Shelby Clark

Shelby Clark
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Professor (Assistant) at University of Kentucky

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University of Kentucky
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  • Professor (Assistant)

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Scholarship has suggested that compassion is the foundation of quality social work practice. However, research exploring specific ways in which social workers utilize compassion is limited. Therefore, this qualitative study examined how social workers actualize compassion in practice. Semi-structured interviews were completed with 12 social workers...
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Purpose: Indirect exposure to trauma can negatively impact the well-being of school personnel and students. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role that individual, leadership and organizational characteristics play in producing potential changes in burnout and secondary trauma in K -12 school personnel from baseline to post trauma inf...
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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 protecti...
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Background: While child welfare scholarship has paid much attention to workforce well-being such as burnout, secondary traumatic stress (STS), and compassion satisfaction, few studies have investigated how these outcomes influence utilization of casework skills. Objectives: This study aimed to understand the relationship between child welfare workf...
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While scholarship exploring well-being outcomes among child welfare workers is burgeoning, few studies have examined predictors of well-being among foster parents. Utilizing the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Scale, this study examined factors associated with foster parent burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction. Res...
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Objective This study sought to illuminate the barriers service providers experience in delivering healing services to enhance father and child well‐being. Background Manifestations of structural barriers, such as racism, mother‐centric practices, and disproportionate incarceration among Black and Brown fathers prevail. Little is known, however, ab...
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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. Usi...
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Purpose: Evidence establishing the importance of compassion in the context of social work practice is emerging. Compassion, stemming from the Latin words com and pati, means to suffer with. Given the proximity social workers have to vast experiences of suffering, compassion may play a central role in providing meaningful care to individuals, commu...
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Foster parents serve a critical role in the child welfare system; however, many report being dissatisfied with their role. As such, dissatisfied foster parents are at risk of disruption and turnover, ultimately resulting in placement moves for youth in care. Placement moves have negative impacts on youth well-being, prompting a need to explore issu...
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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 empower...
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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...
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Background Placement stability while in foster care has important implications for children’s permanency and well-being. Though a majority of youth have adequate placement stability while in foster care, a substantial minority experience multiple moves during their time in care. Research on correlates of placement instability has demonstrated a rel...
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According to the World Health Organization, one in four adults report a history of physical maltreatment, and an estimated 41,000 children under the age of 15 die due to homicide death. Although the majority of children who are maltreated will not continue this pattern as parents of their own children, the need to prevent child maltreatment is sign...

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