John R Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 145219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5944-1498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Frostbite and hypothermia among individuals experiencing homelessness in the south interior region of BC
Experiencing homelessness is a risk factor for prolonged exposure to cold weather potentially resulting in cold-related conditions (frostbite and hypothermia). The British Columbia (BC) Interior Health (IH) region experienced unseasonably cold weather in the month of December 2022 leading to patchwork community efforts to mitigate harms to the increasing number of vulnerable individuals. The goal of this study is to quantify and review circumstan…
Understanding the impact of an integrated Housing First, mental health, and addiction service model for youth experiencing homelessness and concurrent disorders
Remembering Tareq Ismael
Spirituality in social work practice
Recent scholarship questions the concept of practitioners addressing spirituality in social work practice arguing, for instance, that social workers should not conduct spiritual assessments. This article responds to these criticisms. Employing a modified domain-based review of the relevant literature, this article contends that addressing spirituality is an essential component of ethical and effective service provision. Findings To support the no…
Religion and spirituality in social work education and practice
English language social work scholarship on religion is examined from 2008 to 2021. Of the 255 peer-reviewed journal articles, most are by American first authors and on topics relating to Christianity, followed by Islam and Judaism. Thematically, the scholarship explores religious sensitivity, cultural inclusion, and practice; understanding religious philosophies and teachings to practice effectively; secularisation and the profession; and incorp…
The theology of progressive Christian social concern
Services for Homeless Youth during Covid-19
This exploratory study aimed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected a medium-sized community's frontline workers in the Canadian youth homelessness services sector. This study phenomenological case study elicited practitioner knowledge and experience in servicing homeless youth in a medium-sized community – Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Two in-depth focus groups were conducted with a convenience sample of participants (N = 9). …
Partnership Dynamics That Support Social Innovation by Nonprofits
This research identifies conditions of intra- and cross-sector partnerships with nonprofit organizations that lead to social innovation development. Primary survey data were collected from a nationally focused sample of executive directors in Canada ( n = 720) on two valid and reliable multifactor measures, including partnership dynamics for social innovation and human services social innovation . Results of a multivariate regression analysis fou…
What Social Workers Need to Know about Muslims
This article analyzes peer-reviewed English-language social work scholarship on Islam and Muslims published between 2011 and 2021. Of these 127 articles, 70 journal venues are represented, and first authors are primarily American (44 percent), followed by British (15 percent) and Canadian (11 percent). A total of 70 journals published studies analyzing data related to Muslims/Islam and social work, with 46 consisting of only one publication betwe…
Responding to pandemics and other disease outbreaks in homeless populations
Considering the recent COVID-19 pandemic, we recognised a lack of synthesis amongst the available literature pertaining to the intersections of homelessness and pandemic response and planning. Therefore, the purpose of this review was to identify relevant peer-reviewed literature in this area to thematically produce evidence-based recommendations that would inform community planning and response amongst homeless populations. Although this review …
Workload and workplace safety in social service organizations
Worker experiences of workload is a poorly understood component of health and safety practice in the social services sector. Job Demands-Resources theory is applied to explore how workload contributes to health and safety, workplace violence, and violence prevention. Data from qualitative interviews ( n = 81) of workers in publicly administered social services in Western Canada were analyzed using analytic induction and constant comparison method…
Social Service Worker Experiences with Direct and Indirect Violence When Engaged with Service Users
Social service workers’ experiences of violence from service users (client-engaged violence) in social service workplaces are serious and pervasive issues that demand responsive and effective organisational interventions. However, organisational factors and characteristics that have an effect on worker experiences of client-engaged violence are poorly defined. This study utilised a quantitative design to identify and measure aspects of the organi…
Social Work and the Emerging Opioid Epidemic
This study uses the search terms ‘opiate*’, ‘opioid*’ and ‘fentanyl’ to analyse social work peer-reviewed literature (n = 573) between 1978 and 2017. There is an increasing focus on opioid use within literature during the forty-year period—a knowledge base predominantly outside discipline-specific social work journals—and a high prevalence of research from the USA and the UK. The thematic analysis finds a focus on identifying behaviours and risks…
