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How might shared decision-making meetings reduce the need for children to be in care? A rapid realist review Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Lorna Stabler, Chloe O'Donnell, Donald Forrester, Clive Diaz, Simone Willis, Sarah Brand
SummaryMeetings to enhance shared decision-making, such as family group conferences, potentially contribute to enhancing meaningful involvement of families. Such meetings are also claimed by some to reduce the need for children to be in care, either by increasing support from family for parents or by identifying care from within the family network. This rapid realist review aims to develop an understanding
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The 2018 James Lind alliance adult social work priority setting partnership report: Its use and engagement Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Chloe Waterman, Jill Manthorpe
SummaryThe James Lind Alliance (JLA) is a nonprofit United Kingdom (UK) organization that builds a set of research priorities for any given topic through the systematic involvement of practitioners, service users, carers, and stakeholders. In 2021/2022, we reviewed the impact of the JLA priority setting partnership (PSP) on adult social work research (2018). Our research question was “How has social
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Social workers’ perspectives on adapting methods during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Anwar Khatib, Erga Kapolnik, Fareeda Abo-Rass
SummaryThis study sought to investigate the experiences and adaptations of social workers during the transition from face-to-face to online interventions amid the initial wave of COVID-19 in Israel. In-depth interviews were conducted with 27 social workers who had exclusively delivered face-to-face treatment before. Thematic analysis was employed to analyze the interviews.FindingsData analysis revealed
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Social work with Irish Travellers: Findings from a national evaluation Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Jim Campbell, Joanne Kelleher, Michelle Norris, Angela Palmer
SummaryThis article reports on the findings from a national evaluation of a specialist, Irish, social work service for Traveller families and communities. It begins with an historical overview of the service which was established in the 1960s but which has evolved and developed over the past few decades at a time of changing patterns of Traveller lives and social and economic conditions. It was also
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Impact of COVID-19 on home care provision: A qualitative study Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Janet Darby, Fran Allen, Pip Logan, Cate Bennett, Chibeka Kasonde
SummaryThe COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent public health restrictions caused an unprecedented impact on long-term care services in the United Kingdom (UK). A qualitative study was conducted in the East Midlands, UK, to explore how home care provision was perceived and experienced, by those organizing, commissioning, or providing care, and those receiving care, during the pandemic. Fifteen semi-structured
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Social workers in schools: A feasibility study of three local authorities Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 David Westlake, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Cindy Corliss, Asmaa El-Banna, Sarah Thompson, Melissa Meindl, Ria Talwar, Louise Folkes, Eva Schoenwald, Samia Addis, Laura Cook
SummaryThis study evaluated the feasibility of ‘Social Workers in Schools’, an intervention that involved social workers being based within schools across three local authorities in England (SWIS). Schools make a large number of referrals to Children's Social Care and play an important role in recognizing risks to children and protecting them from harm, but it is unusual for social workers to be based
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Australian perspectives on environmental practice: A national survey with human service professionals Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Heather Boetto, Wendy Bowles, Sylvia Ramsay, Monique Shephard, Pushkar Sebastian Cordoba
SummaryThis article reports on research exploring the perspectives of Australian social work and human service professionals about environmental practice. An online survey consisting of quantitative and qualitative questions was conducted, recruiting 303 participants from the human services sector. Quantitative data were analyzed descriptively using SPSS and qualitative data analyzed thematically using
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Minding the body: A critical appraisal of three phenomenological accounts of embodiment in social work literature Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Karl Eriksson
SummaryIn the few social work publications dedicated to exploring phenomenological philosophical concepts, embodiment or the lived body, promoted especially by phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, seems to have received special attention. Roughly, and according to a phenomenological philosophical perspective, the lived body signifies a mind–body unity that is believed to constitute acts of human
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Book Review: Complexity theory for social work practice by Fiona McDermott, Kerry Brydon, Alex Haynes, and Felicity Moon Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Khoirul Rahman, Bidiyah Siska Fiyana, Rina Ardianti
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Book Review: Against critical thinking in health, social care and social work reframing philosophy for professional practice by Tom Grimwood Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Simona Dhanabalan, M. Maria Antony Raj
