Pub Date : 2022-02-22DOI: 10.1177/10443894211062646
Shawna Marie Green, R. Boothroyd, M. Armstrong, Bruce Lubotsky Levin, D. Martinez Tyson, Oliver T. Massey
Emerging adults discontinue behavioral health treatment at rates ranging from 30% to 50%. This study explored dropout using semi-structured interviews (N = 20). Participants were engaged in a group therapy program, Healthy Transitions. Findings revealed the lack of therapeutic relationship and logistical issues such as cost, transportation, and conflicting work schedules contributed to dropout. Participants indicated that alleviating logistical barriers and feeling a connection to their peers and group leader prevented dropout. This program was free, transportation was provided, and sessions were in the evening. Participants expressed peer educators made them feel less judged and/or stigmatized than a one-on-one therapy appointment. These findings reinforce logistical issues and lack of a therapeutic relationship contribute to dropout and highlight the benefits of flexible scheduling and reinforce the importance of a therapeutic relationship in preventing dropout.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-22DOI: 10.1177/10443894211067855
A. Augsberger, M. Collins, B. Levine
Family engagement is a critical component of child welfare practice. Studies report improved experiences and outcomes when families are involved in decision making. Robust engagement may also serve as a culturally responsive approach to improving outcomes for families. Although practice-level interventions have received attention in the literature, there is a dearth of research on program- and system-level family models. The present study contributes to the emerging literature by analyzing publicly available data to document U.S. state efforts to engage families. Findings describe the origin, membership, and activities of four macro-level practice models. Similarities and differences among states as well as implications for future research and practice are discussed.
{"title":"Family Engagement in Child Welfare System-Level Change: A Review of Current Models","authors":"A. Augsberger, M. Collins, B. Levine","doi":"10.1177/10443894211067855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894211067855","url":null,"abstract":"Family engagement is a critical component of child welfare practice. Studies report improved experiences and outcomes when families are involved in decision making. Robust engagement may also serve as a culturally responsive approach to improving outcomes for families. Although practice-level interventions have received attention in the literature, there is a dearth of research on program- and system-level family models. The present study contributes to the emerging literature by analyzing publicly available data to document U.S. state efforts to engage families. Findings describe the origin, membership, and activities of four macro-level practice models. Similarities and differences among states as well as implications for future research and practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86621873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1177/10443894221078998
G. Greif
The Beatles’ 2021 documentary, “Get Back,” provides a unique lens into the intersection of family systems and adult relationships of the most important pop group in history. In 1969, 16 months after the death of their manager and father-figure, Brian Epstein, the Beatles gather to make a film about making an album. Three of the Beatles had been making music together for more than 10 years at this point and had become a second family to each other while carrying their family-of-origin history with them. They have grown up together, married and partnered, and are wondering whether to stay together as a group. I view them as siblings who are struggling with the typical characteristics of such relationships that are often marked by affection, ambivalence, and ambiguity. Implications for social work practice with families and siblings are included.
{"title":"What the Beatles “Get Back” Documentary Can Teach Social Workers About Family Relationships","authors":"G. Greif","doi":"10.1177/10443894221078998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894221078998","url":null,"abstract":"The Beatles’ 2021 documentary, “Get Back,” provides a unique lens into the intersection of family systems and adult relationships of the most important pop group in history. In 1969, 16 months after the death of their manager and father-figure, Brian Epstein, the Beatles gather to make a film about making an album. Three of the Beatles had been making music together for more than 10 years at this point and had become a second family to each other while carrying their family-of-origin history with them. They have grown up together, married and partnered, and are wondering whether to stay together as a group. I view them as siblings who are struggling with the typical characteristics of such relationships that are often marked by affection, ambivalence, and ambiguity. Implications for social work practice with families and siblings are included.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"247 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82720619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1177/10443894211063579
Amanda Aykanian, R. Mammah
A personal history of trauma can be a risk factor for job-based secondary traumatic stress and burnout. Experts have pointed to the need to understand the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among people on the frontlines of health and human services to ensure adequate supports. A small body of literature has examined the prevalence of ACEs among direct service providers, including child welfare workers and social workers. This study adds to that research by assessing the prevalence of ACEs in a sample of frontline homeless service workers. Findings suggest an ACE prevalence higher than the general population but similar to that found in other studies of direct service professionals. Implications for organizational support and trauma-informed supervision are discussed.
