Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/14733250221145115
Yun-shiuan Chen
As qualitative scholars in social work, we aim to not only bring forward the lived experiences and narratives of the unheard, but also critically re fl ect on the situatedness (Haraway, 1988) of the social work profession. The roles and ethics of social workers in practice, pedagogy, and research are conditioned by the same sociocultural and political structures shared by the vulnerable groups we work with. In this issue, we bring you 10 articles that inspire re fl exive thinking in diverse di-mensions. Two of these articles examine the development of indigenous social work practice frameworks. Staniforth and Connor capture the experiences of formal, practical, and relational modes of learning for social workers when they traveled transnationally to serve Indigenous M (cid:1) aori communities. The study highlights the challenges of the bi-cultural environment and the importance of supporting the transitions of transnational social workers. Ayim and colleagues attend to the ways in which dominant cultural discourses may fundamentally shape the local conceptualizations of social problems. Examining the indigenization of social work practice in Ghana, the authors argue for exchanging cultural expectations of social problems between practitioners and com-munity leaders to better advance the well-being of local vulnerable populations. Three studies in this issue that occurred in European countries present critical re- fl ections on social workers ’ roles and ethics in dif fi cult contexts such as violence intervention and pandemic control. All three studies are from practitioners ’ perspectives. Studying staff in secure units for adolescents in Sweden, Andersson uses a narrative approach to explore how their experiences with and management of internal violent incidents shaped their professional identity. The author identi fi es the impact of the in-stitutional emotional norms and highlights the building of space for re fl exive commu-nication
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1177/14733250221147027
J. Räsänen, Suvi Raitakari, Kirsi Juhila
This paper studies the creation of organisations via people processing (Prottas 1979), taking as its case study a new and developing family centre that aims to offer various social and health services under the same roof. The study draws on ethnomethodology, meaning that organisations are herein understood as being created and continuously produced in and through interaction. The data consist of 11 audio-recorded meetings from the centre’s steering group, which includes managers from different service fields and welfare agencies. In analysing the creation of the centre through people processing, this paper scrutinises how the meeting participants orient themselves toward and produce the centre’s client categories, what characteristics they connect to these categories, and how they do boundary work regarding which categories belong or not to the centre’s target groups. The meeting participants produce three different family based client categories. The first category is ordinary families, those without any special problems who just pop into the centre to see other people. These families are distinguished from the second category, best matching families, who are defined as having problems that would benefit from the integrated, multi-professional work conducted at the centre. The third category, families with too specific needs, refers to client groups whose service needs are at least partly beyond the centre’s expertise and resources. The centre needs these people-processing activities to make sense of its mission, clients and co-partners; this ongoing reasoning process allows the emerging centre to exist and find its place in the local service system.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1177/14733250221146739
Keun Young Sliedrecht, Wyke J P Stommel, Ellen Schep
In this article, we analyse WhatsApp interactions in a youth care setting. In family-style group care, young people temporarily live in the family of professional foster parents (PFP), while they regularly visit their birth parents (BPs). Our data consist of instant messaging of 11 pairs of PFPs and BPs during 2 months. Using Conversation Analysis (CA), we focused on the social interaction between BPs and PFPs, achieved in and through multi-modally constructed sequences of updates—responses. First, updates are used by BPs in the context of the transfer from the child from/to the PFP marking the transfer of responsibility for the child. Second, PFPs use images as updates to provide BPs quasi-primary access to the experiences of the child. Third, updates are given or elicited in the context of prior problems. Across these functions, we observe that while BPs work to display responsibility, PFPs subtly empower BPs as parents.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-14DOI: 10.1177/14733250221145941
Phoebe Long Franco, Marissa C. Knox, Lauren E. Gulbas, K. Gregory
Self-compassion has previously been shown to buffer healthcare professionals from burnout and other forms of mental distress, yet research is lacking on how self-compassion can be developed and integrated into the healthcare work environment. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the potential precursors, mechanisms, and outcomes of change regarding how healthcare professionals learned self-compassion from attending a 6-week Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) training. Social connections at work enhanced the trustworthiness of the program and helped participants learn to apply self-compassion within the healthcare context. Participants described practicing self-compassion with “small daily gifts” and by offering themselves “grace.” They felt their relationships with patients, coworkers, and family members had improved as a result of the emotion regulation and self-care skills they had gained. Findings suggest the SCHC program may address HCP burnout and empathy fatigue by providing tools that help individuals replenish their energy throughout the day and emotionally separate from others’ experiences of pain. Situating programs within healthcare settings may help to reinforce and contextualize self-compassion concepts and facilitate the implementation and benefits of these tools and skills.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1177/14733250221147438
Lissette M. Piedra
My inaugural issue as Editor-in-Chief (for the Americas region) coincides with several exciting changes. We welcome the addition of a new Assistant editor, Yun Chen, and a recently appointed Book Reviews editor, Deirdre Lanesskog, who also moves into her new role as Associate editor. Over the past 2 decades, Qualitative Social Work (QSW) has grown from 4 issues to 6, and correspondingly, the number of submissions we receive from all corners of the global has also increased. Here at QSW , we hold that the de-velopment of high-quality scholarship means investing in our authors and reviewers through a rigorous but fair and transparent peer-review process. We also want to respond quickly and effectively to our submissions. We are delighted that Yun Chen and Deirdre Lanesskog have joined us in their new roles on the editorial team. This fi rst issue of 2023 is also bittersweet. The eminent Karen Staller, who after 10 years of unwavering service to the journal as Co-Editor, has stepped down. It is hard not to see this as an end of an era. Ten years ago, Professor Staller invited me to join QSW as an Associate editor. I was all too familiar with her groundbreaking work with runaway youth (Staller, 2004, 2006, 2006b, 2010) and her captivating writing style that transports you into the minds and sentiments of others (Staller, 2007). It was a decision I have never regretted, and I have learned countless lessons about the peer-review process, the behind-the-scenes of publishing across three global regions, and the power of the editorial to reach a broad audience. Over the past 10 years, I have come to view Professor Staller as the essence of the journal. Its emphasis on rigorous qualitative inquiry
