Ami Goulden
Biographic Data
| ID | 4219742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ami Goulden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ami |
| FAMILY NAME | Goulden |
| SIGNATURE | GOULDEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0772-3629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Victims or perpetrators? Young mothers who survived intimate partner violence and their involvement with the child welfare system in Ontario
Adolescent and young adult mothers investigated by child welfare experience multiple challenges, including high concentrations of poverty, housing instability, social isolation, mental health issues, and intimate partner violence (IPV). However, little is known about the lived experiences of young mothers involved with the child welfare system who have also encountered IPV. This study begins to address this gap by analyzing interview data of youn…
Co-creating and Co-teaching a Social Work Course on Disabilities With Clients and Their Families
This article presents an innovative social work course on disabilities, co-developed and co-taught with service users and families. It features a unique co-teaching approach with service users and their families, enriching the curriculum with their lived experiences. A current limitation in the social work education literature is that few articles focus on the process of creating a course that engages service users. This article examines the cour…
Experiences of Gender-Based Violence Among Disabled Women
Disabled women experience disproportionately high rates of gender-based violence (GBV), yet their unique experiences remain understudied. This qualitative meta-synthesis examined the lived experiences of disabled women who have encountered GBV. Following a structured review process, 49 qualitative studies met the inclusion criteria, focusing on disabled women’s first-hand accounts of GBV. Studies were identified through a comprehensive search of …
“I survived him. He did everything he could to destroy me.”
Disabled women experience disproportionately high rates of gender-based violence (GBV), with prevalence in Newfoundland and Labrador exceeding that of other Canadian provinces. Despite growing attention to this issue, the voices of disabled women, particularly in Atlantic Canada, remain largely absent from research. This study explores their lived experiences to address this critical gap. Thirteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conduct…
Supporting Epistemological Congruence in Qualitative Doctoral Research
Qualitative research is widely used in social work dissertations, yet doctoral students often struggle to articulate and align research paradigms, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and methods in coherent, defensible ways. When paradigmatic assumptions remain implicit or are engaged superficially, transparency and rigor in qualitative inquiry can be weakened. Drawing on scholarship on epistemological integrity, doctoral learning, and qualita…
Life satisfaction and the moderating role of resilience among disabled young people
“Everybody has a Body, so we Need to Talk About Sexual Well-Being”
I’m worthy of having experiences just like everybody else”
A lot of social workers don’t seem to understand or realize the harm that they cause’
Young disabled people are disproportionately excluded from equal control, access, and choices concerning their sexual and reproductive rights. While sexual citizenship is founded on a rights-based approach and is closely connected with social work values such as empowerment and entitlement to full participation, many social workers do not include dimensions of sexual well-being in their scope of practice. This phenomenological study explores how …
Teaching Note—Incorporating Universal Instructional Design in Social Work Education
Universal instructional design (UID) is a framework that promotes a shift from individual remedial interventions to holistic learning models that are student-centered, accessible, and inclusive. Students with disabilities frequently report barriers that make educational experiences difficult, and recent studies report that students with disabilities experience ableism in their social work programs. UID strategies can decrease the need for student…
Service user involvement in social work education
Service user involvement in social work education is well-established in some regions and a new developing approach in others. For instance, since policy reform in 2002, it has been customary for service users and carers to be involved in critical aspects of professional social work education in the UK. Yet, expansion in North American contexts has been limited. The scope and extensiveness of service user involvement are increasingly varied, rega…
Uncovering Reproductive Injustice Toward Women With Disabilities
For centuries, the reproductive agency of women with disabilities have been challenged and often undermined by informal and formal support networks. Evidence illustrates that women with disabilities face disproportionately higher rates of reproductive violence compared to their nondisabled peers (i.e., long-term contraception or forced sterilization). However, little is known about the specific nature, type, and impact of reproductive violence on…
Re-imagining Neoliberal Ideologies in Social Work Education Using Critical Feminist and Disability Theories
This brief commentary paper provides a phenomenological autoethnographic account of our personal and reflexive experiences of re-imagining dominant neoliberal ideologies in social work education. We draw upon our involvement as instructors of an individual and families social work practice course to illustrate how we problematized and disrupted traditional bio-medicalized and ableist practice approaches by adopting an intersectional crip lens. Ou…
A Scoping Review of Programs for Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement in Canada and the United States
Experiences of Gender-Based Violence Among Disabled Women
Background Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major public health concern and a human rights issue disproportionately affecting disabled women. Disabled women are twice as likely to experience GBV than nondisabled women, yet there has been a lack of attention to this issue. This review aims to gain a greater understanding of the experiences of GBV of disabled women through a systematic and qualitative meta-synthesis. The qualitative meta-synthesis …
Disability Is an Art. It's an Ingenious Way to Live.’
