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Social Workers’ Reflections on Forced Migration and Cultural Diversity : Towards Anti-Oppressive Expertise in Child and Family Social Work
2021
Social work in Finland, like in many other countries, has faced various challenges after the large scale of forced migration in 2015. Although working with migrants is not a new area in social work, the exceptionally large amount of asylum seekers in the Finnish society caused a need for improved social work expertise. Our article deals with Finnish social work practitioners’ reflections on multicultural, multilingual and transnational issues with a client group, which is in a vulnerable situation after forced or other forms of migration. The practitioners participating in our study have either attended a specializing education of child, youth and family social work or taken part in peer gr…
The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland
2017
Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…
Creating ‘Communities of Practice’ to Enhance Ecosocial Work : A Comparison between Finland and Australia
2022
Abstract This article reports on findings from a small qualitative study in two industrialised countries—Finland and Australia, which aimed to engage social work practitioners in ‘communities of practice’ to collaboratively explore ecosocial work practice. Using a Participatory Action Research approach, a series of workshops were established to plan, implement and evaluate ecosocial work interventions. Data were gathered using qualitative pre- and post-surveys to examine changes to practice, including similarities and differences between Finnish and Australian practitioners. Overall, results indicated that practitioner engagement in the workshops increased their capacity to implement ecosoc…
Kyykystä kyvykkääksi nuorisososiaalityöllä
2018
TIIVISTELMÄ KYYKYSTÄ KYVYKKÄÄKSI NUORISOSOSIAALITYÖLLÄ Tiina Lehtonen Pro gradu –tutkielma Sosiaalityö Jyväskylän yliopisto/Kokkolan yliopistokeskus Chydenius Ohjaaja: VTL Katri Viitasalo kevät 2018 101 sivua Tämän pro gradu –tutkielman tarkoituksena on tutkia nuorten asumisen- ja talouden problematiikkaa Nuorisobarometreissä 2013 – 2016. Tutkielman teoreettisen viitekehyksen muodostavat Financial Social Work, taloudellinen lähestymistapa sosiaalityössä sekä analyysia ohjaavana teoriana olevat Martha C. Nussbaumin (2011, 2013, 2016) toimintamahdollisuus- ja yksilön kyvykkyyden kehittämisteoriat (Capabilities Approach ja The Human Development Approach). Tutkielman taustoituksessa avataan kuv…
Moral distress among social workers : the role of insufficient resources
2015
The present study examined moral distress among Finnish social workers and the role of perceived resource insufficiencies in explaining it. The aim was to shed light on this understudied phenomenon in the field of social welfare. The study focused on work-related moral distress, defined as impaired wellbeing that is connected to the continual inability to implement actions that one considers morally appropriate. The survey data were collected with an electronic questionnaire between the years 2011 and 2012. The respondents (n = 817) were social workers in the public social welfare services and the overall response rate was 46.5 per cent. Nearly 11 per cent of the respondents reported experi…
Possibilities of trust and recognition between refugees and authorities : resettlement as a part of durable solutions of forced migration
2012
The figure of a regretful mother on an online discussion board
2022
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Servizio sociale e protezione delle donne richiedenti asilo e rifugiate vittime di violenza: valori, prassi e competenze professionali
2021
La rilevanza riconosciuta al tema delle donne rifugiate e della loro protezione, nell’ampia produzione internazionale di documenti ufficiali, report e Linee Guida, testimonia un ampio consenso sulla centralità del tema, affermata già nel 1990 dall’Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i Rifugiati. Tanto le indicazioni fornite da vari organismi nazionali e internazionali, quanto diversi report nazionali e internazionali propongono unanimemente non solo l’individuazione di diverse procedure di accoglienza e trattamento, ma anche e soprattutto un serio investimento nella direzione della formazione di operatori in competenze capaci di rispondere adeguatamente alle istanze di questo partico…