Shelby L Clark
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4442206 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shelby L Clark |
| PRENOMES | Shelby L |
| SOBRENOME | Clark |
| ASSINATURA | CLARK S L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5126-3447 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A poetic inquiry exploring social workers’ experiences with moral distress
This poetic inquiry presents the synthesized findings of a qualitative study exploring moral distress among social workers. Moral distress occurs when practitioners must act in ways that conflict with their personal values because of systemic constraints. We conducted interviews with 15 social workers across various settings—public child welfare, clinical practice, and health care—and at different levels of practice, including direct service, sup…
Exploring trauma-informed organizational practices and self-care
Organizational strategies, including resilience-building, promoting safety, and supportive leadership, may influence workers' self-care behaviors. Findings suggest systemic changes are needed to enhance resilience, mitigate secondary traumatic stress, and improve retention. Future research should explore long-term impacts of organizational practices on job satisfaction, retention, and well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights…
Exploring approaches to child maltreatment responses
“Foster Care is a Roller Coaster”
Strengths for Helping Professionals Exposed to Secondary Trauma
Helping professionals working with people who have experienced trauma are at risk of developing psychological distress. To date, most studies exploring psychological distress among helping professionals have focused on risk factors associated with the development of adverse reactions to secondary trauma, and few have identified strengths or protective factors, which may buffer and/or alleviate distress. Therefore, this scoping review uses the Res…
Do no harm can get a little muddy”
Team Culture Factors and Child Welfare Professionals' Well‐Being
More scholarship is needed to explore workplace and systems factors that may protect child welfare professionals from poor well‐being outcomes, including secondary traumatic stress (STS). This study explored whether tenets of a team‐based culture were associated with levels of STS symptoms. This project is a secondary analysis of data collected through a routine quality improvement survey on organizational culture and climate in a statewide publi…
Organizational Compassion and Workforce Well-Being
The Impact of a Science of Happiness Course on Students’ Mental Health
There is a well-documented mental health crisis on college campuses. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of effective courses designed to improve students’ general well-being, most taught from a positivist psychology approach. There is no research on the efficacy of such courses that uses a sociological perspective. The current study addresses that gap in the research by assessing the impact of content in a sociological science of hap…
Latent profile analysis of risk and protective factors among foster parents
Shown love from the brokenness of a system’
Child welfare (CW) reforms have called for including family and youth voice. Yet, most initiatives have remained at individual levels, and research has rarely included youth, parent and professional voices simultaneously and equally. This study sought to integrate these perspectives and identify systems-level strategies that could reimagine CW. Using an arts-based method and thematic analysis, researchers investigated recommendations for policy a…
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals
Child welfare workers experience increased risk of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and burnout. Despite encouragement to bolster self-care, little remains known about self-care and well-being outcomes. This study explored frequency of self-care and its relationship with STS, burnout, and compassion satisfaction by surveying 305 child welfare direct service and supervisor professionals. Participants completed the ProQol and reported frequency and…
“Conscious compassion”
Arts-based research methods have an important place in social work scholarship. Arts-based research methods, such as poetic inquiry, highlight lived experiences through creativity, emotion, and embodiment. This paper shares findings from a qualitative study that investigated social workers’ experiences with compassion in their professional practice through poetic inquiry. Findings are disseminated in a found poem that was collaboratively co-creat…
Youth are not something to check off your to do list’
The child welfare system is characterized by fixed power structures, coercion and hierarchies that privilege the perspectives of a select few. These oppressive aspects of the system quelch youth voice and others' voices, especially those with lived experience, frequently omitting them from case‐ and system‐level decisions. Acknowledging the empowering potential of creative and arts‐based research, this study used poetic inquiry with youth in or f…
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals
Child welfare workers experience increased risk of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and burnout. Despite encouragement to bolster self-care, little remains known about self-care and well-being outcomes. This study explored frequency of self-care and its relationship with STS, burnout, and compassion satisfaction by surveying 305 child welfare direct service and supervisor professionals. Participants completed the ProQol and reported frequency and…
