Search results for "Social Work"
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Social work transnationally revisited
2017
The transnational interconnectedness of social work is not a new phenomenon. Historical analysis showed that social work has been entangled transnationally in many ways, and transnational studies p...
Transnational social work with young refugees
2016
In late 2014, the UN Refugee Agency counted 59.5 million people around the world on the run (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 2015). This is the highest number that has been r...
Actor, Victim or Auxiliary Person: Child Participation—A Particular Challenge for Transnational Social Work
2011
The care crisis in Spain: an analysis of the family care situation in mental health from a professional psychosocial perspective
2019
ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to investigate the importance of family care in mental health and identify the shortcomings of the Spanish model of health care for the mentally ill. The empirica...
Doing gendered and (dis)embodied work. Care work in the context of medico-managerial welfare state
2013
Whether and how technology-driven managerial reforms affect the field of human service work is a timely question for social sciences. In an increasingly technology-assisted working-life, material conditions such as one’s age and gender may be losing their significance as signifiers of professional identity. Welfare service work is traditionally understood as feminine work that comprises of embodied, situational and social practices of care work. Over the past few decades, public management reforms have called for reassessment of welfare service workers’ occupational skills through practices of medico-managerial service management and occupational accountability. As a result, workers technic…
Next-generation modelling of community work and structural social work in Finland
2021
The recently reformed Finnish Social Welfare Act obligates public social work to enact structural social work, and to address the community- and structural-level social problems behind individual cases. This article examines how community work and structural social work are conceived by early career social workers. The empirical data consists of 26 project plans by social work Master’s students studying in a working life-based part-time programme. The data includes designs for community work or structural social work to be applied in practice to address a real social problem or issue identified by the students in their working environment. The designs are analysed by content analysis and re…
Modernization and Social Work: Toward Governing Risks, Advanced Liberalism and Crumbling Solidarity?
2016
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses how the social work mandate has changed throughout history. It examines the conditions of social work as they relate to social, political and economic tendencies. The book describes how the social work mandate has changed and lays out its economic, political and social boundary conditions in Europe after World War II. It focuses on social work paradigms and theoretical considerations, in other words, phenomenological social work and practice research. The book explores how the fraud debate has its origin in the US, the leading country of neoliberal financial policy and …
El reto del conocimiento en la practica del Trabajo Social
2005
En el presente artículo se pretende subrayar la importancia de que desde el Trabajo Social y la Educación Social se profundice en el conocimiento y la utilización de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) como recurso y requisito para la intervención socioeducativa. Unas tecnologías que cada vez ostentan un mayor protagonismo en nuestra sociedad y ante las que, además, es preciso constituir una adecuada respuesta desde las entidades que habrán de asumir, tarde o temprano, la responsabilidad de atender las nuevas situaciones de exclusión a las que se podrán ver sometidos aquellos que no tengan posibilidad de acceder a ellas. En este sentido, se destaca la necesidad de que …
Generational order: troubles with a ‘travelling concept’
2019
This brief comment on Samantha Punch's paper first recalls the theoretical context in which the notions ‘generational order’ and ‘generationing’ emerged. It is then suggested that their uneven use ...
Non-abusing mothers’ formal support needs after child sexual abuse disclosure: the case of North Cyprus
2021
This article investigates the formal support needs of mothers whose child has been sexually abused. Previous research has focused mostly on the provision of support for abused children to the relat...