Guangzhou social workers in Yingxiu: a case study of social work intervention in the aftermath of the Sichuan 5.12 earthquake in China

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxin Pei ◽  
Heqing Zhang ◽  
Ben H.B. Ku
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Intervention

Roles and Opportunities for Social Work Intervention in Expatriate Work Environments

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soochan Choi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Training Support ◽  
Systems Approaches ◽  
Adjustment Procedure ◽  
Work Intervention

By applying synergistic systems approaches, the present study has examined social work services for foreign-based US employees and their families in order to facilitate a successful adjustment in overseas assignments. A clear understanding of the key elements that constitute the expatriate's adjustment procedure is essential in implementing the practical roles occupational social workers can play in the global workplace today. On the basis of the recognition of the difficulties of cross-cultural adjustment, industrial social workers can utilize their expertise particularly in the processes of selection, training, support in overseas systems and repatriation to maximize an effective and efficient foreign expatriation.

Marital Problems and Treatment Outcome in Depressed Women

1987 ◽  
Vol 151 (5) ◽  
pp. 652-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roslyn H. Corney
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Women Patients ◽  
Marital Problems ◽  
Routine Treatment ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Experimental Group

In a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of social work intervention with depressed women patients in general practice, 80 women were randomly allocated to an experimental group for referral to attached social workers or to a control group for routine treatment by their GPs. They were reassessed at 6 and 12 months. The results indicated that women who had major marital problems were more likely to be depressed at follow-up than those with good relationships. However, patients with marital difficulties in the experimental group made more improvement than the controls. Women initially assessed as suffering from ‘acute on chronic’ depression and having major marital difficulties were found to benefit most from social work intervention.

scholarly journals Temporal and moral orders of social work intervention: The accomplishment of relationship work in a case of physical abuse

2020 ◽  
pp. 147332502094122
Author(s):  
Alex Dennis ◽  
Jadwiga Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Recommended Guidelines ◽  
Practice Skills

This paper explores the employment of communication, engagement and relationship-based practice skills by a Flemish social worker working with a parent who was alleged to have assaulted his child. We deploy insights gained from ethnomethodology to analyse extracts from an ethnographic observation. We show how a respectful approach can be developed between two parties who seek to find meaning from the chain of events they are presented with. In doing so, we establish how practice can be conducted differently depending on the context in which professionals and families find themselves. We argue that social workers’ identities revolve around being competent members of their professional community by working within the recommended guidelines and keeping children safe. However, this does not mean that organisational rules determine the activities that take place. Instead, we show how social workers can use their experience and skills to develop effective working relationships and still achieve their intended outcomes without blaming or shaming parents.

‘[W]e Find Families for Children, Not Children for Families’: An Incident in the Long and Unhappy History of Relations between Social Workers and Adoptive Parents

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Quartly
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adoptive Parent ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
Australian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Relatively little work on adoption focuses on the role of social workers. This article gives an account of the conflict between social workers and prospective adoptive parents which developed in Australia in the 1970s, taking as a case study the conflicting roles of adoptive parent advocates and professional social workers within the Standing Committee on Adoption in the Australian state of Victoria. Its overarching concern lies with the historical attitudes of the social work profession towards adoption, both domestic and intercountry, as these have changed from an embrace of both adoption and adoptive parents to mutual alienation. It concludes that the inclusive practice of radical social work could only briefly contain contesting client groups.

scholarly journals The self in social work

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
Therapeutic Work ◽  
Time Stress ◽  
Historical Examination

Social work has a long and significant history in the use of the ‘self’. The first part of this paper is a contextualising discussion around recent reforms to social work. The second part is a historical examination of the conceptualisation of the self in the contemporary era. This discussion is intimately wedded to notions of identity, ‘social’ and conceptions of the self. This discussion will review the major philosophical understandings of self, before examining the ‘self’ in social work. Recently social workers have developed the term ‘use of self’ to indicate important aspects of the professional relationship and how this term is defined rests on how one conceptualises ‘self’.The final part of the paper will examine how social workers describe and involve the self that they bring to their therapeutic and non-therapeutic work. Participants in case-study, narrative accounts describe the self that they bring to their work as individualistic although at the same time stress the relational, positioned, relationship-based self. This examination carries the concept of the self from the notion of self as separate and constant to the self as a process in interaction.

