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Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Anna-Karin L. Larsson, Helén Olsson, Susanne J. M. Strand
This qualitative study explores the opportunities and challenges of collaboration experienced by social workers and police officers when dealing with cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) and st...
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‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Martin Stuart Smith
This article considers the difficulties faced by social workers and others who have concerns about the reliability of information provided by people they are assessing in England under the Mental H...
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Editorial Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Andrew Whittaker, Gloria Kirwan
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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The Empathy Diaries: a memoir Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Lynn Froggett
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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The emotional experience of continuing professional development Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Tanya Moore
This study seeks to understand why some social workers seem to connect and engage openly with opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) while others seem to have a more conflicted...
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Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision: bringing the self into supervision Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 H. Smith, l. Parish-Mackin, R. Wise
This paper details the evaluation of a psychosocial model of reflective supervision piloted by the authors with a group of Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) supervisors who supported...
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Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Rukhsana Farooqi
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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Social workers’ assessment of a child’s need for services as ‘craftwork’ practice Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Tuuli Lamponen, Noora Aarnio
This study examines assessment practices when social workers determine whether a child needs child welfare or child protection services. It describes the elements employed when constructing assessm...
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“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Francesca Tessitore, Francesca Del Vecchio, Mauro Cozzolino, Giorgia Margherita
The study explores the experiences of five Italian social workers working in secondary reception centres with African refugee families in an attempt to deepen the feelings experienced in working wi...
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Sandplay therapy for people coping with negative symptoms of psychosis: a theoretically promising option Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Patricia R. Turner
Sandplay therapy (SPT) is a promising approach to the treatment of negative psychosis symptoms, due to the psychodynamic lens it brings to both the underlying trauma and the attachment insecurity c...
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The anti-racist social worker: stories of activism by social care and allied health professionals Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Liz Reilly
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Harriet Ballantine-Thomas
This essay shares the barriers and opportunities encountered whilst trying to adopt a more exploratory and curious position with parents, as a Newly Qualified Social Worker in an Inner London Child...
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Editorial Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Andrew Whittaker, Gloria Kirwan
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Editorial Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Andrew Whittaker, Gloria Kirwan
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Community-based Aboriginal staff taking the lead in family support: a case study of transforming practices prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Carolin Christa Stock, Maggie May Kerinaiua Punguatji, Aileen Tiparui, Kate Louise Johnston, Carmen Rose Cubillo, Gary Robinson
The Play to Connect programme is an ongoing action research project investigating implementation of a parenting programme for families and children living in disadvantaged remote Aboriginal communi...
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The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Gary Broderick, Gloria Kirwan, Brian Melaugh, Hilda Loughran
ABSTRACT This article reports on a poverty awareness project which was conducted by participants and staff based in an organisation for women affected by addiction and poverty. Through the application of material ethnography methods, this initiative led to the creation of a set of artefacts which culminated in the exhibition titled, Object Poverty. This article traces the history of this initiative
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‘A constant battle’: the interaction of government discourse, poverty and child and family social work practice Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Hannah Jones
ABSTRACT This 2017 study explores social workers’ perspectives on the interaction of UK government discourse, poverty, and social work practice with families since the 2007–08 economic crash. This has continued relevance in today’s economic climate when the number of families in poverty is increasing. This small-scale qualitative study used interviews with social workers undertaking assessments in
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Poverty, social work, and social intervention: decent work as a strategy to overcome poverty after the Covid-19 Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Antonio López Peláez, María Elena Aramendia-Muneta, Amaya Erro-Garcés
ABSTRACT Social workers worldwide must be concerned about how to overcome poverty after the COVID-19. The 61st Session of United Nations Commission for Social Development has highlighted decent work as a priority for social workers and social welfare practitioners after de COVID-19. Decent work is a key strategy to overcome poverty in the post-pandemic time. A systematic review of the literature revealed
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An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Leandi Erasmus, Retha Bloem
ABSTRACT Social work in South Africa is currently engaged in a transformational process to adapt its developmental approach based on the pursuit of social justice. Research has indicated that the values, attitudes, and behaviours of newly qualified social workers is a major determining factor in their pursuit of social justice. Consequently, the study reported here aimed to investigate the above-mentioned
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Poverty: social work perspectives Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Helen Hingley-Jones, Gloria Kirwan
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Kateřina Mikulcová, Ivana Kowaliková, Lenka Caletková, Veronika Mia Racko (Zegzulková), Marek Mikulec
ABSTRACT The paper aims to describe the specific context of the homeless children’s living environment and to show the consequences that this context has on the sibling relationships of homeless children in Czechia. The text is based on a psychosocial perspective. The context of the space, where homeless children live strongly affects their socialisation. Sibling relationships, which are transformed
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Child abuse, the narrative of parents living in poverty: a critical analysis of parental and professional explanations of why a child was harmed Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Debbie Innes-Turnill
ABSTRACT Research has identified an association between poverty and the likelihood of children suffering from abuse. What is less clear is how the experience of living in poverty links to this abuse. This qualitative study investigated individual stories of child abuse and the role of poverty in their lives. Through interpretative phenomenological analysis explanations why children had been abused
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Young people on the ‘edge of care’: perspectives regarding a residential family intervention programme using social pedagogic and systemic approaches- striving for ‘humane practice’ Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Lucille Allain, Helen Hingley-Jones, Tricia McQuarrie, Helen Gleeson, Diane Apeah-Kubi, Bola Ogunnaike, Sarah Lewis-Brooke
ABSTRACT Support approaches and interventions to keep families together are major goals in family welfare services. Different service models are used including some targeted at families where the assessment is part of family court pre-proceedings. Although outcomes of family interventions have been extensively researched, there is limited recent research regarding the subjective experiences of young
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Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Juliet Koprowska
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Fiona Robinson, Nick Midgley
The importance of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) collaborating with other agencies is of paramount concern for children with complex difficulties, including children in care. H...