Dynamics of a culture of workplace safety in human service organizations
Workplace cultures are an important component in creating safe work environments. In-depth qualitative interviews ( n = 85) were conducted with human service workers of a large publicly administered human service organization in Canada to learn more about the organizational and/or workplace conditions that contribute to a safety culture. Findings reveal that a safety culture within this human service workplace is defined by values or attitudes as…
Multi-Site Bilingual Team-Based Grounded Theory Research
Successful management of a multi-site bilingual team-based grounded theory study requires overcoming key challenges associated with implementation of a large-scale, multi-faceted project. This article retrospectively reviews the methodological strategies employed during a multi-site bilingual team-based grounded theory study that investigated the professional adaptation experiences of migrant social workers in Canada. The article presents the str…
Measuring Social Capital
Social capital has gained increasing attention from social workers as a way to understand the social networks and resources available to clients, especially new immigrants. Although researchers have developed helpful measures of social capital, a need remains to translate these tools into the native languages of immigrants, while addressing any specific cultural considerations. It would be beneficial for social workers to have access to an Arabic…
Citation Impact Factors Among Faculty in Canadian Social Work Programs
Purpose: We report impact data on faculty ( N = 454) working in 30 of Canada’s accredited social work programs during 2016. Method: Using the Publish or Perish website, faculty member’s h and g indices, and their most frequently cited articles published in the last decade were analyzed both individually and by school. Findings: (a) computed h scores were R a 0.8–11.9, M = 4.4 and g scores were R a 1.3–21.3, M = 7.7; (b) the top-ranked citation im…
Workplace Congruence and Occupational Outcomes among Social Service Workers
Workplace expectations reflect an important consideration in employee experience. A higher prevalence of workplace congruence between worker and employer expectations has been associated with higher levels of productivity and overall workplace satisfaction across multiple occupational groups. Little research has investigated the relationship between workplace congruence and occupational health outcomes among social service workers. This study sou…
Predictors of Living in Precarious Housing Among Immigrants Accessing Housing Support Services
Young Adult Social Networks and Labour Market Attachment
Following a qualitative study design with young adults (aged seventeen to twenty-nine) of a racialised minority status (n= 36) in a low-income community in Toronto, Canada, we found that social relationships and dynamics greatly influenced perspectives towards labour market success. Respondents identified that interpersonal relationships with employers, family members and neighbourhood/community members influenced their perseverance and motivatio…
Aligning Perspectives of Subjective Well-Being
Social workers experience higher rates of burnout and attrition when compared to other health related occupational groups. Previous research on the well being of social workers has tended to focus on the social workers themselves. But the development of well-being is dynamic and is fostered through relationships and interactions with others. In the case of social workers, these relationships include workplace, professional, and personal life inte…
Social Capital
This study examined how acculturative stress is influenced by social capital, age, income, education and gender in a sample of 326 Iraqi-Christians from southern Ontario, Canada. Both overall acculturative stress and its individual constructs were tested in a series of logistic regression models. Five hypotheses were generated and three layers of analysis were implemented. First, the contributions of social–capital constructs and demographic vari…
Adaptation and Acculturation
Social exclusion and self-esteem
This article argues that homelessness in Calgary, Canada is entrenched, in part, due to a systemic cycle of exclusion and defensive tactics carried out by those who are homeless and employed. A major proportion of this systemic exclusion occurs via a number of societal institutions: the provincial welfare structure in place to assist those in need; the provincial registry system for identification and licensing; the banking system, employment ser…
Spirituality and social work
Introduction Spirituality as a Guiding Construct in the Development of Canadian Social Work: Past and Present Considerations The Haven, 1878-1930: A Toronto Charitys Transition from a Religious to a Professional Social Work Ethos The Social Gospel Excerpts from The Values of Life Moral and Spiritual Values in Social Work Exploring the Spiritual Dimension of Social Work The Helpfulness of Spiritually Influenced Group Work in Developing Self-Awaren…
The real effects of financial constraints
Barriers to employment as experienced by disabled people
Public policies stress greater inclusion of disabled people in the labour market and suggest ways to implement accommodative measures to these ends. Often missing from this literature is the experiences of disabled people in labour markets. This article reports results from a qualitative study conducted in 2005 and 2006 consisting of one‐to‐one and focus group interviews with 56 disabled individuals participating in employment training programmes…
