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Envisioning libraries as collaborative community anchors for social service provision to vulnerable populations
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., ABBAS June M.
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 28(5), 2016, pp.311-330.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors envision libraries as collaborative centres blending information provision, opportunities through Local Authority and human services in partnership with members of vulnerable populations. The authors offer a rationale for local public libraries as community anchors, offer a dual focus guiding interprofessional collaboration, identify five roles librarians working with social workers can serve to strengthen libraries as community anchors and suggest intersections among libraries and Local Authorities. They conclude the paper by offering blended strategies to enact libraries as community anchors for assisting people who either are reluctant to access formal assistance or who find that assistance too limiting or stigmatising. (Publisher abstract)
Concepts unifying social work and nursing collaboration in practice with vulnerable populations
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., WASHINGTON Olivia G.M.
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 28(12), 2016, pp.115-132.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors focus on how social work and nursing can collaborate in addressing vulnerability as a result of people’s exposure to serious social issues and the challenges they can experience when they are embedded in situations in which deprivation is prevalent. The observations the authors make about interprofessional collaboration emerged from a social work–nursing collaboration the authors developed over a 14-year period in which they worked to conceptualise, test, and refine interventions useful in helping older African American women cope with and emerge out of homelessness. The authors provide background on a community-based project and the issues that it addressed. They also identify and elaborate six concepts useful in unifying social work and nursing in helping members of vulnerable populations, particularly when they experience health issues as a consequence of their exposure to a serious social problem. (Publisher abstract)
The relevance of four narrative themes for understanding vulnerability among homeless older African-American women
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., WASHINGTON Olivia G.M., CRYSTAL Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 27(2), 2015, pp.113-133.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Narrative strategy can strengthen social work practice, given its usefulness in revealing how social forces influence people’s experiences with situations that can compromise their well-being. In this paper, a product of long-term developmental research, the authors consider the versatility of narrative strategy to address homelessness among older African-American women, a growing segment of the homeless population in the United States. After considering homelessness as a social issue, and the distress it can produce, often resulting in serious health and mental health problems among older minority women, the authors examine vulnerability from a narrative perspective, offer background on their long-term narrative research and summarise their observations about the nature of narrative practice in working with members of vulnerable populations. The authors develop a thematic framework for conceptualising narrative as a practice research tool for social workers and other human service professionals. For each of the four narrative themes (involving plight, efficacy, hope and recovery), useful in helping people who are vulnerable, the authors document the distinctive focus of each one, and they then conclude the paper with implications for helping people who are vulnerable. (Publisher abstract)
The advocate's compromise: strategies and tactics to improve the well-being of people with diminished status
- Author:
- MOXLEY David P.
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 8(3), 2014, pp.277-292.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The author examines how advocates seek to improve the well-being of recipients who reside in organizations or systems of care in which there is the potential of neglect or abuse. Data from multiple action research projects is used to frame ‘the advocate's compromise’. It is argued that this compromise is actually a proactive strategy of advocacy designed to incrementally improve well-being. It is argued that in systems and organizations regulating people who are considered vulnerable or dependent the advocate must advance collaborative relationships with care providers and supervisors so they become allies in advancing the well being of their charges. The advocate's compromise is placed in context by amplifying a theory of diminished status, which offers a rationale for advocacy in social work. By identifying variation in its forms the author hopes to illuminate the richness of advocacy practice in which the compromise is readily observable and highlight some of its ethical demands. Finally, the author delineates principal strategies and tactics advocates employ to make the compromise a useful tool. (Edited publisher abstract)
Incorporating art-making into the cultural practice of social work
- Author:
- MOXLEY David P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 22(3-4), 2013, pp.235-255.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article considers how the diversity of art-making can help groups that face oppression consolidate their identity and support, build awareness of the greater community about the injustices the group faces, and foster cultural development useful in confronting social injustice through arts-informed social action. After addressing the challenges in defining what constitutes the arts and art-making, the author examines how art-making facilitates healing and catharsis, enables dissent, protest, and resistance, engenders emotional knowledge, and instills consciousness. The author then shows how art-making can enhance cultural practice through multiple strategies for representing oppression by those groups who must cope with its causes and consequences. (Edited publisher abstract)
Lessons learned from three projects linking social work, the arts, and humanities
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., FEEN-CALLIGAN Holly, WASHINGTON Olivia G.M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 31(6), 2012, pp.703-723.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The arts can offer a vehicle for gaining insight into social issues, and how people experience them. The purpose of this paper is to explore the engagement of the social work profession in the arts and humanities, particularly looking at the emergence of the community arts exhibit as a means of capturing diverse ways of learning about social issues affecting local communities. The paper examines 3 projects linking social work, the arts, and humanities: Arts in Recovery (AIR); the Leaving Homelessness Intervention Research Project (LHIRP); and Interdisciplinary Research on Environmental Design (IRED). The paper explores the art exhibit and its catalogue as products that educate the public on various social issues, as well as the exhibit visitation experience that parallels key components of traditional group work and community development. Implications for social work and social work education are discussed. The paper argues that enhancing the social work curriculum with content achieved through the infusion of the arts and humanities can equip students with additional ways of understanding the dynamics of social oppression and with different ways of thinking about the human experience.
