Intergenerational Welfare Use among Immigrants: Myth of Culture of Poverty and Welfare Dependency

Cheng, Tyrone C.; Lo, Celia C.

doi:10.15640/jssw.v5n2a2

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“…Repeated economic setbacks often strengthen perseverance, and political mobilization against class-based injustice can cultivate optimism that the future holds better outcomes. Research that centers the experience of those in poverty as a window to understanding their lives has highlighted some of these positive qualities (Baker Collins, 2005;Cohen & Wagner, 1992;Smith, Baranowski, Abdel-Salam, & McGinley, 2018). Yet many of the insights about the assets of those in deep poverty come from fields outside of psychology (Desmond, 2016;Edin & Shafer, 2015).…”

Section: Deep Poverty Obscures Humans' Strengthsmentioning

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Bringing psychologists to the fight against deep poverty.

Davis¹,

Williams²

2020

American Psychologist

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This article describes the history, inspiration, goals, and outputs of the 2019 APA Presidential Initiative on Deep Poverty. Historically, psychologists have contributed to understanding the causes and consequences of poverty, as well as in interventions to ameliorate its effects. Less attention has been paid, however, to psychologists' unique contributions to studying and ending deep poverty, despite psychology's obvious relevance to the topic. As such, a working group was formed to develop the Deep Poverty Initiative (DPI), which had 3 main goals to engage psychologists in the fight against deep poverty: (a) change attitudes and perceptions about people living in deep poverty, (b) change policy to increase support for safety-net programs, and (c) change practices by increasing the use of psychological science and practice to build the capacity of poverty-serving organizations. First, 5 main themes from the psychological literature on deep poverty were identified by the DPI working group as crucial to changing attitudes. Compared to poverty, deep poverty was found to be especially dehumanizing, difficult to exit, and complex to solve, while also causing additional physical and psychological harm and obscuring human strengths. With this information as a basis, the working group mobilized psychologists to use the psychological science, along with their skills and positions within communities, to achieve the remaining goals of the initiative. Specific outputs, lessons learned, and suggestions for future work to continue to bring psychologists to the fight against deep poverty are given. Public Significance StatementPsychologists have contributed to understanding deep poverty and developing and applying interventions to end it. Yet, their increased advocacy and mobilization is needed to use this knowledge to change incorrect attitudes and perceptions about deep poverty, as well as to change practice and policy at both local and national levels. The 2019 APA Presidential Initiative on Deep Poverty provided psychologists with a variety of opportunities and tools to begin this work.

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Section: Deep Poverty Obscures Humans' Strengthsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing psychologists to the fight against deep poverty.

Davis¹,

Williams²

2020

American Psychologist

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“…Thus, a sense of security is ensured, because having a secure way and more than one method to achieve a goal, they feel fathered and closer to it [20]. In addition, techniques (such as relaxation exercises and imitation of standards) are used, in order to stabilize a plan.…”

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A Theoretical Approach to Intercultural Counseling through Social Work Practice

Sklavou

2019

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This article refers to the intercultural dimension of social work and the main consultative theories, which are very important tools, and on the basis of its perception, as a practice, derived from the multicultural texture of contemporary social reality. A bibliographic review is undertaken, to illustrate the basic dimensions of intercultural counseling, and reach a reasonable assessment of the effectiveness of these theoretical models, in terms of the complex and multifaced needs, that the professional social worker will be required to cover in his daily work.

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Intergenerational Welfare Use among Immigrants: Myth of Culture of Poverty and Welfare Dependency

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

Bringing psychologists to the fight against deep poverty.

Bringing psychologists to the fight against deep poverty.

A Theoretical Approach to Intercultural Counseling through Social Work Practice

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