Search results for "Social Work"
showing 10 items of 343 documents
The psychological, psychotherapeutic and medical dimensions of the activities of social services in Poland
2018
Abstract The article is an attempt to look at the issue of functioning of social services in Poland from an interdisciplinary perspective, presenting common areas of activity of professionals with socio-pedagogical affiliation with representatives of psychological, psychotherapeutic and medical environments. The considerations relate not only to the literature of the subject, but also to the research of the authors in this regard. The purpose of the presented reflection is also to indicate the areas of interdisciplinary scientific cooperation, including research. Its effect could be generating new research problems and solving them in the course of the work of interdisciplinary teams.
Getting into the Same Boat – Enabling the Realization of the Disabled Child’s Agency in Adult–Child Play Interaction
2021
The purpose of this study was to find out how an adult can enable or hinder the realization of a disabled child’s agency in play interaction. We focused on the child’s play invitations, which were constructed as dispreferred by the adult. The data consisted of nine videotaped playing situations with five nurses and five disabled children in a children’s neurological ward. The microanalysis with interventionist applied conversation analysis focused on one playing situation between one nurse and one three-year-old boy with no spoken language. The nurse responded to the child’s play invitations constructed as dispreferred by her in three different ways. Two of them were about trying to control…
Spatial Perspective on Everyday Transitions Within a Toddler Group Care Setting
2017
This chapter builds on spatial approaches to study everyday life, and in particular to consider Henri Lefebvre’s (1901–1991) theory on the social production of space. Lefebvre’s ideas on the social production of space are based on a dynamic “spatial triad” of conceived (representations of space), perceived (socio-spatial practices), and lived space (representational space). The aim of this chapter is to discuss, by building on Lefebvre’s approach, the spatial dynamics involved within the small-scale (horizontal) transitions for children in toddler group care. The discussion is based on a study where one Finnish day care group for 1- to 3-year-olds was investigated by applying a spatial, rel…
Effectiveness of child protection practice models : a systematic review
2020
Background Attempts to improve child protection outcomes by implementing social work practice models embedded in a particular theory and practice approach, have increased internationally over the past decade. Objective To assess the evidence of the effectiveness of child protection practice models in improving outcomes for children and families. Participants and setting Children < 18 years and their families involved in child protection services. Methods A systematic review was conducted to synthesize evidence regarding the effectiveness of child protection practice models. Systematic searches across 10 electronic databases and grey literature were conducted to identify quasi-experimental s…
Building a System of Indicators to Evaluate the Right of a Child to Play
2018
Apresentação: “Teorizando a infância” Leena Alanen
2017
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-4512.2017v19n35p3O artigo apresenta a tradução de um texto editorial da Childhood, periódico de acesso restrito às mais recentes publicações de pesquisas sobre crianças, de autoria da professora e coeditora da revista, Leena Alanen (Universidade de Jyväskylä - Finlândia). A tradução teve como principal intenção ampliar os horizontes teóricos da sociologia da infância, para além das barreiras de língua, possibilitando, por meio da sua publicação em periódico de acesso livre, pautar amplamente a discussão e os desafios trazidos pela autora. Inicialmente, o texto traz uma breve apresentação ao “chamado” feito por Alanen apontando as pertinências indicadas pela au…
Entangled photographers: Agents and actants in preschoolers’ photography talk
2020
Photographs taken by young children have engendered a growing amount of research across diverse academic disciplines. Photographs have been used as visual data for analysing for example children’s social relations and well-being. However, only a few studies have addressed the photographic practices of young children as means for them to explore, imagine and coexist with the surrounding world. In this article, I introduce a case study that draws on research from art education and sociology of childhood. The data were gathered in a photography workshop in a Finnish early childhood education and care centre, where fourteen preschoolers discussed their photographs inspired by contemporary Finni…
Recognition and the Other in Social Work
2020
Abstract Axel Honneth’s recognition theory is a useful ethical framework for social work. Stephen Webb connects it straightforwardly with the relativistic ethical tradition that arguably emphasises the role of differences too much. However, this article shows that an alternative objectivist reading of recognition theory evades Webb’s critique and describes a balanced attitude towards otherness, fitting the practical field of social work. A detailed picture of recognition theory also reveals how it can be utilised in macro-level social critique. Contrary to what Webb claims, it is important that social workers generally respect differences in their work. Unfortunately, every attempt to under…
Le corps vécu chez la personne âgée et la personne handicapée
2010
Consacre a l’experience du corps vecu chez les personnes en situation de dependance, ainsi qu’aux representations qui peuvent conduire a l’obliterer, cet ouvrage comporte une part non negligeable de temoignages. Il s’agit de stimuler la reflexion sur la difference entre l’experience reelle des personnes et celle qu’on leur prete. L’etude du handicap et du vieillissement permet par ailleurs d’interroger les limites de notre tolerance, et de l’experience meme que nous faisons de notre propre corps : comment definirions-nous notre propre intimite ? notre autonomie ?Le corps vecu tel que nous l’eprouvons n’est en effet pas reductible a la connaissance anatomique et physiologique que nous en don…
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
COVID-19 epidemiological security measures – social service delivery disruption and restrictions on direct social contacts – stressed the need for transformations in social work practice. These res...