Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1177/10443894231164204
R. Eads
Solution-focused and body-mind-spirit practices have shown promising evidence for addressing various mental health and trauma-related problems, though there is limited research regarding their joint application. In addition, Asian American youth are often underrepresented in social work intervention literature despite increasing risk of negative effects from anti-Asian hate and violence since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Solution-Focused Body-Mind-Spirit (SF-BMS) group therapy is a novel intervention approach with roots in traditional Eastern and postmodern Western philosophies that may be particularly applicable for the cross-cultural experience of second-generation immigrants from Southeast Asian countries. This study conducted a mixed methods pilot evaluation of SF-BMS group therapy with Asian American youth and found modest pre–post improvements in overall problems and qualitative evidence of the intervention’s acceptability.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01Epub Date: 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1177/10443894221133500
Kelly Glaze, Ashley Sward, Eline Lenne, Samantha Brown, Lindsey Rogers, Karen A Frankel, Susanne Klawetter
The emergence and rapid spread of COVID-19 led to unprecedented changes for families and systems of care. This study sought to understand the needs of families participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) before and during the pandemic and considers the impact remote service delivery has on access to an integrated behavioral health intervention to support the psychosocial needs of children and caregivers. Needs for referral varied significantly pre- and post-pandemic onset. Analyses revealed that significantly more referrals were made regarding social determinants of health after the onset of COVID-19 (13.8%) compared with prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (4.1%, p < .05). Providers' transition to telehealth services sufficiently served WIC families.
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 on Referral Patterns and Service Delivery for an Integrated Behavioral Health Program.","authors":"Kelly Glaze, Ashley Sward, Eline Lenne, Samantha Brown, Lindsey Rogers, Karen A Frankel, Susanne Klawetter","doi":"10.1177/10443894221133500","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10443894221133500","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The emergence and rapid spread of COVID-19 led to unprecedented changes for families and systems of care. This study sought to understand the needs of families participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) before and during the pandemic and considers the impact remote service delivery has on access to an integrated behavioral health intervention to support the psychosocial needs of children and caregivers. Needs for referral varied significantly pre- and post-pandemic onset. Analyses revealed that significantly more referrals were made regarding social determinants of health after the onset of COVID-19 (13.8%) compared with prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (4.1%, <i>p</i> < .05). Providers' transition to telehealth services sufficiently served WIC families.</p>","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"104 1","pages":"142-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9791057/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46632415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1177/10443894231163972
Kristen P. Kremer, Alayna R. Colburn, Rebekah Carnes, Dylan B. Jackson
This study examined how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) shape selection of college majors that commonly lead to social service jobs. Using a sample of 722 college students, this study explored differences in total ACEs and prevalence of specific ACEs among students studying social work, criminology, and human services compared with students in a non-social science field and those in other social science majors. Compared with students reporting no ACEs, students reporting four or more ACEs were more likely to study social work (RRR = 3.74, 95% CI = 1.97–7.08), criminology (RRR = 2.51, 95% CI = 1.28–4.93), or another social science (RRR = 2.88, 95% CI = 1.34–6.20) than a non-social science major. There was no significant difference in total ACEs between students studying human services and a non-social science.
本研究考察了不良童年经历(ace)如何影响大学专业的选择，这些专业通常会导致社会服务工作。本研究以722名大学生为样本，探讨了社会工作、犯罪学和人类服务专业学生与非社会科学专业和其他社会科学专业学生在总不良经历和特定不良经历发生率方面的差异。与没有获得a的学生相比，获得4个或更多a的学生比非社会科学专业的学生更有可能学习社会工作(RRR = 3.74, 95% CI = 1.97-7.08)、犯罪学(RRR = 2.51, 95% CI = 1.28-4.93)或其他社会科学(RRR = 2.88, 95% CI = 1.34-6.20)。人文服务专业学生和非社会科学专业学生的ace总分没有显著差异。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/10443894231173276
Cristina Mogro-Wilson
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Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1177/10443894231154458
A. Loomis, Christopher Cambron, G. Maureen Gomez
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are nonmedical factors (e.g., poverty) that have an influence on health and development. Early childhood education settings, such as preschools, play a dual role in children’s well-being; high quality is considered both a social determinant of health and a context for receiving referrals to address other SDOH. The current study examines reports of SDOH among a sample of 139 preschool teachers recruited from a Mountain West state. Reported prevalence of SDOH were rated as higher by teachers with more familiarity with SDOH, teachers in public/Head Start schools (vs. private schools), and assistant teachers (vs. lead teachers). Teachers who were more familiar with SDOH and who reported a higher prevalence of SDOH in their classrooms were more likely to refer students to resources to address SDOH.
