Pub Date : 2021-02-25DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2021.1887790
Jeffrey T. Steen, S. L. Straussner, Evan Senreich
ABSTRACT Studies of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have found that childhood maltreatment can have a negative impact during adulthood. Little is known about ACEs among social workers and how these experiences impact their work. This paper presents qualitative data collected from a convenience sample of 1,828 licensed social workers from 13 states exploring the ways in which their ACEs, as reflected by their responses to the ACE inventory, influenced their decisions to become social workers and affected their work. Respondents indicated that their ACEs created interest in exploring their own and their clients’ family dynamics, helping others, engaging in their own therapy, understanding clients’ experiences, advocating for change, and seeking supervision, among other themes. Implications for social work education and practice are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-25DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2021.1878083
Nathalie Szilagyi, Christy L Olezeski
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful for many, increasing levels of anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns worldwide. With the spread of the virus, many youth found themselves physically isolated from their peers and confined to their homes, and medical and mental health services previously provided in person had to adapt by providing virtual sessions. The transition to virtual care created many new challenges for clinicians and patients, including some specific to transgender youth and their families. Pre-pandemic, transgender youth comprised a marginalized and vulnerable population, with elevated risk for adverse mental health outcomes. However, community support, strong group identification and family affirmation can serve as important mitigating factors. In this paper, we will discuss unique challenges encountered in working with the parents and caregivers of transgender youth during virtual visits that have the potential to interfere with development of a therapeutic alliance and the movement toward increased family acceptance. We will provide clinical case examples and propose methods through which to address difficulties and improve care.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2021.1873895
Temimah Zucker, D. Pollack
ABSTRACT Individuals struggling with eating disorder diagnoses purse higher levels of care to treat the medical, behavioral, and psychiatric aspects of their disorders. The criteria for coverage at a higher level of care often overlooks the holistic nature of treatment required for long-lasting recovery. The following piece will explore clinical information related to the true nature of an eating disorder, criteria for insurance coverage, and specific cases that show denials of care and the implication for clients seeking out support as well as an outline of necessary changes.
{"title":"Are Clients Being Improperly Denied Coverage for an Eating Disorder When in a Residential Treatment Center?","authors":"Temimah Zucker, D. Pollack","doi":"10.1080/00377317.2021.1873895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2021.1873895","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Individuals struggling with eating disorder diagnoses purse higher levels of care to treat the medical, behavioral, and psychiatric aspects of their disorders. The criteria for coverage at a higher level of care often overlooks the holistic nature of treatment required for long-lasting recovery. The following piece will explore clinical information related to the true nature of an eating disorder, criteria for insurance coverage, and specific cases that show denials of care and the implication for clients seeking out support as well as an outline of necessary changes.","PeriodicalId":45273,"journal":{"name":"SMITH COLLEGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":"91 1","pages":"75 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00377317.2021.1873895","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44394633","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 : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2020.1867699
Sharon Saline
ABSTRACT COVID shelter-in-place directives have increased stress families of kids who are alternative learners–those with ADHD, ASD and LD. Already struggling to manage emotions, to begin and finish home and school tasks and maintain social connections, these kids have lost critical in-person academic, therapeutic and peer support systems. Meanwhile, tension at home has increased as parents, untrained in special education and often dealing with their own attention and learning challenges, have to deal with work, financial and housing responsibilities while tutoring their children without necessary training. Increased anxiety, higher levels of reactivity and persistent disappointment further complicate family relationships. Interventions to help families of kids who are neurodiverse, alternative learners are most effective when they rely on the 5 C’s method of successful ADHD parenting. Working together for effective solutions based on meaningful incentives reduces family conflict, improves kids’ participation and fosters parent-child cooperation. When therapists apply this model and assist families in using it, they strengthen emotional attunement and shift the family narrative away from problem-saturated thinking toward resilience and thriving.
{"title":"Thriving in the New Normal: How COVID-19 has Affected Alternative Learners and Their Families and Implementing Effective, Creative Therapeutic Interventions","authors":"Sharon Saline","doi":"10.1080/00377317.2020.1867699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2020.1867699","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID shelter-in-place directives have increased stress families of kids who are alternative learners–those with ADHD, ASD and LD. Already struggling to manage emotions, to begin and finish home and school tasks and maintain social connections, these kids have lost critical in-person academic, therapeutic and peer support systems. Meanwhile, tension at home has increased as parents, untrained in special education and often dealing with their own attention and learning challenges, have to deal with work, financial and housing responsibilities while tutoring their children without necessary training. Increased anxiety, higher levels of reactivity and persistent disappointment further complicate family relationships. Interventions to help families of kids who are neurodiverse, alternative learners are most effective when they rely on the 5 C’s method of successful ADHD parenting. Working together for effective solutions based on meaningful incentives reduces family conflict, improves kids’ participation and fosters parent-child cooperation. When therapists apply this model and assist families in using it, they strengthen emotional attunement and shift the family narrative away from problem-saturated thinking toward resilience and thriving.","PeriodicalId":45273,"journal":{"name":"SMITH COLLEGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":"91 1","pages":"1 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00377317.2020.1867699","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48942215","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 : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2020.1867030
R. Crath, Hannah E. Karpman, J. Mull, Leigh-Anne Francis
