Publications

Memorial University's Research Strategy 2023-2028 sets the vision, mission and core principles for research at Memorial and identifies the goals and objectives necessary to achieve success. Its development marks a significant step in Memorial's continued growth and evolution as a research-focused institution. As an aspirational document, it pushes us to pursue, support and celebrate research excellence in all its forms at Memorial.

The School of Social Work has been working toward this goal and proudly announces the following recent publications from faculty and staff (2018-present) whose names are marked in bold text. Where possible, hyperlinks have been added to article, chapter, or book titles.

For earlier publications, additional information, or to correspond with the authors, visit the Faculty and Staff pages.

 

2024

Issahaku, P.A. (2024). Emergent Themes with Implications from a Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Psychological Well-Being Among 23 Older GhanaiansAgeing International.

Goulden, A. (2024). Young disabled people and sexual well-being. Kattari, S. (ed.) Exploring sexuality and disability: A guide for academics and health and human service professionals: 318-334.

MacDonald, J., Singh, R., Norris, S., & Goulden, A. (2024). Trauma, (dis)Ability, and chronic pain: Taking up sufferer-informed practices. Brown, C. (ed.). Reframing Trauma through Social Justice: 1-29.

 

2023

Karki, K.K., Moasun, F., Freymond, N., Giwa, S., & Zoltek, A.M. (2023). MSW student perceptions of the professional identities of the social work practitioner and the social work researcher: Considerations for educatorsJournal of Social Work Education.

Karki, K.K., Mullings, D.V., & Giwa, S. (2023). Socioeconomic Disparities Among Racialized Immigrants in Canada. Deshpande, A. (ed.). Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Karki, K.K., KC, H., Giwa, S., Mullings, D.V., & Raible, C. D. (2023). Making live and letting die: Nepali migrant workers returning from India encounter the state amid the COVID-19 pandemicInternational Journal of Migration and Border Studies7(3), 272-295.

Goulden, A., Hoekstra, K., & King, B. (2023). A scoping review of programs for young mothers with child welfare involvement in Canada and the United States. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. 40: 299-312.

Ho, C., Goulden, A., Hubley, D., Adamson, K., Hammond, J., & Zarem, A. (2023). Teaching and facilitation course for family as faculty: Preparing families to be faculty partners in healthcare education. Clinical Social Work Journal.

Goulden, A., Baird, S., Romme, K., Pacheco, L., Norris, S., Norris, D., Faye, L., MacNeil, S., & Pittman, J. (2023). Experiences of gender-based violence among disabled women: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis protocol. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 22: 1-7.

Goulden, A., Singh, R., & Smith Carrier, T. (2023). Incorporating universal instructional design in social work education: A practical application. Journal of Social Work Education.

King, B., Goulden, A., Appiah, J., Wong, F., & Chowdhury, R. (2023). “Because I’m young”: Experiences of young mothers with child welfare involvement. Clinical Social Work Journal.

Goulden, A., Kattari, S., Slayter, E., & Norris, S. (2023). “Disability is an art. It’s an ingenious way to live”: Integrating disability justice principles and critical feminisms in social work to promote inclusion and antiableism in professional praxis. Affilia.

Slayter, E., Kattari, S., Yakas, L., Singh, R., 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.

Pacheco, L., Mercerat, C., Auno, M., Cousineau, M., Goulden, A., Swab, M., Brenton, B., & Moyo, S. (2023). Uncovering reproductive injustice towards women with disabilities: A scoping review. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation.

Blundell, L., Walker, S.K.L., Ellenbogen, S., Giwa, S., & Hatfield, K. (2023). Factors that influence families’ decision to send their children to a week-long pediatric oncology camp and thoughts about attending campEuropean Journal of Oncology Nursing67, 102429.

Ellenbogen, S., Tobin, C., Giwa, S., Manning, J., & Andersen, F. (2023). Student perceptions on learning from participating in low-cost service-learning course assignmentsSocial Work Education, 1-18.

Walsh, J.J., Drolet, J.L., Alemi, M.I., Collins, T., Kaushik, V., McConnell, S.M., McKee, E., Mi, E., Sussman, T., & Walsh, C. A. (2023). Transforming the field education landscape: National survey on the state of field education in CanadaSocial Work Education42(5), 646-662.

Au, C., Drolet, J.L., Kaushik, V., Charles, G., Franco, M., Henton, J., Hirning, M., McConnell, S.M., Nicholas, D., Nickerson, A., Ossais, J., Shenton, H., Sussman, T., Verdicchio, G., Walsh, C.A., & Wickman, J. (2023). Impact of COVID-19 on social work field education: Perspectives of Canadian social work studentsJournal of Social Work23(3), 522-547.

