scholarly journals Safeguarding health equality for the disadvantaged during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned for the social work profession

2020 ◽  
pp. 147332502097333
Author(s):  
Chi-Kin Kwan ◽  
Henry Wai-Hang Ling ◽  
Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung ◽  
Ernest Wing-Tak Chui
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Equality

An evaluation of the role played by the social work profession during the outbreak of COVID-19 is necessary. Although social workers have made efforts to address people’s needs during the pandemic, it is worth examining the role they have played in safeguarding health equality. Focusing on the case of Hong Kong, we found that the profession was generally ill-prepared for the outbreak, and in particular, for confronting the attendant social inequalities. We identified three possible reasons for these findings: 1) non-governmental organizations were caught off-guard by the outbreak, 2) there was no clearly articulated intervention agenda to inform practitioners of the roles they should play in such a large-scale crisis, and 3) having become more formalized and standardized, social work services may have become less flexible in responding to emerging community needs. We conclude this article by suggesting three directions that could allow the profession to better pursue its mission during large-scale crises.

Social work in health care: An international perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalie Pockett ◽  
Liz Beddoe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Health Equality

An important element of contemporary social work is the influence of international trends on the contexts of practice. In this article, we will critically examine aspects of globalisation and the relationships between health inequalities and social inequalities and the implications for social work practice. Giles called on social workers to develop a ‘health equality imagination’; however, the challenge for practitioners on a day-to-day basis is how to integrate such an imagination into their work. A number of suggested approaches towards a greater engagement in addressing health inequalities in social work practice, education and research are also presented.

Dezvoltare personală și feminism: O perspectivă sociologică asupra mișcărilor pentru drepturile femeilor în România neoliberală

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Elena Trifan
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The article aims to analyze the ways in which personal development is used as a tool to manage social justice issues, domestic violence cases and other forms of structural inequality. In most works in the social sciences, self-help discourse has been criticized for reiterating the individualizing neoliberal discourse that leads to growing social inequalities, along with blaming the most vulnerable for their own fate. However, personal development as a practice has been used by organizations working at community level to address personal issues caused by social inequalities. The analysis aims to present the intertwining of global ideological and political plans at the individual level through non-governmental organizations, their projects and personal development courses. The research consisted in the analysis of the activities and projects of the organizations that are part of the Network for Preventing and Combating Violence against Women (VIF) and the ethnography data of personal development practices in Romania from a previous research.

scholarly journals Research on the Application of Project Evaluation Method in NGO Financing

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Taipeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Project Evaluation ◽  
Application Research ◽  
Operation Mechanism ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social

Non-governmental organizations (NGO) are a “third social sector” different from governments and enterprises. They not only bear huge social responsibilities, but also play an increasingly important role in various fields such as charity and environmental protection. Social work as a professional subject to improve the overall social environment and promote a more harmonious and stable society coincides with the goals of some NGOs. Therefore, a large number of NGOs guided by the social work profession have been established. Most of the goals of these organizations are Facing certain disadvantaged groups in society, with the purpose of helping and solving the problems faced by the disadvantaged groups. This paper takes the application research of project evaluation methods in NGO financing as an example to examine the NGO fund acquisition and operation mechanism under project evaluation.

scholarly journals Polêmicas teóricas na análise marxiana do trabalho no Serviço Social | Theory polemics in the Marxian analysis of labor in social work

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Raichelis Degenszajn
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Labor Theory ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Marxian Analysis ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Professional Project