{"title":"Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Frontline Homeless Services Workers in Texas","authors":"Amanda Aykanian, R. Mammah","doi":"10.1177/10443894211063579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894211063579","url":null,"abstract":"A personal history of trauma can be a risk factor for job-based secondary traumatic stress and burnout. Experts have pointed to the need to understand the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among people on the frontlines of health and human services to ensure adequate supports. A small body of literature has examined the prevalence of ACEs among direct service providers, including child welfare workers and social workers. This study adds to that research by assessing the prevalence of ACEs in a sample of frontline homeless service workers. Findings suggest an ACE prevalence higher than the general population but similar to that found in other studies of direct service professionals. Implications for organizational support and trauma-informed supervision are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"43 1","pages":"438 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88040969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1177/10443894221076213
{"title":"Corrigendum to “That’s the Beauty of It”: Practitioners Describe the Affordances of Direct to Consumer Tele-Mental Health","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10443894221076213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894221076213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85937991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-18DOI: 10.1177/10443894211059126
Travis W. Cronin, Husain A Lateef, Dheeshana S. Jayasundara
This was an exploratory phenomenological study regarding experiences and perceptions about bullying among African American male adolescents (AAMAs) and their parents. The sample for this study included 16 AAMAs and 16 parents (one AAMA and one matched parent per family; N = 32). This study was designed to understand what AAMAs and their parents gleaned from their experiences with bullying. The findings were organized into three themes: interpersonal and structural barriers that hindered responses to bullying, intentional systemic approaches to prevent and respond to bullying, and taking direct action when bullying occurred.
{"title":"“Doing Something”: African American Male Adolescent/Parent Experiences and Perceptions About Bullying","authors":"Travis W. Cronin, Husain A Lateef, Dheeshana S. Jayasundara","doi":"10.1177/10443894211059126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894211059126","url":null,"abstract":"This was an exploratory phenomenological study regarding experiences and perceptions about bullying among African American male adolescents (AAMAs) and their parents. The sample for this study included 16 AAMAs and 16 parents (one AAMA and one matched parent per family; N = 32). This study was designed to understand what AAMAs and their parents gleaned from their experiences with bullying. The findings were organized into three themes: interpersonal and structural barriers that hindered responses to bullying, intentional systemic approaches to prevent and respond to bullying, and taking direct action when bullying occurred.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"83 1","pages":"450 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88106218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/10443894211061283
Devin Fergus, T. Shanks
For African Americans in particular, the question of financial capability and asset building is as old as Black freedom. Through conceptual frames such as racial capitalism, historical memory, and the family stress model, this article examines the many false starts since Reconstruction in which expectations were raised, but then hopes subsequently dashed when reality produced outcomes that kept tangible economic progress just out of reach of Black families.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/10443894211066464
M. Sherraden, Jin Huang, Jenny L. Jones, Christine Callahan
Financial and economic issues underlie many of the problems that bring families to social services. Sometimes these financial difficulties are contributing factors. Other times, they are at the heart of a family’s troubles. Intake interviews and psychosocial assessments in family services often reveal insufficient income and assets, overwhelming debt, lack of emergency savings, limited access to public benefits and social assistance, challenges obtaining a bank account or credit, and worries about their future financial wellbeing. Together with possible physical and mental illness, incarceration, disability, or other challenges, financial stresses can overwhelm families, as well as professionals, organizations, and communities. Despite the many challenges, human service professionals are in a unique position to respond. They work with populations most at risk and have deep understanding of the reality of their clients’ lives. They understand the power of emotions in financial decision-making and can assist families in making optimal decisions. Social workers and other human service professionals understand deeply the importance of financial protections and know that basic financial knowledge and skills, as well as confidence, are essential to household financial management. At the same time, they understand that clients have little control over the larger social forces that shape family financial well-being and that social change is imperative. Human service professionals witness daily the adverse effects of financialization, as finance shapes more and more of life often to the disadvantage of low-income and minoritized groups. They work with many of the more than 7 million people who lack even a basic bank account (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 2020) and with the millions more who have a tenuous relationship with the mainstream financial sector and resort to costly and often-risky predatory financial services, such as payday and car title loans. Human service professionals also have witnessed up close the effects of a global pandemic that has led to losses in jobs, benefits, childcare, and housing. They know that financial distress has been concentrated in poor and minoritized groups (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2020). They observe how difficult it is for families to do more than make ends meet, frustrated at their attempts to build financial security. For many of their clients, 1066464 FISXXX10.1177/10443894211066464Families in SocietySherraden et al. editorial2021
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/10443894211051008
A. Santiago, Joffré Leroux
Utilizing administrative data from the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program operated by the Denver Housing Authority, four program outcomes, (a) savings and escrow growth, (b) credit and debt reduction, (c) employment and earnings, and (d) positive exits from subsidized housing, are examined to assess if any differences exist between participants (n = 424) who enrolled during or after the Great Recession. Propensity score matching with replacement was employed to match FSS enrollees. Compared to post-Great Recession enrollees, results suggest that enrollees entering the program during the Great Recession were more likely to reduce their monthly contractual debt and derogatory debt, increase monthly earned income, and remain in the FSS Program longer. Findings suggest that attaining participant financial capability goals is possible during severe economic shocks and may provide vulnerable families with additional capacity to weather such shocks.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-26DOI: 10.1177/10443894211063133
Christy Finsel, Mae Watson Grote, M. Libby, C. Mahon, M. Sherraden
This essay explores the enormous potential of social service organizations to contribute to people’s financial well-being. It is informed by the work of four pioneering organizations that use a racial- and gender-equity lens to advance financial well-being. It explores five strategies: (a) embedding financial development into social services; (b) focusing on youth transitioning to adulthood; (c) partnering with asset coalitions to expand financial opportunities; (d) partnering with financial institutions; and (e) developing fintech with equity. These approaches hold promise to help address the racial wealth gap and improve financial security.
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