 

2022

Giwa, S. (2022). Racism and gay men of color: Living and coping with discrimination. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

Giwa, S., Colvin, R.A., Ricciardelli, R., & Warren, A.P. (2022). Workplace experiences of lesbian and bisexual female police officers in the Royal Newfoundland ConstabularyWomen & Criminal Justice.

Issahaku, P.A. (2022). A discourse on aging in contemporary GhanaCogent Social Sciences.

Issahaku, P.A. (2022). Living at the Margins or Elevated Citizenship? Challenges and Opportunities for Social Participation Experienced by Older Adults in GhanaAgeing International.

Issahaku, P.A. (2022). Young People in Newfoundland and Labrador: Community Connectedness and Opportunities for Social InclusionSAGE Open, 12(3).

Issahaku, P.A. (2022). The Good Old Days: how Older Adults in Present-Day Ghana Compare themselves to Older Adults in Past GenerationsJ Cross Cult Gerontol 37, 89–114.

Shaikh, S., LeFrançois, B.A., & Macias, T. (Eds.). (2022). Critical Social Work Praxis. Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing.

Adjei, P.B., Mullings, D. V., & Giwa, S. (2022). Using critical race and anti-colonial theories to reframe the conversation on youth violence in Toronto. In R. Bromwich, A. Bailey, & T. Harrison (Eds.), Gun violence and gun control: Critical engagements. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press.

Mullings, D.V., Karki, K. K., Giwa, S., Garland, S., Brushett, L., & Thomas, J. (2022). Using Critical Race Theory to Analyse Community Engagement Practice in a Graduate Social Work CourseInternational Journal of Educational Development in Africa7(1).

Mullings, D.V., Power, E., Giwa, S., Karki, K. K., Burt, M., Caines, C., English-Lillos, P., McLean, A., & Ricketts, J. (2022). Using Community Service Learning as a Conduit to Decolonise Bachelor of Social Work EducationInternational Journal of Educational Development in Africa7(1).

Goulden, A., Mann, L., Norris, D., & Rossiter, M. (2022). Working mothers’ infant feeding experiences during their children’s transition to childcare: A qualitative studyJournal of Child and Family Studies, 1-15.

Adamson, K., Goulden, A., Logan, J., & Hammond, J. (2022). Service user involvement in social work education: A scoping review.  Journal of Social Work Education, 1-28. 

Drolet, J.L., Charles, G., McConnell, S.M., & Bogo, M. (Eds.) (2022). Transforming Social Work Field Education: New Insights from Practice Research and Scholarship. University of Calgary Press.

McConnell, S.M., Noble, M., Hanley, J., Finley-Roy, V., & Drolet, J. (2022). Integrating practice research into social work field educationJournal of Teaching in Social Work, 43(1), 1-19.

Drolet, J.L., Charles, G., McConnell, S.M., & M. Bogo. (2022). Transforming Social Work Field Education: New Insights from Practice Research and Scholarship. University of Calgary Press.

Pacheco, L., More, R., & Aunos, M. (2022). Unfit and cast aside: Portrayals of Mothering with Intellectual Disability in Québec court reports. Critical Discourse.

Aunos, M., Spencer, M., Pacheco, L., & Pitich, E. (2022). This Changes Everything: A Critical Reflection on the Impact of Internalised Ableist Constructs Had on Becoming a Disabled Mother. Disability & Society.

Pacheco, L., Aunos, M., Feldman, M., & McConnell, D. (2022). Improving services for parents with intellectual disability and theirfamilies: Views of Canadian social service workers. Health & Social Care in the Community.

Mullings, D. V., Clarke, J., Bernard, W.T., Este, D., & Giwa, S. (Eds.). (2021). Africentric social work. Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing.

Small, S.P., de Boer, C., & Swab, M. (2022). Barriers to and facilitators of labor market engagement for individuals with chronic physical illnesses in their experiences with work disability policy: A qualitative systematic review. JBI Evidence Synthesis 20(2):p 348-536.

de Boer, C., Small, S., Sitter, K., Ricciardelli, R., & Hall, A.. (2022). Child Welfare Workers with Occupational Stress Injuries: A Content Analysis of Workers’ Compensation Legislation in CanadaCanadian Public Policy 48(4).

Cranford, J.M., & LeFrançois, B.A. (2022). Mad Studies is Maddening Social WorkZeszyty Pracy Socjalnej (Numer 3), 69-84.

LeFrançois, B.A., & Voronka, J. (2022). Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production. Unravelling research: The ethics and politics of research in the social sciences, 105-130.

