Hospital Social Workers & Homelessness
Resources
References & resources to strengthen practice
Demoralization
Behan, D. (2019). Demoralization during medical illness: A case of common
factors treatment. Clinical Social Work Journal, 47, 266–275.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-018-0660-y
Clarke, D. M., Cook, K. E., Coleman, K. J., & Smith, G. C. (2006). A qualitative examination of the experience of ‘depression’ in hospitalized medically ill patients. Psychopathology, 39(6), 303-312. https://doi.org/10.1159/000095778
Elder, E., Johnston, A. N., Wallis, M., & Crilly, J. (2020). The demoralisation of nurses and medical doctors working in the emergency department: A qualitative descriptive study. International emergency nursing, 52, Article 100841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2020.100841
Gabel, S. (2011). Addressing demoralization in clinical staff: A true test of leadership. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 199(11), 892-895. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182349e79
Kerman, N., Ecker, J., Tiderington, E., Gaetz, S., & Kidd, S. A. (2022). Workplace trauma and chronic stressor exposure among direct service providers working with people experiencing homelessness. Journal of Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2021.2022629
Petrovich, J., Twis, M. K., & Evans, S. (2021). Practice with people experiencing homelessness: An analysis of secondary traumatic stress in the workplace. Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 30(2), 116-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/10530789.2020.1763574
Townsend, K. (2018). Demoralisation in palliative care. The Lancet Oncology, 19(2), 168. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30020-2
Winnett, R. (2022). The experiences of hospital social workers who care for homeless patients: An interpretive phenomenological analysis. Social Work in Health Care, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2022.2033379
Being there (Relational-Cultural Practice)
Comstock, D. L., Hammer, T. R., Strentzsch, J., Cannon, K., Parsons, J., & Salazar, G. (2008). Relational-cultural theory: A framework for bridging relational, multicultural, and social justice competencies. Journal of Counseling & Development, 86(3), 279-287. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6678.2008.tb00510.x
Hartling, L., & Sparks, E. (2008). Relational-cultural practice: Working in a nonrelational world. Women & Therapy, 31(2-4), 165-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/02703140802146332
Jordan, J. V. (2000). The role of mutual empathy in relational/cultural therapy. Journal of clinical psychology, 56(8), 1005-1016. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(200008)56:8<1005::AID-JCLP2>3.0.CO;2-L
Jordan, J. V. (2010). Relational-cultural therapy. Handbook of Counseling Women. American Psychological Association.
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Miller, J. B. (1976). Toward a new psychology of women. Beacon.
Miller, J. B. (2015). The healing connection: How women form relationships in therapy and in life. Beacon Press.
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Miller, J. B., & Stiver, I. (1997). The healing connection: How women form relationships in therapy and in life. Beacon.
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Williams, M. T., Skinta, M. D., & Martin-Willett, R. (2021). After Pierce and Sue: A revised racial microaggressions taxonomy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(5), 991-1007. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621994247