Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/10443894231187908
Angelique G. Day, Branden A. McLeod, R. Hawkins, Cristina Mogro-Wilson
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/10443894231177747
Jaimie L. O’Gara
The present study utilized structural equation modeling with secondary Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study data ( N = 1,267) to examine the relations between paternal economic hardship, nonresident father involvement, and co-parenting. Findings showed that paternal economic hardship (Year 5) was associated with higher child-reported father–child closeness ( p < .05), but lower father-reported co-parenting ( p < .05), at Year 9. Higher mother-reported co-parenting (Year 9) was associated with increased mother-reported father involvement ( p < .001) at Year 9. Findings underscore the importance of including multiple perspectives, and practical implications include the need for practitioners to foster healthy co-parenting relationships to concurrently increase nonresident father involvement among racially/ethnically diverse and low-income fathers.
{"title":"The Effect of Paternal Economic Hardship on Nonresident Father Involvement and Co-parenting Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Fathers","authors":"Jaimie L. O’Gara","doi":"10.1177/10443894231177747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231177747","url":null,"abstract":"The present study utilized structural equation modeling with secondary Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study data ( N = 1,267) to examine the relations between paternal economic hardship, nonresident father involvement, and co-parenting. Findings showed that paternal economic hardship (Year 5) was associated with higher child-reported father–child closeness ( p < .05), but lower father-reported co-parenting ( p < .05), at Year 9. Higher mother-reported co-parenting (Year 9) was associated with increased mother-reported father involvement ( p < .001) at Year 9. Findings underscore the importance of including multiple perspectives, and practical implications include the need for practitioners to foster healthy co-parenting relationships to concurrently increase nonresident father involvement among racially/ethnically diverse and low-income fathers.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81215853","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 : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/10443894231174765
Flor Avellaneda, Jennifer L. Siegel, N. Negi, D. Parrish
Latinx immigrant communities experienced disproportionate economic and health consequences from COVID-19. Although social service organizations have been on the frontlines to meet the complex social service needs of this population, little is known about their experiences working with this vulnerable group in the first phase of the pandemic (during “shutdowns”). Using multiple case study methods, this case study integrates survey responses from Latinx-immigrant-serving social service providers ( N = 14) in Houston, media sources, and official Houston government data to describe the context and experiences of organizations who worked with Latinx immigrant families and individuals during the first phase of the pandemic. Results highlight challenges faced by social service organizations in meeting the heightened service needs of this vulnerable population. Findings underscore the importance of advocacy to strengthen social service systems constrained during a public health crisis exacerbating health disparities.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-29DOI: 10.1177/10443894231158192
Jessica Strolin-Goltzman, S. Haines, Sarah K. Ura, Haley Woodside-Jiron
According to United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the devastation caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the teacher turnover crisis to one of the most harrowing issues facing our society. Stress and burnout among school professionals have reached new highs, resulting in a need to better understand the individual and contextual factors that can ameliorate stress and improve well-being and resilience. Using a relationship-based framework of resilience, this study shifts our gaze from burnout toward understanding the resilience factors associated with lower stress to inform the field’s pathway toward addressing the workforce crisis while better supporting the resilience of educators, students, families, professionals, and educational systems during the pandemic and beyond. Findings from a logistic regression model show a significant decrease in the likelihood of intention to leave as relationship-based resilience factors increased. Implications discuss the importance of opportunities that increase family–school–community support, social-emotional well-being and safety, and other strategies that build relationships, foster resilience, and improve retention of the school-based workforce.
{"title":"Seeding Resilience-Building CROPs: Understanding the Impact of Connection and Relationship-Oriented Practices on Educator Intention to Leave","authors":"Jessica Strolin-Goltzman, S. Haines, Sarah K. Ura, Haley Woodside-Jiron","doi":"10.1177/10443894231158192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231158192","url":null,"abstract":"According to United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the devastation caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the teacher turnover crisis to one of the most harrowing issues facing our society. Stress and burnout among school professionals have reached new highs, resulting in a need to better understand the individual and contextual factors that can ameliorate stress and improve well-being and resilience. Using a relationship-based framework of resilience, this study shifts our gaze from burnout toward understanding the resilience factors associated with lower stress to inform the field’s pathway toward addressing the workforce crisis while better supporting the resilience of educators, students, families, professionals, and educational systems during the pandemic and beyond. Findings from a logistic regression model show a significant decrease in the likelihood of intention to leave as relationship-based resilience factors increased. Implications discuss the importance of opportunities that increase family–school–community support, social-emotional well-being and safety, and other strategies that build relationships, foster resilience, and improve retention of the school-based workforce.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90277491","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 : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1177/10443894231165605
M. Miovic
This article reviews economic and financial evidence that explains why the U.S. stock market should be viewed as a social determinant of health. Because U.S. stocks return more than other assets, over time compound interest concentrates wealth in the hands of wealthy, white, and foreign investors who own most of the U.S. market. In contrast, lack of equity ownership sustains financial hardship and racial inequities for the bottom half of the population and worsens their health through socioeconomic effects on medical outcomes. To address these problems with wealth and health disparities, the author reviews potential models for democratizing market ownership and then argues the United States should give an index fund of its whole market to every child at birth (i.e., baby stocks) and ensure long-term holding to build wealth for all citizens.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-02DOI: 10.1177/10443894231166730
Husain A Lateef
Research demonstrates that Black American men are significantly less likely to seek help for mental distress than other gendered or racial groups. Yet, Afrocentric theorists propose that African cultural norms of interdependence may serve as important facilitators in promoting mental health in Black populations. This study explored how Ubuntu—an African construct expressing adherence to principles of compassion, interdependence, and humanism —is associated with help-seeking perceptions among Black men. Results from surveying 300 participants recruited using social media, showed that Black men with higher acceptance toward African cultural norms reported higher inclination to seek mental health services for emotional distress. Implications for future research and practice to improve uptake of mental health services of Black men are provided.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1177/10443894231163968
Eric Kyere, Saahoon Hong, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty
This study uses latent transitional analysis to examine the longitudinal association between racial discrimination and academic self-efficacy in teacher–student interactions. Two levels of teacher–student interactions are examined: low-risk, in which students perceive no probability of racial discrimination, and high-risk, in which students perceive probability of racial discrimination. Participants were drawn from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study ( N = 574: 202 White and 372 Black, mean age = 13.64 [ SD = .42]). Findings revealed that students perceiving no racial discrimination, regardless of sociodemographic factors, showed consistently strong positive academic self-efficacy as they transitioned from lower to higher grade levels compared with those perceiving racial discrimination. Accounting for racial discrimination, there were no differences in academic self-efficacy beliefs between Black and White students. Students’ perceived racial discrimination in teacher–student interactions impacted negatively on academic self-efficacy.
