Pub Date : 2021-08-08DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2021.1974141
Danielle M. Mitnick, R. Heyman, A. Slep, Michael L. Lorber, Ashley Dills
ABSTRACT The effects of family maltreatment on the military are far-reaching and well documented, with implications that include the deterioration of mission readiness and an increase in distractibility for all involved. Congress has mandated each service agency to take steps in preventing partner and child maltreatment, including outreach – enlisting military leaders to identify, respond to, and mitigate risk factors for maltreatment in their active duty (AD) members – but the success and impact of these efforts have gone mostly unexamined. This article explores the implementation and evaluation of a new Air Force (AF) family maltreatment training based on empirical and military-specific evidence of prevalence, risk and protective factors, and the impact on military families. This project sought to optimize and standardize such trainings across bases in an interactive manner. As expected, the training led to significantly greater knowledge about family maltreatment, significantly lower belief in the justification of both IPV and parent–child aggression, significantly lower belief in the effectiveness of parent–child aggression to solve problems, significantly increased self-efficacy to help prevent and address family maltreatment on the base, and marginally significantly more positive beliefs about Family Advocacy Program (FAP). Additionally, satisfaction with the training was very high.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2021.1938776
Sharyn Dezelar, Elizabeth Lightfoot
ABSTRACT There is a dearth of available supports and services aimed specifically at parents with disabilities. The Parent-Centered Planning (PCP) intervention was developed to fill this gap, aiming to enhance supports for parenting for parents with disabilities. This brief approach was modeled after person-centered planning, with a focus specifically on parenting. This qualitative paper explores the experiences of a sample of parents (N = 13) with physical, intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who participated in a pilot study of PCP. Our study found that nearly all parents participating in the intervention strengthened relationships during the process of participation in PCP, clarified their goals related to parenting, and made progress toward their identified goals. The study also found that parents had mental health concerns, often related specifically to their disability supports. The article describes the nuances of these findings and discusses the implications for practice and future research.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-19DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2021.1933667
Jóna Ólafsdóttir, Tarja Orjasniemi, S. Hrafnsdóttir
ABSTRACT This study shares the experiences of 16 family members who have lived with a close relative with substance use disorder (SUD). Primarily, the study asks, what are the experiences of family members living with an individual with SUD? In particular, what are their experiences of affection and emotional bonds? Moreover, it asks, what are the experiences of each family member regarding cohesion and communication? Qualitative methods were used, and 16 semi-structured interviews were conducted. The participants were organized into groups of four: four parents, four spouses, four adult children and four siblings of individuals affected by SUD. Each group comprised two men and two women. Overall, the participants felt that SUD had harmed their families’ emotional bonds. Parents and adult children reported greater affection toward their relatives with SUD (children and parents) than spouses and siblings did toward their relatives affected by SUD (spouses and siblings). These feelings were expressed in terms of positive emotions such as compassion and hope, whereas spouses and siblings expressed more negative feelings such as hopelessness or rage. From the analysis, a proposed dynamic functional model of emotional states in the study’s families was formed, showing the dynamics of feelings and emotional bonds between specific family members and the family member with SUD (This paper is a part of a larger research project).
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Pub Date : 2021-05-27DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2021.1939373
Michael E. Woolley
Welcome to the third issue of JFSW for 2021. Core to our mission at JFSW is to publish research and practice articles addressing topics related to caring for and parenting children. To that end, this issue offers four articles addressing parenting, in particular, parents who are struggling due to substance abuse, child welfare system involvement, coparenting, financial struggles, or psychosocial struggles. The first article “Assessing Values within Collaborative Interventions for Families with Parental Substance Use and Child Welfare Involvement” authored by Huebner, Yan, and Sanders who report on their revisions and resulting psychometrics of a survey instrument, the Collaborative Values Inventory (CVI). The CVI assesses the beliefs across agencies of professionals about working with families struggling with parental substance abuse and with child welfare involvement from a family centered and collaborative approach. In the second article, “Low-income Mothers’ Participation in the Understanding Dads Intervention and Changes in Self-reported Coparenting” authored by Fagan, Henson, and Pearson details an evaluation of a mothers-only coparenting program while the fathers participated in a fatherhood program and examined whether those interventions created change in the mother's coparenting attitudes and relationship with the father. Findings revealed mothers reported less conflict, less undermining of the fathers, and greater confidence in coparenting. The third article in this issue, “The Centrality of Resourcefulness in Explaining Wellbeing among Financially Challenged Single Mothers” authored by Kulik who reports on quantitative research exploring the daily hardships and social and personal support and resources of low income single mothers in Israel. Findings revealed that higher levels of resourcefulness were associated with increased reports of social support and wellbeing, while also related to lower daily experiences of hardships. Further, that for these single mothers, more children and increased subjective experience of poverty were related to lower levels of resourcefulness. The fourth and final article in this the third issue of 2021 is entitled “Association between Caregiver Depression and Child After-school Program Participation” authored by Daly, Parsons, Blondino, Clifford, and PromWormley who describe their work examining the effects of parental/caregiver depression, parental/caregiver stress, and child participation in after-school programming. Their analysis found that child participation in after-school programming predicted a low likelihood of a parental/caregiver depression JOURNAL OF FAMILY SOCIAL WORK 2021, VOL. 24, NO. 3, 175–176 https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2021.1939373
