Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Social Work
Attuning To Need: Reconceptualizing “Help” In Poor Rural Areas, Jennifer M. Frank, Laura Brierton Granruth, Brittany Leffler, Rachel Preibisch, Dawn Watson, Heather Girvin, Mary Glazier
Attuning To Need: Reconceptualizing “Help” In Poor Rural Areas, Jennifer M. Frank, Laura Brierton Granruth, Brittany Leffler, Rachel Preibisch, Dawn Watson, Heather Girvin, Mary Glazier
Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal
Social isolation is closely linked to overall health and well-being and is a serious concern for those in rural areas. Our research seeks insights into the needs experienced in poor rural areas by utilizing letter writing between students and community agency participants as a research methodology. In the letters, we observed that community participants relied upon friend and family style relationships and even viewed their agency relationships as such. This suggests that transforming "professional helping relationships" into alliances that are less impersonal might be in order. Such relationships and connections seemed conducive to the development of empowering self-efficacy. This finding …
Towards A Social Justice Agenda: Intimate Partner Violence Among Rural, African American Women, Shani Collins Woods
Towards A Social Justice Agenda: Intimate Partner Violence Among Rural, African American Women, Shani Collins Woods
Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal
The social work profession is rooted in community-based work that seeks to eradicate social injustice everywhere. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global phenomenon which impacts women from diverse socio-economic and racial/ethnic backgrounds. It involves power and control, economic abuse, and physical and sexual violence. When compared to other racial and ethnic groups, African American women are likelier to experience physical violence, rape, and homicide. Intimate partner violence among African American women is a social justice issue.
When compared to other racial and ethnic groups, rural and/or low-income African American women are likelier to experience IPV. They are also likelier …
Review Of The Book Rural Poverty In The United States, Peter A. Kindle
Review Of The Book Rural Poverty In The United States, Peter A. Kindle
Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal
Review of the book Rural Poverty in the United States
Review Of Broke And Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country, Peter A. Kindle
Review Of Broke And Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country, Peter A. Kindle
Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal
Review of Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country