Disability communities engaged with social work recognize how critical feminist inquiry and disability justice principles often overlap to promote anti-ableist theorizing, research, practice, and education. Both the feminist scholarship and the disability justice movement center the voices and perspectives of those most excluded, reflecting the intersectional experiences of disability communities in social work. In this brief, we draw on signific…
Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions
In the United States and Canada, the adult disability community numbers 27 percent and 16 percent to 33 percent of the population, respectively (Statistics Canada, 2017; Varadaraj et al., 2019). Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work (Slayter & Johnson, 2022). In this Commentary, we use a mix of identity-first disability language and p…
A critical review of social work interventions and programmes that support disabled youth with their sexual well-being
Sexual well-being (SWB) is closely related to overall health and life satisfaction, which are essential to social work practice. Some individuals are disproportionately affected by many barriers that limit access to professional services to support their SWB. For instance, disabled youth face societal barriers such as ableist notions of asexuality and hypersexuality that restrict them from fully participating in supportive services. Social worker…
The health social work competency rating scale
Integrating contextual competency frameworks into health social work education and practice can bolster student training and staff supervision strategies. This article describes the iterative development of a Health Social Work Competency Rating Scale (HSWCRS), generated using a competency framework tested through simulation and an iterative research process with healthcare social workers. A modified Delphi method consisting of an e-mail question…
Engaging the Senses in Qualitative Research via Multimodal Coding
The variety of formats in which qualitative data may be collected have been explored within the methodological literature. Yet, the multiple options for coding these data formats have not been comprehensively detailed. While transcript analysis is widely used across disciplines, it may have limitations-particularly for research involving marginalized populations. This paper presents a multimodal coding approach as a methodological innovation for …
Engaging the Senses in Qualitative Research via Multimodal Coding
The variety of formats in which qualitative data may be collected have been explored within the methodological literature. Yet, the multiple options for coding these data formats have not been comprehensively detailed. While transcript analysis is widely used across disciplines, it may have limitations-particularly for research involving marginalized populations. This paper presents a multimodal coding approach as a methodological innovation for …
Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions
In the United States and Canada, the adult disability community numbers 27 percent and 16 percent to 33 percent of the population, respectively (Statistics Canada, 2017; Varadaraj et al., 2019). Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work (Slayter & Johnson, 2022). In this Commentary, we use a mix of identity-first disability language and p…
A critical review of social work interventions and programmes that support disabled youth with their sexual well-being
Sexual well-being (SWB) is closely related to overall health and life satisfaction, which are essential to social work practice. Some individuals are disproportionately affected by many barriers that limit access to professional services to support their SWB. For instance, disabled youth face societal barriers such as ableist notions of asexuality and hypersexuality that restrict them from fully participating in supportive services. Social worker…
The health social work competency rating scale
Integrating contextual competency frameworks into health social work education and practice can bolster student training and staff supervision strategies. This article describes the iterative development of a Health Social Work Competency Rating Scale (HSWCRS), generated using a competency framework tested through simulation and an iterative research process with healthcare social workers. A modified Delphi method consisting of an e-mail question…
Engaging the Senses in Qualitative Research via Multimodal Coding
The variety of formats in which qualitative data may be collected have been explored within the methodological literature. Yet, the multiple options for coding these data formats have not been comprehensively detailed. While transcript analysis is widely used across disciplines, it may have limitations-particularly for research involving marginalized populations. This paper presents a multimodal coding approach as a methodological innovation for …
Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions
In the United States and Canada, the adult disability community numbers 27 percent and 16 percent to 33 percent of the population, respectively (Statistics Canada, 2017; Varadaraj et al., 2019). Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work (Slayter & Johnson, 2022). In this Commentary, we use a mix of identity-first disability language and p…
A Scoping Review of Programs for Young Mothers with Child Welfare Involvement in Canada and the United States
Experiences of Gender-Based Violence Among Disabled Women
Background Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major public health concern and a human rights issue disproportionately affecting disabled women. Disabled women are twice as likely to experience GBV than nondisabled women, yet there has been a lack of attention to this issue. This review aims to gain a greater understanding of the experiences of GBV of disabled women through a systematic and qualitative meta-synthesis. The qualitative meta-synthesis …
Disability Is an Art. It's an Ingenious Way to Live.’