Cadell, S., Ashcroft, R., Furtado, J., Adamson, K., McConnell, S.M., & Teichman, S. (2022). COVID-19 and social work in health care in Canada: What are the impacts?Social Work in Health Care61(4), 218-242.

 

2021

Djiadeu, P., Nur, J., Mbuagbaw, L., Giwa, S., Whitfield, D., & Nelson, L.E. (2021). HIV prevention and treatment interventions for Black men who have sex with men in Canada: A protocol for a scoping systematic reviewBMJ Open, 11(3).

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, CanadaSAGE Open, 11(2).

Davis, E.B., Plante, T.G., Grey, M.J., Kim, C.L., Freeman-Coppadge, D., Lefevor, T., Paulez, J.A., Giwa, S., Lasser, J., Stratton, S.P., Deneke, E., & Glowiak, K.J. (2021). The role of civility and cultural humility in navigating controversial areas in psychologySpirituality in Clinical Practice, 8(2), 79–97.

Giwa, S., Alessi, E. J., Mullings, D.V., & Carlson-Strain, M.D. (2021). Are the needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador being met? Preliminary findings from a focus group discussion with Canadian stakeholdersInternational Journal of Social Welfare, 30(3), 342–352.

Alessi, E.J., Greenfield, B., Yu, M., Cheung, S., Giwa, S., & Kahn, S. (2021). Family, friendship, and strength among LGBTQ+ migrants in Cape Town, South Africa: A qualitative understanding.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(7), 1941–1960.

Mullings, D.V., Giwa, S., Gooden, A., Karki, K. K., Shaikh, S., Spencer, E. B., & Anderson, W. (2021). The settlement and integration experience of temporary foreign workers living in an isolated area of Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaJournal of International Migration and Integration.

Mullings, D.V., Gooden, A., & Brown-Spencer, E. (2021). Catch me when I fall! The significance of Black sisterhood in the academyCultural and Pedagogical Inquiry.

Mullings, D.V. (2021). Community Service Learning and Anti-Blackness: The Cost of Playing with Fire on the Black Female Body. Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black.

Adjei, P.B., Darko, I., Fuseini, S., & Mills, A.A. (2021) “Spirituality and self-care among Ghanaian social workers: Lessons for Africanizing social work education.” In A. Afful-Broni, J. Anamuah-Mensah, K. Raheem & G. J.S. Dei. Africanizing the school curriculum: Promoting an inclusive decolonial education in African contexts (136-156). Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press.

Darko, I.N., Adjei, P.B., & Weir, C. (2021) “Indigenous African philosophies as a critical thinking pedagogical tools for schooling and education.” In A. Afful-Broni, J. Anamuah-Mensah, K. Raheem & G. J.S. Dei. Africanizing the school curriculum: Promoting an inclusive decolonial education in African contexts (115-135). Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press.

Adjei, P.B. (2021) “Social justice and global citizenship education in social work context: A case of caveat emptor.” In E. Aboagye & N. Dlamini (eds). Global citizenship education: Challenges and successes (221-252) Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Apatinga, G.A., Tenkorang, E.Y., & Issahaku, P.A. (2021). Silent and Lethal: Consequences of Sexual Violence Against Married Women in GhanaJournal of Interpersonal Violence36(23-24).

Issahaku, P.A., & Sulemana, A. (2021). Older Adults’ Expectations and Experiences With Health care Professionals in GhanaSAGE Open11(3).

Armstrong, V., & LeFrançois, B.A. (2021). Interrogating mad studies in the academy: Bridging the community/academy divide. In The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies (pp. 315-326). Routledge.

Ossais, J., Drolet, J., Alemi , M.I., Collins, T., Au, C., Bogo, M., Charles, G., Franco, M., Henton, J., Huang, L.X., Kaushik, V., McConnell, S., Nicholas, D., Shenton, H., Sussman, T., Walsh, C., & Wickman, J. (2021). Canadian Social Work Field Education During a Global Pandemic: A Comparison of Student and Field Instructor PerspectivesJournal of Comparative Social Work16(2), 113–140.

Macías, T., & Shaikh, S.S. (2021). Pandemic Social Work: Practice, Education, and Activism in the Time of COVIDIntersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice9(1), 1-6.

 

2020

Adjei, P.B., & Akanmori, H. (2020). Prisoners of a skin color: The criminalization and the social construction of Blackness in risk assessment of Black youth. In GS. Dei, E. Odozor & AV. Jiménez (Eds). Cartographies of blackness and Black Indigeneities. Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press.

