Kori R. Bloomquist

TL;DR: Light is shed on the under-studied relationship between social worker self-care and professional quality of life, insights are provided into the types of activities practiced and not practiced by MSW practitioners, and gaps between perceived value and effective teaching of self- care are identified.

TL;DR: This article explored how 55 college seniors understand class mobility and identified family of origin, motivation, and educational attainment as key factors in shaping class mobility, and developed a grounded theory of class mobility as parallel to playing a hand of poker.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed methods study examines expenditures for concrete services across four categories over a four-year period in one Midwestern state and finds that the justifications for caseworker concrete service requests and the perceptions of regional and executive managers regarding the effectiveness of the use of concrete services are also examined.

TL;DR: This article explored the social class attributions of clients receiving poverty-related services through qualitative interviews and found that participants indicated a sense of lived contradiction, viewing social class to be the result of fate while simultaneously endorsing individualistic attributions.