“We are on the frontlines too”: A qualitative content analysis of US social workers' experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic

JA Cederbaum, AM Ross, LS Zerden… - Health & Social Care …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Social work has been a part of the essential workforce historically and throughout the COVID‐
19 pandemic, yet lack recognition. This work explores the experiences and invisibility of …

Black frontline workers navigating everyday workplace tensions through professionalism

C Nyawaga, R Mitra - Journal of Professions and Organization, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Professionalism has been widely criticized for its biased standards modeled around
dominant identities while excluding minoritized groups. Nevertheless, it remains a powerful …

A critical appraisal of ways organizations can support social workers in light of COVID-19: A scoping review

J Landers - Human Service Organizations: Management …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need for increased knowledge
surrounding organizational support for social workers. This scoping review evaluated …

Dual pandemics or a syndemic? Racism, COVID-19, and opportunities for antiracist social work

KD Hudson, S Azhar, R Rahman, EB Matthews… - Dual …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
In this article, we critically engage the “dual pandemics” framing of this special issue. We first
consider the key assumptions of this popular frame, specifically the conceptualization of …

Exploring social work practitioners' perspectives on the contributors to burnout since the COVID-19 pandemic

TM Childs, AL Iachini, M Reitmeier, T Browne… - Social Work, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Burnout has a historic and disproportionate impact on social workers and is one important
contributor to the ongoing health and behavioral health workforce crisis in the United States …

Understanding the Social Worker experience with organizational changes in HSOs during the COVID-19 pandemic

JL Reyes, JA Cederbaum… - Human Service …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on Lewin's three-stage change theory (ie unfreezing, changing, and refreezing),
this study explored social workers' experience with organizational changes in human …

The experiences of caretaking and financial stress among social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

JA Cederbaum, LS Zerden, AM Ross, JR Zelnick… - Social Work, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Social workers have engaged in promotive, preventive, and intervention work throughout the
COVID-19 pandemic. Given that social workers are disproportionately women, and the …

Challenges and solutions developed by the infant-toddler court teams to support child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

R Domanico, S Harris, J Adeeb, J Brown… - Children and Youth …, 2024 - Elsevier
This qualitative study examines Infant-Toddler Court Teams'(ITCT) responses to the impact
of the COVID-19 pandemic on the accessibility and timeliness of services for children …

Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work

AS He, JA Cederbaum, R Leake - Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and because of the critical and essential nature of child
welfare work, this workforce moved out of agency settings to remote work. Drawing from the …

Becoming woke by the ASWB pass rates: A closer look at racial inequities in social work

D Apgar, M Nienow - Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There has been widespread outrage within the social work profession regarding racial
disparities in pass rates of licensing exams developed and administered by the Association …