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Promoting Empowerment Among LGBTQ Youth: A Social Justice Youth Development Approach by Alex Wagaman, M.

“…Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) youth are a population with a unique set of service needs. Existing research on effective…”
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Decentering Whiteness in Social Work Curriculum: An Autoethnographic Reflection on a Racial Justice Practice Course by Odera, Stephanie, Wagaman, M. Alex, Staton, Ashley, Kemmerer, Aaron

“…The social work profession has historically been dominated by the presence and perspectives of whiteness. The centering of whiteness in social work education…”
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"I'm totally transariffic": Exploring how Transgender and Gender-expansive Youth and Young Adults Make Sense of their Challenges and Successes by Alex Wagaman, M., Shelton, Jama, Carter, Rebecca, Stewart, Kado, Cavaliere, Stacey Jay

“…As transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) youth and young adults (YYA) navigate challenging environments, they often seek spaces for safety and acceptance…”
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The Relationship between Empathy and Attitudes toward Government Intervention by Wagaman, Alex M, Segal, Elizabeth A

“…Throughout history, government policy and programs have played integral roles in shaping social services. This article reports the findings of a study that…”
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The Role of Empathy in Burnout, Compassion Satisfaction, and Secondary Traumatic Stress among Social Workers by Wagaman, M. Alex, Geiger, Jennifer M., Shockley, Clara, Segal, Elizabeth A.

“…Social workers are at risk for experiencing burnout and secondary traumatic stress (STS) as a result of the nature of their work and the contexts within which…”
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Policing immigrants: Fear of deportations and perceptions of law enforcement and criminal justice by Becerra, David, Wagaman, M Alex, Androff, David, Messing, Jill, Castillo, Jason

“…Summary This study examined the relationship between the fear of deportation and perceptions of law enforcement, the criminal justice system, and the…”
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I'm more driven now: Resilience and resistance among transgender and gender expansive youth and young adults experiencing homelessness by Shelton, Jama, Wagaman, M. Alex, Small, Latoya, Abramovich, Alex

“…Background : Little is known about the resilience strategies of transgender and gender expansive youth and young adults (YYA) experiencing homelessness. In…”
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Social Empathy as a Framework for Teaching Social Justice by Segal, Elizabeth A., Wagaman, M. Alex

“…Social work education stresses training students to understand oppressive structural barriers and promote social and economic justice. Social empathy, which is…”
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Understanding Service Experiences of LGBTQ Young People Through an Intersectional Lens by Wagaman, M. Alex

“…Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified (LGBTQ) young people face forms of stigma and marginalization that position them as needing support…”
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Looking through the magnifying glass: A duoethnographic approach to understanding the value and process of participatory action research with LGBTQ youth by Wagaman, M Alex, Sanchez, Ira

“…Participatory action research is a method intended to shift the power of the “researcher” and “researched.” This paper presents the results of a…”
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Queering the Social Work Classroom: Strategies for Increasing the Inclusion of LGBTQ Persons and Experiences by Wagaman, M. Alex, Shelton, Jama, Carter, Rebecca

“…The inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) perspectives and experiences in the social work classroom is necessary to adequately…”
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Changing Ourselves, Changing the World: Assessing the Value of Participatory Action Research as an Empowerment-Based Research and Service Approach With LGBTQ Young People by Wagaman, M. Alex

“…LGBTQ youth and emerging adults are a population for which little is understood with regard to the effectiveness of interventions and service approaches. This…”
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Developing Marsha and Marian’s Neighbors: A Shared Housing Intervention to Address Homelessness among LGBTQ+ and Pregnant/Parenting Youth by Gattis, Maurice N., Wagaman, M. Alex, Kemmerer, Aaron

“…Background: The aim of this paper is to describe the development of a shared housing model intervention that was designed to serve youth experiencing…”
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Youth participatory action research as an empowerment-based method for community change by Wagaman, M. Alex, Howell, Kathryn, Teresa, Benjamin, Hefner, Rachel, Woehrle, Hannah, Haynes, Tiffany S., Lawrence, Jackie

“…Youth participatory action research (YPAR) centers the experiences of young people as experts in issues impacting their lives. The process of engaging in YPAR…”
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A Pedagogical Model for Teaching Racial Justice in Social Work Education by Wagaman, M. Alex, Odera, Stephanie G., Fraser, Daryl V.

“…In the current U.S. sociopolitical climate marked by rising racial tension and civil unrest, social work students and educators are engaged in dialogues…”
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Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams: where to for PAR scholarship? by Littman, Danielle Maude, Ortega-Williams, Anna, Beltrán, Ramona, Wagaman, M. Alex, Bender, Kimberly, Wernick, Laura

“…In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and…”
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Social Empathy as a Framework for Adolescent Empowerment by Wagaman, M. Alex

“…Adolescent empowerment has been used to develop programs addressing a variety of issues that put young people at risk. Empowerment has been associated with…”
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Exploring Indigenous Identities of Urban American Indian Youth of the Southwest by Kulis, Stephen, Wagaman, M. Alex, Tso, Crescentia, Brown, Eddie F.

“…This study examined the indigenous identities of urban American Indian youth using measures related to three theoretical dimensions of Markstrom’s identity…”
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Developing the Social Empathy Index: An Exploratory Factor Analysis by Segal, Elizabeth A, Wagaman, M Alex, Gerdes, Karen E

“…Social empathy, the ability to understand people from different socioeconomic classes and racial/ethnic backgrounds, with insight into the context of…”
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Interrupting Hetero- and Cisnormativity in Social Work Programs: LGBTQ+ Student Strategies for Increasing Inclusion by Wagaman, M. Alex, Alessi, Edward J., Goffnett, Jacob, Watts, Keith J., Iacono, Giovanni, Thomas, De'Shay, Paceley, Megan S., Craig, Shelley L.

“…The Council on Social Work Education mandates that students be prepared to work competently across lines of difference. Research suggests that social work…”
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