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AbstractOver the past 50 years, programs serving intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors have expanded nationally. However, despite IPV program growth service gaps remain, particularly for the most marginalized and vulnerable survivor populations. Emerging practice models call for reimagining current IPV service delivery within an intersectional feminist, trauma-informed framework. An overview of intersectional (e.g. survivor-centered, full-frame, culturally specific) and trauma-informed IPV service approaches will be presented highlighting their shared emphasis on power sharing, authentic survivor-advocate relationships, individualized services, and robust systems advocacy. These approaches have the potential to transform IPV services and narrow service gaps if organizations can embed key elements into program design, implementation and evaluation processes. Recommendations for moving the IPV field forward include: 1) expanding survivors' roles/input; 2) strengthening funding streams and organizational commitment to anti-oppressive, survivor-defined, trauma-informed services; 3) forging cross-sector advocacy relationships; and 4) building knowledge through research and evaluation.

Ethnographic interviews with 30 young mothers examined the ways in which contextual factors affected the mothers' developmental passages. Themes associated with gendered influences from the larger culture emerged across the interviews, including intense feelings of love, stigmas associated with teenage motherhood, and social pressures to be with their children's fathers. Some mothers described challenging and letting go of romantic illusions and adopting more realistic appraisals of their partners and relationships. Because cultural filters influence adolescent mothers' perceptions and choices in significant ways, social workers must acknowledge and integrate these gendered influences to engage and intervene more effectively with adolescent mothers.

The following case study illustrates methodological considerations for conducting research with young mothers exposed to intimate partner violence. Specifically, ethnographic methods are highlighted as a strategy for conceptualizing and implementing a research project with this population. Both the benefits and challenges of using qualitative methods and ethnographic interviewing are explored. An application of this analytic approach is presented along with lessons learned.

For the past 30 years, researchers and practitioners have been concerned about the impact of work stress experienced by social workers. Although research on burnout has been a useful field of exploration, a new concern has arisen about work stresses specifically associated with work with victims of trauma. The concept of vicarious trauma provides insights into the stresses of this particular kind of work. Like the burnout research, early research on vicarious trauma has identified both personal and organizational correlates. In this article, the authors review the growing literature on the organizational components of vicarious trauma and suggest changes in organizational culture, workload, group support, supervision, self-care, education, and work environment that may help prevent vicarious trauma in staff.

This article explores the uses of poetry in qualitative research. In this study of the first author's lived experience with non-clinical depression and the second author's experience of living with someone experiencing depression, poetry and responsive narrative are used as data, as means of data representation, and processes of inquiry. The authors explore the nature of poetry as a tool for investigating human phenomena and its congruence with post-modern methods of research. Autoethnographic poems are used as data and analyzed via narrative written by the original author of the poem on two separate occasions. A third researcher added an additional layer of narrative analysis for increased depth. This self-reflection provides reflexive analysis of our individual understanding of depression via narrative.

AbstractBackgroundInterprofessional collaboration (IPC) is a key contributor to the health‐care organizational culture of wellness and health‐care provider (HCP) morale.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study is examining the impact of IPC on their work stress among HCPs in China and comparing the differences in associations between IPC and work stress between Chinese physicians and nurses.MethodsWith a survey research design, 1036 HCPs were electronically recruited. Five multiple linear regression models were developed to examine the association between IPC and work stress among general HCPs, physicians, and nurses.ResultsIPC can significantly reduce work stress among Chinese HCPs. Regarding IPC, achieving mutually satisfactory solutions, having a clear understanding of boundaries, and a sense of trust are negatively associated with HCPs' work stress, but team reflective revision was positively associated with HCPs' work stress during the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID‐19) pandemic. However, IPC factors are associated with work stress differently between physicians and nurses in China.ConclusionOur findings have important implications for practice, research, and policy.