Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268734
Mostafa Hosseini
Qualitative research in social work employs various scientific approaches to explore the diversity and depth of human life, with interviews and observations being commonly used. Situated within an arts-based research (ABR) framework, this study explores participants’ experiences of collage-making, and how collage can be used as a methodological approach for collecting empirical data. Four themes emerged from the analysis: (1) Collage: a dynamic visual language in art and communication; (2) Collage: a method for reflecting, sharing, and bonding; (3) Collage: the ethics of associative creation; (4) Collage: the prerequisites of time, space, and place. Working with collage can be highly participatory and exploratory, developing meaningfulness, imagination, and new insights for both researcher and participant. It promotes an egalitarian and holistic approach to listening to people, enabling them to convey their experiences using visual, verbal, and metaphorical language. Nevertheless, the process is time-consuming given that collage-making lacks a distinct endpoint or limitation. Using this method requires time, participant commitment, researcher involvement, and a trustworthy workgroup. Moreover, the free and associative nature of creating collage, alongside the act of cutting pieces from one’s life and assembling them into a new whole, raises ethical questions. In conclusion, collage as a method of inquiry for collecting empirical data creates promising conditions for capturing stories of people’s lives, aspirations, struggles, and experiences of social processes and political concepts. With appropriate conditions in place, the process can be a meaningful experience for all involved.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1177/14733250231185961
Jordana Salma, Bita Mirhashemi, Megan Kennedy
This scoping review aims to describe the range of research studies using arts-based data collection methods with immigrant and racialized older adults. A secondary aim is to identify challenges and strengths of using these approaches with this population. This review uses Arksey and O'Malley's five-stage scoping review framework with a final number of 16 references included for the study. Enhanced social connectedness, increased transparency and quality of findings, and self-empowerment were key strengths of using arts-based approaches for data collection. Challenges identified included resource limitations, cultural and language barriers, and barriers to meaningful engagement. Only a small number of studies have utilized arts-based methods with immigrant and racialized older adults. Arts-based approaches require unique methodological adaptations with this population but have the potential to increase engagement in research activities, authenticity of research findings and empowerment of older adults.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1177/14733250241275813
Lisa Morriss
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268731
Jill Hemmington
Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) undertake Mental Health Act (MHA) interviews and they make the ultimate decision, based on doctors’ medical recommendations, to detain an individual in hospital without their consent. AMHPs are required to embed the statutory guiding principle of Empowerment and Involvement as well as to maximise service users’ self-determination and this is part of a broader policy orientation toward principles of participation, involvement, shared decision-making and supported decision-making. Yet there is very little research in this area and AMHP practice takes place in the absence of guidelines or clear evidence base. Consequently, more needs to be understood about effective techniques for communication and involvement. This study was conducted with AMHPs from an AMHP service in England. A qualitative methodology was employed to gather indepth information about AMHPs’ communicative practices. MHA assessments were observed and audio-recorded to enable Conversation Analysis to be used to analyse the content and style of communication within interactions. Findings suggest that at a micro, conversational level, AMHPs worked to address obstacles to communication as well as to maintain, or restore, affiliation and alignment in their relationships with service users. Evidence suggests that communicative techniques form part of AMHPs’ broader coordinating and empowering role. The study concludes that there is a need for a more deliberate and deliberative approach to re-engineer how AMHPs and service users work together, providing original evidence for AMHP practice and supporting future training.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1177/14733250241277355
Lisa Morriss
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Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1177/14733250241270934
Kirsty Oehlers