O objetivo deste texto é problematizar algumas polêmicas presentes no debate sobre o trabalho no Serviço Social, a partir da perspectiva marxiana da teoria do valor trabalho. Para enfrentar essas questões, o ponto de partida é o tensionamento entre projeto profissional e trabalho assalariado, que coloca para assistentes sociais os dilemas da alienação, uma vez que sua atividade é submetida ao poder dos empregadores, em grande parte o Estado, mas também organizações não governamentais e empresariais. O desafio consiste em apreender as formas pelas quais o trabalho de assistentes sociais ingressa (ou não) no reino do valor, no âmbito da sua inserção como trabalhadores assalariados do setor de serviços, que, com a mundialização e financeirização do capital, vem sendo sofrendo grande expansão e tornando-se fonte de novas formas de extração do valor. Palavras-Chave: Serviço Social; divisão social e técnica do trabalho; valor; trabalho em serviços. Abstract –This text’s objective is to problematize some controversies in the debate about labor in the area of social work, from the Marxian perspective of the labor theory of value. In order to address these issues, the starting point is the tension between professional project and paid work, which places social workers in the dilemmas of alienation, since their activity is submitted to the power of employers, largely the state, but also non-governmental organizations and business sectors. The challenge is to understand the ways in which the work of social workers enters (or not) the realm of value, within the framework of their insertion as salaried employees of the service sector, who, with the globalization and financialization of capital, have been experiencing great expansion and becoming a source of new forms of value extraction.Keywords: social work; social and technical division of labor; value; work in services.

scholarly journals Working With Refugees in the U.S.: Trauma-Informed and Structurally Competent Social Work Approaches

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Ostrander ◽  
Alysse Melville ◽  
S. Megan Berthold
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Work Training ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Macro Social Work ◽  
The Impact

Social workers, government, and non-governmental organizations in the United States have been inadequately prepared to address the impact of trauma faced by refugees fleeing persecution. Compounding their initial trauma experiences, refugees often undergo further traumatic migration experiences and challenges after resettlement that can have long-lasting effects on their health and mental health. Micro and macro social work practitioners must understand the impact of these experiences in order to promote policies, social work training, and clinical practice that further the health and well-being of refugees and society. Social workers are in a unique position to provide multi-dimensional, structurally competent care and advocacy for diverse refugee populations. The experiences of Cambodian refugees will be used to examine these issues. We will explore the benefits of an ecological perspective in guiding interventions that support refugees, and will apply the framework of structural competence to highlight multidimensional implications for social work with refugee populations.

scholarly journals Supervision Support of Practical Training of Social Work Specialists: Polish Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-328
Author(s):  
Valentuna Benera ◽  
Zhanna Shevchenko ◽  
Svitlana Kolyadenko ◽  
Olena Vynogradova ◽  
Kateryna Averina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Supervisory Support ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
School Of Social Work

The article deals with the specifics of supervisory support for practical training of social workers in Poland. The international relevance of the research lies in the need to study the experience of implementing such support in the countries with relatively young democracies (post-Soviet republics). This experience can be useful for developing countries which strive to create their models of social supervision using the leading European experience. The article proves that supervisors, individually creating their professional roles in social care centers and non-governmental organizations, create the basis for a new professional environment - the environment of social work managers in Poland. According to the results of the research, the tendencies of supervisory support of the departments of social work on the practical training of social workers in Poland are traced: compliance with the pan-European orientation to the early special training of all social specialists; bilateral connection between the development of the scientific school of social work and the system of professional training; training of a social worker in church educational institutions; decentralization of vocational training management; rapid response of the system to changes in the social nature, the demands of the regional labor market. The article reveals the disadvantages of the Polish model of supervisory support, which has not yet adjusted to the final Western European trends and is on the path to development.

scholarly journals Developing a Poverty-Aware Pedagogy: From Paradigm to Reflexive Practice in Post-Academic Social Work Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1495-1512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Griet Roets ◽  
Laura Van Beveren ◽  
Yuval Saar-Heiman ◽  
Heidi Degerickx ◽  
Caroline Vandekinderen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Education