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A phenomenological understanding of the intersectionality of ageism and racism among older adults: Interpersonal experiences Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Andrew T Steward, Carson M De Fries, Annie Zean Dunbar, Miguel Trujillo, Yating Zhu, Leslie Hasche
SummaryThis qualitative, phenomenological study explored the lived experience of the intersectionality of ageism and racism among older adults, with a focus on interpersonal experiences. Fifteen participants 60+ years of age (M = 67, SD = 7.45) in the U.S. Mountain West identifying as Black, Latino(a), Asian-American/Pacific Islander, or Indigenous engaged in a 1-hour interview. A three-cycle, inductive
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Contested places: A typology for responding to place-based harms Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Amie Thurber, Amy Krings, Jason Sawyer, Greer A Hamilton, Mónica Gutiérrrez
• SummaryIn response to historic and ongoing devaluation of certain people, and concurrently, the places they live, many communities are grappling with how to respond to place-based harms. This has produced a wide range of responses, such as calls for “Land Back,” reparations programs, arts-based neighborhood regeneration, and local history initiatives. This paper explores the potential roles community
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Book Review: Disability practice: Safeguarding quality service delivery by Christine Bigby and Alan Hough Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Zhengkai Xu, Tingting Hu
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Book Review: The curious case of Natalia Grace, documentary series by Christian and Jackson Conway Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Thedini Liyanage
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Book Review: Women and the criminal justice system: Gender, race and class by Katherine Stuart van Wormer and Clemens Bartollas Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Aaron Pycroft
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Book Review: Social work for poverty alleviation by Deping Xiang Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 M Rizki, Dwi Sesri Andini
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Canadian social workers’ attitudes toward immigrants with different legal statuses in Canada Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Rupaleem Bhuyan, Sandra Osazuwa, Catherine Schmidt, Inwook Kwon, Andrew Rundle, Yoosun Park
SummaryThis study contributes to the ongoing efforts to address systemic inequality within social work by examining Canadian social workers’ attitudes toward immigrants who are permanent residents (PR), refugees, temporary residents (TR), or undocumented immigrants. Using a cross-sectional design with a convenience sample (n = 653), we explore how social workers’ attitudes toward immigrants vary in
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A pilot study: Exploring suicidal ideation among non-offending adults with sexual attraction to minors, through their online forum posts Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Rachel Murphy
SummaryAn emerging field of research seeks to understand the experiences of non-offending adults who experience sexual attraction towards children. Research indicates that this largely hidden population can experience significant mental ill health and suicidal ideation, yet are reluctant to seek professional mental health support. Furthermore, mental ill health has been identified as a factor that
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The benefit, harm, and complication of humor in social work: A qualitative inquiry Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Mia Ocean, Donette A Gordon
SummaryThe use of humor in social work is an underrecognized and underexplored area of practice despite its potential to heal, harm, and complicate communication. To date, very minimal scholarship has been published on humor in social work. Therefore, this qualitative study sought to examine how social workers use, perceive, and experience humor. Data were gathered from 22 participants who identified
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Depictions of social workers and other caring professionals on television Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Maria Leedham
SummarySocial workers, alongside many professionals in “caring” domains, often feel they are poorly represented in television dramas. This study draws on a 172-million-word database to consider how social workers and seven other professional groups (cop, doctor, nanny, nurse, priest, teacher, and therapist) are portrayed in English-medium TV programs in the period 2010–2017. IMDb plot summaries are
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Social workers and xenophobia: The case of Türkiye Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Umut Yanardağ, Melek Zubaroğlu Yanardağ, Meryem Gül
SummaryIn recent years, xenophobia has become an increasingly important area of research in social work. This study was conducted in the South-Eastern Anatolia and the Mediterranean regions of Türkiye, both of which are densely populated by immigrants. In the study, the mixed method was conducted on social workers working in these regions. In the quantitative section, the Xenophobia Scale was applied
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Book Review: Research on community-centered poverty-alleviation social work by Jun Wen and Yuefei Wu Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Juhong Chen, Yingjiao Li
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Book Review: Birmingham's children: A tale of two cities by Eddie O'Hara Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Tola Ogundare