Apatinga, G.A., Tenkorang, E.Y., & Issahaku, P.A. (2020). Silent and lethal: consequences of sexual violence against married women in Ghana. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Giwa, S., Mullings, D.V., Adjei, P.B., & Karki, K.K. (2020). Racial erasure: The silence of social work on police racial profiling in Canada. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work.

Joseph, A., Janes, J., Badwall, H., & Almeida, S. (2020). Preserving White Comfort and Safety: The Politics of Race Erasure in Academe. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 26(2): 166-185.

LeFrançois, B.A. (2020). Psychiatrising children. In V. Cooper & N. Holford (Eds.). Exploring Childhood and Youth. London: Routledge.

van Daalen-Smith, C., LeFrançois, B.A., & MacPherson-Mayor, D. (2020). Promising policies, ambiguous practices: An exploration of the status of children in Canadian health care settings. In T. Waldock (Ed.). A Question of Commitment: The Status of Children in Canada, Second Edition. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Smith, A.-A., Tulk, D. M., Ropson, M., Snook, K. A., & Giwa, S. (2020). Female sex workers’ perceptions of front-line police officers’ ability to ensure their safety in St. John’s, Newfoundland and LabradorGreenwich Social Work Review, 1(2), 68–77. 

Giwa, S., Mullings, D.V., & Karki, K. K. (2020). Virtual social work care with older Black adults: A culturally relevant technology-based intervention to reduce social isolation and loneliness in a time of pandemicJournal of Gerontological Social Work, 63(6–7), 679–681.

Henrickson, M., Giwa, S., Hafford-Letchfield, T., Cocker, C., Mulé, N. J., Schaub, J., & Baril, A. (2020). Research ethics with gender and sexually diverse communities.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), 6615.

Alessi, E. J., Kahn, S., Giwa, S., & Cheung, S. (2020). “Those tablets, they are finding an empty stomach”: A qualitative investigation of HIV risk among sexual and gender minority migrants in Cape Town, South Africa.  Ethnicity and Health.

Giwa, S., Logie, C. H., Karki, K. K., Makanjuola, O. F., & Obiagwu, C. E. (2020). Police violence targeting LGBTIQ+ people in Nigeria: Advancing solutions for a 21st century challenge. Greenwich Social Work Review, 1(1), 36–49.

Lefevor, G. T., Smack, A. C. P., & Giwa, S. (2020). Religiousness, support, distal stressors, and psychological distress among Black sexual minority college students. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 16(2), 148–162.

Giwa, S., Norsah, K., & Chaze, F. (2020). Navigating the spaces between racial/ethnic and sexual orientation: Black gay immigrants’ experiences of racism and homophobia in Montréal, Canada. In J. G. Smith & C. W. Han (Eds.), Home and community for queer men of color: The intersection of race and sexuality (pp. 107–148). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

Dalton, K., Bishop, L., Darcy, S., de Boer, C., & Maddalena, V. (2020). Piecing Together the Puzzle of Success: Attending to the Developmental Needs of Emerging Adults in Substance Use Disorder Programming. The Canadian Journal of Addiction 11(3):p 15-24.

Church, M., Ellenbogen, S., & Hudson, A. (2020). Perceived barriers to accessing mental health services for rural and small city Cape Breton youthSocial work in mental health18(5), 554-570.

 

2019

Adjei, P.B. (2019). “Is there no Balm in Gilead? The Search for radical leadership in the Black church of the twenty-first century.” In T. Kitossa, E. Lawson & P. Howard (eds), African Canadian leadership: Perspectives on continuity, transition and transformation. (311-344) Toronto, ON: University of Toronto.

Ellenbogen, S., Hair, H. J., Kirkland Smith, J., & Wilton, P. (2019). The Change Clinic Counselling Service: Blending Client-Centred and Strength-Based Practices to Improve Mental Health Services to FamiliesCanadian Journal of Community Mental Health.

Gustafson, D.L., Parsons, J.E., & Gillingham, B. (2019). Writing to transgress: Knowledge production in feminist participatory action research. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20(2).

Issahaku, P.A. (2019). Narratives of pride and regret among older persons in Ghana. Ghana Social Science Journal, 16(2): 46-83.

Issahaku, P.A. (2019). Raising the future leaders: An analysis of child and family welfare policy in GhanaJournal of Public Child Welfare 13(2).

Giwa, S. & Mihalicz, M. G. (2019). What’s all the fuss about social work syllabi? Action speaks louder than words in addressing the silence of Whiteness in social work curriculum: A game theory perspective.  Journal of Sociology and Social Work, 7(2), 46–63.