Using a developmental action research strategy to build theory for intervention into homelessness among minority women
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., WASHINGTON Olivia G.M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 10(5), 2012, pp.426-444.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Developmental action research (DAR) is a form of inquiry useful in the design of potential action to refine its qualities, evaluate its merits, and institutionalise promising interventions within a specific context. The aim of this article is to describe the use of DAR to formulate theory to guide the development of subsequent intervention models and procedures into homelessness among older African-American women. The Leaving Homelessness Intervention Research Project (LHIRP) is a partnership of action and inquiry among academics and older African-American women who are either struggling with homelessness or dealing with the social forces that tipped them into homelessness. LHIRP has incorporated numerous strategies and approximately 8 multi-intervention and multilevel action research projects. The article describes how DAR and midline theory are used to guide the development of LHIRP interventions. Through multiple and diverse interactions with the project participants, new knowledge emerges to explain how homelessness occurs among minority women, how to guide interventions to effectively address this issue, and how to guide the design and development of subsequent intervention models and procedures to help the participants leave and remain out of homelessness.
Promising practices useful in the design of an intergenerational program: ten assertions guiding program development
- Authors:
- BISHOP Jeffery D., MOXLEY David P.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 10(3), 2012, pp.183-204.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the United States, practice in the field of aging is focusing on ‘ageing in place’, which itself incorporates a framework of positive aging, and can involve the community support of elders as ways to increase their quality of life and functioning. Undertaking qualitative developmental research for the purposes of designing a prototype intergenerational programme, this paper offers 10 assertions concerning promising practices. The authors undertook an analysis of 47 Web-based portrayals of intergenerational programmes and used Web-based documents that described those programmes to further illuminate promising practices. Using thematic analysis of program Web content, affinity coding, and dialogic interpretation the authors illuminated the programmes' salient properties and qualities, and formulated and refined their assertions about the distinctiveness of intergenerational programmes.
Development of a multimodal assessment framework for helping older African American women transition out of homelessness
- Authors:
- WASHINGTON Olivia G.M., MOXLEY David P.
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 79(2), 2009, pp.103-124.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The evolution of an assessment strategy and process found to be useful in planning older African American women’s transition from homelessness is described. The assessment framework was developed and tested through action research by the Detroit-based Leaving Homelessness Intervention Research project (LHIRP) in partnership with older homeless and formerly homeless African American women. Over a 10 year period LHIRP undertook multiple subprojects which either documented homeless experiences or consequences among approximately 550 older African American women who participated in some aspects of the project or created new interventions based on the illumination of the lived experiences of homelessness among participants. The assessment framework described is a product of the LHIRP substudy titled Advocacy for Leaving Homelessness. The content was derived from community needs assessment, group work, narrative interviewing, collaborative social action and the analysis of participants’ stories captured through alternative methods such as photography and quilting. In this article the authors delineate the properties of the assessment framework, consider the distinctive features of the framework, and highlight the manner in which specific assessment tools are integrated into the process of advocacy.
Service engagement with high-risk men who have sex with men: challenges and implications for social work practice
- Authors:
- NATALE Anthony P., MOXLEY David P.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 48(1), January 2009, pp.38-56.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This literature review searched four databases for research on service engagement with high-risk gay and bisexual men. HIV transmission risks are heightened in those men who are also substance abusers, and engagement with social and health care professionals is influenced by fear, social stigma, health literacy, treatment readiness, poverty (including lack of insurance cover) and mental health problems. Cultural and contextual factors affecting service engagement are also reviewed, including those relating to ethnic origin, gay/bisexual behaviour, substance abuse and geographical setting. Promising practice approaches include small-scale, outreach models of delivery that can help to address stigma and use social marketing to promote awareness, treatment readiness and treatment engagement.