EDITORIAL: Public Intellectualism and the Call for Grounded Speculation

The author discusses the challenge of getting child welfare research to practitioners, families, and the young people whose lives it concerns

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity: How Queer Liberation Organizations Deploy Collective Identities

The mainstream gay rights movement has made significant strides toward its agenda, at least in part due to the movement’s claim that it represents all the interests of all LGBTQ communities. However, a queer liberation movement (QLM) led by queer people of color and other marginalized LGBTQ people has existed alongside the mainstream movement since its inception. This movement pursues a radically different agenda and employs organizing strategies distinct from those of the mainstream movement, centering the interests of those LGBTQ people most often left behind by the mainstream agenda. This paper examines how the QLM negotiates and deploys collective identity in and through its work. Collective identity is explored in the context of existing LGBTQ social movement theory and points to how the QLM challenges and extends social movement theorizing regarding collective identity and use of identity as a site for organizing

“The Broker of Reality”: A Scoping Review of Moral Reconation Therapy

Purpose: This scoping review aims to identify the evidence-based literature supporting Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), a cognitive-behavioral treatment program created in 1987 and implemented in correctional-treatment settings across the US. Social work students and practitioners are among MRT’s facilitators. Method: We analyze the reliability and validity of the most recent meta-analysis of MRT, covering studies published between 1988 and 2010. We then identify 669 potential publications on MRT published between 2011 and 2021. Results: Our search across Google Scholar and eleven academic databases yielded zero peer-reviewed studies on MRT’s effectiveness or outcomes

EDITORIAL: Children and Youth in the Era of Climate Change

Editorial. An editorial is presented on the impact of global warming and climate change on human life, social relations, economic prospects, and ecological health. It expresses the view that young people is changing rapidly as climate change increasingly transitions from a scientific observation. An overview of the challenge of climate change to child and youth serving communities

EDITORIAL: We Can Do Better than Adolescence

Editorial. The author discusses the concept of adolescence and its acceptance as a biological imperative, a developmental mandate, and an explanation for young people\u27s behavior. Topics discussed include the shift of the fundamentals of labor from largely agrarian to predominantly industrial forms, the 1904 naming of adolescence as a distinct life stage in the human experience, and adolescence as the default starting point for most adult interactions with youth in the academic and practice literatures

EDITORIAL: In a World of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: The Case Against Intervention-Focused Research

Editorial. The authors consider the manifestation of us and them narratives in research on children and youth and on intervention research in child and youth services. They say much of the research is damage-focused despite the best intentions. They mention damaged-centered research written by scholar Eve Tuck in 2009 in the Harvard Educational Review. The authors add that intervention-based research is blind to the daily life of young people within their self-formed communities

EDITORIAL: Dismantling Children’s Rights in the Global North

Editorial. The article discusses children\u27s rights in the global North. Topics discussed include responsibility of all states and their governments to protect those rights, need to mitigate infringements on the rights of children and youth, and dependency of children and youth on their families and families are willing to take to provide them with opportunities for health, education and safety

EDITORIAL: Stories Still Untold

Editorial. The article offers information on the human history is a narrative of the powerful pushing the less powerful down and trying to keep them there. Topics discussed include without sufficient attention to history, to current circumstance, to all the points of intersection that we do not yet see, any single course of action reflects a limited and incomplete narrative; and mentions it is easier to think that there are victims and perpetrators than to admit that some among us are both

EDITORIAL: Disconnection and Mattering

Editorial. The article offers information on how the disconnection may affect the lives of children and youth and role of mattering to other people in overcoming the loneliness. Topics discussed include information on the empowering child and youth care; discussions on the intentional relationships and connection between children and youth; and the how engagements with young people reduces the loneliness

Trending Rightward: Nationalism, Xenophobia, and the 2016 Politics of Fear

In this article, the author reflects on issues of 2016 such as nationalism and xenophobia. Topics discussed include fear related to the Brexit decision in Great Britain such as violence and displacement; concern related to sexual safety of women and girls in the U.S. and incidents related to the 2016 Presidential elections of the U.S