Grant Charles
Biographic Data
| ID | 5942903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Charles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Charles |
| SIGNATURE | CHARLES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6781-3140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Canadian Social Work Student Perspectives on the State of Field Education
There is an increasing body of literature that examines the challenges that social work field education is currently experiencing in Canada, the United States, and other countries. What is missing is a greater understanding of how students perceive and navigate these challenges, as well as what they envision for the future of field education. This study used virtual dialog circles to explore Canadian social work students’ perspectives on field ed…
Dyadic Resistance in Parent‐Adolescent Interactions During the Transition to High School
INTRODUCTION: Although prior research has examined adolescents' resistance to parental control, the dyadic level of analysis has been overlooked. This study attended to how a Canadian sample of parents and adolescents engaged in resisting one another by observing moment-to-moment actions as they discussed the upcoming transition to high school. METHODS: A secondary analysis of data collected from 2010 to 2012 using the Action-Project Method was c…
Adolescents Constructing Their Imagined Futures Through Dialogues With and/or About Nonfamilial Adults
INTRODUCTION: Adolescents actively explore future imaginings as they prepare for major educational, work, and personal transitions. Although family members may support exploration of imagined futures, adults outside adolescents' kin network provide access to resources not supplied within the family. The purpose of this study was to understand how adolescents actively draw on social resources of nonfamilial adults relative to their imagined future…
Stability indicators, child welfare provisioning and trajectory into university for care-experienced youth
Purpose Children and youth who enter the care system have lower educational outcomes and university participation rates than their peers. This study aims to understand trend exceptions by examining the background of care-experienced undergraduates attending a research-intensive university in Canada. Design/methodology/approach Informed by social affordance theory, this study examined the presence of four indicators of stability (home, household o…
Impact of Covid-19 on social work field education
Social work field education has experienced major disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while also embracing new opportunities to grow. The Transforming the Field Education Landscape research partnership developed a cross-sectional web-based survey with closed- and open-ended questions to understand student perceptions of COVID-19's impacts on social work field education. The survey opened during the first wave of the pandemic from July 8 to …
“It saves lives”
Transgender (trans) and gender diverse (TGD) populations continue to experience significant inequities in social and health outcomes, often in connection with the systemic exposure of these groups to violence, stigma, and discrimination. Despite the promising role of peer support in mitigating adverse impacts of marginalization, this phenomenon remains under-examined. In this study, which is informed methodologically by an abductive approach to g…
Canadian Social Work Field Education During a Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected all aspects of social work education, including field education. The Transforming the Field Education Landscape (TFEL) partnership conducted two national online surveys to determine the impacts of the pandemic on social work field education. The first survey explored the perspectives of students and received responses from 367 Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and Master of Social Work (MSW) students. …
Going beyond “Who” and “How”
Professionals’ Perspectives on Viewing Child Sexual Abuse Images to Improve Response to Victims
The complexity of the phenomenon of child sexual abuse images online (CSAIO) benefits from cross-disciplinary collaboration across law enforcement, child protection, and children's mental health. Through focus groups with professionals working in these fields, this article focuses on when and whether professionals who work with child sexual abuse cases should be exposed to viewing CSAIO and if so under what circumstances doing so would benefit in…
Toward a creative-critical approach to narratives of student-to-student abuse in Canada’s Indian Residential School System
There is a dearth of research on student-to-student abuse in Canada’s Indian Residential School System despite the fact that the legacy of this violence continues to negatively impact Indigenous communities. This paper proposes an approach to dealing with this difficult subject matter by using creative practice as a means of working collectively with community leaders, scholars, artists and students to develop shared understandings of the abuse a…
Enacting Firm, Fair and Friendly Practice
Strengths-based solution-focused approaches are gaining ground in statutory child protection work, but few studies have asked front line practitioners how they navigate the complex worker-client relationships such approaches require. This paper describes one component of a mixed-methods study in a large Canadian statutory child protection agency in which 225 workers described how they applied the ideas of strengths-based practice in their daily w…
Which Strengths-based Practice? Reconciling Strengths-based Practice and Mandated Authority in Child Protection Work
The recent application of strengths-based practice in child protection settings has been accompanied by evidence of inconsistent implementation and concerns that the approach is incompatible with statutory work. Few studies have moved beyond asking whether child protection workers are implementing strengths-based practice to explore why the approach is enacted as it is. This article describes a mixed methods study using an online survey and inter…
What's in it for Us? Making the Case for Interprofessional Field Education Experiences for Social Work Students
There continues to be resistance amongst the various healthcare professions regarding implementing an interprofessional agenda in practice and education settings. This partly is due to the protection of professional turf. This article describes the experiences of Canadian social work students participating in an interprofessional field education program with other healthcare students. The authors report what the social work students gained from t…
Which Strengths-based Practice? Reconciling Strengths-based Practice and Mandated Authority in Child Protection Work
The recent application of strengths-based practice in child protection settings has been accompanied by evidence of inconsistent implementation and concerns that the approach is incompatible with statutory work. Few studies have moved beyond asking whether child protection workers are implementing strengths-based practice to explore why the approach is enacted as it is. This article describes a mixed methods study using an online survey and inter…
Enacting Firm, Fair and Friendly Practice
Strengths-based solution-focused approaches are gaining ground in statutory child protection work, but few studies have asked front line practitioners how they navigate the complex worker-client relationships such approaches require. This paper describes one component of a mixed-methods study in a large Canadian statutory child protection agency in which 225 workers described how they applied the ideas of strengths-based practice in their daily w…