Abstract Social work scholars have argued that poverty reminds us of the necessary commitment to educate professional social workers. Being inspired by a conceptual framework that captures how poverty-awareness can be the subject of teaching in social work programmes, this article offers a qualitative analysis of the reflections being made by a cohort of students about their learning process in a post-academic course. Five common themes are discussed: (i) from recognising micro-aggressions to tackling macro-aggressions; (ii) poverty is an instance of social injustice and requires collective indignation; (iii) notions of commitment and solidarity are ambiguous; (iv) poverty is an instance of social inequality rather than merely social exclusion; and (v) from being heroic agents to social change ‘from within’. Based on these findings, we raise the lessons learned for social work educators. First, they should invite students to reinvigorate the social justice aspirations of social work practices and take a stance in relation to their environment and the wider historical and socio-political circumstances. Secondly, a poverty-aware pedagogy requires collective and long-lasting supervision at the frontline individual, organisational and societal/social policy level. Collective critical reflection and supervision might open up avenues to collectively challenge and change socially unjust rhetoric and practice.

scholarly journals The features of social work of charitable funds with eldery

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Charitable Foundations

The article is devoted to the problem of social work with the elderly, which requires the study and determination of the features of such work for various modern social services. The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the growing number of clients of social services among the elderly. Previous studies of the social needs of this category of the population predict worsening a number of problems due to the shortcomings of state social security. The solution to the problem, according to the authors of the article, is related to the activities of non-governmental organizations that can provide social services to the elderly. In particular, the article describes the experience of a charitable foundation that operates according to an atypical scheme of aid organization. Not through the provision of funds, but primarily through the implementation of their own projects with the support of other social services of various forms. The article discusses how the needs and characteristics of the elderly can be taken into account in practical social work with clients. The authors rely on the materials of their own research, which was conducted by case study from April to October 2019 on the experience of the Kharkiv Charitable Foundation «Social service of assistance». The article states that the main directions of social protection of the elderly in modern conditions should be not only to improve their difficult financial situation, provide a sufficient level of medical care but also to improve the psychological and emotional state of people. The results obtained by researchers can contribute to the dissemination of successful experience of social work with the elderly; scientific analysis of problematic issues and obstacles in the activities of the charity fund with the elderly; optimization of further work of funds and other social services in this direction. In addition, according to the authors, the hypothesis of indifferent attitude of society to the problems of the elderly needs to be studied scientifically, because this factor significantly hinders the implementation of social assistance to this group of clients by various social services, including charitable foundations.

scholarly journals Culturally-Attuned Mentoring for Graduating Latina/o Social Workers to Foster Career Advancement

10.18060/3874 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly Rojas Schwan ◽  
Lirio K. Negroni ◽  
Annette Santiago-Kozmon
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Developmental Relationship ◽  
The Social

The underrepresentation of Latinas/os in the social work profession, especially in higher levels of administration, has been amply documented. Successful Latina/o professionals can address the need for Latina/o leadership in the field by mentoring new graduates and supporting their development and career planning as they enter the professional world. This article presents an innovative mentoring program for Latina/o social work professionals conceptualized and led by the Latina/o Network of the Latina/o Network of the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). The program matches a Latina/o master’s in social work graduating student with a senior Latina/o social work professional. The model of the mentoring program incorporates a coordinator, a liaison to each mentor-mentee dyad, a mentor-mentee developmental relationship, and group gatherings. A key aspect of the model is the attention to and inclusion of Latino cultural values of familismo, personalismo, confianza, and colectivismo, to foster the development of a sense of community. Empirical and anecdotal data illustrate the outcomes of the program. The implementation of the program, the lessons learned, and its applicability to other professionals and cultural groups are discussed.

Governance of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials: Principles, Regulation, and Renegotiating the Social Contract

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Kimbrell
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Project ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social

How should we oversee new and emerging technologies and their products? What lessons can we discern from existing regulatory examples and from past mistakes? How do these lessons learned translate into informed recommendations for adequate oversight for nanotechnology to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? The investigators of this interdisciplinary project undertook this endeavor intending to answer these questions among others.In parallel with the project team putting together this symposium, another, very different process on the oversight of nanotechnology took place. An international coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) formed to address the nanotech policy dialogue. The first goal of this NGO group was to agree upon and draft fundamental principles of oversight, which it completed in 2007-08. These principles close with a call for their adoption and/or internalization by all relevant actors and bodies. In effect, they serve a function in the policy dialogue similar to that of this project’s forthcoming recommendations.

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