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Book Review: Can You See Us? by Kenny Mumba Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Nadedra Clarke
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Book Review: Take care of Maya by Henry Roosevelt Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Andrea Addison
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Book Review: I want to die but I want to eat Tteokbokki by Beek Sehee Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Dior Russell
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Book Review: Transnational social protection: Social welfare across national borders by Peggy Levit T, Erica D Obbs, Ken Chih-Yan Sun and Rux Andra Paul Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Dearni Nurhasanah Sinaga, Restu Puji Astuti
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Empowering the marginalised: Exploring the potential of Theatre of the Oppressed as an intervention for youth offenders in social work practice Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 David Puvaneyshwaran
SummaryThere is limited literature of the usage of Theatre of the Oppressed within Social work practice. In this study, a group of youth offenders (n = 9) and three social workers known to a Social Service Agency participated in a 9-week Theatre of the Oppressed workshop, consisting of activities aimed to raise critical consciousness. The workshop eventually culminated in a Forum Theatre performance
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The family as a source of social support for older adults: Implications for gerontological social work Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ivana Bražinová, Oldřich Chytil
SummaryResults of our previous research indicated that older adults believe that there's a lack of sufficient social support from informal sources available to them in difficult situations they face. In follow-up research, we found that older adults defined limitation in their self-sufficiency in daily activities to be the most significant difficult situation for them. This paper disseminates the results
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Narratives of experts by experience: A journey from criminal to expert Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Janika Lindström, Teemu Rantanen, Timo Toikko
SummaryThis study focuses on the narratives of participants of a long-term expert-by-experience training programme for people with a history of crime about their past, and how they use their life experience in their work as experts by experience. The research data was collected during interviews of respondents with a history of crime (N=19). The interviews were analysed using a narrative identity framework
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Coping and self-care: Mediating the association of job stressors with vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Evelia Murcia Álvarez, Xoán M Lombardero Posada, Francisco X Aguiar Fernández, Ana B Méndez Fernández, Antonio González Fernández
SummaryThe indirect exposure to patients’ traumatic experiences may generate contrasting reactions in helping professionals, such as vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience. Theoretical models predict that job stressors facilitate vicarious trauma and reduce vicarious resilience and that personal resources may mediate this relationship. However, there is little empirical research linking some of
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Puppetry to educate social work practitioners: Telling the refugee story Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Uma A Segal, Felia Davenport, Ramona Marshall, Daniel “Digger” Romano
SummaryThe complexities of refugee resettlement are difficult to comprehend, and alternative approaches to education may enhance empathy. Puppetry's art form often engages broad audiences, allowing puppets to tell important stories. This project developed a research-based educational puppet show to increase understanding of refugees in the United States (US). Using a mixed-method approach, this exploratory
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Complexities facing social work: Honor-based violence as lived reality and stereotype Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Rúna í Baianstovu, Sofia Strid
SummaryIt is widely accepted that honor-based violence is a lived reality and a serious problem. However, honor-based violence is also a contested academic and political field, characterized by a polarized debate about whether or not the violence comprises stereotyping images of immigrants. This article asks how honor-based violence can be understood in light of this polarization, and what consequences
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Protection of unaccompanied child and adolescent migrants in Catalonia: Inhabited places, occupied places or non-places? Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ruth Vilà Baños, Angelina Sánchez-Martí, Montserrat Freixa Niella, Marta Venceslao Pueyo
SummaryIn response to the so-called “refugee crisis,” the Catalan regional government set up experimental services for children migrating without guardians, with the explicit aim of safeguarding their rights. With their continued arrival, however, overcrowding in the facilities and the youths’ educational and life prospects have become topics of fierce debate. This article investigates whether young
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‘You have to let them do it themselves’: Analyzing professional support in a befriending project Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Liesbeth Naessens, Sarah Dury, Peter Raeymaeckers
