- Social Work Education and Practice
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Sex work and related issues
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Religion, Society, and Development
Bethel College - Kansas
2017-2018
University of Kansas
2016-2018
Bethel College
2017
Bethel University
2017
Social work values such as dignity, justice, and inclusion call social workers to engage in teaching practices that are responsive student needs. Ungrading is an assessment philosophy empowers students with the learning process by including them evaluation of their grade outcome. The present study examines perceptions ungrading education. This analyzed open-ended mid- end-of-semester assignments from three undergraduate courses taught faculty at two different universities spring 2022....
Social work educators prepare students for the demands of profession by teaching them skills, knowledge, and values graduates will use in their with various clients within context varied practice settings. It is crucial that we pair these educational objectives techniques to take care themselves as they experience emotional, psychological, physically taxing being people whose life circumstances carry trauma, grief, stress. This article illustrates how contemplative practices social classroom...
A humanitarian crisis related to an influx of unaccompanied children from Central America arriving in the United States demands a comprehensive approach ensuring appropriate intervention protect basic human rights. Advocates and policymakers are scrambling find ways address complex needs these vulnerable children, most whom fleeing violence, criminal coercion, and/or extreme deprivation their home countries. Legislative attempts guarantee access due process threatened by restrictive...
This exploratory study examined the vulnerability and exploitation of migrants from perspective service providers who work in social organizations. Researchers conducted 16 interviews 1 focus group with whose clientele had direct experience migration. These indicated that there is incongruence, even tension, between a welcoming local response to migrant populations state-level political rhetoric policy initiatives, which are predominantly anti-immigration. demonstrates contradictions...
Social work pioneer Jane Addams wrote of her experiences living and working with immigrant populations at the Hull-House in Chicago. In writings, she describes a state perplexity which personal professional assumptions about world were transformed through interactions that community. Perplexity is liminal or in-between being social practice settings, encourages recognition uncertainty, honors dissonance between past new understandings, creates opportunities for meaningful relationships,...