Pub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1177/14733250241255868
Anna Parisi, Amy Blank Wilson, Kathleen Farkas, Suzanne Brown, Melissa Villodas, Jon Phillips
Gender differences have been found in the experiences and needs of individuals involved in the criminal legal system, underscoring the importance of interventions tailored to address the needs of system-involved women. Despite this recognition, there remains a gap in understanding how to effectively implement interventions for women with mental illnesses—a population that is increasingly prevalent within correctional facilities. This qualitative study examined facilitator experiences delivering a cognitive behavioral intervention to incarcerated women with mental illnesses. Qualitative open coding techniques were used to analyze facilitator notes from each session to learn more about the challenges facilitators experienced and the strategies they used to address them. Teaching interpersonal conflict skills was identified as the primary challenge facilitators faced throughout intervention delivery. Two aspects of teaching interpersonal conflict skills were found to be particularly difficult: how facilitators worked with participants to identify interpersonal conflicts, and how facilitators fostered discussions of conflict during intervention sessions. This study provides initial insights into the complexities inherent in delivering interventions to system-involved women with mental illnesses. Our results highlight the need for future research and interventions that address dynamics at the intersection of interpersonal conflict, gender, and mental illness.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/14733250241250140
Peter Simcock, Jill Manthorpe, Anthea Tinker
There is a dearth of qualitative research into deafblind people’s experiences, impoverishing our understanding of the phenomenon and contributing to deafblind people’s social exclusion. As an approach which seeks to amplify the perspectives of participants from so called ‘vulnerable groups’, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) appears ideally suited to qualitative research exploring the experiences of the deafblind population. However, one strategy for facilitating the inclusion of deafblind people in qualitative research is the involvement of tactile sign language interpreters, and some have argued that phenomenological methods, such as IPA, be avoided where interpreters are involved. Nevertheless, those promoting IPA encourage flexibility and creativity in its use. Using the example of a UK based study exploring vulnerability among older deafblind people, this paper illustrates how tactile sign language interpreters were involved in IPA research. The criteria for evaluating the management of interpreters in qualitative research devised by Squires are used to frame critical reflection on the necessary adaptation of IPA, and the authors contend that IPA study involving tactile sign language interpreters can successfully give voice to older deafblind people when careful attention is paid to the interpreters’ credentials, role, and positionality, and it is acknowledged that IPA research is completed with not through the interpreters.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-25DOI: 10.1177/14733250241248954
J. Gilgun
This commentary is a response to an invitation the editorial board of Qualitative Social Work extended to me to comment on an article that reports on my career interview as a qualitative social work researcher. The article appears in the present issue of the journal (Staller, 2024). The editors and I agree that Karen Staller did an exemplary job of interpreting the transcripts on which the article is based but that the transcripts were incomplete. In my enthusiasm for what I did say, I left things out. In this article, I added to the material that Karen had access to, such as laying out the principles of pragmatism that underlie qualitative social work research and practice and how I coped with the effects of hearing stories about violence and gained from it. I also added to the theory of violence that Karen wrote about and to her descriptions of my relationships with other feminists. I gave a brief account of deductive qualitative analysis that I did not mention at all in the interviews. I realize more than ever that there are differences between interviews, which are spontaneous utterances, and articles, that authors write over time, reflect upon, and revise countless times. Then editors have a go at them.