SummaryIn Western welfare states, public and non-profit service organizations are increasingly looking for ways to combine the efforts and expertise of professionals and volunteers to provide support and services to vulnerable target groups. However, little is known about how professionals and volunteers collaborate to provide these social services and support. The aim of this qualitative study is
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Skills to enhance the efficacy of anti-racist supervision Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Sarah Ross Bussey
SummaryIn a time of increased social division, overt bigotry, and pervasive structural violence, social workers have an opportunity to lead the helping professions in meaningful social transformation. Social work supervisors play a central role in developing and guiding ethical social work practice. Yet, little empirically driven scholarship exists providing supervisors with strategies for disrupting
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Early work experiences, social inclusion and transition to adulthood: The voice of care-experienced young adults Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Veerle Soyez, Robbie Gilligan, Laura Arnau-Sabatès, Helena Johansson, Ingrid Hojer, Hana Pazlorova, Yvonne Sjöblom, Jill Stoddart
SummaryIt is widely recognised that young people in out-of-home care are often involved in a complex process of culminating disadvantage and exclusion. Investing in the core ingredients of social inclusion (participation and interpersonal relationships) while still in care can counterbalance ongoing exclusion processes. In this article, we explore how early work experiences (before the age of 18) can
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The reality of transitioning from orphanages to family homes: Life in extended families in Zimbabwe Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Melanie Moen, Cathrine Chiimba, Elsa Etokabeka
SummaryMany young orphans in Zimbabwe grow up in residential care facilities, but according to governmental policies and literature in this field, these children should be transitioned to extended families to ensure optimal development. Thus, semi-structured interviews was conducted with a social worker, two residential care administrators and five extended families; whereas the participating orphans
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The moral behaviour of single young women immigrants to Mandatory Palestine: Between nationalism, gender, and professionalism in social work Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Nour Shimei
SummaryMigration has always constituted a meeting point of opportunity, risk, and vulnerability. Concerns surrounding the sex trafficking of women have caused moral panic since the mid-1800s and led to social workers’ preventive initiatives and interventions in Europe and the United States. This article explores a historical moment in which Henrietta Szold, who headed the Social Welfare Department
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The impact of community resilience, well-being, and community attachment on human service workers’ burnout Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Joana Henriques, Sílvia Luís, Catarina Rivero, Sónia P Gonçalves, Lara Patrício Tavares, Helena Á Marujo
SummaryBurnout has become an increasingly prevalent condition, especially affecting professionals in direct contact with clients. Human service workers (HSWs) have quite emotionally taxing jobs supporting vulnerable groups. In developing a close relationship with the communities they work with, it could be possible that community-related variables have an impact on HSWs’ burnout. We aim to analyze
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Changing children's public perception of social work: A narrative evaluation of an educational intervention about social services Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ylva Spånberger Weitz
SummaryThis article explores children's learning experiences from taking part in an educational intervention about social services in school. Data were collected from six group interviews with 27 children after they had participated in lessons about social services. Following a narrative evaluation approach, the analysis focuses on the narratives of change that are made visible through the children's
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“There's a lot missing”: Treating survivors of sex trafficking with trauma bonds Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Kaitlin Casassa, Alexa Ploss, Sharvari Karandikar
SummarySurvivors of sex trafficking often develop trauma bonds with their traffickers. A trauma bond refers to an intense emotional attachment that can develop between victims and their abusers. Re...
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Outreach to farmworkers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Kennedy Saldanha
SummaryOutreach is an important element of social care. It is an informal but planned form of on-site service delivery to vulnerable populations. Outreach affects some target populations, such as m...
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The myth of spirituality Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Edward H Taylor
This article is designed to open a conversation about the place of spirituality in social work, highlight possible ethical issues, and question whether spirituality, as defined by social work and p...
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A systematic review of technology-mediated social work practice: Benefits, uncertainties, and future directions Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Rojan Afrouz, James Lucas
SummarySocial workers are increasingly using digital technology and online platforms in service delivery, with many services having moved online in 2020 following the emergence of the COVID-19 pand...
