Reduction of anxiety symptoms among women within a collaborative care model and women's health settings.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to focus on changes in anxiety symptoms among women treated in women's health practices and under a collaborative care model.

Background: Research on collaborative care has largely focused on improving depressive and anxiety symptoms among adults in primary care settings. The applicability of collaborative care in other healthcare settings is underreported with limited research investigating if collaborative care has advantages in subpopulations treated in both traditional primary care settings and other healthcare settings, such as women's health practices.

Teaching and Learning in a Time of Corona: A Social Work Experience.

Preliminary results of a qualitative study of the lived experience of teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic are presented. An instructor, a program director and five doctoral students in different stages of their coursework and dissertation proposal development, wrote a reflective journal. Participants varied in their levels of familiarity with technology-assisted education, personal backgrounds and circumstances including work and family responsibilities.

Incorporating EBP in field education: where we stand and what we need.

To effectively provide social work students with the knowledge and skills necessary for practicing from an evidence-based practice (EBP) perspective, relevant training in the field internship component of the professional education is crucial. Based on previous research, practice experience, and anecdotal information, in this article the author outlines challenges to helping students integrate what they learn about EBP in class into their field education within the context of community agencies and offers detailed strategies to address these challenges as well as directions for future research.

Conditional embryo relinquishment: choosing to relinquish embryos for family-building through a Christian embryo 'adoption' programme.

Background: Currently, there is little evidence about conditional relinquishment of frozen embryos to others for family-building. This paper begins to address this gap by reporting findings from a study that investigated the experiences of couples who chose to relinquish their embryos conditionally through an embryo 'adoption' programme.

Methods: An exploratory qualitative study was conducted between September 2008 and December 2009.

Relinquishing frozen embryos for conception by infertile couples.

This qualitative study sought to provide an in-depth understanding of the experiences of couples who have relinquished their stored frozen embryos to one or more infertile couples. All couples were recruited through a U.S.

Family secrets and family functioning: the case of donor assistance.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adult offspring's perception of family functioning and of parental use of topic avoidance to maintain secrecy regarding the use of donor assistance to conceive. A cross-sectional design was used to study a convenience sample of 69 young adult donor offspring who completed a demographic questionnaire, a topic avoidance scale relative to each of their rearing parents, and the Beavers Self Report Family Instrument. Findings indicated that participants perceived both parents as avoiding the topic of donor assistance more than other topics, mothers as avoiding all topics less than fathers, and topic avoidance was negatively associated with family functioning.

The experience of abused women with their children's law guardians.

In-depth unstructured interviews are conducted with previously abused divorced mothers about their experience with law guardians of their children. Interviews are transcribed and their content analyzed using ATLAS.ti software.

Topic avoidance and family functioning in families conceived with donor insemination.

Background: While a move away from non-disclosure and secrecy toward more openness is demonstrated in the changing practices of donor insemination worldwide, scholars and practitioners continue to debate the effects of disclosure versus secrecy. This study examines if an association exists between adult donor offspring's perceptions of their parents' use of topic avoidance to maintain secrecy, and their perceptions of their family's functioning.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, a convenience sample of 69 young adult donor offspring completed a demographic questionnaire, a topic avoidance scale relative to each of their rearing parents, and the Beavers Self Report Family Instrument.