The School of Social Work proudly announces the following recent publications (2018–present) from students, whose names are marked in bold text. Hyperlinks have been added to article, chapter, and/or book titles.

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2024

Abekah-Carter, K. (2024). Surviving on the periphery of society: Experiences of street children in Accra, Ghana. Children & Society.

Abekah-Carter, K., Boateng, A., & Dako-Gyeke, M. (2024). Pushed and pulled onto the streets: Perspectives of street children in Accra, Ghana. Children and Youth Services Review, 159.

Abekah-Carter, K., Ayim, M., Cudjoe, E., Abdullah, A., & Chiu, M.Y.L. (2024). Perspectives of mental health professionals on kinship care for persons with mental illness in Ghana. International Journal of Mental Health.

Awuviry-Newton, K., Abekah-Carter, K., Nkansah, J.O., Asamoah, B., & Rashid Umar, A. (2024). Exploring care experiences and satisfaction: a descriptive qualitative study of hospitalised older adults. International Journal of Care and Caring.

Ongoh, M., Abekah-Carter, K., A-iyeh, E., & Agyemang-Duah, W. (2024). Daily exercises uptake and associated factors among Social Security and National Insurance Trust pensioners in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 43.

Awuviry-Newton, K., Kukah, S.A., & Abekah-Carter, K. (2024). Exploring the Unmet Needs of Primary Caregivers of Autistic Children and Its Implications for Social Work Practice in Ghana. Health & Social Care in the Community.

Dako-Gyeke, M., Hervie, V.M., Abekah-Carter, K., & Darkwa, A.A. (2024). Addressing barriers to improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access for the promotion of healthy ageing among older persons in Ghana. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 

Oti-Boadi, M., Andoh-Arthur, J., Abekah-Carter, K., & Abukuri, D.N. (2024) Internalized stigma: Social support, coping, psychological distress, and mental well-being among older adults in Ghana. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 70(4), 739–749.

Awuah, L., Awuviry-Newton, K., Armah, D., Abekah-Carter, K., & Nkansah, J.O. (2024). Enlightening Stakeholders on the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts and Preparation for Minimizing Future Pandemics’ Negative Effects on Occupational Therapists. Health & Social Care in the Community.

Ongoh, M., Afranie, S., Ohemeng, F.N.A., Abekah-Carter, K., & Godi, A.H. (2024). Planning for retirement during active service in Ghana: Insights from pensioners in the Greater Accra Region. Journal of Aging & Social Policy.

Issahaku, P.A., Adam, A., & Sulemana, A. (2024). Youth Risky and Antisocial Behaviors in Newfoundland and Labrador: The Perspectives of Young People. Sage Open, 14(2).

Browne, N.L. (2024). Challenging charitable oppression: Social working in supportive housing. The British Journal of Social Work.

Ellenbogen, S., Power, K.B., Hair, H.J., Kirkland Smith, J., & Hynes Brothers, K. (2024). Contrasting the treatment-related perceptions of parents and their children: Using data from child and adolescent brief mental health services recipients in Canada. European Journal of Mental Health, 19, e0020, 1–14.

Moyo, S., Pacheco, L., & Aunos, M. (2024). The Depiction of Mothers with Intellectual Disability: Critical Discourse Analysis of Parenting Capacity Assessments. Journal of Progressive Human Services.

Pacheco, L., Mercerat, C., Aunos, M., Cousineau, M.M., Goulden, A., Swab, M., Brenton, B., & Moyo, S. (2024). Uncovering Reproductive Injustice Toward Women With Disabilities. International Perspectives in Psychology.

Singh, R.C.B., & Ferguson, R.N. (2024). Creating community in online critical social work courses. Social Work Education.

Singh, R.C.B., Yakas, L. Wernick, L.J., Kattari, S.K., Slayter, E., & Taylor, S. (2024) Anti-Ableist and Disability Justice Pedagogies in Social Work Education. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 51(1), 330–357.

Slayter, E., & Singh, R.C.B. (2024). Community-based Disability Accessibility Assessment. Feminist Pedagogy, 5(2).

MacDonald, J., Singh, R.C.B., Norris, S., & Goulden, A. (2024). Trauma, (dis)Ability, and Chronic Pain: Taking Up Sufferer-Informed Practices. In C. Brown (Ed.), Reframing Trauma through Social Justice: Resisting the Politics of Mainstream Trauma Discourse (pp. 128–144). Routledge.

Wernick, L.J., Singh, R.C.B., Lee-Johnson, N.M., Kattari, S.K., & Holloway, B.T. (2024). Action Steps Toward Dismantling Ableism in Social Work Education. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 51(1), 370–402.

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2023

Ongoh, M., Abekah-Carter, K., & Godi, A.H. (2023). Life After Retirement: Exploring the Survival Strategies of SSNIT Pensioners in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontol, 38, 327–342.

Elkassem, S., & El-Saadi, L. (2023). A House with many rooms: A snapshot of substance use across Muslim populations. In R. Csiernik, W. Rowe, & G. Novotna (Eds.), Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Perspectives (pp. 295–312). Canadian Scholars Press.

