K M Mccarthy

Biographic Data

ID51521
NAMEK M Mccarthy
GIVEN NAMESK M
FAMILY NAMEMccarthy
SIGNATUREMCCARTHY K M
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University School of Social Work
ORCID0000-0002-5876-2767
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Social work educators and student wellness needs

    K M Mccarthy, Nina C Johnson et al.ARTICLESocial Work Education2025References: 44

    When students struggle with inconsistent food or housing, social distress, or mental health challenges, this can directly impede their learning. Social Work educators in the United States were surveyed to understand what influences their sense of responsibility to address these student issues. 74% of the 116 respondents indicated that they have developed an increased sense of responsibility to address these issues over their time as educators. St…

  • MSW Student Wellness, Training Satisfaction, and Readiness to Address Substance Misuse

    Open AccessK M Mccarthy, E Susana Mariscal et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2024

    Social work educators aim to increase the goodness of fit between student preparation and the needs of the community. Because working with individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) can be emotionally challenging, training MSW students to do this well does require not only development of skills and knowledge but also a capacity to maintain personal wellness. The purpose of this study is to better understand how wellness strategies affect MSW …

  • Grievers, Skeptics, Pragmatists, Converts, and Champions: Social Work Educators’ Transition to Online Teaching

    Sheila Dennis, K M Mccarthy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Education2023

    Despite the surge in online social work education throughout the last two decades, scholarship examining the pedagogical transition to virtual environments from educators’ perspectives remains nascent. To address this gap, an interpretative phenomenological analysis explored the lived experiences of 17 social work educators across the United States who transitioned from solely on-ground instruction to partially or completely online teaching prior…

  • Master social work students’ explicit and implicit articulation of theory

    K M Mccarthy, Natasha W M Bragg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Behavior in the…2023

    Theories that explain Human Behavior and the Social Environment are integral to social workers’ conceptualization of their role and practice. Scaffolding the capacity to recognize, apply, and evaluate theory, however, is not easy. Learning how to comprehend and accurately apply theory can be a real struggle for graduate students enrolled in a Masters of Social Work (MSW) program. The purpose of this study was to identify and categorize patterns o…

  • Transitioning to online teaching: A phenomenological analysis of social work educator perspectives

    K M Mccarthy, Susan Glassburn et al.ARTICLESocial Work Education2022

    Online education in social work has been proliferating and is now ubiquitous due to COVID-19. To optimize instructor pedagogical wisdom and ensure student benefit, critical reflection is needed on the transition to online education. Prior to the pandemic, 17 social work educators were interviewed about their perspectives on the transition from teaching on-the-ground classes to online. This interpretative phenomenological study identified three th…

  • Student and Faculty Perceptions on Feedback in a Graduate Social Work Distance Education Program

    K M Mccarthy, David Wilkerson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work2022References: 4

    Online social work educators are responsible for fostering high quality academic growth experiences for their students. Feedback instructors provide to students aims to further this goal. The purpose of this study is to understand how social work instructors and students in an entirely online MSW program value instructional feedback. Open-ended survey questions were used to gather instructor and student perspectives. Qualitative analyses revealed…

  • MSW Student Concerns about Addressing Clients’ Substance Use and Misuse

    K M Mccarthy, E Susana Mariscal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work2022References: 2

    Social work educators must prioritize effective preparation of MSW students for the pivotal roles they will play in supporting clients struggling with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). Understanding what concerns MSW students have about working in the substance use field can highlight student training needs and inform learner-centered curricula. This qualitative study explored anticipated concerns held by MSW students in the mental health and addic…

  • Nurturing the Intersubjective Capacities of Social Work Students

    K M MccarthyARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work2020References: 6

    While navigating numerous pressures as they work with vulnerable clients and communities, social workers are expected to use their emotional responses intentionally rather than to be ruled by them. Social work accreditation competencies require that students demonstrate regulation of their own affective processes, but their ability to do so will vary. This paper explores methods that instructors can take to support students’ developmental growth …

  • Acquiring a second language in an immigrant community: The production of Sylheti and English stops and vowels by London-Bengali speakers

    Open AccessK M Mccarthy, K McCarthy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2013Cited by: 8References: 34