scholarly journals A Retrospective on Teenage Pregnancy in Poland: Focussing on Empowerment and Support Variables to Challenge Stereotyping in the Context of Social Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Odrowąż-Coates ◽  
Dagmara Kostrzewska
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Teenage Motherhood ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
International Comparative

AbstractThe article focuses on selected predicators of successful and fulfilling teenage motherhood. It contains analysis of qualitative data, obtained through comprehensive interviews and field notes from social work practice, based on the personal experiences of teenage mothers and a court appointed family curator. Using herstory perspective, it aims to present positive examples of teenage motherhood as a source of empowerment and independence, to unveil and combat stereotypical views on adolescent mothers in Poland. Moreover, the authors discuss systemic issues and challenges as well as a social stigma created by public opinion and aim to challenge harmful stereotyping. The article contributes to social work practice for the purpose of enhancement of the international comparative studies in this field.

Mapping the field of international comparative research in school social work

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087281989774
Author(s):  
Kathrin Franziska Beck ◽  
Juha Hämäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
School Social Work ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
School Social Workers ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
National Boundaries

This article maps the field of international comparative research in school social work. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted and subjected to a narrative synthesis. The review reveals 11 publications that are predominantly non-empirical, take mainly Asian, European, North American countries and Australia and New Zealand into account, and are focused on profession-related and sociopolitical aspects of school social work. A synthesis of school social work practice themes transcending national boundaries emerged from the findings, covering child-, family-, school-, and community-related issues. Accordingly, children are predominantly confronted with similar issues, irrespective of the place where they live, such as violence toward themselves, at home, in school, and in their community. Bearing in mind methodological challenges when carrying out comparative studies, recommendations include the conduct of practice-focused studies that generate new stimuli to improve already well-developed practices in a culturally appropriate way and enable mutual learning among school social workers.

War Stories of a Brigade Behavioral Health Officer

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-162
Author(s):  
Debra M. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Military Career ◽  
Health Officer ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Clinical Social Work Practice ◽  
War Stories

In this chapter, the author focuses on combat social work practice in a combat area of operation as a brigade behavioral health officer (BHO) while active combat engagements are going on simultaneously. After offering a brief overview of her career background prior to her commission as an officer, she focuses on the highlights of her military career as a combat social worker. Much of her attention in the chapter is her experiences providing clinical social work practice as a brigade BHO with an infantry brigade combat team during her second deployment to Afghanistan. The author shares several models of combat social work practice that she employed during these operations, as well as describing her personal experiences and reactions.

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