Correlates of Social Work Students' Abortion Knowledge and Attitudes: Implications for Education and Research

Begun, Stephanie; Bird, Melissa; Winter, Virginia Ramseyer; Combs, Katie Massey; McKay, Kimberly

doi:10.1080/19371918.2015.1137510

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“…However, recent research shows that education about reproductive health is currently not often prioritized in social work educational curricula. For example, one study found that the vast majority of surveyed social workers reported that abortion was never or rarely discussed as part of their classroom education or field placement training; this echoes earlier findings that social work students lag with respect to abortion knowledge (Begun, Bird, Ramseyer Winter, Massey Combs, & McKay, 2016;Begun, Kattari, McKay, Ramseyer Winter & O'Neill, 2017;Ely, Flaherty, Akers, & Noland, 2012). Application of a TIC framework for social work education must therefore start with connecting social work principles to basic knowledge regarding sexual and reproductive health.…”

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Reflections of stress in US abortion narratives

Sperlich¹,

Ely

Rouland

et al. 2019

Journal of Social Work

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A trauma-informed, thematic analysis that identified stress-related themes evident in 39 personal abortion narratives from the Tennessee Stories Project in the United States is presented in this paper. Using the Braun and Clarke model of thematic analysis, guided by the trauma-informed social work framework, researchers examined these narratives to identify stress related themes. Findings An overall theme of stress and traumatic stress was found to be present throughout the abortion narratives. These themes were categorized into subthemes, including: (a) existing life stressors preceding the abortion experience, (b) stressors while trying to access abortion services, (c) stressors while obtaining abortion services, and (d) stressors arising after the procedure. Applications These results suggest that stress and traumatic stress were reflected in these abortion narratives throughout the abortion seeking experience. This finding supports the need for social work practice responses that are designed to address and eliminate stress during the process of seeking and obtaining an abortion in the United States. A trauma-informed framework is recommended for guiding social work education about abortion, social worker interactions with clients who are seeking abortions, and the development of abortion policy in the United States in order to better align the abortion seeking experience with the principles of trauma-informed care.

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Section: Tic Social Work Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 65%

Reflections of stress in US abortion narratives

Sperlich¹,

Ely

Rouland

et al. 2019

Journal of Social Work

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“…The journal Social Work published two of these articles ( n = 2) and the journal Social Work in Public Health one ( n = 1). Social work students were the sample for the quantitative article (Begun, Bird, Ramseyer Winter, Massey Combs, & McKay, 2016). The literature review investigated the presence of reproductive health topics in the social work literature (Wright et al, 2015).…”

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Reproductive Justice and the Social Work Profession: Common Grounds and Current Trends

Liddell

2018

Affilia

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Reproductive rights and justice frameworks, which take an intersectional and social justice approach to reproductive health, are compatible with social work's philosophical and theoretical foundations and its practical goals of advocating and promoting social justice. However, reproductive rights and justice are not frequently addressed in social work publications, an important gap that should be addressed. The search term "reproductive justice" was used to identify 10 articles published between 1994 and 2018 among the top 50 social work journals (using SCImago Journal and Country rankings). Only 3 of these 10 articles focused substantively on reproductive justice. By comparison, 55 article were identified with the search term "reproductive rights." An analysis of the reproductive justice articles was conducted for purpose and topic, location, study population, year, journal, key findings, and implications for the social work profession. All articles called for an increase in research on reproductive justice topics. Encouragingly, these articles also included an analysis of the role of the social work profession with these frameworks. However, there is a lack of articles on reproductive justice, and the range of topics, and the methodological approaches, covered are limited. Although the increase in reproductive rights literature is heartening, there is a need for reproductive justice framings in social work practice and research.

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“…The timely need for assessment and referrals by nonmedical practitioners, such as social workers and other behavioral health professionals, who interact with clients requesting information or referrals for reproductive health services on the front lines, in settings that are not necessarily related to reproductive health, is also critical. Given that in one study, 49% of social work students perceived an inability to provide referrals for abortion services (Ely, Flaherty, Akers, & Noland, 2012), and in another study 22% of social work students reported antichoice abortion stances (Begun, Bird, Winter, Combs, & McKay, 2016), it is essential that frontline practitioners in all settings prepare for potential reproductive health requests, and make a plan for how they will refer patients for abortion, even in cases where the requests are not expected in the existing setting. This is critical for promoting unintended pregnancy prevention, providing adequate prenatal care for those seeking to continue a pregnancy, and facilitating early, less costly access to abortion for those who choose to terminate but who may already be striving to overcome barriers to abortion, which can include IPV.…”

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The Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Distance Traveled to Access Abortion in a Nationally Representative Sample of Abortion Patients

Ely

Murshid

2017

J Interpers Violence

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The objective of this article is to describe a secondary data analysis of the 2008 Abortion Patient Survey (APS 2008) data exploring the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) and travel distances in a national sample of patients seeking abortion services in the United States. The researchers used the 2008 APS, which is the most recent publicly available version of this dataset, to conduct chi-square tests to examine the bivariate associations between all independent and dependent variables. Prevalence ratios were calculated to determine the association between physical and sexual violence and distance traveled to get an abortion, controlling for length of pregnancy, age, education, income, poverty category, race, relationship status, insurance type, whether women went to the closest clinic, whether the pregnancy was wanted, and number of previous abortions. Results indicate that approximately 83% of the women traveled between 1 and 50 miles, 11% traveled between 51 and 100 miles, 4% traveled between 101 and 150 miles, and 3% traveled more than 151 miles to get an abortion. Prevalence ratios (PR) reveal that physical violence was significantly associated with distance traveled to get an abortion (PR = 1.15, p < .05) when all control variables were accounted for. Patients in abusive relationships that involve physical violence may have to travel longer distances to access abortion. Repeal of policy that impedes access to abortion is recommended.

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Correlates of Social Work Students' Abortion Knowledge and Attitudes: Implications for Education and Research

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

Reflections of stress in US abortion narratives

Reflections of stress in US abortion narratives

Reproductive Justice and the Social Work Profession: Common Grounds and Current Trends

The Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Distance Traveled to Access Abortion in a Nationally Representative Sample of Abortion Patients

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