{"title":"Teacher Reports of Social Determinants of Health in Preschool Classrooms","authors":"A. Loomis, Christopher Cambron, G. Maureen Gomez","doi":"10.1177/10443894231154458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231154458","url":null,"abstract":"Social determinants of health (SDOH) are nonmedical factors (e.g., poverty) that have an influence on health and development. Early childhood education settings, such as preschools, play a dual role in children’s well-being; high quality is considered both a social determinant of health and a context for receiving referrals to address other SDOH. The current study examines reports of SDOH among a sample of 139 preschool teachers recruited from a Mountain West state. Reported prevalence of SDOH were rated as higher by teachers with more familiarity with SDOH, teachers in public/Head Start schools (vs. private schools), and assistant teachers (vs. lead teachers). Teachers who were more familiar with SDOH and who reported a higher prevalence of SDOH in their classrooms were more likely to refer students to resources to address SDOH.","PeriodicalId":47463,"journal":{"name":"Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75309183","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 : 2023-04-16DOI: 10.1177/10443894231156212
Jangmin Kim, J. Kwan, S. R. Speer, I. Park, Jennifer L. Bellamy, Aaron Banman, Justin S. Harty, N. Guterman
Despite home visiting’s established legacy, the potential influence of intersecting parental characteristics on parent–worker relationships is less understood. This study examines the main and interaction effects of parents’ demographic characteristics on positive relationships with workers in home visiting and compares whether and how these effects differ between fathers and mothers. This study analyzed 130 mothers and 180 fathers who participated in home visiting services. Immigrant status was a significant predictor of positive worker relationships for mothers and fathers, whereas ethnicity was only significant for fathers. Interaction analyses indicated that U.S.-born Hispanic/Latinx fathers faced greater challenges in building positive worker relationships than their foreign-born counterparts. These findings highlight the importance of developing gender-specific and culturally responsive strategies to enhance parent–worker relationships.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-02DOI: 10.1177/10443894231154630
H. Yates, Rebecca A. Matthew, Spencer Elise Lee
Following a pilot test of the Solution-Focused Wellness for HIV (SFWH) Intervention for Women, we used qualitative research with (N = 14) participants to understand their experiences of a 6-week client-centered group counseling intervention. We analyzed focus group and interview data to determine intervention feasibility, acceptability, and participant experiences. Our findings included not being defined by HIV diagnosis, solution-finding skills gained from participating in the intervention, supportive aspects of being with other women living with HIV, progressing toward wellness goals, a safe place to openly express feelings, recommending the intervention to other women living with HIV, a positive response to the intervention, and improving access to the intervention. We recommend programmatic adaptations related to transportation and child care provision to improve intervention access that may benefit other health researchers in community-based settings.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1177/10443894221150667
Judith Leitch, Briana L. McGeough
Psychotherapy research often centers therapists’ perspectives, and thus there is minimal exigent research on selection of or engagement with practice from the client perspective, limiting therapists’ ability to incorporate the client’s perspective into treatment. This is particularly relevant for clients with marginalized identities, like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, whose experiences of oppression may mediate the therapist selection and engagement process. This article proposes a six-stage model describing LGBTQ clients’ process of selection of and engagement with therapists. This model emphasizes the importance of client and therapist identities and identity-congruence, therapist’s self-reported treatment modalities, and the effects of system-level barriers, such as costs, in mental health care. Awareness of these factors enables therapists to anticipate clients’ needs, potentially increasing the effectiveness of care.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1177/10443894231151315
M. Forgey, Kundong He, Yafei Cai
The COVID-19 pandemic focused attention on the high levels of occupational stress experienced by frontline and essential workers. Occupational stress is also not unique to these workers as demonstrated by the consistently high rates of suicide within certain occupational groups. Occupational social work is the specialized field most suited to address the needs of workers under stress, yet it has been in decline in the United States since the 1990s. The factors contributing to this decline are put forward, including managed care, the dominance of the advanced clinical social work license, and the lack of a social work presence in occupational stress effectiveness research. The implications for practice regarding the actions that can be taken by the profession to revive this field and be more responsive to vulnerable workers are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1177/10443894221147576
Diana Cedeño
Although social exclusion and inclusion are pivotal to the discipline of social work, there is not much theoretical clarity about what it actually means and its consequences. Despite recent research, current definitions are problematic. For example, exclusion is used as a deficit view and is sometimes a synonym for poverty, marginalization, unemployment, isolation, or solitude. In addition, research often ignores inclusion as a counterpart term and strength-based perspective. The purpose of this article is to fill this gap by arguing that a shift is needed from focusing on exclusion toward understanding paths of inclusion among marginalized families and that social inclusion is better conceptualized as a spectrum (not a dichotomy) and a developmental phenomenon (vs. a predetermined one). This article ends with implications for researchers and practitioners focused on immigrant/minoritized families.
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