Fairfax, C., Rountree, M., Murray-Lichtman, A., Yellowbird, M., Naseh, M., Izaksonas, E., Albritton, T., & Williams, T. (2023). Lessons Learned from the CSWE Task Force to Advance Anti-Racism in the Social Work Education Policy and Accreditation Standards. Advances in Social Work, 23(2), 262–277.

Singh, R.C.B. (2023). Addressing the Absence of Disability Justice Through an Online Social Work Course. Feminist Pedagogy, 4(1).

Goulden, A., Singh, R.C.B., & Smith Carrier, T. (2023). Teaching Note – Incorporating Universal Instructional Design in Social Work Education: A Practical Application. Journal of Social Work Education.

Klein, L.B., Singh, R.C.B., Kynn, J., & McLean, K.J. (2023). Disabled and/or Chronically Ill Survivors of Sexual Violence and Intimate Partner Violence. In S.K. Kattari (Ed.), Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Academics and Health and Human Service Professionals. Routledge.

Slayter, E., Kattari, S., Yakas, L., Singh, R.C.B., Goulden, A., Taylor, S., Wernick, L., Simmons, L., & Prince, D. (2023). Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Call for Disability Justice in Social Work. Social Work, 68(1), 89–92.

Mort, K.S-T., Sulemana, A., & Kodom, R.B. (2023). Financial Capability and Asset Building Training in Ghana Through Project-Based Learning. Global Social Welfare, 10, 39–47.

Dako-Gyeke, M., Kodom, R.B., & Sulemana, A. (2023). Experiences of Unaccompanied Child Migrant Workers from West African Countries Living in Ghana. Journal of International Migration & Integration, 24, 527–546.

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2022

Elkassem, S., & Murray-Lichtman, A. (2022). Mapping an integrative critical race and anti-colonial theoretical framework in social work practice. Advances in Social Work, 22(2), 628–646.

Elkassem, S., & Shaikh, S.S. (2022). Re-storying “hardship” and “ease”: Towards a spiritual social work praxis. In S. Shaikh, B. LeFrancois, & T. Macías (Eds.), Critical Social Work Praxis. Fernwood Publishing.

Fairbairn, M. (2022). Queer and Trans Approaches Revisited. In Shaikh, S.S, LeFrançois, B.A., & Macías, T. (Eds.). Critical Social Work Praxis. Fernwood Publishing.

Clark, N., More, J., Kenoras-Duck Chief, L., Johnston-Virgo, D., Matthew, S., Anonymous, Manuel, N., & Derrick, J. (2022). No one cares more about your community than you: Approaches to wellness and healing with Secwépemc children and youth. In D. Baines (Ed.), Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work Book (pp. 308–331). Fernwood Publishing.

Wark, J., Boynton, H., & Vis, J-A. (2022). Spirituality and Child Welfare Practice with Indigenous Families: Fostering a “Culture of Strengths”. In H.M. Boynton, & J-A. Vis (Eds.), Trauma, Spirituality, and Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Social Work Practice (pp. 33–51). University of Toronto Press.

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2021

Giwa, S., Colvin, R.A., Karki, K.K., Mullings, D.V., & Bagg, L. (2021). Analysis of “yes” responses to uniformed police marching in Pride: Perspectives from LGBTQ+ communities in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. SAGE Open, 11(2).

Elkassem, S., Csiernik, R., Mantulak, A., Kayssi, G., Hussain, Y., Lambert, K., Bailey, P., & Choudhary, A. (2021). Listening to Innocence: Effects of Islamaphobia on Muslim Children. In B. Sethi, S. Guruge, & R. Csiernik (Eds.), Understanding the Refugee Experience in the Canadian Context, pp. 70–85. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Murray-Lichtman, A., & Elkassem, S. (2021). Academic Voyeurism: The White Gaze in Social Work. Canadian Social Work Review/Revue canadienne de service social, 38(2), 179–205.

Smith-Carrier, T.A., Goulden, A., & Singh, R.C.B. (2021). Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Social Work Education: A Strengths Perspective. In F. Fovet (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Applying Universal Design for Learning Across Disciplines: Concepts, Case Studies, and Practical Implementation (pp. 149-171). IGI Global.

Wark, J. (2021). Land acknowledgements in the academy: Refusing the settler myth. Curriculum Inquiry, 51(2), 191–209.

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2020

Elkassem, S., & Csiernik, R. (2020). Gatekeeper Perspectives on Substance Misuse Among a Muslim Community in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 20(4), 255–271.

Fairbairn, M., & Strega, S. (2020). Anti-oppressive approaches to child protection. In J. Carrière, & S. Strega (Eds.), Walking this path together: Anti-racist and anti-oppressive child welfare practice. Fernwood Publishing

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2018

Fairbairn, M., Strega, S. & Walmsley, C. (2018). Child and Youth Policy: Building Equality or Buttressing Inequities. In R. Harding, & D. Jeyapal (Eds.), Canadian Social Policy for Social Workers. Oxford University Press.