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Empowerment in Context: Lessons from Hip-Hop Culture for Social Work Practice

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Pages 203-222 | Published online: 10 Aug 2011

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Raphael Travis, Aaron H. Rodwin & Ashley Allcorn. (2019) Hip Hop, empowerment, and clinical practice for homeless adults with severe mental illness. Social Work With Groups 42:2, pages 83-100.
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Elise Cournoyer Lemaire, Karine Bertrand, Marie Jauffret-Roustide, André Lemaître & Christine Loignon. (2023) The Perspective of Young Adults Who Experience Homelessness About the Links Between Music and the Psychoactive Substance Use Trajectory. Journal of Drug Issues, pages 002204262311680.
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Rachelle C. Myrie, Andrea V. Breen & Lynda Ashbourne. (2021) “Finding my Blackness, Finding my Rhythm”: Music and Identity Development in African, Caribbean, and Black Emerging Adults. Emerging Adulthood 10:4, pages 824-836.
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Raphael TravisJr.Jr., Ian P. Levy & Alexandra C. Morphew. (2022) “Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.
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Raphael TravisJrJr, Elliot Gann, Alexander HD Crooke & Susan M Jenkins. (2020) Using Therapeutic Beat Making and lyrics for empowerment. Journal of Social Work 21:3, pages 551-574.
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Ian P. Levy. (2019) Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in Urban School Counseling. Professional School Counseling 22:1b, pages 2156759X1983443.
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Sylka Uhlig, Erik Jansen & Erik Scherder. (2017) “Being a bully isn’t very cool…”: Rap & Sing Music Therapy for enhanced emotional self-regulation in an adolescent school setting – a randomized controlled trial. Psychology of Music 46:4, pages 568-587.
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Cendrine Robinson, Elizabeth L. Seaman, LaTrice Montgomery & Adia Winfrey. (2017) A Review of Hip Hop-Based Interventions for Health Literacy, Health Behaviors, and Mental Health. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 5:3, pages 468-484.
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Ian P. Levy, Amy L. Cook & Christopher Emdin. (2018) Remixing the School Counselor’s Tool Kit. Professional School Counseling 22:1, pages 2156759X1880028.
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Brian L. Kelly. (2018) Music-Based Services for Young People Experiencing Homelessness: Engaging Strengths and Creating Opportunities. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 98:1, pages 57-68.
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Raphael Travis, Scott W. Bowman, Joshua Childs & Renee Villanueva. 2016. Symbolic Interactionist Takes on Music. Symbolic Interactionist Takes on Music 119 149 .
Adam J. Kruse. (2016) “Therapy Was Writing Rhymes”: Hip-Hop as Resilient Space for a Queer Rapper of Color. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education:207-208, pages 101-122.
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Dave Miranda, Camille Blais-Rochette, Karole Vaugon, Muna Osman & Melisa Arias-Valenzuela. (2013) Towards a cultural-developmental psychology of music in adolescence. Psychology of Music 43:2, pages 197-218.
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Raphael TravisJrJr & Alexis Maston. 2014. See You at the Crossroads: Hip Hop Scholarship at the Intersections. See You at the Crossroads: Hip Hop Scholarship at the Intersections 3 28 .
Raphael TravisJr.Jr.. (2012) Rap Music and the Empowerment of Today’s Youth: Evidence in Everyday Music Listening, Music Therapy, and Commercial Rap Music. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 30:2, pages 139-167.
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