Cross-National Comparison of Middle Eastern University Students
Islamic theology and prayer
This article examines aspects of knowledge that are important to social work practice with Muslim clients: Islamic theology, prayers and the pillars of Islam (the shahada, or profession of faith; the salat, or practice of prayer five times daily; the zakat, or alms-giving; the siam, or fasting during the holy month of Ramadan; and the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca). Major aspects include natural forms of social support, familial and marital mediat…
Social Communities and Homelessness
Pathways to and from homelessness were examined from the perspective of people who were both employed and homeless in Calgary, Alberta. Based on data collected through semi-structured open-end interviews (n = 61) with employed homeless people (N estimated at 2,400), we found that respondents identified aspects of five predominant social relationships that had the greatest impact on their present homeless situation: relationships with friends and …
Cultural Considerations for Social Service Agencies Working with Muslim Clients
Social service agencies and practitioners are continually challenged to provide services that are effective for, and reflective of, cultural and religious diversity. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 50 social work practitioners in four Canadian cities to gain insight into methods of practice that are culturally sensitive for work with Muslim clients. No hard-and-fast rules are identified, but the findings point to some cultural values a…
The healing significance of the Negev's Bedouin Dervish
The impact of intellectual disability, caregiver burden, family functioning, marital quality, and sense of coherence
The present article is the first to consider the impact of intellectual disability on Bedouin‐Arab families’ caregiver burden, family functioning, marital quality, and sense of coherence. A random sample of 300 Bedouin‐Arab parents with one or more intellectually disabled children, and a control group (n = 100) completed the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), the ENRICH marital quality questionnaire, Robinson’s Caregiver Strain Index, the S…
Gendered Utilization Differences of Mental Health Services in Jordan
Social work and Koranic mental health healers
The healing activities of six Arab Muslim Koranic healers working in the Negev desert, West Bank and the Gaza Strip are analysed with respect to healer characteristics, the process of becoming a healer, and the stages of treating mental illness, including pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, and treatment. Prospects are considered for mutual integration, observation, and dissemination between social work and Koranic healing
Social work and traditional healing rituals among the Bedouin of the Negev, Israel
The Social Work Profession and Subjective Well-Being
This research analyses social work practitioners' workplace experiences of their subjective well-being (SWB), the social scientific concept of happiness. From an initial survey of 700 Canadian social workers, thirteen respondents with the highest SWB scores were interviewed. Respondents reported that their high SWB scores were partially a result of available practice opportunities associated with the profession, their ability to recognise profess…
Employment Difficulties Experienced by Employed Homeless People
Labor market issues and challenges are primarily understood at an individual level, entrenched socially in policies and initiatives that seek to improve the workplace skills of people having difficulty attaching to the labor market, including people experiencing homelessness. In fact, the labor market is perceived to alleviate a person's situation of homelessness. In 2008 and 2009 qualitative data was collected from 61 employed people experiencin…
Demographic, work-related, and life satisfaction predictors of northern social workers’ satisfaction with work and profession
Social workers in northern Canada were surveyed about work and professional satisfaction. Career commitment, turnover, and organizational citizenship predicted organizational satisfaction. Total satisfaction was associated with turnover. Research and theory in social work on remote communities should extend beyond characteristics of work, profession, and environment to include personal life factors
Sociocultural Factors to Consider When Addressing the Vulnerability of Social Service Users
In a study conducted in 2008–2009, 25 employed homeless women in Calgary, Canada, were interviewed to gain a better understanding of their pathways from homelessness. The data analysis uncovered a mix of personal and societal issues to consider and provides a framework for understanding the complexity of sociocultural factors that contribute to the vulnerability of users of services. In combination, these many sociocultural factors affected the p…
Dynamics of a culture of workplace safety in human service organizations
Workplace cultures are an important component in creating safe work environments. In-depth qualitative interviews ( n = 85) were conducted with human service workers of a large publicly administered human service organization in Canada to learn more about the organizational and/or workplace conditions that contribute to a safety culture. Findings reveal that a safety culture within this human service workplace is defined by values or attitudes as…