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Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Cathleen M. Morey
Clinical social work practice in organisational settings is complex and challenging. Effective practice is contingent on knowledge and skills that are particular for systems-based work involving mu...
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The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Arlene Weekes
Today, most social care decisions in the UK are made by groups of professionals, often known as panels. Given the importance of these decisions, which often determine the future of children and adu...
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Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Isobel Moore, Philip John Archard
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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How learning from the lived experiences of child protection social workers can help us understand the factors underpinning workforce instability within the English child protection system Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Ciarán Murphy
ABSTRACT The English child protection system continues to be the focus of national commentary in light of several high-profile deaths and the recently published reports from the Review of Children’s Social Care, and the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel. Whilst narratives of ‘failure’, ‘betrayal’, and ‘scandalous incompetence’ perpetuate, these forgo consideration of the complexity of child
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Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Juliet Koprowska
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Jochen Devlieghere, Karel De Vos, Griet Roets, Rudi Roose
Public welfare actors struggle with the question how they can guarantee children’s wellbeing. The answer to this question depends on the countries’ perspective concerning its responsibility for the...
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Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Martin Smith
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Editorial Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Gloria Kirwan, Andrew Whittaker
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Looking for the infant voice. How depth hermeneutics (scenic-narrative microanalysis) contributes to an understanding of how a child participates from the beginning of life Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Brynulf Bakkenget, Eystein Victor Våpenstad
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) gives the right to participate and be heard in situations that affect their lives to all children, even pre-verbal children and infa...
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Hidden in statistics? On the lived experience of poverty Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Joe Whelan
ABSTRACT Poverty aware practice suggests that understanding poverty and its effects can, in turn, shape practice. Arguably, this understanding is something that should underpin social work processes from referral, to assessment, through to intervention. Yet just what it means to experience poverty with respect to the day to days lives of those who do often remains ‘hidden in statistics’. This article
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Building trust: supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Darka Kovič, Aisling McMahon
The experience of power dynamics for five Irish supervisees attending transdisciplinary workplace supervision was explored through in-depth interviews and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenolog...
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Challenges to social work professionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis of child protective workers’ perspectives Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Karmen Toros, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Rafaela Lehtme
The pandemic of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected millions of children and families worldwide, disrupting their daily lives and impacting the ability of Child Protective Services...
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Safeguarding young people: risks, rights, resilience and relationships Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Hannah Linford
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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The future of social work Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Bronwen Williams
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Sophie Mckenzie-Brook
ABSTRACT A student essay for Clare Winnicott Essay Competition. A review of Critical Pedagogy by Paulo Freire and the use and importance for social work practice. The essay also looks at Open Dialogue, a treatment method of treating psychosis, which is currently being studied for use in the NHS. The essay discuss both methods use of ‘Dialogue’ and ‘Praxis’ and the impact this can have on practice.