This paper examines the links between mothers, mental illness, estrangement from children, and systemic power and control, through a critically creative autoethnographic methodology. A historical and contemporary discursive analysis of two kinds of documentation is made. Firstly, my great-grandmother’s psychiatric hospital records from almost one hundred years ago are analysed, incorporating parts of my own story, as well as the personal account of a family member. These are then contrasted against four Family Court Judgement, where mothers have been found to be incapable of caring for their children. ‘Found poetry’ is then created from the documents presented, to elucidate the argument that a century since my great-grandmother’s forced separation from her children, women with mental illness still face stigma, marginalisation, and hopelessness in the face of outdated, narrow constructions of mothering. Implications for those who work in forensic social work fields are noted in terms of addressing systemic abuses of power against mothers.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268765
Alexandrina Schmidt
Welfare encounters are increasingly being conducted using communication devices which comprises mediated encounters. This article contributes to studies on the integration of mediated encounters into social work practice. The study adopts a symbolic interactionist perspective and is based on interviews with 24 social workers and 17 vulnerable clients. It examines the role of phone mediation in social workers’ and clients’ role performances in welfare encounters that lack non-verbal communication. This study argues that phone mediation illustrates the unequal stakes in welfare encounters: A professional work role and organisational goal attainment are at stake for social workers, whereas the livelihoods of vulnerable clients depend on welfare encounters and the social and economic support provided by them. Such stakes are often taken for granted in routine face-to-face welfare encounters; thus, phone mediation alerts the participants to the consequentiality of welfare encounters. Moreover, this article finds that phone mediation may provide confidential distance, which can be used to support hard-to-reach clients and social work practices. However, mediated encounters also run the risk of being insignificant for client trajectories and restrict the roles of social workers and clients. Overall, the study highlights everyday technologies, such as phones, that are important for the social worker-client relationship, welfare delivery, and clients’ welfare trajectories. It argues for further inclusion of everyday technologies in future research agendas that examine the digitalisation of social work and the importance of non-verbal communication.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1177/14733250241268730
Autumn Asher BlackDeer
Tonóéva Mo'⊙htáeváótséva ná-heševehe. Ná-tsėhéstahe. I seek to begin this work in a good way by introducing myself and my nation; I am Dr Autumn Asher BlackDeer, sovereign member of the mighty Southern Cheyenne Nation. It is an honor to be of the Little Calf bloodline, to be part of the legacy of my grandfather Sam B. Deer, a sacred arrow keeper, medicine man, and camp crier for our people. As my ancestors have served our people and created a path for future generations, I strive to do the same, honoring their legacy and furthering their work, standing on the shoulders of giants. The present work is a weaving of a storytelling approach with an academic lens to sharing pieces of my journey as an Indigenous scholar towards decolonizing social work.
Tonóéva Mo'⊙htáeváótséva ná-heševehe.Ná-tsėhéstahe.我是秋阿舍-黑鹿博士，强大的南夏安部落的主权成员。作为小牛血统的一员，我很荣幸能够继承我的祖父萨姆-B-迪尔（Sam B. Deer）的遗志，他是我们民族神圣的守箭人、药师和营地信使。我的祖先为我们的人民服务，为子孙后代开辟了一条道路，我也要努力做到这一点，站在巨人的肩膀上，继承他们的遗产，推进他们的工作。本作品以讲故事的方式，结合学术视角，分享了我作为一名土著学者在社会工作非殖民化过程中的心路历程。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1177/14733250241262347
Amy R Krentzman, Julie C Gass
New definitions of addiction recovery are aligned with social work’s strengths-based orientation: recovery from addiction is not only a process of reducing pathology but also a process of flourishing and thriving. In response to new recovery definitions, researchers are now designing studies that measure strengths-based, multidimensional aspects of recovery instead of measuring substance use or symptoms exclusively. This study employs grounded theory to investigate this change in measurement strategy; its impact on people in recovery; and its implications for social work research, existing theory, and interventions social workers employ to support client recovery. Thirty-two participants (47% female, M = 40 years in age, 16% BIPOC) in treatment for substance use disorders participated in interviews after completing surveys daily for 28 days that assessed strengths-based, multidimensional aspects of recovery. Participants reported that completion of surveys led them to realize aspects of self that were previously hidden from awareness, use that information to determine where they ‘were at’ in their recovery (doing well, could be doing more, not doing well); and, based on that determination, take steps to strengthen recovery. A minority of participants expressed despair when surveys revealed painful information and these participants did not describe using skills to regulate negative affect. This study found that strengths-based, multidimensional recovery-oriented surveys can provide therapeutic benefit. This grounded theory analysis extends existing theory to include the influence of coping skills on an individual’s ability to derive benefit from the self-monitoring of diverse aspects of their recovery.
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