Alexis Speck Glennon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Speck Glennon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis Speck |
| FAMILY NAME | Glennon |
| SIGNATURE | GLENNON A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby–Sawyer College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0805-9109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching Note—Navigating Tomorrow: Transforming Social Work Education Through Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight
This teaching note responds to the growing interest in using futures thinking and strategic foresight within social work education. By infusing these approaches into the nine social work competencies, educators can help students prepare for the uncertainties and challenges of the future. Futures thinking involves imagining and exploring diverse potential futures, while strategic foresight provides tools for decision making and long-term planning.…
Preparing Social Work Students to Recognize and Respond to Risks of Firearm Violence
Firearm violence in the United States is increasing and is a major cause of death for many demographic groups, especially Black Americans. Policy attempts to reduce deaths and injuries face difficult hurdles, including legislatures and courts that place primacy on the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Thus, clinicians across disciplines are encouraged to engage in prevention practice across diverse contexts. Evidence suggests that few social …
Assessing for Firearm Risks: A Rapid Review of Clinical Assessment Measures
Purpose: Social workers play a crucial role in assessing risks for harm to self and others, including firearm access. Given the growing concern of firearm violence, standardized assessment tools addressing firearm risks could improve social workers’ assessments. Method: This rapid review identifies and evaluates available clinical assessment tools that include items related to firearms. Result: After searching five electronic databases, 15 assess…
“The Background You Create Is Really Part of the Experience”: Exploring the Practices of Trauma-Informed Therapy in Virtual Space, a Qualitative Study
Introduced by Harris and Fallot in 2001, trauma-informed care (TIC) is a call to shift culture and protocols within the human services to acknowledge trauma’s impact and sequelae. The COVID-19 pandemic saw simultaneous escalation of interest in TIC and uptake of virtual mental health care, yet little research documents how to translate TIC principles into digital or remote therapy. This qualitative study used a template analysis approach to explo…
Pedagogies of possibility: Case studies from using foresight tools in the social work classroom
Social workers engage across sectors to advocate for social justice, empower individuals and communities and work toward more equitable futures. Foresight practice, or the systematic scan of past and future possibilities to analyze complex problems and situations, offers social work mechanisms for sensemaking and impact that is presently missing from the field. In this article we offer four examples of using foresight strategies and tools in the …
Grand Challenge of Social Work's Harness Technology for Social Good: Scoping Review
Purpose The Grand Challenges for Social Work initiative addresses critical social problems through social work science. This scoping review examines the first 5 years (2015–2019) of the Harness Technology for Social Good challenge, mapping literature by social work researchers on technology's role in improving client system outcomes. Methods We mapped the existing social work literature published between 2015 and 2019 about using technology to ad…
Self-care for clinicians during remote sessions: Adapting to the new world
The transition to remote work and telehealth for mental health clinicians has created a set of structural and individual considerations that previously had not needed to be considered in self-care plans. Recognizing the origins of discomfort and uncertainty clinicians may have experienced as human beings living and working during a pandemic informs an effective self-care plan. Changes to organization practice and the therapeutic relationship and …
The End of the World as We Know It? ChatGPT and Social Work
Extract: Released on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that responds to prompts posed as questions, producing intelligible, mostly accurate text responses. ChatGPT is built on natural language processing, a branch of AI initiated in the 1960s that seeks to program a computer’s capacity to understand text and spoken words (Wei et al., 2018). The introduction of ChatGPT was explosive, generating both aw…
Constructing the Future of Social Work Tech Habits of Mind With the Ethical OS
Technological innovation has long been seen as a hallmark of progress in the modern world. While these advances may facilitate advantages to individual and social well-being, they have the potential for creating new areas of risk and expanding on those that already exist. In addition, a global pandemic has reshaped how we interact with one another, as more people connect online. Social work's ongoing relationship with technology necessitates that…
Integrating self-care into clinical practice with trauma clients
Self-care is recognized as an important aspect of social work practice. Beginning in educational settings, developing social workers are encouraged to learn about and practice self-care. However, self-care is typically promoted through strategies and approaches outside of the practice context. Social workers are oftentimes encouraged to use individualized self-care plans, which often feature a variety of relaxation and secondary techniques; focus…
The End of the World as We Know It? ChatGPT and Social Work
Extract: Released on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that responds to prompts posed as questions, producing intelligible, mostly accurate text responses. ChatGPT is built on natural language processing, a branch of AI initiated in the 1960s that seeks to program a computer’s capacity to understand text and spoken words (Wei et al., 2018). The introduction of ChatGPT was explosive, generating both aw…