ABSTRACT Although Trans women of color experience unique stressors to their physical and mental health and bring distinctive survival and resistance strategies to a therapeutic relationship, they are widely underrepresented in the clinical literature. This paper presents a case of a Black transfeminine youth in an urban area, offering questions brought forward to a clinical consultation during the Covid 19 pandemic. It situates the case in the history of Black Trans subjugation It then examines the case from three theoretical perspectives: psychoanalytic thought, queer of color critique, and a neurobiological perspective. The case is interpreted through each theoretical lens, offering both an understanding of the presenting issues as well as implications for treatment planning. The perspectives are then integrated, offering an example of how one might use a synthesis of perspectives in conversation with each other to best conceptualize and plan for treatment.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-08DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2020.1859432
D. Brend, H. Macintosh
Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) social workers are at elevated risk of developing post-traumatic stress resulting from ongoing exposure to potentially distressing client disclosures. Workplace social support (WSS) may play a role in moderating that risk. This study used the interpretive phenomenological analysis approach to gain understanding about the phenomenon of WSS from the perspective of IPV social workers. Perceptions of having received WSS, or that WSS was available, were formed by worker’s specific needs being met and by their having access to support people with disciplinary skills. The theory of mentalization is advanced here as a framework from which to understand the processes leading to IPV social worker perceptions of WSS. Implications for social work practice and further research are presented.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2020.1832943
Mally Shechory-Bitton, Odelia Gimani
ABSTRACT Evacuation of Jewish settlements was and still is a controversial issue within Israeli society and elsewhere. The dispute is between those who support it and those who call for their continued establishment and annexation to the State of Israel. The purpose of this study is to explore the factors related to the readiness of Jewish young adults to participate in acts of protest, as well as to break the law, for ideological reasons. 224 young adults completed a demographic questionnaire and questionnaires measuring social control, self-control, impulsivity, ideology, and relationships to national institutions. Two different and distinct models for predicting readiness to take part in protest activities against policy decisions that contradict one’s religious-ideological outlook were found: One for predicting readiness to act legally and the other for predicting readiness to act illegally. The findings show that despite the significance of ideological views for involvement in ideological delinquency, formal and informal supervisory factors carry considerable weight in preventing delinquency.
{"title":"Readiness to Break the Law among Ideological Young Adults in Contested Israeli Settlements","authors":"Mally Shechory-Bitton, Odelia Gimani","doi":"10.1080/00377317.2020.1832943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2020.1832943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Evacuation of Jewish settlements was and still is a controversial issue within Israeli society and elsewhere. The dispute is between those who support it and those who call for their continued establishment and annexation to the State of Israel. The purpose of this study is to explore the factors related to the readiness of Jewish young adults to participate in acts of protest, as well as to break the law, for ideological reasons. 224 young adults completed a demographic questionnaire and questionnaires measuring social control, self-control, impulsivity, ideology, and relationships to national institutions. Two different and distinct models for predicting readiness to take part in protest activities against policy decisions that contradict one’s religious-ideological outlook were found: One for predicting readiness to act legally and the other for predicting readiness to act illegally. The findings show that despite the significance of ideological views for involvement in ideological delinquency, formal and informal supervisory factors carry considerable weight in preventing delinquency.","PeriodicalId":45273,"journal":{"name":"SMITH COLLEGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":"90 1","pages":"268 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00377317.2020.1832943","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48085692","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 : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2020.1819938
M. Cheung, C. Leung
ABSTRACT Using simulated laughter, clients follow laughing patterns without using memory recalls or associating with any thinking or feeling. This practice update describes laughter yoga as a social work intervention. It demonstrates the functions, principles, and procedures of laughter yoga to help clients alleviate stress and at the same time enable social workers to practice with the clients as a self-care exercise during an emotionally intensive session. A composite case is used to demonstrate how the social worker used laughter yoga as an exercise with Mrs. X, a patient with cancer. The outcomes, in this case, are used to show the method and its procedures rather than evaluating efficacy. It suggests that social workers may benefit from utilizing laughter yoga as an intervention. Future research should address its effectiveness by measuring beta-endorphin increases for relaxation and improvement in social bonding.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2020.1820422
C. G. Hudson
ABSTRACT In its extended history, social progress has become a metanarrative of the western world, one that has been both extolled and more recently pervasively dismissed. This review examines this history, including efforts to resurrect the concept, both through global research and within social work. Specifically, the advancement of social progress is incorporated as a central rationale of the Grand Challenges for Social Work. The problems inherent in the concept, particularly its nexus with economic inequality, as well as the many documented advances in social progress, form the basis for several implications for the Grand Challenges that are reviewed here. These include the need for a clearer conceptualization and expansion in the challenges to explicitly include quality of life, economic and racial justice, and mental health issues, and a more systematic integration of empirical methods into the initiative itself, such as a monitoring of the success of its 12 challenges. In addition, addressing the Grand Challenges will require the continued development of an array of social work practices aimed at both individual and systemic change.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2020.1834489
A. Lipscomb, Wendy Ashley
ABSTRACT I CAN’T BREATHE! Social distance! I CAN’T BREATHE! Stay six feet apart! I CAN’T BREATHE! Make sure you wash your hands! I CAN’T BREATHEEEE! When can I schedule a session? The duality of being Black in America and a mental health professional during a global pandemic is stressful enough; however, coupled with a simultaneous racial pandemic, the intrapsychic, interpersonal and professional responsibilities feel incessant. This article seeks to explore the lived experiences of two Black mental health professionals residing and providing clinical services in Los Angeles County during a dual pandemic. Utilizing autoethnography methodology, the authors will reflect upon their personal and professional experiences of being Black and a mental health provider during a dual pandemic. Special attention will be allocated to unpacking issues of systemic racism, White supremacy, White fragility, anti-racism and third space oppression while providing clinical services to White and Black clients and attempting to engage in ongoing self-care activities. In addition, the authors will explore recommendations examining the nexus between racial identity, social location and professional expectations during a dual pandemic.
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