Search results for "Sosiaalityö"

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…

"Ammatilliseen selvyyteen" : sosiaalityön ammatillistumiskeskustelu Sosiaalityö-lehdissä 1958-1963

2008

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan sosiaalityön ammatillisuuden käsitteellistämistä 1950–60-lukujen taitteessa ammattilehtien muodostaman aineiston avulla. Keskeisenä kysymyksenä on, miten sosiaalityön ammatillisuutta aineistossa käsitellään, käsitteellistetään ja tuotetaan. Lisäksi tutkitaan sitä, voiko näistä ammatillisuuden käsitteellistyksistä hahmottaa sukupuolen ja ammatillisuuden välistä suhdetta. Teoreettis-metodologisena viitekehyksenäni tutkimuksessa on ontologinen konstruktionismi, ja Sosiaalityö-lehtien kirjoituksien nähdään osaltaan olleen luomassa kuvaa sosiaalityön ammatillisuudesta. Aineistokorpuksen muodostavat vuosien 1958–1963 Sosiaalityö-lehdet, joista aineistoksi on valittu so…

Epävarmuus, muutos ja ammatilliset jännitteet : suomalainen sosiaalityö 1990-luvulla sosiaalityöntekijöiden tulkinnoissa

2005

Hannu Piiroinen tarkasteli väitöskirjatyössään kahdessa suomalaisessa sosiaalialan ammattilehdessä (Sosiaaliturva ja Sosiaalityöntekijä) vuosina 1990 – 1997 julkaistujen sosiaalityöntekijöiden kirjoitusten kautta rakentuvaa kuvaa suomalaisesta sosiaalityöstä. Hän kiinnitti huomiota niihin tulkintatapoihin, joilla sosiaalityöntekijät tekevät ymmärrettäväksi sosiaalityöhön liittyviä epävarmuustekijöitä ja ammatillisia jännitteitä 1990-luvun Suomessa. Piiroinen osoittaa, että sosiaalityöntekijät tulkitsevat 1990-luvun laman ja yhteiskunnallis-kulttuurisen rakennemuutoksen saaneen aikaan epävarmuutta ja ammatillisia jännitteitä sosiaalityössä. Sosiaalityön epävarmuus liittyy laman mukanaan tuom…

A-klinikan organisoituminen ja sosiaalityö Suomessa 1950-luvulla

1997

“I do those things to pass the time.”: Active ageing during fourth age

2021

Active ageing is a dominant but disputed discourse in the field of ageing. Since it is usually associated with the third age, this article will focus on the active ageing of older adults who need care and services, who are known as the fourth agers. Our data consists of interviews collected from 16 older adults. We analysed the data through content analysis that was guided by the Active Ageing Index (AAI) that is a measuring tool concerning active ageing. According to our results, active ageing during the fourth age can be understood through the lens of small actions and precarity. Although some actions had to be given up or modified, participants were active in various ways, and help from …

Whether and How Social Work Could Address the Long-Term Socio-environmental Risks Caused by the Mining Industry in Northern Finland

2018

Despite underlining the importance of the commitment of states and international organizations, the discourse on human security is seldom explicit about who the actors or frontline workers are that operationalize the framework. One such group of practitioners that is possibly involved, but largely unacknowledged, is social workers, especially as social work as a discipline, profession and social movement has a value base and overall goals that are very similar to the human security approach. In social work, the categories of economic, food, environmental and community security fall within the discourse of human security, particularly with the currently evolving ecosocial (ecological/environ…

Policy Alienation in Frontline Social Work – A Study of Social Workers’ Responses to a Major Anticipated Social and Health Care Reform in Finland

2021

Change in the policy and ideology governing social and health care has been much debated in the Western welfare states, including in Finland, where the public sector has witnessed a shift towards a market and managerial ideology in a climate of austerity. These changes affect organisations as well as individual workers. Social workers implement social policies in their daily work, and are thus positioned in between policies and clients. This may expose them to feelings of unease in the implementation of certain policies. In this study, we apply the policy alienation framework of Tummers and colleagues (2009. “Policy Alienation of Public Professionals: Application in a new Public Management …

Henkilöstön johtaminen Valkeakosken tehdasyhteisössä Rudolf ja Juuso Waldenin aikakaudella 1924-1969

2012

Framing Social Work Discourses of Violence Against Women. Insights From Finland and India

2021

Violence against women (VAW) is a global social problem. In India, its high prevalence is connected to gender inequality, whereas Finland suffers from the so-called Nordic Paradox—that is, the existence of both gender equality and a high prevalence of VAW. This qualitative study employed a critical constructioniist approach and frame analysis to analyze data from interviews with Finnish (n =20) and Mumbai (n =18) social workers. We asked how social workers frame their response to VAW and how ways of framing elucidate institutional practices that facilitate the interventions. Anti-oppressive, juridical, procedural, and collaborational frames revealed institutional practices mirroring how soc…

Ecosocial Innovations and Their Capacity to Integrate Ecological, Economic and Social Sustainability Transition

2019

The article contributes to sustainability transition research by indicating the significance of transformative grassroots innovations in the context of social work research. We introduce the integrative concept of ecosocial innovation in order to demonstrate how grassroots innovations can successfully combine social, ecological and economic aspects of a sustainability transition. By ecosocial innovations, we refer to social innovations with a strong ecological orientation (e.g., recycling workshops, urban gardening, participatory unemployment projects and new local economies). The data consists of 50 examples of ecosocial innovations in Finland, Italy, Germany, Belgium and the UK. We invest…