Going beyond “Who” and “How”
What's in it for Us? Making the Case for Interprofessional Field Education Experiences for Social Work Students
There continues to be resistance amongst the various healthcare professions regarding implementing an interprofessional agenda in practice and education settings. This partly is due to the protection of professional turf. This article describes the experiences of Canadian social work students participating in an interprofessional field education program with other healthcare students. The authors report what the social work students gained from t…
Canadian Social Work Field Education During a Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected all aspects of social work education, including field education. The Transforming the Field Education Landscape (TFEL) partnership conducted two national online surveys to determine the impacts of the pandemic on social work field education. The first survey explored the perspectives of students and received responses from 367 Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and Master of Social Work (MSW) students. …
What's in it for Us? Making the Case for Interprofessional Field Education Experiences for Social Work Students
There continues to be resistance amongst the various healthcare professions regarding implementing an interprofessional agenda in practice and education settings. This partly is due to the protection of professional turf. This article describes the experiences of Canadian social work students participating in an interprofessional field education program with other healthcare students. The authors report what the social work students gained from t…
Which Strengths-based Practice? Reconciling Strengths-based Practice and Mandated Authority in Child Protection Work
The recent application of strengths-based practice in child protection settings has been accompanied by evidence of inconsistent implementation and concerns that the approach is incompatible with statutory work. Few studies have moved beyond asking whether child protection workers are implementing strengths-based practice to explore why the approach is enacted as it is. This article describes a mixed methods study using an online survey and inter…
Enacting Firm, Fair and Friendly Practice
Strengths-based solution-focused approaches are gaining ground in statutory child protection work, but few studies have asked front line practitioners how they navigate the complex worker-client relationships such approaches require. This paper describes one component of a mixed-methods study in a large Canadian statutory child protection agency in which 225 workers described how they applied the ideas of strengths-based practice in their daily w…
Toward a creative-critical approach to narratives of student-to-student abuse in Canada’s Indian Residential School System
There is a dearth of research on student-to-student abuse in Canada’s Indian Residential School System despite the fact that the legacy of this violence continues to negatively impact Indigenous communities. This paper proposes an approach to dealing with this difficult subject matter by using creative practice as a means of working collectively with community leaders, scholars, artists and students to develop shared understandings of the abuse a…
Professionals’ Perspectives on Viewing Child Sexual Abuse Images to Improve Response to Victims
The complexity of the phenomenon of child sexual abuse images online (CSAIO) benefits from cross-disciplinary collaboration across law enforcement, child protection, and children's mental health. Through focus groups with professionals working in these fields, this article focuses on when and whether professionals who work with child sexual abuse cases should be exposed to viewing CSAIO and if so under what circumstances doing so would benefit in…
Going beyond “Who” and “How”
Canadian Social Work Field Education During a Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected all aspects of social work education, including field education. The Transforming the Field Education Landscape (TFEL) partnership conducted two national online surveys to determine the impacts of the pandemic on social work field education. The first survey explored the perspectives of students and received responses from 367 Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and Master of Social Work (MSW) students. …
Impact of Covid-19 on social work field education
Social work field education has experienced major disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while also embracing new opportunities to grow. The Transforming the Field Education Landscape research partnership developed a cross-sectional web-based survey with closed- and open-ended questions to understand student perceptions of COVID-19's impacts on social work field education. The survey opened during the first wave of the pandemic from July 8 to …
“It saves lives”
Transgender (trans) and gender diverse (TGD) populations continue to experience significant inequities in social and health outcomes, often in connection with the systemic exposure of these groups to violence, stigma, and discrimination. Despite the promising role of peer support in mitigating adverse impacts of marginalization, this phenomenon remains under-examined. In this study, which is informed methodologically by an abductive approach to g…
Stability indicators, child welfare provisioning and trajectory into university for care-experienced youth
Purpose Children and youth who enter the care system have lower educational outcomes and university participation rates than their peers. This study aims to understand trend exceptions by examining the background of care-experienced undergraduates attending a research-intensive university in Canada. Design/methodology/approach Informed by social affordance theory, this study examined the presence of four indicators of stability (home, household o…
Canadian Social Work Student Perspectives on the State of Field Education
There is an increasing body of literature that examines the challenges that social work field education is currently experiencing in Canada, the United States, and other countries. What is missing is a greater understanding of how students perceive and navigate these challenges, as well as what they envision for the future of field education. This study used virtual dialog circles to explore Canadian social work students’ perspectives on field ed…
Dyadic Resistance in Parent‐Adolescent Interactions During the Transition to High School
INTRODUCTION: Although prior research has examined adolescents' resistance to parental control, the dyadic level of analysis has been overlooked. This study attended to how a Canadian sample of parents and adolescents engaged in resisting one another by observing moment-to-moment actions as they discussed the upcoming transition to high school. METHODS: A secondary analysis of data collected from 2010 to 2012 using the Action-Project Method was c…
Adolescents Constructing Their Imagined Futures Through Dialogues With and/or About Nonfamilial Adults
INTRODUCTION: Adolescents actively explore future imaginings as they prepare for major educational, work, and personal transitions. Although family members may support exploration of imagined futures, adults outside adolescents' kin network provide access to resources not supplied within the family. The purpose of this study was to understand how adolescents actively draw on social resources of nonfamilial adults relative to their imagined future…
Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Medical education (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works)