scholarly journals Case study method in terms of activity-competent approach to teaching social workers

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Historical Aspect

The article substantiates the relevance of the implementation of the case study method in the educational process of social workers training, as well as explores the methodological features of its development and implementation in the field of social work. The article defines the concept of “case study”, examines the historical aspect of its development, provides an overview of various classifications, offers recommendations on the methodological support of the educational process using the case study method. Article examines intercommunication of “activity” and “competence” approaches in organization of educational process, it assists to get practical experience of future specialists. For this reason, an educational process should be filled with teaching forms and methods to promote forming the practical abilities and skills. The method of case study plays the special role among of them. The first attempts to use this method were observed in practice of charitable organizations at the end of XIX century in the USA for social workers teaching. With a lack of textbooks and methodical manuals for professional training of specialists, the case study became the primary teaching method that included fixation, discussion, diagnostics of the real case of client. With the passing of the time, after development of the plenty specialized social work literature, case study does not lose the actuality and importance in the American teaching process. The article observes different case study classifications offered in scientific literature, namely: classifications of L. Kottrell, R. Stacke, L. Stenhaus, R. Yin. The typology proposed by R. Yin includes analytical (explanatory) and descriptive type of case study. It should be drawn upon and considered as the most suitable for an educational process within the “activity” and “competence” approach. The attention is focused on requirements to teacher qualifications, qualitative and quantitative structure of students group.

scholarly journals Social Work Curriculum Review Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Watters ◽  
Cheryl-Anne Cait ◽  
Funke Oba
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Curriculum Review ◽  
Canadian Association

This paper presents the findings from community focus groups, comprised of social service users, and explores the characteristics of effective social workers. Focus groups were conducted as part of a case study to inform a Master of Social Work (MSW) curriculum review at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Social Work. Wilfrid Laurier University has two MSW programs—the MSW Aboriginal Field of Study (AFS) and a non-Aboriginal program. The case for this study was the non-Aboriginal MSW program. Ongoing program evaluation that includes feedback from service users honours the knowledge of marginalized communities, and is an accreditation requirement of the Canadian Association for Social Work Education (CASWE). Four focus groups were conducted with a total of 24 individuals who access programs from human service organizations that provide supportive housing, immigrant, or refugee services in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Service users identified numerous characteristics of effective social workers, including kindness, cultural awareness, and strong communication skills, as well as the need to articulate and address issues of professional suitability. We conclude by querying whether the typical assessment of MSW students’ suitability for the profession is adequate, and provide the AFSwholisticand comprehensive evaluation as an example of an alternative approach to MSW student assessment.

Social work post-disaster response in Iran: A case study of the 2019 mass flooding in Poldokhtar, Lorestan

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110187
Author(s):  
Masoomeh Maarefvand ◽  
Maziyar Ghiabi ◽  
Fatemeh Nourshargh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Outreach Services ◽  
New Material ◽  
Community Volunteers ◽  
Post Disaster

Flash-flooding affected Iran in March 2019 causing the displacement of thousands of people. Social workers established a Child Friendly Space (CFS) and applied comprehensive case management to provide psychosocial support for people who were affected by flooding (PWAF) (n = 565) in a community in Poldokhtar, covering a period of 3 months. Outreach services, involving community-volunteers, providing counseling, establishing CFS, training PWAF for reducing violence, and preventing child abuse were essential social work post-disaster interventions to support vulnerable populations. The article reflects upon the often-neglected role of social workers in post-disaster settings, and brings new material for discussion from the unexplored field of Iranian social workers.

Conclusion

2014 ◽  
pp. 339-350
Author(s):  
Margaret Pack
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Service Users

This chapter gathers together and synthesises the concepts used and developed throughout this book. These themes include the challenges posed for social work as a profession in relation to notions of rationality and scientific research methods when considering what constitutes “evidence” for social work practice. This critique challenges the definition and application of evidence to complex scenarios where there are no easy answers, yet the agency and systems seem to demand them from social workers. In response to these challenges, social work has developed expertise in the use of case study and action research methods, drawing from interpretive and participative epistemologies. Such research studies aim to give resonance to voices hitherto missed, marginalised, or ignored. To redress this marginalisation and to provide much needed balance in what constitutes “evidence,” narratives of service-users and their caregivers have become primary sources of evidence, which are used to guide social work practice.

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