LibGuides: SWR-365: Week 5 Resources

Week 5 Required Resources

Textbook

Your course textbook, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, can be accessed via the Getting Started module in your course.

Schriver, J. M. (2020). Human behavior and the social environment: Shifting paradigms in essential knowledge for social work practice (7th ed.). Allyn & Bacon.

Read Chapter 5: Enduring Theories, Perspectives, and Practice Models.
This chapter explores the history and background of enduring theories, perspectives, and practice models for social work practice with individuals.
Note: Please read Chapter 5 in the Shriver textbook (2020) which reviews the approaches covered in Lecture 5 in-depth; you will need to reference this content for the Week 5 Assignment.

Articles

COVID Study Shows Children’s Mental Health Tied to Mothers’
Rajan, K. (2022, October 17). COVID Study Shows Children’s Mental Health Tied to Mothers’. https://news.sfsu.edu/news-story/covid-study-shows-childrens-mental-health-tied-mothers
This study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders examines the impact of maternal mental health, particularly in relation to pandemic-induced stress and childhood trauma on children's mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Child Welfare and Social Work Education: From a Pedagogy of Oppression to a Pedagogy of Resistance
Leotti, S. M., Sugrue, E. P., Itzkowitz, M., & Williams, K. (2023). Child welfare and social work education: From a pedagogy of oppression to a pedagogy of resistance. Advances in Social Work, 23(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.18060/26350
This article explores how child welfare practice is shifting to a framework focusing on resilience and how this impacts anti-racist social work practice.
Implications of Intergenerational Trauma: Associations between Caregiver ACEs and Child Internalizing Symptoms in an Urban African American Sample
Leslie, C. E., Walsh, C. S., & Sullivan, T. N. (2023). Implications of intergenerational trauma: Associations between caregiver ACEs and child internalizing symptoms in an urban African American sample. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(5), 877–887. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001334.supp
Understanding adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the African-American community is important as you explore the underlying mechanisms that may exacerbate the link between ACEs and subsequent outcomes, particularly for African-American youth in low-resource communities. This information is important to help identify how to best intervene in populations at greater risk for exposure.

Videos

Allen, C. (2021, July 28). Brief & Brilliant: Reconceptualizing Historical Trauma Theory for Social Work Research and Practice. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-u_JA1D3P8

In this video titled "Brief & Brilliant: Reconceptualizing Historical Trauma Theory for Social Work Research and Practice," the presenter explores innovative perspectives on Historical Trauma Theory with a focus on its application in social work research and practice.