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Co-Creating A Social Work Apprenticeship With Disadvantaged African-American Youth: A Best Practices After School Curriculum, Jeffrey Bulanda, Desiree Tellis, Katherine Mccrea
Co-Creating A Social Work Apprenticeship With Disadvantaged African-American Youth: A Best Practices After School Curriculum, Jeffrey Bulanda, Desiree Tellis, Katherine Mccrea
Katherine Tyson McCrea
Co-creating an after school program with disadvantaged African-American youth between 2006-2011 resulted in a social work apprenticeship. In a participatory action, youth-led evaluation process, youth (N=203) prioritized positively impacting their communities, especially mentoring community children and promoting alternatives to community violence. Starting from the strengths perspective and self-determination theory, topics youth valued included human rights, peace-building, trauma and stress management, and mentoring. Knowledge about human development and interviewing helped youth experience the fulfillment of being mentors. A subsample (133) described what they learned about social work, and 43% of those reported an interest in pursuing a social work career.
When Traumatic Stressors Are Not Past, But Now: Psychosocial Treatment To Develop Resilience With Children And Youth Enduring Concurrent, Complex Trauma, Katherine Mccrea, Deanna Guthrie, Jeffrey Bulanda
When Traumatic Stressors Are Not Past, But Now: Psychosocial Treatment To Develop Resilience With Children And Youth Enduring Concurrent, Complex Trauma, Katherine Mccrea, Deanna Guthrie, Jeffrey Bulanda
Katherine Tyson McCrea
While providing school-based treatment for 450 urban impoverished children and youth from 2006-2014, we found implementing specific elements of PTSD treatment models reduced engagement and aggravated clients’ symptoms. Clients’ traumas were neither past nor single-type, but were multiple (complex) and unavoidably occurring concurrently with treatment, so we speculated that many trauma treatment elements needed revision to be effective. Using a participatory action research methodology, we developed a resilience-focused treatment model for concurrently-traumatized clients. Drawing from the strengths perspective, self-determination, and hope theories, key treatment elements revised here are triggers, re-enactment, avoidance, “silencing,” and dissociation. Treatment guidelines include creating a safe …