Have Communication Technologies Influenced Rural Social Work Practice
Recent advances in communication technologies have the capacity for addressing many of the challenges identified with rural and remote social work practice, such as scarcity of professional resources, professional isolation and limited access to supervision and professional development. The purpose of this exploratory, qualitative study was to examine how developments in communication technologies have influenced the way social workers practise s…
Mental Health and Violence/Trauma in Palestine
This article analyses 4 case studies of clinical interventions occurring at the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture, Ramallah, Palestine. Each family was of Arab background and experienced violence and trauma while living in the West Bank. The impact of the violence was all encompassing. Family functioning was significantly affected, and individuals experienced such problems as psychological trauma, depression, social exclu…
Workplace Congruence and Occupational Outcomes among Social Service Workers
Workplace expectations reflect an important consideration in employee experience. A higher prevalence of workplace congruence between worker and employer expectations has been associated with higher levels of productivity and overall workplace satisfaction across multiple occupational groups. Little research has investigated the relationship between workplace congruence and occupational health outcomes among social service workers. This study sou…
Intimate Relationships as Routes into and out of Homelessness
The literature on homelessness tends to focus on risk factors in people's social and personal lives that contribute to their situation of being without a permanent home. Alternatively, the following describes innate factors of intimate relationships that contribute to a situation of homelessness for men and women. We conducted interviews with 61 people experiencing homelessness in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We were particularly interested in docum…
Social work practitioners and subjective well-being
Based on interviews with social workers possessing the highest level of subjective well-being (SWB) from a 2006 Canadian survey, this research identifies personal factors, including personal behaviors, interpersonal relationships and manifestations of self beyond their workplace and identity as social workers, as positively influencing social work practitioners’ high levels of subjective well-being. The conclusion considers implications for socia…
Tipping points
Graham JR, Jones ME, Shier M. Tipping points: what participants found valuable in labour market training programmes for vulnerable groups Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 63–72 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article is based on face‐to‐face and focus group interviews with 72 people who have experienced ongoing difficulties integrating into Canadian labour …
Social work in Pakistan
English This exploratory research undertook in-depth interviews with seven practitioners in Lahore. The data revealed five themes regarding culturally respectful practice in Pakistan, related to definition of social work; primacy of family and community; innovative local approaches; and social structures necessary for effective interventions. We consider strategies for making social work knowledge more authentically indigenous to Pakistan. French…
Telephone Counseling
Arab Israeli callers to an Israeli telephone counseling service are analyzed, comparing them with Jewish Israeli callers, in order to better understand Arab mental health utilization and needs. A questionnaire was used for a sample of 7000 Jewish and 344 Arab callers. Arab callers complained of interpersonal and family problems, and the Jewish sample personal and mental health problems. The discussion relates these to ethno-cultural gender constr…
Predictors of Living in Precarious Housing Among Immigrants Accessing Housing Support Services
Q-Sort Study of the Relationship between Students' Self-Acceptance and Acceptance of Their College
28 undergraduates provided Q-sort and nonverbal measures of self-acceptance and acceptance of their college. There was a significant correlation between the Q-sort measures but not between the nonverbal measures. The Q-sort and nonverbal measures were not highly correlated, suggesting that the two measures were not tapping exactly the same aspects of personality
Effects of Introductory and Abnormal Psychology Courses on Students' Attitudes toward Mental Illness
Intercorrelations of Factor Scores from the Opinions about Mental Illness Scale
The Opinions About Mental Illness Scale (OMI) was administered to 157 psychiatrists, residents, nurses, and aides from an urban, short-term psychiatric hospital. The 5 factor scores of the scale were intercorrelated; correlations were higher among factors and, in some cases, in different direction, than previous studies have reported. Differences among occupational groups were also found. Caution should be exercised in generalizing about relation…
Changes in symptom syndromes associated with short-term psychiatric hospitalization
Measuring behavior and adjustment in the community
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An appraisal of the therapeutic value of the mental hospital milieu
