Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2166890
E. Rush, S. Redshaw, M. Short
ABSTRACT The objective of this scoping literature review is to investigate: what is known about the connection between philosophical and spiritual worldviews and professional resilience in frontline social work and human services? Resilience is essential to these professionals sustaining practice during difficult times, and philosophical and spiritual worldviews are recognized as providing comfort and helping people function. The review showed that little is known about the role of philosophical and spiritual worldviews in the resilience of these professionals. We recommend that future research investigate whether engaging with the strength found in philosophical and spiritual worldviews promotes the resilience of these professionals.
{"title":"Philosophical and spiritual worldviews and professional resilience in frontline social work and human services: a scoping literature review","authors":"E. Rush, S. Redshaw, M. Short","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2166890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2166890","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The objective of this scoping literature review is to investigate: what is known about the connection between philosophical and spiritual worldviews and professional resilience in frontline social work and human services? Resilience is essential to these professionals sustaining practice during difficult times, and philosophical and spiritual worldviews are recognized as providing comfort and helping people function. The review showed that little is known about the role of philosophical and spiritual worldviews in the resilience of these professionals. We recommend that future research investigate whether engaging with the strength found in philosophical and spiritual worldviews promotes the resilience of these professionals.","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":"160 1","pages":"193 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74305133","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2023.2167294
Eileen A. Dombo
{"title":"Why it matters: teaching about religion and spirituality leads to research on religion and spirituality","authors":"Eileen A. Dombo","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2023.2167294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2023.2167294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":"4 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89611838","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 : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2160409
Leena Badran, Ashraf Hejazi, A. Rimmerman
ABSTRACT Religion plays a central role in clients’ identities, their behaviors, and their contacts with professionals. Such influence on professionals’ practice is evident in cases of clients with intellectual disability and mental health illnesses in Israel. The article examines the tendency of Muslim social worker to prefer religious recommendations (following the qadi’s decision) regarding the rights of marriage/divorce and child custody for parents with Mental Illness (MI) or Intellectual Disability Disorders (IDD) in simulated vignettes court cases. The study analyzed vignettes simulating Muslim religious (Sharia) court cases. Muslim social workers (138) completed a background and religiosity questionnaires as well as their response to 25 vignettes simulated court rulings adapted for this study. The decision of the qadi was rephrased in a short statement and appended after each case of the 25, this decision was considered as a religious recommendation since it based on religious consideration. The participants were asked whether they agree or disagree with these recommendations. Muslim social workers tended to consider religious recommendation when the family of the person with MI was described as religious. The discussed issue (marriage/divorce or child custody) was found to explain their tendency to adopt religious recommendation in cases of IDD. Implications of our findings are discussed with respect to social work practice and education.
{"title":"Muslim social workers’ recommendation of parents with mental illness or intellectual disability disorders in vignettes of simulated religious court cases of custody, marriage, and divorce","authors":"Leena Badran, Ashraf Hejazi, A. Rimmerman","doi":"10.1080/15426432.2022.2160409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2022.2160409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Religion plays a central role in clients’ identities, their behaviors, and their contacts with professionals. Such influence on professionals’ practice is evident in cases of clients with intellectual disability and mental health illnesses in Israel. The article examines the tendency of Muslim social worker to prefer religious recommendations (following the qadi’s decision) regarding the rights of marriage/divorce and child custody for parents with Mental Illness (MI) or Intellectual Disability Disorders (IDD) in simulated vignettes court cases. The study analyzed vignettes simulating Muslim religious (Sharia) court cases. Muslim social workers (138) completed a background and religiosity questionnaires as well as their response to 25 vignettes simulated court rulings adapted for this study. The decision of the qadi was rephrased in a short statement and appended after each case of the 25, this decision was considered as a religious recommendation since it based on religious consideration. The participants were asked whether they agree or disagree with these recommendations. Muslim social workers tended to consider religious recommendation when the family of the person with MI was described as religious. The discussed issue (marriage/divorce or child custody) was found to explain their tendency to adopt religious recommendation in cases of IDD. Implications of our findings are discussed with respect to social work practice and education.","PeriodicalId":45302,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK","volume":"24 1","pages":"302 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73920442","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 : 2022-11-19DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2144587
Zeynep Turhan
