The Social Care Work Portfolio: An Aid to Integrated Learning and Reflection in Social Care Training

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 769-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gay Graham ◽  
Bridget Megarry
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Training

scholarly journals The Role of Humour in the Social Care Professions: An Exploratory Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 778-796
Author(s):  
Molly Fogarty ◽  
Dely Lazarte Elliot
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Six social care professionals were recruited to take part in in-depth interviews that sought to explore their phenomenological experiences of humour within their place of work. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach, the results suggest that humour serves various important functions within social care. Humour can allow social care professionals to relieve themselves of negative emotions, to avoid stress and cynicism, to achieve a sense of normality and perspective and to engage with service users. The positive impact humour appears to have upon these professionals is in keeping with the humour–health hypothesis, which posits that humour enhances well-being. However, results from this study also suggest that humour may be capable of negatively impacting well-being. Arguably, these findings highlight the need to extend the humour–health hypothesis and incorporate the negative effects humour can have upon well-being. Results also indicate that, if used appropriately, humour can be utilised to benefit work performance and service user outcomes. The findings of this research hold important implications for how humour may be understood and fostered in social care training, practice and policy.

scholarly journals Lessons from abroad: Rebalancing accountability and pedagogy in the Irish social care sector through the use of effective leadership

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Cathy Jones ◽  
Catherine Smey Carston
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Care Managers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Disciplines ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Leadership Approaches

Abstract A concern is emerging in Ireland that social care managers and staff are moving too far away from the ‘care’ in social ‘care’ work. In this paper a discussion of the impact of the bureaucratic procedures and regulation within the social work and social care work sectors is presented along with an exploration of leadership approaches. It is argued that certain leadership approaches, in particular pedagogical leadership, could not only help social care managers to negotiate the complex issues they are facing but also facilitate putting the ‘care’ back into social ‘care’ work. Pedagogical leadership is globally supported across a variety of human service disciplines: it facilitates the creation of a learning culture within the workplace where social care managers facilitate conversations with their teams to encourage reflection, critical thinking and contributions to the professional wisdom required for quality service. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the dialogue within leadership practice for social care professionals. This discourse is necessary if lessons are to be learned from past experiences in this country and others about how to balance the need for care, learning and compassion with accountability.

Organising: influences of the state, organisations and wider social policies

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Linda Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Professional Organisation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Care Training ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Government Initiative

This chapter focuses on organisation. Organising social work falls into many different areas, and because social workers are employed in so many different kinds of organisation (statutory local authorities being only one kind) and different sectors (including health and education, as well as the social-care field), the chapter concentrates only on a few areas. It looks backwards and forwards across the 1990s to the present day, as well as on into the future, and also considers social work both internationally and in the UK. It considers some important areas of social work: the development of professional organisation(s), research conferences, and the further exploration of developments in social work/social care education. Finally, the chapter gives two specific English examples: the first links up social work/social care training, research, and related workshops and conferences in the 1990s; and the second explores how recent social work education has been organised via the UK government initiative of funded ‘teaching partnerships’.

scholarly journals Emma Dowling: The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Tereza Butková
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Relations Of Power

What is care and who is paying for it? Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go so much further.As the world becomes seemingly more uncaring, the calls for people to be more compassionate and empathetic towards one another—in short, to care more—become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the idea that people ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-faceted crises of our time will be solved by simply (re)instilling the virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of the social care system. She examines the relations of power that play profitability and care off in against one another in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impact of financialisation and austerity.The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the care crisis that are taking place within Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the economy of abandonment, raising the question: to whom care is afforded? What would it mean to seriously value care?

scholarly journals “Yo lo que Quiero es Trabajar”. Hombres que Trabajan en el Sector del Cuidado Social

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Yolanda Bodoque Puerta
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Limited Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Male Workers