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“Difference which makes a difference” (Bateson, 1972): how the neurodiversity paradigm and systemic approaches can support individuals and organisations to facilitate more helpful conversations about autism Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Éilis Long
ABSTRACT This article explores the possibilities for systemic approaches in supporting a neurodiversity perspective, and how these lenses may improve social workers’ abilities to support autistic people. These ideas are rooted in an Action Research project I undertook, as an autistic practitioner-researcher, in a statutory children’s services department of a UK Local Authority. Social workers are very
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Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Aseel A. Takshe, Zahra Hashi, Marwa Mohammed, Annisa Astari
ABSTRACT Humans are witnessing extreme events such as droughts, floods, heat waves, wildfires, and emergence of novel diseases causing unprecedented changes to our planet. These rapid changes coupled with a transparent world that enjoys access to information mean that today’s population is more aware and attentive about the progress of climate change. The purpose of this study is to discover attitudes
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Validation as a clinical strategy Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Curtis McMillen, Andrea Doyle, Emily Claypool
ABSTRACT Validation as a clinical strategy – communicating that a person’s responses to a situation make sense – may be a particularly valuable skill for social work practitioners working within and across many traditions. This article makes several contributions to the literature on validation. It argues for a narrow definition of validation, reviews laboratory and clinical research on validation
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Editorial Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Andrew Richardson, Francesca Pozzoli, Clare Parkinson
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2022)
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Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Andrew Richardson
ABSTRACT As a key driving force in adult social care policy in both the United Kingdom and internationally personalisation has wide-ranging implications for the social work profession. Yet its meaning can be elusive and is often contested. This article explores findings from a doctoral study which sought to explore the current meanings associated with the notion of personalisation, by asking those
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Personalisation in disability policy and practice: an analysis through the lenses of professional actors Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Francesca Pozzoli
ABSTRACT ‘Personalisation’ is nowadays a very popular concept in disability policy and this article – drawing on my PhD research project in the English and Lombardian context of social care services for disabled people – aims to explore the translation of personalisation from policy into practice; hence the ways in which personalisation policy makes its way into disability services. In particular,
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The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Laure H. Lienard
ABSTRACT Applied theories in social work are social constructs that evolve according to cultural, political and social trends. The history of community work in Europe after the Second World War provides an example of a family of practices that is constantly evolving, in terms of its integration into social work, its methods, and the political project that underpins it. While the development of broad-based
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The mixed and misleading messages within adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Colin Slasberg, Peter Beresford
ABSTRACT Concern about the role social workers play in adult social care is long standing. Social workers, whose ethics commit them to supporting the empowerment of service users and to social justice, are required to work within a system that fails to secure either and is widely identified as in long-term crisis, despite a number of unsuccessful efforts to transform it. This article describes a detailed
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Looking back thinking forward Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Bronwen Williams
ABSTRACT This paper is offered as a thought piece rather than an academic paper. It will summarise some key points from the previous piece written jointly with Andrew Tyson in 2010, reflect on some of the specific assertions in that paper, and introduce a range of broader musings that seem relevant developed since that time. To put these in context, after a short note on terminology, I begin by summarising
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Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care? Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Tanya Moore
ABSTRACT Strengths-based social work is a deceptively simple approach that is conflated with community strengths-based models, causing confusion for local authority commissioning processes as well as for practice. This has led to the reductionist question ‘what are your strengths’ now being seen as an acceptable basis for assessment. It may be that in our determination to avoid a deficit approach,
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Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Victoria Grimwood
ABSTRACT In this article, I foreground the perspectives of a small group of social workers involved in the iterative process of putting personalisation into practice from within local authority adult social care settings. I set out my approach, which invokes a practice standpoint definition of personalisation, drawn from a reflective round table discussion. This definition incorporates the emotional
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Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Helen Smith, Clare Parkinson
ABSTRACT In this co-produced paper, we write about a collaboration that developed over more than a decade between a service user advisor and a social work educator within a higher education context. Starting with how we came to work together, the paper outlines early apprehensions about service user involvement, both as we experienced them and as expressed by colleagues, students, and managers. The
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Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 John Burton
ABSTRACT In this paper I argue that ‘personalisation’ is a rebranding policy that has had three effects: to disguise deep structural faults in the organisation, funding and practice of social care; to deceive the population into assuming (until they come to need it) that personalised social care exists, and to systematically undermine and destroy what remains of truly personal, relationship based care
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Involving service users in social work education, research and policy. A comparative European analysis Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Rosemary Lamport
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2022)
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The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Donald P. Moss
ABSTRACT The Pathways Model is an approach guiding the individual to combine self-care, habit change, and positive lifestyle changes, with professional healthcare interventions. There are multiple roles that a social work professional can adopt in guiding the individual in a Pathways recovery plan, including a coaching role, assessment, health education, lifestyle guidance, skills training, counselling
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The emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Farrukh Akhtar
ABSTRACT In the light of global calls to decolonise the curriculum and the national impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, there is pressure on social work academics to review, deconstruct and decolonise social work curricula. Social work education places strong emphasis on anti-oppressive, relationship-based practice that acknowledges diversity, social and economic injustice. This creates additional
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Editorial Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Gloria Kirwan, Andrew Whittaker
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2022)
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Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Jo Williams
ABSTRACT In recognition of the importance of relationship and working alliance for effective social work supervision, psycho-social factors serve to influence the relational dynamics, impacting on functions such as case discussions and decisions and practitioner welfare and learning. Attachment theory provides an insightful lens for understanding these pivotal aspects of social work supervision and
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Correction Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-06-22
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2022)
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Reflective practice editorial Journal of Social Work Practice (IF 1.179) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Gillian Ruch, Amanda Lees
(2022). Reflective practice editorial. Journal of Social Work Practice: Vol. 36, Reflective practice in contemporary social work: processes, people and places, pp. 131-133.