Disability communities engaged with social work recognize how critical feminist inquiry and disability justice principles often overlap to promote anti-ableist theorizing, research, practice, and education. Both the feminist scholarship and the disability justice movement center the voices and perspectives of those most excluded, reflecting the intersectional experiences of disability communities in social work. In this brief, we draw on signific…
Teaching Note—Incorporating Universal Instructional Design in Social Work Education
Universal instructional design (UID) is a framework that promotes a shift from individual remedial interventions to holistic learning models that are student-centered, accessible, and inclusive. Students with disabilities frequently report barriers that make educational experiences difficult, and recent studies report that students with disabilities experience ableism in their social work programs. UID strategies can decrease the need for student…
Service user involvement in social work education
Service user involvement in social work education is well-established in some regions and a new developing approach in others. For instance, since policy reform in 2002, it has been customary for service users and carers to be involved in critical aspects of professional social work education in the UK. Yet, expansion in North American contexts has been limited. The scope and extensiveness of service user involvement are increasingly varied, rega…
Uncovering Reproductive Injustice Toward Women With Disabilities
For centuries, the reproductive agency of women with disabilities have been challenged and often undermined by informal and formal support networks. Evidence illustrates that women with disabilities face disproportionately higher rates of reproductive violence compared to their nondisabled peers (i.e., long-term contraception or forced sterilization). However, little is known about the specific nature, type, and impact of reproductive violence on…
Re-imagining Neoliberal Ideologies in Social Work Education Using Critical Feminist and Disability Theories
This brief commentary paper provides a phenomenological autoethnographic account of our personal and reflexive experiences of re-imagining dominant neoliberal ideologies in social work education. We draw upon our involvement as instructors of an individual and families social work practice course to illustrate how we problematized and disrupted traditional bio-medicalized and ableist practice approaches by adopting an intersectional crip lens. Ou…
“Everybody has a Body, so we Need to Talk About Sexual Well-Being”
I’m worthy of having experiences just like everybody else”
A lot of social workers don’t seem to understand or realize the harm that they cause’
Young disabled people are disproportionately excluded from equal control, access, and choices concerning their sexual and reproductive rights. While sexual citizenship is founded on a rights-based approach and is closely connected with social work values such as empowerment and entitlement to full participation, many social workers do not include dimensions of sexual well-being in their scope of practice. This phenomenological study explores how …
Victims or perpetrators? Young mothers who survived intimate partner violence and their involvement with the child welfare system in Ontario
Adolescent and young adult mothers investigated by child welfare experience multiple challenges, including high concentrations of poverty, housing instability, social isolation, mental health issues, and intimate partner violence (IPV). However, little is known about the lived experiences of young mothers involved with the child welfare system who have also encountered IPV. This study begins to address this gap by analyzing interview data of youn…
Co-creating and Co-teaching a Social Work Course on Disabilities With Clients and Their Families
This article presents an innovative social work course on disabilities, co-developed and co-taught with service users and families. It features a unique co-teaching approach with service users and their families, enriching the curriculum with their lived experiences. A current limitation in the social work education literature is that few articles focus on the process of creating a course that engages service users. This article examines the cour…
Experiences of Gender-Based Violence Among Disabled Women
Disabled women experience disproportionately high rates of gender-based violence (GBV), yet their unique experiences remain understudied. This qualitative meta-synthesis examined the lived experiences of disabled women who have encountered GBV. Following a structured review process, 49 qualitative studies met the inclusion criteria, focusing on disabled women’s first-hand accounts of GBV. Studies were identified through a comprehensive search of …
“I survived him. He did everything he could to destroy me.”
Disabled women experience disproportionately high rates of gender-based violence (GBV), with prevalence in Newfoundland and Labrador exceeding that of other Canadian provinces. Despite growing attention to this issue, the voices of disabled women, particularly in Atlantic Canada, remain largely absent from research. This study explores their lived experiences to address this critical gap. Thirteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conduct…
Supporting Epistemological Congruence in Qualitative Doctoral Research
Qualitative research is widely used in social work dissertations, yet doctoral students often struggle to articulate and align research paradigms, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and methods in coherent, defensible ways. When paradigmatic assumptions remain implicit or are engaged superficially, transparency and rigor in qualitative inquiry can be weakened. Drawing on scholarship on epistemological integrity, doctoral learning, and qualita…
Life satisfaction and the moderating role of resilience among disabled young people
Disability Rights and Representation (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Work (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)