In this article we explore the experiences and perceptions of men in social care occupations in Spain in order to understand their reasons for going into care work, their continuation in the sector, how they are perceived, and to what extent gender matters in their work experiences. We use data from the ongoing qualitative research we are undertaking in Catalonia (Spain) on men as carers; this text is based on 31 semi-structured interviews with male workers in the social care sector. Our results show that the economic crisis has drawn Spanish local men into lower-skilled jobs in the social care sector, thus modifying the stratification process based on gender, class and migration. We find that the ‘glass escalator’ has a very limited effect in social care work, and in consequence, the advantages men enjoy only relate to the ease with which they access such jobs. Finally, we find that men working in the social care sector negotiate their masculinity through the tension between the cultural and class norms that oblige them to have a job and the undervalued or feminized characteristics of their work.

Jane Adams: an experience of multicultural education and social care. Chicago, 1889 – 1910

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 306
Author(s):  
Silvana Panza
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Culture Learning ◽  
Educational Method ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Idea ◽  
Hull House

The focus of this study concerns a deep analysis on the innovative educational method utilized by Jane Addams (1860-1935) at Hull House. She was a philosopher, but first of all we can consider this woman as a sociologist, because of her careful survey on society, Addams’s activities also implied a new educational project based on the social care of poor workers and their families. She chose for her extraordinary experience one of the most slummy suburbs in Chicago, where with her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded in 1889 this settlement. The main intention of the sociologist was to give immigrants lots of opportunities to understand Chicago’s social and political context. It was important to create a place where immigrant families could socialize, learning more about their rights and possibilities. For this reason Addams suggested that it needed to start from education, taking a particular care of children who lived in that area. It was necessary to promote a reform on the different culture learning to support immigrants in their integration, people who came there hoping to find a job into factories. In 1889 when the settlement was founded, there were about four hundred social houses around the States. Addams’ s important social and political idea was to develop a democratic society, where each person could recognize himself/herself as a part of it, avoiding marginalization and segregation. The sociologist was a central figure at Hull House for about twenty years.

Addressing the social needs of individuals with food allergy and celiac disease during COVID-19: A new practice model for sustained social care

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Lucy A. Bilaver ◽  
Rajeshree Das ◽  
Erin Martinez ◽  
Emily Brown ◽  
Ruchi S. Gupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Allergy ◽  
Celiac Disease ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
The Social

THE SOCIAL CARE OF THE EPILEPTIC

The Lancet ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 231 (5966) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
RalphH. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
The Social

Implementation of computer-assisted therapy for substance misuse: a qualitative study of Breaking Free Online using Roger's diffusion of innovation theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Elison ◽  
Jonathan Ward ◽  
Glyn Davies ◽  
Mark Moody
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Social System ◽  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Innovation Theory ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
The Social

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the adoption and implementation of computer-assisted therapy (CAT) using Breaking Free Online (BFO) in a social care and health charity working with people affected by drugs and alcohol dependence, Crime Reduction Initiatives (CRI). Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews were conducted with service managers, practitioners, peer mentors and service users. Data were thematically analysed and themes conceptualised using Roger's Diffusion of Innovation Theory (Rogers, 1995, 2002, 2004). Findings – A number of perceived barriers to adoption of BFO throughout CRI were identified within the social system, including a lack of IT resources and skills. However, there were numerous perceived benefits of adoption of BFO throughout CRI, including broadening access to effective interventions to support recovery from substance dependence, and promoting digital inclusion. Along with the solutions that were found to the identified barriers to implementation, intentions around longer-term continuation of adoption of the programme were reported, with this process being supported through changes to both the social system and the individuals within it. Research limitations/implications – The introduction of innovations such as BFO within large organisations like CRI can be perceived as being disruptive, even when individuals within the organisation recognise its benefits. For successful adoption and implementation of such innovations, changes in the social system are required, at organisational and individual levels. Practical implications – The learning points from this study may be relevant to the substance misuse sector, and more widely to criminal justice, health and social care organisations. Originality/value – This study is the first of its kind to use a qualitative approach to examine processes of implementation of CAT for substance misuse within a large treatment and recovery organisation.

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