Search results for "Social work"

Finnish welfare service system from the standpoint of women in vulnerable life situations

2020

In this chapter, the authors analyse how the Finnish welfare service system, as it consists of different institutions and professionals, meets or fails to meet the needs of women in varying vulnerable life situations. The participants are women with severe substance abuse problems, women sentenced for committing a crime and poor lone mothers living on basic social benefits. The findings show that women’s experiences of encounters with welfare professionals as well as their access to and use of the services share a number of characteristics. They described several barriers and problems related to the complexity of the service system. These included receiving only limited support for basic ne…

Affective Arousal During Blaming in Couple Therapy: Combining Analyses of Verbal Discourse and Physiological Responses in Two Case Studies

2016

Blaming one’s partner is common in couple therapy and such moral comment often evokes affective arousal. How people attune to each other as whole embodied beings is a current focus of interest in psychotherapy research. This study contributes to the literature by looking at attunement during critical moments in therapy interaction. Responses to blaming in verbal dialogue and at the level of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) were investigated in two couple therapy cases with a client couple and two therapists. Video-recorded couple therapy sessions were analyzed using discursive psychology and a narrative approach. The use of positioning, a discourse analytic tool, was also studied. ANS res…

保育士・幼稚園教諭に求められる保育及び子育て支援現場におけるソーシャルワーク機能についての一考察 : フィンランドのネウボラの視察から [The Function of Social Work as Part of Child Support by Nursery and Kindergarten…

2016

Coping strategies in life stories of young adults with foster care backgrounds

2021

Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin sijoitettuna olleiden nuorten aikuisten selviytymiskeinoja 18 yksilöhaastattelun avulla. Fenomenologisella analyysilla (IPA; Smith & Osborn, 2003. Interpretative phenomenological analysis. Teoksessa J. A. Smith (toim.), Qualitative Psychology (s. 51–80). Sage) tunnistettiin kolme pääteemaa liittyen selviytymiskeinoihin vastoinkäymisissä ja haasteissa: sisäänpäin suuntautuminen, ulospäin suuntautuminen sekä omiin elinolosuhteisiin vaikuttaminen. Lisäksi tunnistettiin keino, joka oli käytössä vain varhaisaikuisuudessa, hyväksyminen. Tulosten perusteella on tärkeää kuulla sijoitettuna olleita nuoria aikuisia koskien heidän selviytymiskeinojaan sekä lisätä sijaisperh…

Syrjäytymispuhe hallinnan strategiana opiskelijahuollon sosiaalityössä

2015

Assessing violence in the family : social work, courts, and discourses

2016

This article investigates social work, decision-making, and gendered violence in the family in Finland. Discourses on gendered violence in the family are compared in custody disputes, handled in district courts, and out-of-home placements, dealt with in administrative courts. Both data sets altogether include 237 cases. Proceedings in both courts share a legislative emphasis on the ‘child’s best interest’ principle, and both contexts also rely on documentation provided by social workers. The examination of the two studies is based on discourse analysis, through which we have identified hegemonic discourses that are active in both courts. The study found that violence was often disregarded o…

Pedagogika społeczna - praca sojalna - zbiory rozłączne?

2016

Podejścia, koncepcje i modele wychowania oraz społecznego funkcjonowania jednostek i grap społecznych, wyznaczające naukową refleksje nad pedagogiką społeczną przenikają do pracy socjalnej. Pedagogika społeczna jest inspiracją dla tworzenia teoretycznych podstaw praktyczne; pracy socjalnej, konstytuującej się jako nowa dyscyplina naukowa w Polsce. Konieczność podjęcia wysiłku intelektualnego nad usamodzielnieniem pracy socjalnej, jako dyscypliny naukowej, podyktowana jest zarówno przemianami społeczno-gospodarczymi, politycznymi i moralnymi w naszym kraju, jak i szybkim tempem rozwoju pracy socjalnej jako dyscypliny naukowej w krajach wysoko uprzemysłowionych, do których Polska niewątpliwie…

Finnish Health Care Professionals’ Views of Patients Who Experience Family Violence

2015

1. Inka Koistinen[1][1] 2. Juha Holma[1][1] 1. 1University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 1. Juha Holma, Department of Psychology, Psychotherapy Training and Research Center, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, Jyvaskyla, 40014 Finland. Email: juha.m.holma{at}jyu.fi The aim of this study was to examine the beliefs health care personnel have about patients who experience family violence. This was done by analyzing the positions constructed for such patients using content analysis. The data comprise six focus groups conducted with physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists working in a maternity unit, a psychiatric ward, and an emergency department. The research team collected the data in…

Institutional and Affective Practices of Domestic Violence Interventions in Social Work: Malignant Positioning of Victims

2020

This chapter investigates the institutional and affective practices of domestic violence (DV) interventions in Finnish social work. It examines the expression of social workers’ emotions related to intervening in DV and how these expressions result in the positioning of clients. Encountering and intervening in DV is often challenging; ideological presumptions, conceptions, gender-neutral discussions and misrecognition of violence affect institutional arrangements and practices, and the ways in which professionals feel about and respond to violence. We utilise positioning theory to analyse social workers’ focus group interview data (n = 20). We consider (1) how emotions expressed by social w…

Applying phenomenography in guidance and counselling research

2017

This paper examines phenomenography as a viable qualitative approach in guidance and counselling research. A phenomenographic study maps the qualitatively different ways in which people experience a specific phenomenon and helps researchers to describe the aspects that make one way of experiencing a certain phenomenon qualitatively distinct from another. This paper presents an overview of phenomenographic research, encompassing theoretical, methodological and practical considerations. The application of this approach in guidance and counselling studies is illustrated with examples. peerReviewed