Erin P Sugrue
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin P Sugrue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin P |
| FAMILY NAME | Sugrue |
| SIGNATURE | SUGRUE E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Augsburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5503-7343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Regulating the Mind
The concept of “insight” plays a critical role in child protection court decisions yet remains poorly defined and potentially problematic. Through critical discourse analysis of case files from one African American mother's four-year fight to regain custody of her infant son, this study examines how insight functions as a discursive practice to reproduce systems of power and control. Using Gee's (2014) analytical framework, we show how insight op…
Social Work Practica in Family Defense
Over the last two decades, there has been a growing movement in social work education calling for the centering of anti-oppressive and critical approaches. As field education is considered social work’s “signature pedagogy,” it must central to any program of critical social work education. This study explores a type field education site that explicitly engages in the activism and resistance work inherent in critical practice – holistic family def…
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research
Focused ethnography (FE) is an emerging method for social work researchers who examine social justice issues within specific sub-cultures and service systems. FE methods may include researchers with background knowledge, specific research questions, and the use of intensive, short-term data collection methods in time-limited settings. Although relevant to applied studies in social work, FE methods remain underspecified. This scoping review examin…
Family engagement during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic brought dramatic changes in schooling in the United States and across the world, including abrupt shifts to remote learning, immediate cessation of social contact, intensive family engagement in education and diminished school capacity for social–emotional supports. While the initial national lockdown was temporary, the long‐lasting effects of the pandemic on society are still being revealed. This study contributes to a grow…
Child Welfare and Social Work Education
Social work has long been involved in child welfare practice. Though lauded as well- intended and admirable work, the profession's involvement in the child welfare system is fraught with contradictions, ethical tensions, and a legacy of historical trauma and deep mistrust in Black and Native American communities. Challenging this legacy requires an honest look at how schools of social work participate in policies and practices that work to uphold…
Unpacking the worlds in our words
Critical discourse analysis is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field of inquiry that combines linguistic analysis and social theory to address the way power and dominance are enacted and reproduced in text. Critical discourse analysis is primarily concerned with the construction of social phenomena and involves a focus on the wider social, political, and historical contexts in which talk and text occur, exploring the way in which theories of…
“It’s David Versus Goliath”
In this study, we examined how educators engage in anti-oppressive practices in K-12 schools. Twenty-five educators who self-identify as engaging in anti-oppressive practice participated in semi-structured key informant interviews. We used a flexible coding approach to analyze the data. Findings identify five anti-oppressive practices: (1) cultural humility, (2) challenging oppression and injustice, (3) building relationships with students and fa…
Moral Injury Among Professionals in K–12 Education
This article presents the quantitative portion of a mixed methods study of moral injury among professionals in K–12 public education. Using a cross-sectional correlational survey design, 218 licensed K–12 professionals from 68 schools in one urban school district in the Midwest completed an on-line survey that included measures of moral injury and emotional and behavioral correlates. The K–12 professionals exhibited levels of moral injury similar…
Understanding the Effect of Moral Transgressions in the Helping Professions
There is a vast academic literature on the moral dimensions and ethical dilemmas of what are commonly referred to as the helping professions (e.g., nursing, medicine, social work, counseling, teaching). Over the past several decades, increasing attention has been paid to the issue of moral transgressions perpetrated, witnessed, or experienced by these professionals and their accompanying psychological and social outcomes. Scholars seeking to unde…
A ‘bad fit’ for ‘our’ kids
Issues of race and class have long been at the center of discourses involving the American public education system. Although contemporary discourse regarding issues of race and power in American schools may be less overt in racist ideology than in previous decades, the impact of coded racist discourse can be equally powerful and dangerous. A need exists to identify racist and classist discourse in educational contexts so that the ideologies and p…
Everyday coping with moral injury
Moral injury among Child Protection Professionals
Basically, I look at it like combat”
A scoping study of moral injury
Moral injury among Child Protection Professionals
Basically, I look at it like combat”
A scoping study of moral injury
Everyday coping with moral injury
Understanding the Effect of Moral Transgressions in the Helping Professions
There is a vast academic literature on the moral dimensions and ethical dilemmas of what are commonly referred to as the helping professions (e.g., nursing, medicine, social work, counseling, teaching). Over the past several decades, increasing attention has been paid to the issue of moral transgressions perpetrated, witnessed, or experienced by these professionals and their accompanying psychological and social outcomes. Scholars seeking to unde…
Moral Injury Among Professionals in K–12 Education
This article presents the quantitative portion of a mixed methods study of moral injury among professionals in K–12 public education. Using a cross-sectional correlational survey design, 218 licensed K–12 professionals from 68 schools in one urban school district in the Midwest completed an on-line survey that included measures of moral injury and emotional and behavioral correlates. The K–12 professionals exhibited levels of moral injury similar…