这篇评论是对《定性社会工作》（Qualitative Social Work）编辑部邀请我评论一篇文章的回应，这篇文章报道了我作为定性社会工作研究者的职业生涯访谈。这篇文章刊登在本期杂志上（Staller, 2024）。我和编辑们一致认为，卡伦-斯塔勒（Karen Staller）在解释文章所依据的笔录方面堪称楷模，但笔录并不完整。由于我热衷于我所说的内容，我遗漏了一些东西。在这篇文章中，我补充了凯伦可以获得的材料，比如阐述了社会工作定性研究和实践所依据的实用主义原则，以及我是如何应对听到暴力故事所带来的影响并从中获益的。我还补充了凯伦所写的暴力理论，以及她对我与其他女权主义者关系的描述。我简要介绍了我在访谈中完全没有提及的演绎定性分析。我比以往任何时候都更清楚地认识到，访谈和文章是不同的，前者是自发的话语，而后者则是作者经过长期写作、反思和无数次修改而成的。然后，编辑们就会对他们大加挞伐。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-25DOI: 10.1177/14733250241252222
Kelly Bolton, Debra Nelson-Gardell
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Pub Date : 2024-04-25DOI: 10.1177/14733250241248959
Karen M. Staller
In 2021, Jane Frances Gilgun retired after nearly 40 years on the faculty at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities, USA. This article—tracing a sliver of her rich intellectual biography—was crafted from a career interview conducted for by Debra Nelson-Gardell for QSW, in four sessions, between December 2021 and March 2022. Gilgun is known for her extensive writing on qualitative methodology in social work and its connection to the Chicago School as well as her decades-long feminist investigation of male violence. Starting from an ontological worldview in the inherent goodness of humankind, Gilgun seeks to explain deviations from that path. She has spent a lifetime at the intersecting seams of gender, violence, and abuse of power. Gilgun’s career offers lessons for a next generation. Her work reminds us of the importance of the deep historical connections between qualitative social work and the Chicago School. It illustrates the time and dedication required to seriously investigate difficult topics using qualitative methodologies. It offers a bittersweet reminder that choosing the path less traveled—or resisting dominant views in the academy—can be a solitary experience but that building intentional communities of like-minded souls serves as a protective factor. Finally, Gilgun’s career embodies the idea that serious research agendas are animated by large and important questions. Her scholarship has grappled head-on with the basic philosophical question of how evil can exist in a world rooted in goodness.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1177/14733250241245717
Christina E. Hyland, Eunjung Lee
Inspired by critical trauma and embodiment theories, this study aims to illustrate how an arts-based approach such as body mapping assists in exploring the lived experiences of youth, potentially serving as a trauma-informed approach. This qualitative study collaborated with street-involved and homeless youth (SIHY) who have eating struggles while living in situations of food insecurity and other forms of oppression. Eleven participants partook in three individual face-to-face interview sessions and one arts-based body map activity, respectively, at a local SIHY resource centre in a metropolitan city in Canada. Guided by Interpretative Phenomenological Approach (IPA), our findings illustrated how body mapping (1) enabled a deepened understanding of SIHY’s eating struggles as both a form of suffering and an embodied means of coping with food insecurity and other systemic and relational trauma(s); (2) provided a transformative experience leading to greater self-compassion and healing; and (3) served as a trauma-informed method that fostered choice and validation. We attest that, as a creative and supportive clinical and research tool, body mapping taps into the unspoken, expressive, embodied, and somatic aspects of eating struggles, food insecurity, poverty, and other forms of oppression deepening knowledge and informing social work research and practice.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1177/14733250241242028
Mariann Iren Vigdal, Thomas Solgaard Svendsen, C. Moltu, J. Bjørnestad, L. B. Selseng
Building friendship is crucial for attaining and upholding recovery from problematic substance use. However, how people who have used substances problematically develop friendships needs to be investigated more from a first-person perspective. To provide insight into how people in long-term recovery find meaning in their experience of building friendships. In semi-structured interviews, 17 people in recovery drew network maps and reflected on how friendships had developed during the long-term process. We analysed the narratives by way of a thematic narrative approach. Participants presented the friendship-formation process through four distinct storylines: (1) ‘I don’t make friends easily’; (2) overcoming barriers to building friendships; (3) ‘birds of a feather flock together’; and (4) ‘having “regular” friends makes me feel like an “average” person’. People in long-term recovery from problematic substance use felt haunted and hindered by past experiences when building friendships. These experiences created a social divide between those who had experienced problematic substance use and those who had not. The valuable insights that social workers can gain from this study can support friendship development for people in long-term recovery on multiple levels. By understanding someone’s self-perceptions and their perspectives on others, social workers can engage with barriers when people in recovery enter social environments such as work. We emphasise the significance of a long-term approach to overcoming barriers to building new friendships.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1177/14733250241242223
Lisa Morriss
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Pub Date : 2024-03-02DOI: 10.1177/14733250241238416
Ellen Paladini-Stone
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