Kelly Melekis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1192233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Melekis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Melekis |
| SIGNATURE | MELEKIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4817-9129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Integrating Critical Reflection Models into Social Work Education
This paper explores the integration of critical reflection into undergraduate (BSW) and graduate (MSW) social work curricula as a transformative pedagogical tool for fostering self-awareness, critical thinking, and ethical practice. To engage effectively with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, social workers must understand their own identities and social contexts. Critical reflection enables students to unpack underly…
Engaging Future Healthcare Professionals as Caregivers to Hospice Patients in Comfort Care Homes
Most people wish to die at home yet significant barriers exist in accessing care in one's home, especially for individuals with caregiver and/or housing instability. Across the U.S., residential homes for the dying are opening to address gaps in end-of-life care by recruiting community members to serve as caregivers to hospice patients during their final days. This paper describes a blended-experiential training program, informed by both an evide…
Identity Narration and Negotiation among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness
To be old and homeless is to face multiple stigmatized identities simultaneously. This qualitative study explored how older homeless adults construct their personal and social identities to manage this stigma. A series of semi-structured in-depth interviews and field observations were conducted over a period of two years with twenty homeless older adults affiliated with an outreach program in a Northeastern U.S. city. Results revealed three typol…
Older homeless women's identity negotiation
There is a growing awareness that the adult homeless population is ageing, mirroring the general US population trend. Although men still outnumber women among the adult homeless population, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women, including older women, seeking shelter each night. The concept of 'home' is widely associated with women and serves as a source of identity and social order. Thus, homeless older women represent an int…
Loneliness and Depression Among Older Adults in Urban Subsidized Housing
Care models addressing social risk factors are needed to meet the aging-in-place challenges of subsidized housing residents
Older homeless women's identity negotiation
There is a growing awareness that the adult homeless population is ageing, mirroring the general US population trend. Although men still outnumber women among the adult homeless population, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women, including older women, seeking shelter each night. The concept of 'home' is widely associated with women and serves as a source of identity and social order. Thus, homeless older women represent an int…
Loneliness and Depression Among Older Adults in Urban Subsidized Housing
Care models addressing social risk factors are needed to meet the aging-in-place challenges of subsidized housing residents
Identity Narration and Negotiation among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness
To be old and homeless is to face multiple stigmatized identities simultaneously. This qualitative study explored how older homeless adults construct their personal and social identities to manage this stigma. A series of semi-structured in-depth interviews and field observations were conducted over a period of two years with twenty homeless older adults affiliated with an outreach program in a Northeastern U.S. city. Results revealed three typol…
Loneliness and Depression Among Older Adults in Urban Subsidized Housing
Care models addressing social risk factors are needed to meet the aging-in-place challenges of subsidized housing residents
Older homeless women's identity negotiation
There is a growing awareness that the adult homeless population is ageing, mirroring the general US population trend. Although men still outnumber women among the adult homeless population, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women, including older women, seeking shelter each night. The concept of 'home' is widely associated with women and serves as a source of identity and social order. Thus, homeless older women represent an int…
Identity Narration and Negotiation among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness
To be old and homeless is to face multiple stigmatized identities simultaneously. This qualitative study explored how older homeless adults construct their personal and social identities to manage this stigma. A series of semi-structured in-depth interviews and field observations were conducted over a period of two years with twenty homeless older adults affiliated with an outreach program in a Northeastern U.S. city. Results revealed three typol…
Engaging Future Healthcare Professionals as Caregivers to Hospice Patients in Comfort Care Homes
Most people wish to die at home yet significant barriers exist in accessing care in one's home, especially for individuals with caregiver and/or housing instability. Across the U.S., residential homes for the dying are opening to address gaps in end-of-life care by recruiting community members to serve as caregivers to hospice patients during their final days. This paper describes a blended-experiential training program, informed by both an evide…
Integrating Critical Reflection Models into Social Work Education
This paper explores the integration of critical reflection into undergraduate (BSW) and graduate (MSW) social work curricula as a transformative pedagogical tool for fostering self-awareness, critical thinking, and ethical practice. To engage effectively with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, social workers must understand their own identities and social contexts. Critical reflection enables students to unpack underly…
Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Narrative inquiry (2 works)