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Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1177/14733250221145114
Grace C McClowry
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Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1177/14733250221144050
J. McKenna, A. Ross, E. Boskey
COVID-19 has continued to bring devastation to children and families, even 1 year into the pandemic. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has also led to renewed attention to systemic racism in the United States and awareness of how the pandemic has further exacerbated health inequities that disproportionately affect communities of color. Pediatric hospital social workers have played a key role since the beginning of the pandemic in responding to the resulting behavioral health crisis and helping to address social disparities. There is a need to understand how the roles and experiences of pediatric social workers have evolved during the first year of the pandemic. In this qualitative study, a series of practice-setting based focus groups were conducted with social workers to capture (a) what has changed or stayed the same since the beginning of COVID-19, (b) thoughts and experiences on diversity, equity, and inclusion with particular attention to race and racism, and (c) perspectives about the long-term implications of COVID-19 on the profession of social work. The Framework Method was used to analyze data, from which six superordinate themes emerged: burnout/coping; the impact of patient acuity; awareness of racial inequity in patient care; awareness of social determinants of health; social worker inclusion in hospital decision-making and policy reform; and grief/racial inequity. An overview of what has stayed the same, what has changed, and what the future may hold for pediatric hospital social workers is reviewed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/14733250221143766
Kristie L. Seelman, Brendon T. Holloway, Grace MacIntyre, Elizabeth Mynatt
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. Two years into the pandemic, there have been over one million COVID-19 deaths in the United States alone. While the pandemic has impacted everyone, the most extreme impacts have been experienced by marginalized communities, including those who identify as LGBTQIA+. Although LGBTQIA+ people have faced the negative impacts of the pandemic, the LGBTQIA+ community may be well equipped to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic due to the historic and current societal oppression this community has endured. Using both a resilience and resistance framework, the present study explores the resilience and resistance strategies employed by LGBTQIA+ adults in the Southeast U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic through the collection and analysis of monthly diary entries and video interviews. Findings show that resilience and resistance build on the knowledge base and histories of LGBTQIA+ people, and resilience and resistance have been re-imagined for this community during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the pandemic, many LGBTQIA+ people are dreaming of and re-imagining a better future, a future that social work educators and practitioners can help co-create.
{"title":"“We’ll dance harder and love deeper”: LGBTQIA+ resilience and resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Kristie L. Seelman, Brendon T. Holloway, Grace MacIntyre, Elizabeth Mynatt","doi":"10.1177/14733250221143766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250221143766","url":null,"abstract":"In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. Two years into the pandemic, there have been over one million COVID-19 deaths in the United States alone. While the pandemic has impacted everyone, the most extreme impacts have been experienced by marginalized communities, including those who identify as LGBTQIA+. Although LGBTQIA+ people have faced the negative impacts of the pandemic, the LGBTQIA+ community may be well equipped to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic due to the historic and current societal oppression this community has endured. Using both a resilience and resistance framework, the present study explores the resilience and resistance strategies employed by LGBTQIA+ adults in the Southeast U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic through the collection and analysis of monthly diary entries and video interviews. Findings show that resilience and resistance build on the knowledge base and histories of LGBTQIA+ people, and resilience and resistance have been re-imagined for this community during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the pandemic, many LGBTQIA+ people are dreaming of and re-imagining a better future, a future that social work educators and practitioners can help co-create.","PeriodicalId":47677,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45832409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.1177/14733250221125224
L. Henley, Nicky Stanley-Clarke, Emily Thompson, Z. Henley, Yary Chhay, Solida Kea
Community-based harm reduction workshops are delivered to reduce a range of community-based risks. In this instance, a community-based non-government organisation (NGO) delivered workshops to 18 villages in a rural setting in Cambodia. This article presents the approach to the delivery of these workshops. The article explores a journey of learning for the community, local authorities and delivering NGO when moving from a more traditional approach to that of a participatory one and the impact on the organisation, community and local authorities as this journey took place. The methods and approaches are explained, findings are presented and discussed, and recommendations for future community-based harm prevention work are made.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.1177/14733250221133755
Stina Michelson
Children who experience family-related adversity have stories to tell about well-being in the face of difficulties. These stories provide knowledge about how children handle their experiences and make sense of themselves. This study aims to investigate children’s perspectives on experiences that have contributed to their well-being in the face of difficulties, with a specific focus on turning-point narratives. Twenty-two children (aged 6–17) were interviewed, on two occasions each, about themselves and their lives. The findings show that children emphasize protection, support, and knowledge as contributing to their well-being. Furthermore, the findings show that those who narrate turning points do so in relation to three interrelated aspects: identification, directedness, and self-relationship. In their telling, these children are engaged in the project of renegotiating their self-understanding. The core contribution of the study is the notion that a renegotiated self-understanding, in and of itself, may be an important part of children’s well-being. The findings have implications for social work practice because they suggest that children in difficult life situations may benefit from support that offers them a space to examine old ideas about identity and agency in relation to new ones.
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