{"title":"Effect of Racial Discrimination Activated at Teacher–Student Interaction Context on Academic Self-Efficacy: A Latent Transition Analysis","authors":"Eric Kyere, Saahoon Hong, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty","doi":"10.1177/10443894231163968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231163968","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses latent transitional analysis to examine the longitudinal association between racial discrimination and academic self-efficacy in teacher–student interactions. Two levels of teacher–student interactions are examined: low-risk, in which students perceive no probability of racial discrimination, and high-risk, in which students perceive probability of racial discrimination. Participants were drawn from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study ( N = 574: 202 White and 372 Black, mean age = 13.64 [ SD = .42]). Findings revealed that students perceiving no racial discrimination, regardless of sociodemographic factors, showed consistently strong positive academic self-efficacy as they transitioned from lower to higher grade levels compared with those perceiving racial discrimination. Accounting for racial discrimination, there were no differences in academic self-efficacy beliefs between Black and White students. Students’ perceived racial discrimination in teacher–student interactions impacted negatively on academic self-efficacy.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76833547","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 : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1177/10443894231166989
A. Mitchell
Opioid use disorder (OUD) remains an intractable problem, especially in rural areas. Social workers are key players in efforts to address and treat rural opioid use disorder because of the profession’s person-in-environment (PIE) perspective. PIE helps fine-tune strategies addressing persistent issues contributing to rural opioid use. The purposes of this article are: first, to present key findings from a secondary analysis study examining substance use treatment episode data collected by a U.S. state Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ( N = 2,746) for biopsychosocial PIE factors influencing treatment outcomes for rural adults; and second, to discuss important social work roles. The data suggest that understanding influential biopsychosocial factors, promoting integrated and interprofessional collaboration, and training OUD service providers to use social work’s PIE framework could shape more positive responses to OUD treatment in rural settings.
{"title":"Connecting the Dots: Understanding Biopsychosocial Factors Influencing Opioid Use Treatment Outcomes for Rural Adults","authors":"A. Mitchell","doi":"10.1177/10443894231166989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231166989","url":null,"abstract":"Opioid use disorder (OUD) remains an intractable problem, especially in rural areas. Social workers are key players in efforts to address and treat rural opioid use disorder because of the profession’s person-in-environment (PIE) perspective. PIE helps fine-tune strategies addressing persistent issues contributing to rural opioid use. The purposes of this article are: first, to present key findings from a secondary analysis study examining substance use treatment episode data collected by a U.S. state Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ( N = 2,746) for biopsychosocial PIE factors influencing treatment outcomes for rural adults; and second, to discuss important social work roles. The data suggest that understanding influential biopsychosocial factors, promoting integrated and interprofessional collaboration, and training OUD service providers to use social work’s PIE framework could shape more positive responses to OUD treatment in rural settings.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79795242","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 : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1177/10443894231170408
C. Marsack-Topolewski, P. Samuel, M. Peterson
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the living arrangements of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) contribute to caregiver burden. The sample included 320 aging parents of adult children with ASD who were living in their parents’ homes, independently, independently with assistance, or residential group homes. Aging parents completed a survey measuring four types of caregiver burden (time dependence, developmental, emotional, and financial). Kruskal–Wallis analysis of variance was used to determine whether differences in caregiver burden by the living arrangements of adult children with autism were significant. Aging parents whose adult children lived in group homes tended to have the greatest caregiver burden, while those whose adult children lived independently had the least caregiver burden. Social workers can provide support for parents, adults with ASD, and the family unit as they explore the benefits and challenges of different living arrangements.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1177/10443894231167640
Mélina Boulé, M. Rivard
The way through first suspicion of developmental delays to the time a diagnosis of autism is confirmed can be a long and emotional road. Additional challenges are faced by families with an immigrant background who must learn to navigate an unfamiliar health and social service care system. The current study aims to document the variability of emotional experiences reported by parents with an immigrant background through the autism service trajectory, from the first suspicions of a developmental delay to school entry. Eighteen families participated in two semistructured interviews regarding their autism service trajectory. By using an inductive qualitative content analysis, findings revealed specific contexts in which strong emotional experiences were expressed and made it possible to identify targets for intervention at key moments to support parental psychological well-being.
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