Youth are not something to check off your to do list’
The child welfare system is characterized by fixed power structures, coercion and hierarchies that privilege the perspectives of a select few. These oppressive aspects of the system quelch youth voice and others' voices, especially those with lived experience, frequently omitting them from case‐ and system‐level decisions. Acknowledging the empowering potential of creative and arts‐based research, this study used poetic inquiry with youth in or f…
Youth are not something to check off your to do list’
The child welfare system is characterized by fixed power structures, coercion and hierarchies that privilege the perspectives of a select few. These oppressive aspects of the system quelch youth voice and others' voices, especially those with lived experience, frequently omitting them from case‐ and system‐level decisions. Acknowledging the empowering potential of creative and arts‐based research, this study used poetic inquiry with youth in or f…
“Conscious compassion”
Arts-based research methods have an important place in social work scholarship. Arts-based research methods, such as poetic inquiry, highlight lived experiences through creativity, emotion, and embodiment. This paper shares findings from a qualitative study that investigated social workers’ experiences with compassion in their professional practice through poetic inquiry. Findings are disseminated in a found poem that was collaboratively co-creat…
Latent profile analysis of risk and protective factors among foster parents
Shown love from the brokenness of a system’
Child welfare (CW) reforms have called for including family and youth voice. Yet, most initiatives have remained at individual levels, and research has rarely included youth, parent and professional voices simultaneously and equally. This study sought to integrate these perspectives and identify systems-level strategies that could reimagine CW. Using an arts-based method and thematic analysis, researchers investigated recommendations for policy a…
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals
Child welfare workers experience increased risk of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and burnout. Despite encouragement to bolster self-care, little remains known about self-care and well-being outcomes. This study explored frequency of self-care and its relationship with STS, burnout, and compassion satisfaction by surveying 305 child welfare direct service and supervisor professionals. Participants completed the ProQol and reported frequency and…
“Foster Care is a Roller Coaster”
Strengths for Helping Professionals Exposed to Secondary Trauma
Helping professionals working with people who have experienced trauma are at risk of developing psychological distress. To date, most studies exploring psychological distress among helping professionals have focused on risk factors associated with the development of adverse reactions to secondary trauma, and few have identified strengths or protective factors, which may buffer and/or alleviate distress. Therefore, this scoping review uses the Res…
Do no harm can get a little muddy”
Team Culture Factors and Child Welfare Professionals' Well‐Being
More scholarship is needed to explore workplace and systems factors that may protect child welfare professionals from poor well‐being outcomes, including secondary traumatic stress (STS). This study explored whether tenets of a team‐based culture were associated with levels of STS symptoms. This project is a secondary analysis of data collected through a routine quality improvement survey on organizational culture and climate in a statewide publi…
Organizational Compassion and Workforce Well-Being
The Impact of a Science of Happiness Course on Students’ Mental Health
There is a well-documented mental health crisis on college campuses. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of effective courses designed to improve students’ general well-being, most taught from a positivist psychology approach. There is no research on the efficacy of such courses that uses a sociological perspective. The current study addresses that gap in the research by assessing the impact of content in a sociological science of hap…
A poetic inquiry exploring social workers’ experiences with moral distress
This poetic inquiry presents the synthesized findings of a qualitative study exploring moral distress among social workers. Moral distress occurs when practitioners must act in ways that conflict with their personal values because of systemic constraints. We conducted interviews with 15 social workers across various settings—public child welfare, clinical practice, and health care—and at different levels of practice, including direct service, sup…
Exploring trauma-informed organizational practices and self-care
Organizational strategies, including resilience-building, promoting safety, and supportive leadership, may influence workers' self-care behaviors. Findings suggest systemic changes are needed to enhance resilience, mitigate secondary traumatic stress, and improve retention. Future research should explore long-term impacts of organizational practices on job satisfaction, retention, and well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights…
Exploring approaches to child maltreatment responses
Psychology (10 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Welfare (7 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (5 obras) · Psychotherapist (5 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (5 obras)