A Systematic Review of African-Centered Therapeutic Interventions with Black American Adults
AbstractWhile substantial theoretical literature and growing evidence support the benefits of employing African-centered approaches with Black youth, research examining the overall effectiveness of Culturally Sensitive Interventions with Black adults remains largely unexplored. Responsively, this review discusses the current scope of African-centered interventions with Black American adults. Using a comprehensive search of electronic bibliographic databases, we identified African-centered interventions studies completed in the United States. Six studies met the full inclusion criteria of our review. Findings support that A...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - January 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Traumatic Stress and Homelessness: A Review of the Literature for Practitioners
AbstractA growing body of evidence connects traumatic stress and homelessness, which illustrates the importance of trauma and-resiliency-informed care (TIC) to appropriately serve persons experiencing homelessness (PEH). This paper reviews the literature on traumatic stress, including the biology of trauma as well as psychosocial, environmental, and systemic factors. These areas of knowledge constitute necessary elements when designing systems of care for PEH in order to provide effective services, avoid re-traumatization, and create healing environments to foster resilience. The authors identify trauma-specific evidence-b...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Knowledge and Skills for Social Workers on Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams
AbstractPublic outrage over police-involved deaths of people in mental health crisis has prompted governments to expand access to crisis services that partner police with social workers. Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams (MCIT) offer assessment and support for people in distress while averting escalation. Little attention has been given to the requisite competencies for social workers on MCITs. This narrative review, informed by crisis theory and the author ’s experience as an MCIT social worker, provides a roadmap of knowledge and skills to familiarize practitioners, educators, and students with this growing intervention...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Student Reflections on Shared Trauma: One Year Later
Abstract
In March of 2021, as the world marked the first anniversary since COVID-19 altered our reality, graduate social work students in Dr. Carol Tosone ’s Evidence-Based Trauma class at NYU considered the challenges of learning about trauma treatment while simultaneously living through a global trauma. Students reflected on their home lives, school experiences, field placements, mental health challenges, feelings of burnout, and the added complex ities of racial disparities and injustices. Students also shared their coping mechanisms and hope for the future. This paper aims to provide insight into their varied expe...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Negotiating Leaving Religion, Family Relationships, and Identity: The Case of LDS Faith Transitions in Therapy
AbstractThis paper chronicles the process through which five clients in therapeutic sessions work through their experiences with leaving the LDS (Mormon) church, including the associated friction with immediate and extended family and the consequences these experiences have on participants ’ sense of identity. Using grounded theory to analyze client notes, we discovered three broad “central categories” across all five research participants. These categories include first, the process of leaving the LDS religion and church and associated faith crises (of various degrees), second, the experience of tension between the ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Assuaging COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Among Mental Health Clinicians: The Potential of Self-Care
This study offers insight into how to support mental health practitioners du ring COVID-19. (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Remotely Successful: Telehealth Interventions in K-12 Schools During a Global Pandemic
AbstractThe K-12 school setting is often considered an ideal environment to provide social emotional programming for children and youths. However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused most K-12 schools to close their physical doors and shift to telehealth approaches to fulfill students ’ academic and non-academic needs. For the first time, school social workers (SSWs), often responsible for the social emotional well-being of students, were required to provide social emotional services virtually. Subsequently, this research study explored SSWs’ experiences implementing social e motional telehealth services in K-12 public school...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Introduction to Special Issue: COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Lasting Impact on Clinical Social Work Practice and Education
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Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When No One ’s The Expert: A Preliminary Study of Social Workers’ Perspectives on Shared Loss in Counseling During COVID-19
AbstractIn this preliminary study, social workers ’ experiences of adjustment and loss during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic were explored as they, along with their clients, coped with the resulting emotional and psychological impacts. As death and illness rates increased alarmingly, masters-level social work students’ discourses a nd feedback in a course on grief and loss revealed a knowledge gap surrounding counseling in face of shared loss that led to a pilot study. Subsequently, a qualitative research study (n = 7) of video self-reports from clinical social workers was conducted to further explore ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 23, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Review of Trauma Specific Treatments (TSTs) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
AbstractTrauma is a significant public health concern that has widespread and adverse effects on people. There is a high prevalence of trauma and PTSD in general populations, and that prevalence greatly increases among the clinical populations that social workers serve. To address the hidden epidemic of trauma, there are various trauma-specific treatments for PTSD. Scholars have highlighted a critical use of research evidence as a starting consideration in clinical decision-making and named the necessity to map out effective interventions according to population and types of trauma, including both conventional and non-conv...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Examining the Dose –Response Relationship: Applying the Disaster Exposure Matrix to Understand the Mental Health Impacts of Hurricane Sandy
AbstractDisaster exposure is a strong predictor of survivor mental health following large-scale disasters. However, there is continued debate regarding how disaster exposure should be measured and quantified, as well as whether specific types of disaster exposure are more likely to influence certain mental health outcomes like psychological distress or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this article, we propose theDisaster Exposure Matrix to explain how specific types and levels of disaster exposure are associated with particular mental health outcomes. We use data from the Sandy Child and Family Health study —an ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Reflection on Special Challenges and Amending Pedagogy in Clinical Social Work Practice Courses During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AbstractDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, many social work students and educators had to switch gears quickly and replace face-to-face courses with online delivery. While most had had experience with remote learning, the unexpected and immediate transition was challenging. Students and educators who had chosen in-person instruction had to adapt quickly to a learning paradigm for which they had not planned, while simultaneously coping with the anxieties brought on by the pandemic, such as economic hardships, threat of illness, and new family responsibilities. The pandemic has engendered fear, trauma, grief, and loss, all of whi...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - August 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of Video-Guided Group vs. Solitary Meditation on Mindfulness and Social Connectivity: A Pilot Study
This study supports traditional beliefs about the benefits of group mindfulness practice. These findings also have implications for social workers struggling to stretch limited resources to address growing mental health demands, especially during times of heightened social isolation due to COVID-19. If a simulated group practice confers the same cognitive benefits as solitary practice while also conferring social benefits, simulated group instruction may be preferable for therapeutic and economic reasons. (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
& quot;A Home of My Own & quot;: The Experience of Children of International Migrants
AbstractThere is a lack of research on children ’s acculturation processes following international migration. As such, this article presents a study conducted among 10 latency-age children (10–11 years old), living in Israel, whose parents were work migrants/refugees/asylum seekers, via their artwork and through the lens of Bronfenbrenner’ s ecological model. The findings revealed that the migrant children expressed their acculturation and sense of belonging to the host country through three main themes: (1) a longing to have a room of their own; (2) a wish to separate and individuate, as is typical of pre-adolescen...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 14, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Editorial: The Use of Simulation in Advancing Clinical Social Work Education and Practice
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Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