Giwa, S. (2018). Coping with racism and racial trauma: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of how gay men from the African diaspora experience and negotiate racist encounters. In D. W. Riggs (Ed.), The psychic life of racism in gay men’s communities (pp. 81–103). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

Chaze, F., Giwa, S., Sheppard, N., & Burns, B. (2019). Mostly White, Christian, and straight: Informational and institutional erasure of LGBTQ and ethnoculturally diverse older adults on long-term care homes websites.  Journal of Aging and Long-Term Care, 2(1), 21–36.

Thompson, J., Dursun, S., Van Til, L. Heber, A., Kitchen, P., de Boer, C., Black, T., Montelpare, B., Coady, T., Sweet, J., & Pedlar, D. (2019). Group Identity, Difficult Adjustment to Civilian Life and Suicide Ideation in Canadian Armed Forces Veterans: Life after Service Studies 2016Journal of Military Veteran and Family Health, 4 (3).

 

2018 

Gorman, R. & LeFrançois, B.A. 2018. Mad studies. In B. Cohen (Ed.). Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health. London: Routledge

Klein R.A. 2018.  Dreams and Realities: A Critical Look at the Cruise Ship Industry.  In S. Gmelch & A. Kaul (Eds.) Tourists and Tourism: A Reader, Third Edition.  Illinois, USA: Waveland Press Inc

Giwa, S. & Chaze, F. (2018). Positive enough? A content analysis of settlement service organizations’ inclusivity of LGBTQ immigrants.  Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 30(3), 220–243. 

Giwa, S. (2018). Community policing in racialized communities: A potential role for police social work.  Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 28(6), 710–730.

Mills, C. & LeFrançois, B.A. (2018). Child as metaphor: Colonialism, psy-governance and epistemicideWorld Futures, 74, 503-524.

LeFrançois, B.A. (2018). Psychiatryzacja naszych dzieci, albo autoetnograficzna opowieść o tym, jak instytucje „opiekuńcze” kontynuowały ludobójstwo na rdzennej ludności Kanady. In Witeska-Młynarczyk, A. (Ed.), Antropologia psychiatrii dzieci i młodzieży. Teksty wybrane (pp. 229-249). Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa.

Adjei, P.B. (2018). “Adinkra Symbolism of Ghana: Pedagogical Implications for Schooling and Education.” In L. Asimeng-Boahene & M. Baffoe (eds). African traditional oral literature and Visual cultures as pedagogical tools in Diverse Classroom Contexts. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing (151-171).

Teye-kau, M., Tenkorang, E. Y., & Adjei, P. B. (2018). Revisiting the housing–health relationship for HIV-positive persons: Qualitative evidence from the Lower Manya Krobo District, GhanaQualitative health research, 28(8), 1217-1228.

Adjei, P.B. (2018). The (Em)bodiment of Blackness in a visceral anti-Black racism and ableism contextRace Ethnicity and Education 21(3)275-287 

Adjei, P. B., Mullings, D., Baffoe, M., Quaicoe, L., Abdul-Rahman, L., Shears, V., & Fitzgerald, S. (2018). The “fragility of goodness”: Black parents’ perspective about raising children in Toronto, Winnipeg, and St. John’s of CanadaJournal of Public Child Welfare, 12(4)461-491 

Adjei, P.B. and Minka, E (2018). Black parents ask for a second look: Parenting under ‘White’ Child Protection rules in CanadaChildren and Youth Services Review 94(2018)511-524

Adjei, P.B. (2018). Race to the bottom: Obama’s presidency, Trump’s election victory, and the perceived insidious greed of WhitenessRace, Gender and Class 25(3-4)43-67

Hall, A., Ricciardelli, R., Sitter, K., Simas-Medeiros, D., de Boer, C., & Small, S. (2018). Occupational Stress Injuries in Two Atlantic Provinces: A Policy AnalysisCanadian Public Policy, 44 (4).

Ellenbogen, S., Colin-Vezina, D., Sinha, V., Chabot, M., & Wells, S.J.R. (2018). Contrasting mental health correlates of physical and sexual abuse-related shameJournal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 30(2), pp 87-97.

Smith, C.B.R. (2018). Playing (un)dead: Interrogating invocations of ‘monster’ metaphors in (post-)MMT service user narratives of methadone, maintenance and treatmentInternational Archives of Addiction Research and Medicine, 4(1), 1-12.

Issahaku, P.A. (2018). What Women Think Should Be Done to Stop Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana. Violence & Victims. 2018 Aug;33(4):627-644.

Issahaku, P.A. (2018). Understanding child abuse in care Institutions in Ghana as a child protection concern. Ghana Social Science 15(1).