An Arab Lecturer, Jewish Students, and Social Work in a Conflict Area

Affilia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 088610992110389
Author(s):  
Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Conflict Area ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
The Gaza Strip

Being an Arab lecturer in a Jewish academic institution under fire has challenged me as a professional, a researcher, and a lecturer. Social workers often function in the context of conflicts, but the practice focuses on normative social problems such as domestic violence, poverty, and crime rather than the effects of the conflict on social workers and their clients. In my academic institution, which for years has been in a conflict area and under fire, students are not equipped with relevant knowledge and skills. This article analyzes my personal narrative documented during three of Israel’s wars with the Gaza Strip.

Political Social Work: An Essential Component of the Profession

2021 ◽  
pp. 359-381
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Social Work Faculty ◽  
Field Placements ◽  
High Level ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Work Knowledge ◽  
Initial Results

Social workers have played a key role in political settings from the profession’s historic roots to present day. Their knowledge, skills and values position social workers to practice in political settings. Social work faculty and students were interviewed to assess a) how field placements in legislative offices and participation in Campaign School and NASW-sponsored Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) impacted students’ professional development and perspectives on political social work, and b) social work faculties’ perception of these activities in students’ social work education and necessary political social work knowledge and skills. Initial results demonstrate a high level of support for these activities among faculty and students with opportunities to further include them in the explicit and implicit social work curriculum.

Perceptions and Utilization of a Police–Social Work Crisis Intervention Approach to Domestic Violence

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Corcoran ◽  
Margaret Stephenson ◽  
Derrelyn Perryman ◽  
Shannon Allen
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Intervention Approach ◽  
Response Team

This study reports survey findings of police officer perceptions and utilization of a domestic violence response team, which involved social workers and trained volunteers providing crisis intervention at the scene of domestic violence crimes. The majority of the 219 police officer respondents perceived the domestic violence response team as helpful. Other feedback provided in the survey was used to expand services and to make them more efficient and effective.

scholarly journals Ethical Challenges for Palestinian Social Workers During Corona Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
Professional Interventions ◽  
E Mail

The aim of this study was to focus specifically on the ethical challenges of social workers’ practice their works in quarantine centers during corona pandemic. This study reports objective results for purposive sampling selected, (142) social workers in five governorates in the Gaza Strip-Palestine. After reviewing the literature, the researcher constructed a survey four question; two of which are open-ended while the other two are closed-ended. Social workers were recruited by e-mail in May 2020 after providing their consent. Results: The most important ethical challenges facing social workers in their work during the corona pandemic are: risk faced while moving in public transportations, poor prevention and safety measures for social workers such as sterilizers, masks and gloves. 67.6% of social workers responded that their institutions developed policy protocols to help them work safely during the Coved-19 while 75.4% of social workers responded that they had access to protection measures to make their communication safer with their clients. The most important way in which social workers were involved in their professional interventions with clients was: communicating with clients by phone or SMS, but also through social networks, or communicating directly with the need to observe social distancing.

scholarly journals Factors That Influence Domestic Violence Practice Self-Efficacy: Implications for Social Work

10.18060/64 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Danis
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Academic Preparation ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Work Education

This article discusses the results of an exploratory study to identify facilitating factors and barriers for practice self-efficacy with battered women. Based on self-efficacy theory, personal factors such as professional experience, academic preparation, personal experience, and continuing education training were explored with a random sample of licensed and degreed professional social workers. Professional experience (ß=.61; t=9.54, p=.000) and academic preparation (ß=.26; t=4.29, p=.000) were the strongest predictors of self-efficacy. These findings suggest that to advance the capacity of social workers to respond to domestic violence, social work education, practitioners, and researchers have a number of important steps available to take.

scholarly journals Innovative Approach to the Organization of Future Social Workers’ Practical Training: Foreign Experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Vira Polishchuk ◽  
Hanna Slozanska
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
The Core ◽  
Higher Educational

Abstract Innovative approaches to practical training of future social workers in higher educational establishments have been defined. Peculiarities of foreign experience of social workers’ practical training in higher educational establishments have been analyzed. Experience of organizing practice for bachelor students studying at “Social Work” specialty in Ternopil National Pedagogical University, namely the aim, tasks, general principles of forming a system of continuous practical training of future social workers, has been studied. Peculiarities of social workers’ practical training in the process of undergoing some definite kinds of practices have been analyzed. Features of cooperation of educational establishments and social services, agencies, institutions, which are the bases for professional training of future specialists, have been defined. The core principle of such cooperation is the principle of regular studying that presupposes combination of theoretical education and real practical activity. It has been determined that in the process of practical training students deepen and expand their knowledge, are taught to think critically, elaborate and fulfill algorithms of solving different social problems, find information about resources of social help and support as well as their providers, follow ethical principles of social work, estimate results of social intrusion and personal knowledge and skills, improve them.

Social work and Koranic mental health healers

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alean Al-Krenawi ◽  
John R. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Work ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Negev Desert ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
The Gaza Strip

The healing activities of six Arab Muslim Koranic healers working in the Negev desert, West Bank and the Gaza Strip are analysed with respect to healer characteristics, the process of becoming a healer, and the stages of treating mental illness, including pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, and treatment. Prospects are considered for mutual integration, observation, and dissemination between social work and Koranic healing.

Qualitative Research Habits and the BSW Student: Preparing Competent Generalist Practitioners

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne A. Unrau ◽  
Heather Coleman ◽  
Cheryl Stampley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Generalist Practice ◽  
Practice Framework

Integrating research with practice is not common among social workers. Social work educators are challenged with the problem of teaching BSW students to include research knowledge and skills as they build their generalist practice framework. This article introduces five research habits that can easily fit into existing curricula. Developing research habits is a new strategy that may increase students' use of research knowledge and skills both during and after their BSW education. The five research habits are based on a qualitative research paradigm but are general enough that they can be woven into all BSW courses throughout the curriculum.

Domestic Violence and Humanitarian Crises: Evidence from the 2014 Israeli Military Operation in Gaza

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1391-1416
Author(s):  
Catherine Müller ◽  
Jean-Pierre Tranchant
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Military Operation ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
The Military ◽  
Matching Techniques

Using qualitative data from 21 group discussions and unique survey data from a representative cross-section of 439 women in the Gaza Strip, we investigate how the Israeli military operation “Protective Edge” in 2014 influenced domestic violence (DV), accounting for risk factors at different levels of the ecological model. We combine our survey data with secondary data on infrastructure destruction across Gaza’s neighborhoods, and use propensity score matching techniques to address endogeneity concerns. Our results show that the military operation increased DV, and that this effect manifests itself at relatively low-levels of destruction. Our analysis suggests that the mechanisms are displacement, a lowered ability of married women to contribute to household decision-making, and reduced social support networks.

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