Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2229621
Eileen A. Dombo
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2223144
Melissa D. Grady, Brooks Zitzmann, Katherine P. Gilles, Shannon McNeil
ABSTRACT Child sexual abuse (CSA) impacts individuals and communities in numerous ways, including their faith. This study’s aim was to learn from individuals who have an interest and/or expertise in spirituality and CSA about how various groups can support those impacted by CSA. The participants (n = 76) took part in a symposium focused on this topic and responded to an online survey with open-ended questions. Three themes emerged: negative impacts, direct response, and institutional changes. Using these responses, a model for Spiritually Informed Care is described, and implications for practice for those who work with those who have been impacted by CSA.
{"title":"Guidelines for Spiritually Informed Care for Individuals who have Experienced Sexual Abuse","authors":"Melissa D. Grady, Brooks Zitzmann, Katherine P. Gilles, Shannon McNeil","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2223144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2223144","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Child sexual abuse (CSA) impacts individuals and communities in numerous ways, including their faith. This study’s aim was to learn from individuals who have an interest and/or expertise in spirituality and CSA about how various groups can support those impacted by CSA. The participants (n = 76) took part in a symposium focused on this topic and responded to an online survey with open-ended questions. Three themes emerged: negative impacts, direct response, and institutional changes. Using these responses, a model for Spiritually Informed Care is described, and implications for practice for those who work with those who have been impacted by CSA.","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78443476","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 : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2206803
Logan Knight, Njeri Kagotho
ABSTRACT Sub-Saharan Africa reports high rates of human trafficking including child soldiers, sex trafficking, forced domestic labor, and ritual enslavement. In some countries, a majority of agencies who provide anti-trafficking specific services are faith-based organizations serving local communities. The shared value of social justice expressed by both religious organizations and the social work profession presents opportunities for collaborations in this field. However, there exist many gaps in the literature on faith-based anti-trafficking interventions, including best practices, program evaluation, and strategies to improve multi-sector collaborations. This research employs a scoping review to map peer-reviewed publications on faith-based organizations in anti-trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa. We examine the types of faith-based organizations providing services in this field, identify the trafficking sectors addressed, and the interventions offered. Informed by the findings of this review, we provide a research roadmap to promote multi-sector anti-slavery collaborations with the goal of maximizing the pool of resources available to both faith-based organizations and social work researchers and practitioners. Indeed, deliberate engagement built on shared values could bolster provision of localized and responsive survivor-centered services in the region.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2208493
Eileen A. Dombo
{"title":"Continuing the work: exploring intersections of religion, spirituality, and social work","authors":"Eileen A. Dombo","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2208493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2208493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88555491","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 : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2200363
Veliska J. Thomas, S. Bowie, Chesney J. Ward
ABSTRACT Religious values have played a historic role in African American society. The impact of religious values on social bonds among African American adults is assessed in this study. The quantitative study investigates the strength of religious values and social bonds among a sample of African Americans employed at a public housing agency. Key variables were measured using religious values and individual bond scale. The purposive sample (N = 188) was equally African American male and female, ranging in age from 26–68 years (mean = 51.2). Data analysis included frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, reliability assessment, correlations, and t-test for independent samples. Women demonstrated stronger religious values and had more significant correlates between religious values and social bond variables. The study supports previous research about religious commitment in the Black community and suggests a connection between church commitment, social support, and social bonding with African Americans. Social work practitioners increasingly encourage the utilization and incorporation of religious values and social bonds to empower African American women, but the current study findings warrant caution about making the same assumptions when working with African American men versus women. Future research should explore the important differences that were discovered in the current study between men and women vis-a-vis religious values and social bonds.
{"title":"Assessing the impact of religious values on social bonds among African American adults: implications for social work practice","authors":"Veliska J. Thomas, S. Bowie, Chesney J. Ward","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2200363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2200363","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Religious values have played a historic role in African American society. The impact of religious values on social bonds among African American adults is assessed in this study. The quantitative study investigates the strength of religious values and social bonds among a sample of African Americans employed at a public housing agency. Key variables were measured using religious values and individual bond scale. The purposive sample (N = 188) was equally African American male and female, ranging in age from 26–68 years (mean = 51.2). Data analysis included frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, reliability assessment, correlations, and t-test for independent samples. Women demonstrated stronger religious values and had more significant correlates between religious values and social bond variables. The study supports previous research about religious commitment in the Black community and suggests a connection between church commitment, social support, and social bonding with African Americans. Social work practitioners increasingly encourage the utilization and incorporation of religious values and social bonds to empower African American women, but the current study findings warrant caution about making the same assumptions when working with African American men versus women. Future research should explore the important differences that were discovered in the current study between men and women vis-a-vis religious values and social bonds.","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87301139","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 : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2193938
David Fagg
ABSTRACT The youth sector in Australia has secularized considerably over the past five decades, yet many active Christians choose to work within it. Despite Australia’s increasingly multi-faith society, little Australian youth work research exists that would explain how these Christians understand the relationship between their personal faith and their professional role, nor how they integrate the two in practice. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 29 Christian youth workers, this article seeks to remedy this gap. It asks: (1) How do Christians in the secular youth work sector understand the place of their faith within their professional role?; and (2) how do they practice “care” and “dialogical evangelism” as practical expressions of their faith? The article finds that Christians in secular youth work tend to view the nexus between faith and youth work through the theological motif of imago Dei. They see the practical expression of their faith, first, as one of “care” which flows from their theological belief of imago Dei. Second, they value conversation about faith with young people, but place the agency of young people at the center of these discussions, in a practice of “dialogical evangelism.” The article concludes by discussing the implications for educators and academics.