Family engagement during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic brought dramatic changes in schooling in the United States and across the world, including abrupt shifts to remote learning, immediate cessation of social contact, intensive family engagement in education and diminished school capacity for social–emotional supports. While the initial national lockdown was temporary, the long‐lasting effects of the pandemic on society are still being revealed. This study contributes to a grow…
Child Welfare and Social Work Education
Social work has long been involved in child welfare practice. Though lauded as well- intended and admirable work, the profession's involvement in the child welfare system is fraught with contradictions, ethical tensions, and a legacy of historical trauma and deep mistrust in Black and Native American communities. Challenging this legacy requires an honest look at how schools of social work participate in policies and practices that work to uphold…
A scoping study of moral injury
Everyday coping with moral injury
Moral injury among Child Protection Professionals
Basically, I look at it like combat”
A ‘bad fit’ for ‘our’ kids
Issues of race and class have long been at the center of discourses involving the American public education system. Although contemporary discourse regarding issues of race and power in American schools may be less overt in racist ideology than in previous decades, the impact of coded racist discourse can be equally powerful and dangerous. A need exists to identify racist and classist discourse in educational contexts so that the ideologies and p…
Understanding the Effect of Moral Transgressions in the Helping Professions
There is a vast academic literature on the moral dimensions and ethical dilemmas of what are commonly referred to as the helping professions (e.g., nursing, medicine, social work, counseling, teaching). Over the past several decades, increasing attention has been paid to the issue of moral transgressions perpetrated, witnessed, or experienced by these professionals and their accompanying psychological and social outcomes. Scholars seeking to unde…
Moral Injury Among Professionals in K–12 Education
This article presents the quantitative portion of a mixed methods study of moral injury among professionals in K–12 public education. Using a cross-sectional correlational survey design, 218 licensed K–12 professionals from 68 schools in one urban school district in the Midwest completed an on-line survey that included measures of moral injury and emotional and behavioral correlates. The K–12 professionals exhibited levels of moral injury similar…
Unpacking the worlds in our words
Critical discourse analysis is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field of inquiry that combines linguistic analysis and social theory to address the way power and dominance are enacted and reproduced in text. Critical discourse analysis is primarily concerned with the construction of social phenomena and involves a focus on the wider social, political, and historical contexts in which talk and text occur, exploring the way in which theories of…
“It’s David Versus Goliath”
In this study, we examined how educators engage in anti-oppressive practices in K-12 schools. Twenty-five educators who self-identify as engaging in anti-oppressive practice participated in semi-structured key informant interviews. We used a flexible coding approach to analyze the data. Findings identify five anti-oppressive practices: (1) cultural humility, (2) challenging oppression and injustice, (3) building relationships with students and fa…
Family engagement during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic brought dramatic changes in schooling in the United States and across the world, including abrupt shifts to remote learning, immediate cessation of social contact, intensive family engagement in education and diminished school capacity for social–emotional supports. While the initial national lockdown was temporary, the long‐lasting effects of the pandemic on society are still being revealed. This study contributes to a grow…
Child Welfare and Social Work Education
Social work has long been involved in child welfare practice. Though lauded as well- intended and admirable work, the profession's involvement in the child welfare system is fraught with contradictions, ethical tensions, and a legacy of historical trauma and deep mistrust in Black and Native American communities. Challenging this legacy requires an honest look at how schools of social work participate in policies and practices that work to uphold…
Social Work Practica in Family Defense
Over the last two decades, there has been a growing movement in social work education calling for the centering of anti-oppressive and critical approaches. As field education is considered social work’s “signature pedagogy,” it must central to any program of critical social work education. This study explores a type field education site that explicitly engages in the activism and resistance work inherent in critical practice – holistic family def…
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research
Focused ethnography (FE) is an emerging method for social work researchers who examine social justice issues within specific sub-cultures and service systems. FE methods may include researchers with background knowledge, specific research questions, and the use of intensive, short-term data collection methods in time-limited settings. Although relevant to applied studies in social work, FE methods remain underspecified. This scoping review examin…
Regulating the Mind
The concept of “insight” plays a critical role in child protection court decisions yet remains poorly defined and potentially problematic. Through critical discourse analysis of case files from one African American mother's four-year fight to regain custody of her infant son, this study examines how insight functions as a discursive practice to reproduce systems of power and control. Using Gee's (2014) analytical framework, we show how insight op…
Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (5 works) · Moral disengagement (5 works) · Moral injury (5 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (5 works)