Examining Racial Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Diagnoses for Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences
This study examines how racial disparities and ACEs contribute to childhood diagnoses of internalizing and externalizing disorders. Using data from the 2017 National Survey of Children ’s Health, racial disparities in internalizing (i.e., depression, anxiety) and externalizing (i.e., behavioral/conduct problems) mental health diagnoses were analyzed using logistic regression. ACE score was a significant predictor of all three diagnoses and presented a dose–response relationshi p. Race was also found to be a significant predictor of diagnoses, as Black children were less likely to be diagnosed with anxiety or depression...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Building Resilience: Helping Emerging Adults Cope During the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
AbstractThe rapid spread of COVID-19 led to, among other things, confusion in news coverage and public health safety. In academe, university leaders were pressured to quickly construct new plans for holding university classes while integrating the safety protocols required by government officials. Though this sudden shift may have been necessary, it also disrupted the biopsychosocial needs, developmental norms, and milestones of emerging adults on college campuses. Current research on emerging adults ’ biopsychosocial needs during COVID-19 is scant, and research efforts may have been diverted due to the suddenness of cam...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Examining diagnosis as a component of Social Workers ’ scope of practice: a scoping review
AbstractOur study reports on a scoping review examining the role of diagnosis within social work practice in Canada and the United States (US). Adopting the process laid out by Arksey and O ’Malley, the search captured 189 academic and grey literature drawn from six health and social sciences databases and published from January 1980 to April 2020. The majority of literature were based in the US, and studies covered a variety of practice settings including hospitals, community clinic s, medical health clinics, and private practice. Various versions of the DSM was mentioned in over half of the publications that made menti...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mechanisms of religious trauma amongst queer people in Australia ’s evangelical churches
AbstractChristian communities teaching traditional theology and ethics, which treat diverse sexualities and gender expansive identities as sinful, can be places where faithful LGBTQIA + people are subject to spiritual abuse. This paper explores the complex dynamics and multilayered mechanisms of this abuse in Australian Evangelical Christianity. It is based on a qualitative research project using 24 semi-structured interviews with LGBTQIA + people who have spent two or m ore years in Evangelical church settings. The project found that participants were subject to mischaracterization and viewed as a moral threat, a...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Use of Neuroscience in Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): A Scoping Review
AbstractThis paper presents a scoping review of empirical studies on the incorporation of neuroscience into interventions for survivors of intimate partner violence. Using Arksey and O ’Malley’s framework for scoping reviews, 13 articles were collected for this review. The results showed an overall paucity of research incorporating neuroscience into intimate partner violence interventions. The majority of the studies were conducted in North America, split between various field s of medicine, nursing, psychology, and social work, and were all published between 2013 and 2020, showing the timeliness of this topic. A major...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Workers ’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Evidence-Based Practice: Differences Between Graduate Students, Educators, and Practitioners
This article adds to the literature by describing results from research which examined differences in familiarity and attitudes about the implementation of EBP among three classes of social workers: social work graduate students, social work educators, and practitioners. Results indicated a s tatistically significant difference between groups in familiarity with EBP; graduate students reported significantly less familiarity with implementing EBP when compared to educators and practitioners. Additionally, graduate students and educators reported significantly more positive attitudes about using EBP when compared to practiti...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - February 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Unexpected Comfort of Feeling It All: A Support Group for Mothers of Autistic Adolescents Using the Lens of Ambiguous Loss
AbstractMany parents experience grief and loss in response to their child receiving an autism diagnosis in early childhood. However, there is a dearth of research that considers if grief and loss are experienced by parents throughout their child ’s adolescence and young adulthood. Further, there is a small but growing body of evidence suggesting that parents of autistic children may be living with ambiguous loss in particular, that is, a loss for which there is no closure or resolution. This case study introduces a peer group intervention utilizing an ambiguous loss framework that school social workers and other clinicia...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Work Responses to Domestic Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences and Perspectives of Professionals at Women ’s Shelters in Sweden
This study explores how social work professionals at women ’s shelters in Sweden experience, understand, and are responding to domestic violence under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A qualitative longitudinal research design was employed, and multiple semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 professionals at women’s shelters over a period of one year. The results are presented in three overall themes; (a) professional challenges due to increased needs, (b) professionals’ adjustments to new circumstances, and (c) professionals’ attributions regarding client barriers to help seeking. The results show d...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
EMDR with First-Generation College Students At-Risk of Facing a Forced Marriage
AbstractIn forced marriage cases, individuals and couples are coerced by emotional and physical violence into marriage and risk ostracization from their community. Often compounding these complexities are the challenges many forced marriage survivors additionally have as first-generation college students (FGCS), specifically when wanting to pursue an education that conflict with the marriage chosen for them by their families. However, there are limited studies and clinical interventions addressing the nature of forced marriage and its emotional and psychological impact on at-risk adult survivors and FGCS in the United Stat...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Interventions with Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma: Addressing the Role of Shame
AbstractThis practice article considers the empirical research on the relationship between shame and trauma resulting from interpersonal violence. It explores the evidence suggesting that shame rather than fear is a better predictor for the development of PTSD and presents the argument that shame, along with fear, should be acknowledged and addressed in the course of intervention with trauma survivors. The article defines shame in its relation to other self-conscious emotions, discusses the mechanism underlying the formation of shame, gathers evidence for the actions of shame in the maintenance of PTSD/C-PTSD and barriers ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
CTiBS and Clinical Social Work: Telebehavioral Health Competencies for LCSWs in the Age of COVID-19
This article applies an evidence- and consensus-based, interprofessional telebehavioral health (TBH) competency framework to the field of social work. This framework was d eveloped by the Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science (CTiBS), initially published in 2017. It has seven competency domains: (1) clinical evaluation and care; (2) virtual environment and telepresence; (3) technology; (4) legal and regulatory issues; (5) evidence-based and ethical practice ( comprised of Standards and Guidelines and Social Media); (6) mobile health and apps; and (7) telepractice development. The framework outlines three competenc...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Eating Disorder Symptoms, Non-suicidal Self-injury, and Suicidal Behavior are Associated Among College Men
AbstractResearch on eating disorders among men has been lacking. In particular, little research has investigated the ways in which eating disorders are associated with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior among college men, despite preliminary support for their co-occurrence and high prevalence in this age group. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the associations between eating disorder symptoms, NSSI, and suicidal behavior among a large sample of college men (n = 14,964) from the 2017–2018 Healthy Minds Study. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted to obtain the associati...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Co-constructing a Conceptual Understanding of System Enactment
AbstractSystem enactments are co-created phenomena characterized by confounding and emotionally charged multi-person interactions that emerge through the convergence of patients ’ complex psychopathology, staff vulnerabilities, and the organizational dynamics of the clinical system in which all are embedded. There is ample literature about the psychoanalytic construct of enactment in the therapeutic dyad. Though systems-based clinicians often experience system enactments which transcend the dyad and occur within the projective field of the system, there is no comparable literature that discusses this phenomenon. This pap...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters: Examining the Roles of Individual and Community Resilience Following a Tornado and COVID-19
AbstractPrior research has found that exposure to natural hazards and infectious disease are associated with adverse mental health outcomes. Less studied are the ways that individual-level and community-level resilience can protect against problematic mental health outcomes following exposure to successive disaster events. In the current study, we examine the role of individual and community resilience on mental health outcomes among 412 adults in Nashville, Tennessee exposed to an EF-3 tornado followed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Results found the cumulative impact of exposure to the tornado and COVID-19 was related to high...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
