Darren T Cosgrove

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Marist College

Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an approach to conducting research with youth populations in order to effectively engage youth in research that impacts their lives. Young people experiencing homelessness (YEH) are vulnerable to power and social environments in ways that call attention to their experiences in research. Me...

The article situates key themes on holistic engagement practice (HEP) within the context of white neoliberal social work practice. Through a secondary analysis of qualitative data using a critical phenomenological framework, the authors analyze the narratives of social workers who completed a 2-day training on holistically engaged social work pract...

Educational settings have been found to be challenging arenas for transgender and gender expansive (TGE) youth and young adults due to misgendering, lack of affirming bathrooms, systemic exclusion (e.g., legal names and lack of inclusive gender identity demographic options), and frequent silence or avoidance related to TGE issues. Though studies of...

Trans-affirming providers play significant roles in the health and wellbeing of nonbinary individuals. Yet, healthcare mistreatment is well-documented among gender-diverse patients, leading to clients withholding information and avoiding care for fear of experiencing bias. Concurrently, healthcare providers report feeling ill-equipped to serve nonb...

As the body of literature elucidating the experiences of transgender and nonbinary young people grows, there is a need to identify and utilize research methodologies that build knowledge, while also advancing participant wellbeing. Expanding a research ethic beyond “limiting harm” and toward “promoting wellness” can not only result in the continued...

Neoliberalism emerged as a powerful force across the globe, adding market-based pressures to social work practice, education and research. Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we reflected on neoliberalism’s impact on our professional and academic experiences in US-based social work. Disconnection characterised our collective experience...

Given the still emerging evidence base about the effectiveness of practices, such as mindfulness, somatics, and integrative body-mind-spirit social work, there is a need to know more about the impacts that training in such areas can have on social workers and their professional work. This mixed-methods article reports on a pilot study that explored...

Social work researchers have increasingly focused on the needs of transgender communities and clients, which has resulted in the advancement of transgender-affirming practice and services; however, there has been relatively little research devoted to the experiences and needs of non-binary people. This article describes a participatory action resea...

Social workers face complex challenges that demand practice-engaged research and research- engaged practice. Participatory action research (PAR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) span the boundaries that often exist between the research and practice communities. Some social workers argue the values underpinning PAR and CBPR align...

The social and health care needs of transgender people is a growing focus within social work literature. Attention to social and physical health disparities suggests that transgender-affirming services are an often unmet need. As ways to improve services are explored, attention must be paid to the diverse identities of transgender people. Although...

Participatory action research (PAR) and Community-based participatory research (CBPR) prioritize collaborative research approaches with the goal of social transformation. Themes from this qualitative study of 15 early career social work PAR and CBPR scholars indicate that they are strongly motivated to pursue these methodologies because of their ow...

Participatory Action Research and Community-Based Participatory Research (collectively PAR) require academic researchers to partner with disenfranchised communities to develop research questions, design approaches to collect data, and analyze that data in service of community transformation. These approaches address inequities by emphasizing emic k...

Background: Participatory action research (PAR) and Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) are approaches to research that involve collaborative knowledge generation and built on critical and feminist theories (Freire, 2014). Individuals, communities and researchers jointly frame the research question, develop the design, and carry out data...

Youth can be leaders and agents of social change, though often their power is untapped. In practice with adolescents, social workers can unleash youth-power to transform organizations and communities. Youth-led change movements also contribute to healthy adolescent development. Practice implications of Positive Youth Development and Youth Participa...

This session presents findings from a phenomenological study examining the experiences of early career scholars using participatory action research (PAR) or community-based participatory research (CBPR). While the study focused on institutional factors acting as facilitators and barriers to this work, the identity and experiences of researchers als...

Social work researchers and practitioners face increasingly complex social challenges that demand practice-engaged research and research-engaged practice. Participatory action research (PAR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) offer unique opportunities to span the boundaries that often exist between research and practice communities....

Participatory action research (PAR) and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) are research approaches that involve collaborative inquiry and knowledge sharing. This session will discuss infusing PAR/CBPR inspired data collection techniques into traditional qualitative research studies. This offers opportunities to increase the quality and r...

Participatory action research (PAR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) offer opportunities for social work scholars to conduct research that addresses complex social issues. However, these methodologies often require researchers to navigate unique challenges and tensions, especially for scholars working within institutional settings...

PAR and CBPR offers opportunities for social work scholars to conduct research that addresses complex social issues. However, these methodologies often require researchers to navigate unique challenges and tensions, especially for scholars working within institutional settings that privilege traditional forms of research. This workshop is intended...