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An Exploratory Study of Neighborhood Choices Among Moving to Opportunity Participants in Baltimore, Maryland: The Influence of Housing Search Assistance
(ScholarWorks, 2005)This study examined the neighborhood choices of 150 families who participated in the Moving To Opportunity Program (MTO) in Baltimore, Maryland. The MTO program, utilizing an experimental design, provided intensive housing ... -
‘We’re Civil Servants’: The Status of Trauma-Informed Care in the Community
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-12-12)Trauma-informed care (TIC) in social service organizations means that the organizations operate with the understanding that everyone involved has possibly experienced trauma in their lifetime. This qualitative study examined ... -
The Infusion of Trauma-Informed Care in Organizations: Experience of Agency Staff
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-01-26)The implementation of trauma-informed care is a transformational organizational change, incorporating all levels of staff and fundamentally changing the hierarchical structure of the organization (Bloom, 2006). Using the ... -
The content of education for direct caregivers
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-15)Direct caregivers in nursing homes are the certified nursing assistants (CNAs) who provide the majority of hands-on care. This study administered a knowledge instrument to a sample of CNAs () employed at nursing homes in ... -
Perspectives on caregiving: A qualitative evaluation of certified nursing assistants
(Elsevier, 2016-10-12)This study sought Certified Nursing Assistants' (CNAs) perspectives on the activities that compose quality care. CNAs provide the majority of hands on care in nursing homes positioning them to have a unique perspective on ... -
Ethical Issues in Long-term Care: A Human Rights Perspective
(Springer Nature, 2017-08-17)Nursing home residents do not relinquish human rights just because they need care. In nursing homes in the USA, federal law guarantees certain rights to residents. This article provides a broader context for understanding ... -
Applying a trauma-informed perspective to loss and change in the lives of older adults
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03-09)Traumatic events are widely acknowledged to have long-term impacts on individuals, yet only recently have health-care professionals begun to assess for and gain an understanding of trauma in the lives of older adults. For ... -
Trauma-informed supervision: Core components and unique dynamics in varied practice contexts
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-05-11)The Co-Editors of the special issue on trauma-informed supervision describe the need for increased attention to this topic and their goals for this issue. They then provide an overview of each article, all written by persons ... -
Trauma Informed Practice and Care: Implications for Field Instruction
(Springer US, 2018-06-21)This article summarizes the evolution in thinking about trauma and its impact on those who have experienced it. The nature of trauma-informed (TI) practice and care and implications for field instruction are then explained. ... -
Client Experiences of Trauma-Informed Care in Social Service Agencies
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-10-25)This paper describes a qualitative study of individual client interviews (n = 26) from four social service agencies to understand how clients experience trauma-informed care services and implementation challenges. We used ... -
Hypothesis Testing of CNA Perceptions of Organizational Culture in Long Term Care
(Informa UK Limited, 2019-02-06)This commentary for the special issue on research that went wrong describes a study that explored factors that contribute to variability within Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) on organizational safety culture. We know ... -
Using an Experiential Learning Assignment to Teach BSW Students about Culture and End-of-Life Care Planning
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-07)In response to needs identified by the Institute of Medicine and the National Association of Social Workers, this article describes an experiential assignment to increase BSW students’ skills in end-of-life care. In this ... -
The Trauma-Informed Climate Scale-10 (TICS-10): A Reduced Measure of Staff Perceptions of the Service Environment
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-10)Trauma-informed climates prioritize staff and client experiences of safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment. The Trauma-Informed Climate Scale (TICS) was developed to measure staff perceptions of these values ... -
Turning Doctoral Students into Faculty in Gerontological Social Work: The AGESW Experience
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-29)Developing faculty interested in aging may help social work meet the needs of our growing aging population. However, doctoral students need a variety of supports to complete PhDs and become gerontological social work ... -
Using Social Network Analysis to Assess Professional Network Development among AGESW Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program Participants
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-30)Professional networks are important for the success of doctoral students and early career faculty members, yet there is little research about what types of experiences help emerging scholars develop these networks. Social ... -
Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
(Springer, Cham, 2019-12-01)Communities across the globe, including the United States, face unprecedented environmental challenges influenced by factors such as climate change and an increasing global population. This chapter will focus specifically ... -
Testing the Associations Between the Assisted Living Environment and Residents’ Satisfaction With Assisted Living
(National Investment Center, 2020)The Problem: This study examined the assisted living (AL) environment and its relationship to residents’ satisfaction with AL. The Resolution: Baseline data from a study testing the dissemination and implementation of ... -
Is Solitary Confinement for Nursing Home Residents Worth the Risk of Infection?
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The Role of Empowerment in Home Care Work
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-03-14)The home care industry experiences similar problems with the recruitment and retention of direct care workers (DCWs) as those faced by institutions, and it is important to identify strategies to help retain and grow this ... -
Nursing Home Social Work During COVID-19
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-10)As the impacts of COVID-19 on nursing facilities became apparent, the members of the U.S. based National Nursing Home Social Work Network (NNHSWN) immediately considered what it could offer as a useful response to assist ...