The January 2023 concern of the journal Social Work is now on-line. NASW members can learn it here.
Listed here are a few of the articles on this concern:
Past Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Name for Incapacity Justice in Social Work
Regardless of a long time of advocacy, Disabled individuals proceed to expertise ableism—reminiscent of inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work. Moreover, when talking of “Incapacity tradition,” it’s inclusive of neurodivergence, power sickness, power ache, psychological sickness, insanity, and so forth. Disabled social work professionals and accomplices name on nondisabled colleagues to develop their Incapacity cultural competence and to make inclusion and anti-ableism priorities in our subject.
On the Frontlines: The Affect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Staff’ Properly-Being
The disaster created by the unfold of COVID-19 introduced rising wants and referrals to social welfare providers in lots of international locations. Nonetheless, on the identical time, social providers suffered from workers cutbacks and repair closures, leading to vital workload will increase to deal with the hardships related to the pandemic. This text investigates the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on Israeli social staff’ well-being, utilizing a mixed-methods design with a pattern of two,542 licensed social staff.
Quiet Quitting
What’s Quiet Quitting? Whereas definitions fluctuate, all of them agree that in quiet quitting, one doesn’t actually stop one’s job, however fairly merely does the work that’s anticipated of the place, with out going above and past what is predicted. This phenomenon, first famous on TikTok, has grow to be widespread. A latest Gallup ballot discovered that quiet quitters made up over one half of U.S. workers within the second quarter of 2022.
Predicting Intimate Associate Violence Reassault and Murder: A Practitioner’s Information to Making Sense of Predictive Validity Statistics
A key concern for social staff intervening with purchasers who use or expertise intimate associate violence (IPV) is knowing the probability of future re-assault and potential lethality. IPV danger assessments (IPVRAs) have been developed to foretell future assault amongst individuals who have perpetrated IPV. This apply replace goals to assist social work practitioners make sense of IPVRA predictive validity utilizing intimate associate murder for instance end result.
An Examination of Suicidal Conduct amongst Black Faculty College students with Publicity to Police Violence
There’s restricted analysis about suicidal behaviors amongst Black rising adults (peak age of suicide danger) who report publicity to police violence. The present research applies an built-in strategy to look at particular person, instant setting, and community-based danger and protecting components of suicide amongst Black faculty college students who reported earlier publicity to police violence.
Brokering Sources throughout a Pandemic: Exploring How Organizations and Clinics Responded to the Wants of Immigrant Communities throughout COVID19
Although COVID-19 has had sweeping implications, many immigrant teams in the USA have been disproportionately affected. The aim of the current research is to discover the influence of COVID-19 on immigrant communities and the way native immigrant-serving organizations (ISOs) have responded in the course of the pandemic.
Analyzing Historic and Modern Policing Disparities within the Black Group: Implications for Social Work
An alarming variety of unarmed Black women and men have been killed by police in the USA. This text conducts a important evaluation of the extant literature on historic and up to date policing within the Black neighborhood and identifies linkages between these time intervals utilizing important race concept.
Neglect the “5 Levels”: Ask the 5 Questions of Grief
Grief students, theorists, and well-attuned practitioners
regard Kübler-Ross’s “5
phases of grief” as misinformation with detrimental results. In her authentic work, Kübler-Ross (1969) described the
experiences of dying individuals as a trajectory, not phases. This commentary
suggests an alternate strategy.
Social Work and Social Justice: A Conceptual Overview
This research examines how social justice has been operationalized in social work through a conceptual overview of the literature. Findings present that social work leans closely on John Rawls’s definition of social justice, Martha Nussbaum’s and Amartya Sen’s capabilities strategy, and the definition of social justice included in The Social Work Dictionary. Sadly, none of those adequately align with the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff’ Code of Ethics, which drives the occupation. This conceptual overview is a name to social staff to hitch collectively in defining the tenet of the occupation.
African-Centered Social Work within the twenty first Century: A Content material Evaluation
This research sought to look at to what extent the African-centered framework is included inside scholarship amongst distinguished social work journals. A content material evaluation was carried out of articles in six main social work journals revealed between 2000 and 2019. A complete of 42 articles met the standards for inclusion. Whereas there was a degree of change within the variety of revealed articles of African-centered social work, findings counsel that relative to different apply modalities/fashions, African-centered scholarship is noticeably missing in social work literature.
The Experiences of Caretaking and Monetary Stress amongst Social Staff in the course of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Social staff have engaged in promotive, preventive, and intervention work all through the COVID-19 pandemic. On condition that social staff are disproportionately girls, and the important nature of apply in the course of the pandemic, how social staff expertise caretaking and monetary stressors warrants examination. Information are drawn from a bigger cross-sectional survey of U.S.-based social staff (N = 3,118) carried out from June to August 2020.
