Addressing Single Parents’ Needs in Professional Counseling: A Qualitative Examination of Single Parenthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia L. Whisenhunt ◽  
Catherine Y. Chang ◽  
Mark S. Parrish ◽  
Juliana R. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Professional Counselors ◽  
Professional Counseling ◽  
Single Parenthood

Single parenthood is on the rise, but little research addresses the implications for professional counselors who work with single-parent clients. The present study sought to examine single parenthood from the parental perspective and, from that analysis, draw relevant counseling implications. Using qualitative content analysis, the researchers surveyed single parents about their experience of single parenthood, including role expectations, challenges and benefits, and what they believe counselors should know.

scholarly journals Double Disadvantage in a Nordic Welfare State: A Demographic Analysis of the Single Parent Employment Gap in Finland, 1987–2018

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juho Härkönen ◽  
Marika Jalovaara ◽  
Eevi Lappalainen ◽  
Anneli Miettinen
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Fathers ◽  
Single Parenthood ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Employment Gap ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Educational Gradient

This study demonstrates how an evolving negative educational gradient of single parenthood can interact with changing labour market conditions to shape labour market inequalities between partnered and single parents. We analysed trends in employment rates among Finnish partnered and single mothers and fathers from 1987 to 2018. In the late 1980s’ Finland, single mothers’ employment was internationally high and on par with that of partnered mothers, and single fathers’ employment rate was just below that of partnered fathers. The gaps between single and partnered parents emerged and increased during the 1990s recession, and after the 2008 economic crisis, it widened further. In 2018, the employment rates of single parents were 11–12 percentage points lower than those of partnered parents. We ask how much of this single parent employment gap could be explained by compositional factors, and the widening educational gradient of single parenthood in particular. We use Chevan and Sutherland’s decomposition technique on register data, which allows us to decompose the single parent employment gap into the composition and rate effects by each category of the background variables. The findings point to an increasing double disadvantage of single parents: the gradually evolving disadvantage in educational backgrounds together with large differences in employment rates between single and partnered parents with low education explain the widening employment gap. Socio-demographic changes in interaction with changes in the labour market can produce inequalities by family structure in a Nordic society known for its extensive support for combining childcare and employment for all parents.

Single Parents

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia C. Strand
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Teen Pregnancy ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
The United States ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Single Parenthood ◽  
Family Benefits

Between 1990 and 2003, the single-parent family continued to emerge as a major family form in the United States. Individuals come to single parenthood through different routes (divorce, separation, birth outside of marriage, widowhood, and adoption). And most of them are women. Intervention implications are framed in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary strategies. Increasing family benefits and child care provisions are highlighted as well as strategies for preventing teen pregnancy, increasing access to educational and entry to the work force for low-income women, and identifying mothers early on in the process of marital disruption.

Single Parents in Context

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie C. Maldonado ◽  
Rense Nieuwenhuis
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Financial Transfers ◽  
Single Parenthood ◽  
Single Parent Families

One of the most pressing challenges of single-parent families is the concern for their socioeconomic well-being. Single-parent families are more likely to be poor than two-parent families, and there is growing concern about the rising inequality among family types. Much research has focused on how children fare in single-parent families and whether or not they are at a disadvantage. However, concerns are not limited to children living in single-parent families, but also to single parents themselves. Single parenthood is strongly gendered: single parents are mostly mothers, and they therefore experience unequal opportunities and gender discrimination in the labor market. This bibliography addresses the key issues and debates related to single-parent families. Rather than promoting a single argument, it introduces the reader to a number of different perspectives, without taking a position on one perspective over the other. As the single-parent literature is broad and expanding rapidly, it is difficult to cover all aspects of single parenthood. Instead, this bibliography focuses on single-parent families in context. It covers how individual characteristics of single parents, such as their resources and education, shape aspects of their well-being. Yet the main focus is on how their well-being is also shaped by their socioeconomic and institutional context. How do employment and policy affect the lives of single parents and their children? The bibliography uses a comparative focus to examine the research on single-parent families across countries. Hence, it does not include all publications that address single parenthood, such as the social psychological aspects, but rather it examines the literature that best captures how single parents are doing in the context of the institutions and policies that surround them. This bibliography on “Single Parents in Context” is structured in six major sections. First, a broad overview of the literature is provided in the section on General Contributions This covers what can be considered Classics in the literature, and prior Research Overviews. The second section deals with aspects of the Socioeconomic Well-Being of single parents and their families, including Poverty, Child Well-Being, and Stigma. The next major sections (a substantial part of the bibliography) cover explanations for the often impaired well-being among single-parent families. These sections include resource-based, employment-based, and policy-based explanations. Resource-Based Explanations focus on individual characteristics of the single parents themselves, and include the debate regarding the important Diverging Destinies and Life-Course Perspective. Diverging Destinies suggests that single-parent families are increasingly common among those with lower socioeconomic resources, such as education. Life-Course Perspective discusses the dynamic process of single parenthood over the life course, such as transitions into and out of single parenthood. Employment-Based Explanations examine to what extent, and under which conditions, a job can be a means to improve single parents’ well-being. Employment is indeed important, because in some contexts single parents are employed but remain in poverty—considered the Working Poor. Additionally, single parents face particular challenges in terms of Work-Life Balance and negotiating the demands of work and family. Most importantly, this bibliography covers a wide range of policies and emphasizes various Policy-Based Explanations. Family Policy facilitates maternal employment and, increasingly, paternal care, as well as providing financial transfers to families with children. Active Labor Market Policy represents those policies that are often in the form of services, such as job placement and training. Such policy seeks to facilitate the employment of the inactive and unemployed. Redistributive Policy typically provides income transfers to help families financially sustain themselves. This is support from the social safety net in the form of cash assistance such as housing, food, and child benefit. Naturally, there is overlap between policy types, but family policy for families with children warrants a specific focus. There is also a focus on Child Support, which is a set of policies that regulates financial transfers among households of separated parents. This is followed by Policy Debates, a discussion that emphasizes the key debates around the design and implementation of policy for single-parent families. The final major section, Research Frontiers, lays out the frontiers in single-parent research. It highlights the potential major challenges and opportunities for research in years to come. These areas include Shared Parenting, Methodological Innovations, and Global Perspectives on what works for single parents and their families.

scholarly journals Professional Counselors' Conceptualizations of the Relationship between Suicide and Self-Injury

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Whisenhunt ◽  
Catherine Chang ◽  
Gregory Brack ◽  
Jonathan Orr ◽  
Lisa Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Professional Counselors ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
The Relationship

This study sought to increase understanding of the relationship between suicide and self-injury (SI). Advanced professional counselors were asked to discuss their conceptualizations of the relationship and how SI impacts clinical assessment and intervention. Data were collected via online survey. Analysis was conducted by a research team using qualitative content analysis. Categories identified were (a) the relationship between suicide and SI, (b) the functions of SI, (c) debate about the potential for elevated risk, (d) whether or not suicide risk should be assessed differently with clients who self-injure, (e) how SI may impact treatment planning and goals, (f) how professional counselors intervene with clients who self-injure, and (g) how SI is identified.

A Qualitative Content Analysis of Gender Transitions in the Workplace

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie E. Brewster ◽  
Esther N. Tebbe ◽  
Brandon L. Velez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis
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