Arts-Inspired Design in the Development of Helping Interventions in Social Work: Implications for the Integration of Research and Practice

Moxley, David P.; Feen, Holly

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“…Social work as a profession has historically engaged with art. As far back as the settlement house movement in the late 1800s, social work has incorporated the arts in community action by forming partnerships with artists in addressing social issues and human challenges (Moxley & Feen, 2016). Yet the 20th century saw a powerful movement away from artistic endeavors, toward scientific methods, and standardized efficacy (Konrad, 2017).…”

Section: Art and Social Work Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Social work practice with war-affected children and families: the importance of family, culture, arts, and participatory approaches

Denov

Shevell

2018

Journal of Family Social Work

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War and armed conflict not only gravely impact individual children, but the entire family system, with the impacts of war further compounded by the complexities of displacement, flight, migration, and resettlement to new contexts. These processes can cause destabilizing ruptures in the social fabric, networks, and services that support and protect children and families, ultimately hindering their potential protective capacities and potentially contributing to negative long-term intergenerational effects. The family plays a vital role in shaping children's mental health and well-being in conflict and post conflict settings, and thus the family needs to be accorded greater consideration in designing psychosocial support services for war-affected populations. With growing numbers of war-affected refugees resettling in Canada and the U.S., it is critical that psychosocial programs and interventions address their unique needs, as individuals, families, and communities. Moreover, there is a greater need for culturally responsive practice with war-affected refugee children and families that accounts for the diversity and heterogeneity of their needs and lived experiences. In this Special Issue entitled: "Children of War and their Families: Perspectives on Social Work Practice & Education", we suggest that factors such as fostering a family approach, allotting careful attention to context and culture, alongside an emphasis on linking the arts and participation with social work practice, can be key social work contributions to research, education, and practice with this important and often overlooked population.

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Section: Art and Social Work Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Social work practice with war-affected children and families: the importance of family, culture, arts, and participatory approaches

Denov

Shevell

2018

Journal of Family Social Work

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“…What do I have to do to achieve this and what do I need?" Based on my experiences, it has become apparent to me that perhaps arts-informed practice "can facilitate the design and development of helping interventions in social work to meld diverse forms of knowledge building with multiple methods of representation," and as such is becoming a useful tool to intervene and advance strategy in "social work whether those involve direct provision of support of people who experience serious social issues, community action and organisational development, or policy change" (Moxley & Feen, 2016, p. 1690; see Bonnycastle & Bonnycastle, 2015;Etmanski, 2014;Hafford-Letchfield et al, 2012;Leonard et al, 2016;Wehbi, 2011Wehbi, , 2018. What I have gleaned from the integration of reflexive photography in this course is that it has the capacity to contribute to a different way of conceptualizing the human experience in ways that vary to the traditional evaluative methods by actively affiliating the classroom and practice setting.…”

Section: Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Through Pictures: The Integration of Reflexive Photography in Social Justice Education

Goitom

2020

IRE

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This article explores the use of reflexive photography as an experiential teaching method in teaching social justice education in an undergraduate social work program. Using critical auto-ethnography as a method, it discusses how this was built into a second-year Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) course by way of planning and application. Drawing on Freire’s concept of reflexive practice and based on the experiences of a social work educator teaching this course, the paper describes how (a) the course was designed and executed to realize student knowledge, (b) reaffirm the importance of reflexive practice for knowledge building and (c) for social transformation. On the basis of reflection from its application and student experiences, the author discusses the potential effect that integrating arts-informed teaching methods have on social justice oriented approaches to social work practice, the development of students’ practice and professional identity.

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“…Researchers across disciplines use ABR practices as methodological tools during all phases of social research to include data generation, analysis, and representation (Leavy, 2015). Scholars who incorporate the arts in their work maintain that ABR offers a more holistic approach to inquiry that permits researchers to embrace the uncertainties and paradox of experience (Moxley, 2013; Moxley and Feen, 2015). ABR offers the possibility to move in multiple epistemic directions, producing knowledge that is multidimensional (Bhattacharya, 2013).…”

Section: Poetic Inquirymentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring poetry as method: “Representing faithfully” the narratives of African American high school students and their mothers

Corley

2019

Qualitative Social Work

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In this article, I reflect on my experiences using poetry as a method of data analysis and data representation from a qualitative study of seven African American high school seniors and their single mothers. By applying different techniques of narrative analysis, namely poetic transcription, a deeper understanding of both participants’ and the researcher’s lived experiences were gained. Poetic transcription techniques were used to create found poems for each participant. The poems serve as a means to honor and center the unique experiences of Black students and Black mothers. The article discusses opportunities for poetry in social work research and demonstrates using poetry as a technique for data analysis and data representation.

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Arts-Inspired Design in the Development of Helping Interventions in Social Work: Implications for the Integration of Research and Practice

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Social work practice with war-affected children and families: the importance of family, culture, arts, and participatory approaches

Social work practice with war-affected children and families: the importance of family, culture, arts, and participatory approaches

Learning Through Pictures: The Integration of Reflexive Photography in Social Justice Education

Exploring poetry as method: “Representing faithfully” the narratives of African American high school students and their mothers

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