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Experiences of social workers who witness mistreatment as captured in drawing and narrative Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Ella Barhon, Yariv Itzkovich, Chana Eliraz, Dar Shimony, Hadar Goldenberg, Noa Dori-Egozy, Tal Orly
SummaryThe current study attempted to find out how the Bystander’s role and response are reflected in the drawings and narratives of social workers. The sample consisted of 32 social workers aged 2...
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An observation checklist for use by residential social workers in juvenile justice institutions Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Kore G Lampe, Eva A Mulder, Robert RJM Vermeiren, Olivier F Colins
SummaryStructured observation can be valuable to complement self or parent reports used for diagnostic information or risk assessment, although this method is hardly used and understudied in reside...
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Social workers as willful subjects Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Hagit Sinai-Glazer, Michal Krumer-Nevo
How does social workers' agency come about amid the structural constraints they face in their everyday practice? Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a social services department in Israel, this arti...
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Looking into backstage discussions in social work: A qualitative synthesis of recent empirical findings Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Annika Taghizadeh Larsson, Anna Olaison, Johannes Österholm
SummarySocial work practice has a history of collegial, intra-, and interprofessional discussions that take place backstage, that is, without the presence of clients. Because of their backstage cha...
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Living in a segregated community? Interaction between families and service organizations supporting people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Michelle Hei Yan Shum, Chi Kin Kwan, Maggie Pin Mui Yeung, Kwok Kin Fung, Joshua Chi Lam Ching
SummaryIndividuals with intellectual disabilities who might have been previously placed into segregated institutions now live independently in the community, supported by the necessary community ca...
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Orienting social work to incorporate place-based principles: A practical guide to the use of place in social work practice Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 G. Allen Ratliff, Genevieve Graaf, Mimi Choy-Brown
SummarySocial work has long history with practice in diverse places. Indigenous social work traditions have long been grounded in place and land. There has been little attention to the role of plac...
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Impact of COVID-19 on social work field education: Perspectives of Canadian social work students Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Cara Au, Julie L. Drolet, Vibha Kaushik, Grant Charles, Monica Franco, Jesse Henton, Marina Hirning, Sheri McConnell, David Nicholas, Amanda Nickerson, Jessica Ossais, Heather Shenton, Tamara Sussman, Gabriela Verdicchio, Christine A. Walsh, Jayden Wickman
SummarySocial work field education has experienced major disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while also embracing new opportunities to grow. The Transforming the Field Education Landscape res...
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Empowerment in old age: A ladder of user participation in social services for older people Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Ping Kwong Kam
SummaryThis article indicates how to achieve empowerment in old age by promoting user participation in social services for older people. Common empowerment strategies include promoting community an...
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Social workers’ voluntary political participation: Testing a civic engagement model Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jangmin Kim, Hyunwoo Yoon, Seung-Hwan Oh
SummaryWith rapidly changing and complex social problems, social workers’ political participation has received increasing attention in promoting social justice and human rights. However, limited st...
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An applied model of cultural competence in child protection practice Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Siobhan Laird, Cath Williams
SummaryThis empirical qualitative study explores the application of a model of cultural competence in child protection practice with families from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in th...
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Emerging social workers during COVID-19: Exploring perceived readiness and training needs Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Susanny Beltran, Asli Yalim, Ashley Morris, Lauren Taylor
Summary (methods and approach)Social workers support clients’ psychosocial and resource needs across care settings. Social workers are typically not, however, trained to engage in emergency respons...
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From behaviour-based to ecological: Multi-agency partnership responses to extra-familial harm Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Rachael Owens, Jenny Lloyd
SummaryIn the United Kingdom (UK), inquiries into the abuse of adolescents harmed in contexts beyond their families frequently document failures in multi-agency arrangements. Forms of extra-familia...
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Emotional dissonance and burnout among child welfare workers: The moderating role of social support from colleagues, supervisors, and organization Journal of Social Work (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Håkon Johannesen, Jan Olav Christensen, Live Bakke Finne
SummaryOccupational burnout has significant costs for individuals, employers, and the society. Knowledge about risk and protective factors is therefore highly important. This study examined emotion...