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Pub Date : 2021-04-12DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2021.1896614
R. Huebner, Yueqi Yan, J. Sanders, Dara Nix, Ken DeCerchio, N. Hansen, N. Young
ABSTRACT Effective intervention for families with parental substance use disorders (SUD) and child maltreatment requires multiple agencies to collaborate on system changes to deliver family-centered services. The Collaborative Values Inventory (CVI) was designed for use in multi-system interventions to facilitate understanding of differences in beliefs among professionals. This study reports on significant revisions to the CVI and the psychometrics of the CVI_2. The primary aim was to develop CVI measures suitable for research by identifying a subset of CVI_2 items with adequate factor loadings, sensitivity to interagency differences, and strong overall reliability. The Outcomes CVI includes 24-items that met the inclusion criteria and subsequently showed a strong factor structure and strong unidimensional reliability. Suggestions for research on values and beliefs for family-centered initiatives are included.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2021.1887037
Kaitlyn P. Wilson, Alexis Kaminski-Mainardi, Julia Tenbus, C. Marsack-Topolewski
ABSTRACT Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience significant social communication challenges that impact key areas of life, including relationship and employment success. Evidence points to great potential for social communication growth in adults with ASD; however, families’ access to supports and services is limited by lack of funding and accessibility. Scant research has been dedicated to unearthing the experiences of adults with ASD and their parents pertaining to social communication supports and services. This qualitative study gathered perceptions from 17 parents through focus groups aimed at determining barriers to and gaps in the system of social communication supports and services for adults with ASD. Using a phenomenological approach, conceptual content analysis was used to examine the parents’ perceptions and determine coding categories. Analyses revealed a number of barriers to effective use of such services and supports, and wishes for changes to facilitate services and supports in this area. Implications for professionals and policymakers are presented.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2021.1910279
Michael E. Woolley
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Pub Date : 2021-01-11DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2020.1861158
Carli Friedman
ABSTRACT Natural supports are informal (unpaid) relationships that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in their natural environments and communities. A wide range of people can serve as natural supports for people with IDD, such as family (both biological and chosen), friends, neighbors, community members, etc. Natural supports can positively impact people’s relationships, and community integration. The aim of this study was to examine the connection between natural supports for people with IDD, quality of life, and service expenditures. To do so, we analyzed secondary Personal Outcome Measures® quality of life data and service expenditure data (n = 251) using linear regression models. Our findings suggest people with IDD with natural supports have a better quality of life than people without natural supports. In addition, LTSS service expenditures were $20,000 lower on average for people with IDD with natural supports compared to people without natural supports, regardless of their demographics. As such, we believe natural supports have the potential to improve people with IDD’s lives, build their relationships, and help them integrate into their communities. However, there is danger in utilizing natural supports in lieu of formal services solely for cost-cutting, particularly in a service system that is already underfunded.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-08DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2020.1852640
J. Fagan, A. Henson, J. Pearson
ABSTRACT This study presents findings of a mother-only coparenting intervention conducted in conjunction with fathers’ participation in a fatherhood program. Specifically, this study sets out to determine whether there is an association between mothers’ participation (N = 127) in the group-based intervention, Understanding Dads™, and changes in mothers’ reports of the coparenting relationship and mothers’ coparenting attitudes. The findings of this one group pretest/posttest/follow-up study showed that mothers reported fewer disagreements and less undermining of fathers following participation in the intervention. Mothers also indicated greater confidence in their ability to coparent cooperatively with the father after participation. Implications for fatherhood programs are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-08DOI: 10.1080/10522158.2020.1861157
C. Marsack-Topolewski
ABSTRACT Parental caregivers can expect to support their children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) across the lifespan. Providing ongoing support for adult children with ASD who have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) independently can increase caregiver burden. This may be particularly challenging for compound caregivers (caring for at least one adult child with ASD and another care recipient). The present study investigated differences in relationships between caregiver burden and basic ADLs (BADLs) and instrumental ADLs (IADLs) between compound and noncompound caregivers. Using a nonexperimental correlational research design, 320 parental caregivers of adults with ASD completed a web-based survey. The quantitative analysis compared compound and noncompound caregivers on relationships between caregiver burden and ability to perform ADLs independently. Differences for caregiver burden, BADLs, and IADLs between compound and noncompound caregivers were statistically significant. However, comparison of correlations of caregiver burden and ADLs between the two groups was not significant. These findings provided support that caregiver burden was negatively impacted by the lack of independence in functional ability of their care recipients with ASD for both groups. Social workers and other professionals should offer relevant interventions, supports, and services that benefit compound and noncompound caregivers and their adult children with ASD.
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