) offered the definition of socioanalysis by drawing from Bion’s (1970) construct of “container and contained” which was originally used to explore phenomena in psychoanalysis but later used to explore group and institutional phenomena. Bain refers to socio-analysis as “the transformation process, or co-evolution, that occurs between organizational container and contained during socio-analytic consultancy” which can be used as “a measure of organizational learning” (p. 3).He further offers how this socio-analysis can be used in four senses as: (1) socio-analytic ideas and theory (a container for the practice of socio-analysis, and thinking socio-analytic thoughts), (2) design and methodology (for an exploration, e.g., for consultancy and action research, for studying small group behavior), (3) the institution (as a container for encouraging, and carrying out socio-analytic work), and (4) the individual (as a container for the
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1682425
Cathleen M. Morey
ABSTRACT Enactment is primarily conceptualized as a phenomenon occurring in the therapeutic dyad. This paper presents a relational construct of enactment as it manifests in the individual, interpersonal and organizational matrix of a clinical system. System enactments are ubiquitous phenomena that emerge with clients and staff in the relational field of a system that involves multiple participants with mutual and intersecting subjectivities; yet, there is little information about this type of enactment in the literature. This phenomenon often occurs in the context of power struggles and ruptures in the alliance with the client, and difficulties in the working relationships between treatment staff, which if not engaged, can result in negative therapeutic outcomes. A fictionalized case example demonstrates how this construct guides systems-based clinical practice. Implications for social work education, practice and training, and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1576466
M. Pruett, Ora Nakash, Elizabeth H. Welton, C. Cowan, P. Cowan, Peter Gillette
ABSTRACT The current study uses an initial intake interview as an assessment tool in the Supporting Father Involvement (SFI) intervention and considers it from a family systems theoretical perspective. SFI includes a 32-hour group for parents with young children that aims to reduce child abuse and promote family well-being through a curriculum focused on enhancing positive father involvement and coparenting. For this study, the initial clinical interview assessed partners’ synchronies and dissonance in parenting, coparenting, and relationship satisfaction domains. Using thematic analysis, we qualitatively analyzed interviews with 15 committed, heterosexual couples, exploring themes that correspond with higher versus lower couple satisfaction measured by the Quality of Marital Satisfaction Index. Results showed a strong concordance between partners’ satisfaction scores, with fathers less satisfied than mothers. Thematic differences between higher and lower satisfaction parents centered on approach to discipline, coparenting communication, and quality of support systems. The importance of father involvement and fathers as “learning” parents and coparents were recurring themes for mothers and fathers, especially among higher satisfaction couples. Higher substance abuse and employment/financial stress were indicative of lower satisfaction couples. Discussion reflects on the utility of an initial clinical interview as an assessment and intervention planning tool and future directions for research.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1601915
S. Friedman
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of systemic racism on an interracial therapeutic dyad between a white therapist and an African American adolescent male. Leary (2000) operationalized the term “racial enactments” and made the important point that its “most common” manifestation “has been our relative silence about racial issues” (p. 647). It is the premise of this paper that the youth of color’s subjective experience of racial microaggressions and assaults experienced on a daily basis must be validated and explored prior to a meaningful intersubjective exploration in the clinical encounter. The emphasis in this paper is on the racial enactment that precedes the clinical encounter. A treatment vignette is used to highlight the intersection of social and psychic spheres of human experience and how an awareness of unconscious bias in the therapist can facilitate a more meaningful dialogue in which priority is given to the emergence of a powerful client narrative voice.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1601917
Kyle T. Ganson, Johnnie Hamilton-Mason
ABSTRACT This study aimed to explore the experiences of clinicians working with fathers caring for a child experiencing an eating disorder. A phenomenological qualitative method was used to answer the question: What do clinicians with experiences working with male caregivers perceive to be barriers to male caregiver involvement in effectively caring for someone experiencing an eating disorder? Ten participants were interviewed for this study, and multiple themes were uncovered that identified significant barriers and interventions for father involvement in caregiving. Interview excerpts, accompanied by a thick description of the clinician’s lived experiences with male caregivers, are presented to enliven the data.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1577046
Rana Hong, Terry B. Northcut, M. Spira, P. Y. Hong
ABSTRACT Acknowledging the scarcity of a bottom up social work practice model in facilitating the development of success in workforce development programs, this study explores Psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) as an emerging social work practice theory. Phenomenological studies of low-income jobseekers in employment training along with the empirical validation of measures of the core constructs of PSS – employment hope scale (EHS) and perceived employment barrier scale (PEBS) – and testing of the theoretical model resulted in the emergence of a new theory of PSS. PSS was conceptually defined as a dynamic and internal drive that activates the process of transforming cognitively and affectively perceived barriers into hope driven action – the process that enables individuals to move forward toward goals. Based on the evidence of PSS, a participant-centered group intervention model called transforming impossible into possible (TIP) program was developed. This article delineates the trajectory of PSS theory development by critically reviewing various streams of practice theories influencing the PSS theory. Next, the conditions that necessitated the creation of the TIP program and its core principles underlying the functions of PSS are explained. By depicting the TIP program with direct quotes of clients’ experiences, authors exemplify the successful self-discovery process through enhanced PSS skills as a result of participating in the TIP program.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2019.1561010
Katharine J. Bloeser, R. Stewart
ABSTRACT Social workers increasingly practice in medical settings; however, there are few applications of clinical practice theories at their disposal. Using fictional composite cases based on the writers’ experiences in medical social work, the authors illustrate how clinical practice theories can be used in the assessment and treatment of Veterans. These cases illustrate real world applications of clinical practice theories for what is often seen as task-oriented work. The authors place case management or casework in medical settings within the confines of clinical social work and suggest clinical practice theories have important applications to these efforts.
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