Integrating self-care into clinical practice with trauma clients
Self-care is recognized as an important aspect of social work practice. Beginning in educational settings, developing social workers are encouraged to learn about and practice self-care. However, self-care is typically promoted through strategies and approaches outside of the practice context. Social workers are oftentimes encouraged to use individualized self-care plans, which often feature a variety of relaxation and secondary techniques; focus…
Integrating self-care into clinical practice with trauma clients
Self-care is recognized as an important aspect of social work practice. Beginning in educational settings, developing social workers are encouraged to learn about and practice self-care. However, self-care is typically promoted through strategies and approaches outside of the practice context. Social workers are oftentimes encouraged to use individualized self-care plans, which often feature a variety of relaxation and secondary techniques; focus…
Self-care for clinicians during remote sessions: Adapting to the new world
The transition to remote work and telehealth for mental health clinicians has created a set of structural and individual considerations that previously had not needed to be considered in self-care plans. Recognizing the origins of discomfort and uncertainty clinicians may have experienced as human beings living and working during a pandemic informs an effective self-care plan. Changes to organization practice and the therapeutic relationship and …
The End of the World as We Know It? ChatGPT and Social Work
Extract: Released on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that responds to prompts posed as questions, producing intelligible, mostly accurate text responses. ChatGPT is built on natural language processing, a branch of AI initiated in the 1960s that seeks to program a computer’s capacity to understand text and spoken words (Wei et al., 2018). The introduction of ChatGPT was explosive, generating both aw…
Constructing the Future of Social Work Tech Habits of Mind With the Ethical OS
Technological innovation has long been seen as a hallmark of progress in the modern world. While these advances may facilitate advantages to individual and social well-being, they have the potential for creating new areas of risk and expanding on those that already exist. In addition, a global pandemic has reshaped how we interact with one another, as more people connect online. Social work's ongoing relationship with technology necessitates that…
Grand Challenge of Social Work's Harness Technology for Social Good: Scoping Review
Purpose The Grand Challenges for Social Work initiative addresses critical social problems through social work science. This scoping review examines the first 5 years (2015–2019) of the Harness Technology for Social Good challenge, mapping literature by social work researchers on technology's role in improving client system outcomes. Methods We mapped the existing social work literature published between 2015 and 2019 about using technology to ad…
“The Background You Create Is Really Part of the Experience”: Exploring the Practices of Trauma-Informed Therapy in Virtual Space, a Qualitative Study
Introduced by Harris and Fallot in 2001, trauma-informed care (TIC) is a call to shift culture and protocols within the human services to acknowledge trauma’s impact and sequelae. The COVID-19 pandemic saw simultaneous escalation of interest in TIC and uptake of virtual mental health care, yet little research documents how to translate TIC principles into digital or remote therapy. This qualitative study used a template analysis approach to explo…
Pedagogies of possibility: Case studies from using foresight tools in the social work classroom
Social workers engage across sectors to advocate for social justice, empower individuals and communities and work toward more equitable futures. Foresight practice, or the systematic scan of past and future possibilities to analyze complex problems and situations, offers social work mechanisms for sensemaking and impact that is presently missing from the field. In this article we offer four examples of using foresight strategies and tools in the …
Teaching Note—Navigating Tomorrow: Transforming Social Work Education Through Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight
This teaching note responds to the growing interest in using futures thinking and strategic foresight within social work education. By infusing these approaches into the nine social work competencies, educators can help students prepare for the uncertainties and challenges of the future. Futures thinking involves imagining and exploring diverse potential futures, while strategic foresight provides tools for decision making and long-term planning.…
Preparing Social Work Students to Recognize and Respond to Risks of Firearm Violence
Firearm violence in the United States is increasing and is a major cause of death for many demographic groups, especially Black Americans. Policy attempts to reduce deaths and injuries face difficult hurdles, including legislatures and courts that place primacy on the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Thus, clinicians across disciplines are encouraged to engage in prevention practice across diverse contexts. Evidence suggests that few social …
Assessing for Firearm Risks: A Rapid Review of Clinical Assessment Measures
Purpose: Social workers play a crucial role in assessing risks for harm to self and others, including firearm access. Given the growing concern of firearm violence, standardized assessment tools addressing firearm risks could improve social workers’ assessments. Method: This rapid review identifies and evaluates available clinical assessment tools that include items related to firearms. Result: After searching five electronic databases, 15 assess…
Social Work (8 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Digital Mental Health Interventions (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works)