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Pivoting During A Pandemic: School Social Work Practice With Families During Covid-19, Ashey-Marie H. Daftary, Erin Sugrue, Brian D. Gustman, Stephanie Lechuga-Peña Apr 2021

Pivoting During A Pandemic: School Social Work Practice With Families During Covid-19, Ashey-Marie H. Daftary, Erin Sugrue, Brian D. Gustman, Stephanie Lechuga-Peña

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The COVID-19 global pandemic led to the unprecedented shuttering of nearly all K–12 public education settings across the United States from March through June 2020. This article explores how school social workers’ roles, responsibilities, and work tasks shifted during Spring 2020 distance learning to address the continuing and changing needs of families and the larger school community. Interviews were conductedd with twenty school social workers in K–12 public schools, across three states, to understand the primary needs of children and families during the pandemic and to learn how school social workers can be most effective in responding to these needs.The …


Unpacking The Worlds In Our Words: Critical Discourse Analysis And Social Work Inquiry, Sandra Leotti, Erin Sugrue, Nick Winges-Yanez Jan 2021

Unpacking The Worlds In Our Words: Critical Discourse Analysis And Social Work Inquiry, Sandra Leotti, Erin Sugrue, Nick Winges-Yanez

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Critical discourse analysis is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field of inquiry that combines linguistic analysis and social theory to address the way power and dominance are enacted and reproduced in text. Critical discourse analysis is primarily concerned with the construction of social phenomena and involves a focus on the wider social, political, and historical contexts in which talk and text occur, exploring the way in which theories of reality and relations of power are encoded and enacted in language. Critical discourse analysis moves beyond considering what the text says to examining what the text does. As an interdisciplinary and …


Moral Injury Among Professionals In K–12 Education, Erin Sugrue May 2019

Moral Injury Among Professionals In K–12 Education, Erin Sugrue

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This article presents the quantitative portion of a mixed methods study of moral injury among professionals in K–12 public education. Using a cross-sectional correlational survey design, 218 licensed K–12 professionals from 68 schools in one urban school district in the Midwest completed an on-line survey that included measures of moral injury and emotional and behavioral correlates. The K–12 professionals exhibited levels of moral injury similar to those experienced by military veterans. Correlational analyses found that experiences of moral injury were associated with feelings of guilt, troubled conscience, burnout, and the intention to leave one’s job. Linear regression analyses demonstrated that …


Understanding The Effect Of Moral Transgressions In The Helping Professions: In Search Of Conceptual Clarity, Erin Sugrue Mar 2019

Understanding The Effect Of Moral Transgressions In The Helping Professions: In Search Of Conceptual Clarity, Erin Sugrue

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There is a vast academic literature on the moral dimensions and ethical dilemmas of what are commonly referred to as the helping professions (e.g., nursing, medicine, social work, counseling, teaching). Over the past several decades, increasing attention has been paid to the issue of moral transgressions perpetrated, witnessed, or experienced by these professionals and their accompanying psychological and social outcomes. Scholars seeking to understand moral transgressions and their effects have proposed and examined a variety of constructs, including moral distress, demoralization, and moral injury. This article examines to what extent constructs related to moral transgressions and their …


Intercultural Humility In Social Work Education, Bibiana Koh, Anthony A. Bibus Iii Jan 2019

Intercultural Humility In Social Work Education, Bibiana Koh, Anthony A. Bibus Iii

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This conceptual study draws from social work, education, psychology, and moral philosophy (i.e., virtue and Confucian ethics) to inform our conceptual definition of intercultural humility (ICH) with five interrelated features. Starting with cultural humility in the context of the Educational Policies and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) for Baccalaureate and Master’s Social Work Programs of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE, 2015), we examined conceptualizations of humility and cultural humility as virtues required for ethical social work practice. Implications for social work education are discussed by outlining rationales and strategies for developing each ICH feature.


A ‘Bad Fit’ For ‘Our’ Kids: Politics, Identity, Race And Power In Parental Discourse On Educational Programming & Child Well-Being, Erin P. Sugrue Oct 2018

A ‘Bad Fit’ For ‘Our’ Kids: Politics, Identity, Race And Power In Parental Discourse On Educational Programming & Child Well-Being, Erin P. Sugrue

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Issues of race and class have long been at the center of discourses involving the American public education system. Although contemporary discourse regarding issues of race and power in American schools may be less overt in racist ideology than in previous decades, the impact of coded racist discourse can be equally powerful and dangerous. A need exists to identify racist and classist discourse in educational contexts so that the ideologies and practices these discourses reflect can be challenged. This paper uses critical discourse analysis and Critical Race Theory to examine how the discourses of race, class, and power are enacted …


Perceptions Of Macro Social Work Education: An Exploratory Study Of Educators And Practitioners, Katharine M. Hill, Christina Erickson, Linda Plitt Donaldson, Sondra J. Fogel, Sarah M. Ferguson Oct 2017

Perceptions Of Macro Social Work Education: An Exploratory Study Of Educators And Practitioners, Katharine M. Hill, Christina Erickson, Linda Plitt Donaldson, Sondra J. Fogel, Sarah M. Ferguson

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Social work graduate education is responsive to and reflective of larger environmental forces, including economic and job market trends, regulations by diverse organizations, and student interests. A national online survey of macro social work educators (n=208) and macro social work practitioners (n=383) explored their perceptions of the intersections between these forces and graduate social work education. Findings indicate that while there remains a consistent level of support for and inclusion of macro social work within MSW programs from both groups, macro practitioners identified a concurrent experience of negative perceptions, attitudes, and experiences toward macro social work education while in their …