scholarly journals Learning about Alcohol: Personal Experiences Taken into Social Work Practice

Practice ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Wulf Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Personal Experiences

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.

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.

Listening to the Voices of Individuals with Disabilities

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen French Gilson ◽  
John C. Bricout ◽  
Frank R. Baskind
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Social

Social work literature, research, and practice on disabilities has lagged behind other topical areas dealing with oppressed groups. The social work literature remains “expert focused” and generally fragmented into discussions of specific disabilities or subpopulations. A viable general model that deals with the personal experience of disability is not available. This exploratory study presents a social work literature search and analysis as well as interviews with six individuals with disabilities about their experiences with social workers. Individuals with disabilities assert that they were treated as though they had categorically fewer aspirations, abilities, and perhaps even fundamental rights than did nondisabled people. This study provides a base for follow-up research on models of consumer-focused social work practice in the area of disability.

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