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Knowing and Non-Knowing: Navigating Uncertainty in Social Work Practice<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>This project takes place in the\u00a0SIM Social Work Research Lab\u00a0<\/em>杏吧原创 School of Social Work. The study is a collaboration between Sarah Todd, Sarah Tarshis, Kenta Asakura, Katherine Occhiuoto and Pam Grassau. This team of researchers are investigating how students, new practitioners and experienced practitioners navigate uncertainty in their practice. The study uses innovative simulation methods to investigate the strategies practitioners use at different stages of their careers to navigate interpersonal and situational uncertainty in practice.\u00a0 This project aims to expand positivist notions of competencies so that they can include those aspects of clinical practice that have been shown to be of great value but are difficult to observe and measure. The research is funded by a 杏吧原创 SSHRC Explorer Grant.\u00a0 The lab is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Articles in Refereed Journals Sewell, K. M., Gheorghe, R. M., Dare, B., Patel, S. B., Morris, B., O\u2019Hara, G., \u2026 Todd, S. (2024). Barriers to advocacy for recovery and wellbeing: a mixed methods study of challenges faced by mental health hospital social workers in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0Social Work in Mental Health<\/em>,\u00a023<\/em>(3), 233\u2013253.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15332985.2024.2417694<\/a><\/p>\n 2025\u00a0\u00a0 Van Vliet, L., Tarshis, S., Occhiuto, K., Todd, S., Gheorghe, R., & Grassau, P.\u00a0 Doing Research Differently: Fostering Relational Ethics in ResearchTeams.\u00a0Affilia<\/em>,\u00a00<\/em>(0).\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/08861099251326943<\/a><\/p>\n 2025\u00a0\u00a0 Sewell, K. M., Gheorghe, R. M., Dare, B., Patel, S. B., Morris, B., O\u2019Hara, G., \u2026 Todd, S.\u00a0 Social work advocacy in mental health clinical practice: a mixed methods study of professional practices and competencies.\u00a0Social Work in Mental Health<\/em>, 1\u201321.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15332985.2025.2479467<\/a><\/p>\n 2024 \u00a0\u00a0 Tarshis, S., Occhiuto, K., Sewell, K., Gheorge, R., & Todd, S. Social Work and Supervision:\u00a0 A Simulation -based Research Study Exploring Uncertainty.\u00a0\u00a0The Clinical Supervisor.\u00a0 44<\/em>\u00a0(1) 193-214\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/07325223.2024.2430522<\/a><\/p>\n 2024 \u00a0\u00a0 Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Todd, S., Gheorghe, R. (2024).\u00a0Reflecting\u00a0<\/em>on reflection in clinical social work: Unsettling a key social work strategy<\/em>. The British Journal of Social Work,\u00a054<\/em>(6), 2642-2660\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/bjsw\/bcae052<\/a><\/p>\n 2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sewell, K., Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Kalmanovitch, A., Todd, S. Simulation in social work education: a qualitative study of standardized client experiences.\u00a0Social Work education:\u00a0 The International Journal, 43<\/em>(6), 1516-1533\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02615479.2023.2194318<\/a><\/p>\n 2023\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sewell, K., Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Kamanovitch, A., Todd, S. Simulation in social work education: a qualitative study of standardized client experiences. Social Work education:\u00a0 The International Journal.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02615479.2023.2194318<\/a><\/p>\n 2023\u00a0\u00a0 Asakura, K., Occhiuto, K., Tarshis, S., Gheorghe, R. M., & Todd, S. Guidelines for using simulations in qualitative research on social work practice competencies.\u00a0Families in Society,<\/em>\u00a0105(4), 743-759\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/10443894231210897<\/a><\/p>\n 2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Morris, B.\u00a0Todd, S.<\/strong>\u00a0& Kalmanovitch, A. When the Going Gets Tough: Case Studies of Challenge and Innovation in Canadian Field Education.\u00a0Routledge handbook of Field Education in Social Work.<\/em>\u00a0 Abigndon & New Dehli: Routledge.<\/p>\n 2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Occhiuto, K.,\u00a0Todd, S.,\u00a0<\/strong>Wilson, T. &\u2019 Garrod, J. Z. Toward Greater Transparency Regarding Cross-Sector Partnerships for Technology Development.\u00a0ANSERJ, 12,<\/em>2, 89-103.<\/p>\n 2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Todd, S.,<\/strong>\u00a0Occhiuto, K., Asakura, K. & Grassau, P.\u00a0Navigating Uncertainty in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Pilot Simulation-Based Study.\u00a0Clinical Social Work\u00a0<\/em>Journal, 49, 286-297\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10615-021-00800-4<\/a><\/p>\n 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Asakura, K., Occhiuto, K.,\u00a0Todd, S.,<\/strong>\u00a0Leithead, C., & Clapperton, R.\u00a0 A call to action on Artificial Intelligence and social work education: Lessons learned from a simulation project using Natural Language Processing.\u00a0Journal of Teaching in Social Work<\/em>, 40, 5, 501-518.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/08841233.2020.1813234<\/a><\/p>\n 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wilson, T., Occhiuto, K.,\u00a0Todd, S.<\/strong>\u00a0& Garrod, J.Z. (co-author). Social Workers as Double Agents: Critical Inquiry, Social Work Education and the Youth Questions.\u00a0Social Work Education:\u00a0 The International Journal, 39,\u00a0<\/em>1, 85-96.<\/p>\n 2019 \u00a0\u00a0 Asakura, K., Strumm, B.,\u00a0Todd, S.,<\/strong>\u00a0& Varghese, R. (co-author). What does social justice look like when sitting with clients?: A qualitative study of teaching clinical social work practice from a social justice perspective.\u00a0Journal of Social Work Education<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10437797.2019.1656588<\/a><\/p>\nPublications:<\/h3>\n
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