ABSTRACT While faith, religion, and spirituality are frequently cited as helping survivors of domestic violence to recover from trauma, there is inadequate knowledge about how faith and religious beliefs can impact perpetrators’ behavioral change in domestic violence interventions. This literature review synthesizes eleven studies that met the inclusion criteria on the role of faith and religion on perpetrators’ behavioral change by focusing on the influence of faith communities and domestic violence interventions. The findings show that the roles of faith and belief systems on behavioral change among perpetrators are complex and dynamic as faith has varying impacts on behavioral change. The findings also indicate that social workers recognize how faith and spirituality, and the integration of faith-based strategies in interventions positively impact their practices. The studies also discuss the intersections between the roles of faith communities, men’s faith-based justifications of violence, and religiously based male privilege.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-18DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2127391
Neelmani Jaysawal, S. Saha
ABSTRACT Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented unprecedented health challenges across all strata in society throughout the world. During this time, spiritual care forms a vital component of holistic health management, especially in terms of coping, coming to terms with illness, sufferings, and ultimately death. Spiritual care deals with the provision of compassion and empathy during the time of heightened stress, distress, and anxiety. Spirituality refers to the individual’s personal experience that provides a greater sense of inner peace, harmony, hopefulness, and compassion for others and oneself. The term “Spiritus” is a latin word which means “the breath,” that is the most vital element for life. Religiousness may focus on the personal attitude, emotions, and personality factors. Spirituality may encompass positive emotions- love, hope, joy, forgiveness, compassion, trust, gratitude, and awe. Religion refers to the interpersonal and institutional aspects of religio-spirituality based on the doctrine, values, and traditions of a formal religious group. This paper seeks to highlight the role of spirituality in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic with use of social work throughout this process.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2138681
A. F. Faletehan, E. van Burg
ABSTRACT In the slim body of literature on the paradoxes of volunteer management, this study explores how transcendental rewards generate a paradox in faith-based organizations (FBOs). Instead of providing monetary rewards, FBOs promise their volunteers transcendental rewards. Based on four Indonesian FBOs, we introduce this specific paradox by juxtaposing volunteer retention and volunteer rewards management. At the individual level, the logics of both material and transcendental rewards exist side by side. These two different logics also interact at the organizational level between volunteers and managers. In turn, volunteers perceive two contradictory self-images: as sincere or as materialistic persons. Relatedly, FBO practices can be regarded as either nurturing individual spiritual development or are sometimes framed as exploiting the transcendental for material gain. We find that religious volunteers appear to accept the paradox, living with its consequences, and FBOs navigate the paradox as a tool to retain their volunteers.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-15DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2130850
P. Roszak, B. Taylor, Saša A. Horvat
ABSTRACT Contemporary “knowledge” relies increasingly on probabilistic data. A key example is the “evidence” for the effectiveness of health and social welfare interventions. Such claims to “knowing” require an epistemological underpinning. This paper explores the concept of probabilistic knowledge, evidence and “proof” which underpin claims for the effectiveness of social welfare interventions from the perspective of scholastic epistemology. It provides a framework based on contingent events, establishing different levels of certitude and ways of increasing it, thanks to intellectual virtues such as prudence and art. Knowing the value of the data that form the basis for making decisions in social processes, we can construct directions for social policies. Greater methodological precision (that philosophy in its various traditions might offer) may be of service to attempts in social work to conceptualize questions of effectiveness and measurement of outcomes, given their probabilistic nature.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2135483
Eileen A. Dombo
Debates regarding theory and practice in social work have often avoided detailed discussion regarding the nature of knowledge itself and the various ways this can be created. As a result, positivistic conceptions of knowledge are still assumed by many to be axiomatic, such that context-dependent and practitioner-oriented approaches to knowledge creation and use are assumed to lack epistemological rigor and credibility. Study of a
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Pub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2120447
Rachel J Hagues, S. McCarty
ABSTRACT Pregnancy is life altering for women. For an adolescent girl, a pregnancy can set her on a radically different life trajectory, potentially toward a life of poverty. Across the world, governments differ in the way they respond to teenage pregnancy, especially in light of policies toward schoolgirls finishing their education. We explore how religion correlates with policy and practice toward teenage pregnancy, examining whether teenage moms are supported if they want to return to school after giving birth. We consider whether the predominant religion in a country corresponded to the type of policies that were passed. We use Gallup World data to predict whether a country that criminalizes or expels pregnant schoolgirls by their self-reported religion. We also run a simple ordinary least squares regression to estimate a linear probability model with the outcome that indicates whether the country expels pregnant teens from school or considers teen pregnancy a criminal expense. Findings indicate that countries that were primarily Protestant Christian were much more likely to have restorative policies toward girls who were pregnant or had given birth, supporting them if they decided to pursue school completion.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-18DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2123096
Yin He
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