{"title":"Christians in secular youth work : Harmony and tension in the expression of faith","authors":"David Fagg","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2193938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2193938","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The youth sector in Australia has secularized considerably over the past five decades, yet many active Christians choose to work within it. Despite Australia’s increasingly multi-faith society, little Australian youth work research exists that would explain how these Christians understand the relationship between their personal faith and their professional role, nor how they integrate the two in practice. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 29 Christian youth workers, this article seeks to remedy this gap. It asks: (1) How do Christians in the secular youth work sector understand the place of their faith within their professional role?; and (2) how do they practice “care” and “dialogical evangelism” as practical expressions of their faith? The article finds that Christians in secular youth work tend to view the nexus between faith and youth work through the theological motif of imago Dei. They see the practical expression of their faith, first, as one of “care” which flows from their theological belief of imago Dei. Second, they value conversation about faith with young people, but place the agency of young people at the center of these discussions, in a practice of “dialogical evangelism.” The article concludes by discussing the implications for educators and academics.","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84666867","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 : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2193965
Edward C. Polson, Holly K. Oxhandler, Sarah Selman, Courtney L. K. Haworth
ABSTRACT Throughout social work’s history, scholars have debated the impact religiously affiliated colleges and universities have on social work education. Some have viewed religious affiliation as an asset contributing to training in values and ethics, while others question whether institutions’ religious commitments conflict with professional values. To date, no national study has examined the perceived influence that institutions’ religious affiliation has on Master of Social Work (MSW) programs. Drawing upon data from a national survey of MSW faculty across the United States, we begin to address this gap. Results reveal several ways faculty perceive their institutions’ religious cultures influence education and training on social work competencies.
{"title":"Examining the influence of colleges’ and universities’ religious affiliation on graduate social work education in the United States","authors":"Edward C. Polson, Holly K. Oxhandler, Sarah Selman, Courtney L. K. Haworth","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2193965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2193965","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Throughout social work’s history, scholars have debated the impact religiously affiliated colleges and universities have on social work education. Some have viewed religious affiliation as an asset contributing to training in values and ethics, while others question whether institutions’ religious commitments conflict with professional values. To date, no national study has examined the perceived influence that institutions’ religious affiliation has on Master of Social Work (MSW) programs. Drawing upon data from a national survey of MSW faculty across the United States, we begin to address this gap. Results reveal several ways faculty perceive their institutions’ religious cultures influence education and training on social work competencies.","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75848473","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 : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2188511
Sarah Maes, M. Schrooten, P. Raeymaeckers, B. Broeckaert
ABSTRACT In this paper, we present the results of our scoping review on the literature (2010–2021) on faith-based organizations (FBOs) active in the field of poverty alleviation. We focus on the different typologies that are used to study FBOs. Because not all articles use an existing typology or develop a new one, we also collected and studied the variables that are used in the articles to distinguish different types of FBOs. Our research shows that the field of faith-based organizations is simply too complex and diverse to allow the construction of an overarching typology. Therefore, we present a new way to study this type of social work actors by proposing a set of four categories (Religion, Solidarity, Organization and Location) and nineteen variables to use as a heuristic tool in future research.
{"title":"Faith Based Organizations: Types and Typologies. A Scoping Review (2010-2021)","authors":"Sarah Maes, M. Schrooten, P. Raeymaeckers, B. Broeckaert","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2188511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2188511","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we present the results of our scoping review on the literature (2010–2021) on faith-based organizations (FBOs) active in the field of poverty alleviation. We focus on the different typologies that are used to study FBOs. Because not all articles use an existing typology or develop a new one, we also collected and studied the variables that are used in the articles to distinguish different types of FBOs. Our research shows that the field of faith-based organizations is simply too complex and diverse to allow the construction of an overarching typology. Therefore, we present a new way to study this type of social work actors by proposing a set of four categories (Religion, Solidarity, Organization and Location) and nineteen variables to use as a heuristic tool in future research.","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77370366","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 : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2167255
Farzana Ashraf, Gull Zareen, Murat Yıldırım
ABSTRACT In the present study, two mediational mechanisms, religious self-regulation and self-determination, were hypothesized to account for the relationship between self-resilience and conflict management strategies across a sample of Muslim international students in Pakistan. This correlational study collected data from a university-based sample of 330 young adults (Mage = 22.53, SD = 1.90) enrolled in different programs in Pakistani universities. The study findings suggested that self-resilience was related to religious self-regulation, self-determination, and conflict management strategies. The strength of the relationship ranged from moderate to strong (.25 to .57). Results revealed that religious self-regulation fully mediated the path between self-resilience and conflict management style (e.g., collaborating). Self-determination demonstrated a partially but significantly mediated effect on the conflict management style (i.e., compromising). The current study suggests that religious self-regulation may play an imperative role in learning and executing effective conflict management strategies in international students in Pakistan. Directions for future research and study implications and limitations are also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2164123
Hannan H. Hijazi
{"title":"Exploring Islamic social work. Between community and the common good","authors":"Hannan H. Hijazi","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2022.2164123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2022.2164123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77482824","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}
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