Patient characteristics and perceptions of the mental hospital milieu
The home environment perception scales
The Missouri Children's Picture Series
A Comparison Study of Traditional Helpers in a Late Nineteenth Century Canadian (Christian) Society in Toronto, Canada and in a Late Twentieth Century Bedouin (Muslim) Society in the Negev, Israel
This study compares the practice significance of two distinct models of traditional helping: a religiously inspired Protestant approach in late nineteenth century Toronto, Canada; and the Dervish, a religiously imbued traditional helper in a contemporary Bedouin Muslim community in the Negev, Israel Among major similarities are gender inclusiveness, the lack of explicit restrictions on the basis of age or education, the enabling of women as helpe…
Oral History in Social Work
Social work and traditional healing rituals among the Bedouin of the Negev, Israel
An Analysis of Canadian Social Welfare Historical Writing
The writing of Canadian social welfare history is examined in three stages. Until circa 1970, the literature tends to portray sympathetically social welfare's underlying motives. The next stage, or a "new social history" (ca. 1970-81), is more critical, with a particular frame of reference on socioeconomic class relations. A more diverse third stage (post-ca. 1980) expands the number and variety of topics beyond firstand second-stage writing and …
The healing significance of the Negev's Bedouin Dervish
Social Work and Blood Vengeance
The practice of blood vengeance, the obligation to kill in retribution for the death of a member of one's family or tribe, is illegal in most countries of the world; however, many traditional cultures still demand this form of maintaining honour. This paper outlines the cultural and historical contexts of the practice of blood vengeance among the Bedouin of the Negev of Israel. It considers the consequences for the targeted family and details the…
Nebi-Musa
Maqam Al-Nebi Musa' an eight-centuries old Muslim religious site located between Jerusalem and Jericho, is analyzed as a drug rehabilitation therapeutic community (TC). Male recovering addicts visit the site for upwards of 6 months, and follow a five-stage therapeutic program. The TC was initiated by, and is led by, five Sufi mystics, themselves former addicts. Its therapeutic significance is analyzed in the context of Muslim religious teaching a…
Divorce Among Muslim Arab Women in Israel
One hundred fifty-one Muslim Arab-Israeli women divorced within the past two years, having children, and living in Arab rural areas, Arab cities, and mixed (Jewish and Arab) cities, were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Subjects encountered emotional distress and decreased socioeconomic status. All moved back to their parents' home. Levels of unemployment were high, perceived family support was high, and perceived community supp…
The story of bedouin-arab women in a polygamous marriage
Books
Gender and Biomedical/Traditional Mental Health Utilization Among the Bedouin-Arabs of the Negev
Social work and Koranic mental health healers
The healing activities of six Arab Muslim Koranic healers working in the Negev desert, West Bank and the Gaza Strip are analysed with respect to healer characteristics, the process of becoming a healer, and the stages of treating mental illness, including pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, and treatment. Prospects are considered for mutual integration, observation, and dissemination between social work and Koranic healing
Conflict Resolution through a Traditional Ritual among the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev
The Bedouin practice of Bisha, or ordeal by fire, is analyzed as a conflict-resolving ritual of reciprocal relationships between the individual, small group, community, and society. Two case studies demonstrate that the ritual reflects the social order, reinforces conformity to collective values, deters behaviors that deviate from culturally acceptable norms, and transforms social structures by resolving conflicts between two or more people and b…
Culturally Sensitive Social work Practice With Arab Clients in Mental Health Settings
Several culturally specific practical considerations should inform social work interventions with ethnic Arab peoples in Arab countries or in Western nations. These include taking into account gender relations, individuals' places in their families and communities, patterns of mental health services use, and, for practice in Western nations, the client's level of acculturation. Such aspects provide the basis for specific guidelines in working wit…
The Social Work Research Group/Nasw Research Section/Council on Social Work Research, 1949-1965
Objective To determine major themes and significance of the Social Work Research Group (SWRG), founded in 1949. Methods Archival research, principally at Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota; oral historical interviews of key informants. Results The Social Work Research Group (SWRG), founded in 1949, fostered research within the profession by creating an organization representing and promoting social work research, advancing t…
Psychology (65 works) · Sociology (54 works) · Political science (44 works) · Medicine (37 works) · Social Work (32 works) · Social Psychology (31 works) · Psychiatry (30 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (24 works) · Public relations (23 works) · Mental health (22 works)