Social Welfare Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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“Anything that benefits the workers should benefit the client”: Opportunities and Constraints in Self-Directed Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(SAGE Publications, 2022-12-05)Self-directed care (SDC) models allow Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) consumers to direct their own care, thus supporting flexible, person-centered care. There are many benefits to the SDC model but access to ... -
Evaluation of a savings-led family-based economic empowerment intervention for AIDS-affected adolescents in Uganda: A four-year follow-up on efficacy and cost-effectiveness
(Public Library of Science, 2019-12-31)Background: Children who have lost a parent to HIV/AIDS, known as AIDS orphans, face multiple stressors affecting their health and development. Family economic empowerment (FEE) interventions have the potential to improve ... -
Cash Transfers and Health
(Annual Reviews, 2021-01-04)Financial resources are known to affect health outcomes. Many types of social policies and programs, including social assistance and social insurance, have been implemented around the world to increase financial resources. ... -
Strengths-based group supervision: Restoring child and adolescent-centered social work team meetings
(Texas Medical Center Library, 2020)Child mental health social workers are inundated on a daily basis with complex family dynamics. Burn-out and cynicism towards change become frequent. Strengths-based group supervision is a client-based alternative to the ... -
Randomized Trial of PMTO in Foster Care: Six-Month Child Well-Being Outcomes
(SAGE Publications, 2016-09-16)Objective: This study tested the effectiveness of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on child social–emotional well-being. Methods: Using a randomized controlled design and three measures of social–emotional ... -
Randomized Study of PMTO in Foster Care: Six-Month Parent Outcomes
(SAGE Publications, 2017-04-19)Objective: This study examined the effects of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on parenting effectiveness and caregiver functioning. Method: Children in foster care with emotional and behavioral problems ... -
Randomized trial of PMTO in foster care: 12-month child well-being, parenting, and caregiver functioning outcomes
(Elsevier, 2018-12)Evidence-supported parenting interventions (ESPIs) increasingly are used in child welfare to improve child well-being and parenting. However, little evidence exists on the effectiveness of ESPIs with biological families ... -
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement vs Supportive Group Therapy for Co-occurring Opioid Misuse and Chronic Pain in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial
(American Medical Association, 2022-02-28)Importance: Successful treatment of opioid misuse among people with chronic pain has proven elusive. Guidelines recommend nonopioid therapies, but the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for opioid misuse is ... -
A Guide for Teaching About Spiritual Diversity in Social Work
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The Billiken: Bringer of Good Luck and Cultural Competence
(2012-01)In this narrative, the authors describe their exploration of the various cross-cultural meanings of the Billiken, a good luck figurine, which they use in classroom and professional trainings about cultural competence and ... -
Summary History of Connections Between Spirituality and Social Work Education in the United States
(Spiritual Diversity and Social Work Initiative, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, 2021) -
Addressing Spiritual Diversity in Professional Social Work Practice: Principles and Ethical Guidelines with Examples
(Spiritual Diversity and Social Work Initiative, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, 2021) -
The Korean Mountain Spirit
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Drug Use, the Drug Environment, and Child Physical Abuse and Neglect
(SAGE Publications, 2017-06-08)Although drug use is considered a risk factor for child maltreatment, very little work has examined how the drug environment may affect physical abuse and neglect by parents. Utilizing information from a telephone survey ... -
An Integrated Mechanistic Model of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Opioid-Exposed Mother–Infant Dyads
(Frontiers Media, 2021-10-28)A growing body of neurobiological and psychological research sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the development and maintenance of opioid use disorder and its relation to parenting behavior. Perinatal opioid use is ... -
Challenges to Employing Shared Decision Making With Adults Under Community Supervision Who Have a Mental Illness
(Frontiers Media, 2021-11-04)Adults under community corrections supervision and who have a mental illness (MI) are expected to comply with conditions of release which often include involvement with supportive social services. The rates of technical ...
