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 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.

scholarly journals Modeling the process of future social workers training considering the goals of sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Nadiia Pavlyk ◽  
Nataliia Seiko ◽  
Svitlana Sytniakivska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
International Projects

The aim of the article is the theoretical development of non-formal, fundraising and bilingual models of future social sphere specialists training on the basis of the goals of sustainable development in education. The study is based on preliminary processing of European and Ukrainian documents on sustainable development, numerous scientific papers on the problem of sustainable development, theoretical developments and experimental research in the field of social sphere specialists training. Each of the developed models has passed the corresponding approbation and is supported by the author’s experience of practical professional training of future social sphere specialists at the Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University. The model of future social workers non-formal education ensures the integration of professional competencies of future social workers. Fundraising training of future social workers on the basis of sustainable development involves the use of the necessary fundraising tools to ensure the development of social capital, the formation of a society of social justice, the deployment of numerous non-governmental organizations at the global and local levels. The bilingual model provides empowerment of social workers to study, do internships, work, borrow positive experiences, participate in international projects, and collaborate with professionals in their field from around the world.

scholarly journals NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND: THEIR ROLE AND SOURCES OF FINANCING

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Magdalena Dąbkowska-Dworniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Commercial Organizations ◽  
Social Service Sector

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are institutions that belong most often to the social service sector, whose goals are to meet the specific needs of people that are not being met, or not being met adequately, by commercial organizations or state administrations. Such NGOs work to help citizens develop and to improve themselves and their life situations. This article presents an overview of the role played by NGOs in Poland and how they are funded.

scholarly journals Policy and identity change in youth social work: From social-interventionist to neoliberal policy paradigms

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrine Vitus
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Professional Project

Summary This article analyses – by drawing on ideology critical and psychoanalytical concepts from Slavoj Žižek and Glynos et al. – how political, social and fantasmatic logics interplay and form social workers’ professional identities within two youth social work institutions that operate within different social policy paradigms: a social-interventionist paradigm in 2002 and a neoliberal paradigm in 2010. Findings The article shows how the current neoliberalisation of public policy permeates social work practices through fantasmatic narratives that create professional identities to heal discrepancies in and conceal the political dimension of everyday life. In one institution, within a welfare state-based ideology a compensating-including social professional identity is created in response to the young people’s alleged deficiencies; in the other institution, within a neoliberal ideology a mobilising-motivating identity is created to meet the young people’s alleged excess. In both narratives, however, the young people risk bearing the blame for the failure of the social professional project. Applications Fantasies in both institutions conceal how social workers’ professional identities sustain dominant ideology through dislocating uncertainties, ambiguities and ambivalences implicated in professional social work. Whether rooted in the state-based welfare or market-oriented neoliberal policy paradigms, realisation of these dynamics may expose the basic interdependencies of state, civil society and market actors implicated in the project of professional social work.

scholarly journals Social workers’ power of entry in adult safeguarding concerns: debates over autonomy, privacy and protection

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 312-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Stevens ◽  
Stephen Martineau ◽  
Jill Manthorpe ◽  
Caroline Norrie
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Starting Point

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore debates about the powers social workers may need to undertake safeguarding enquiries where access to the adult is denied. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes as a starting point a scoping review of the literature undertaken as part of a study exploring social work responses to situations where they are prevented from speaking to an adult at risk by a third party. Findings A power of entry might be one solution to situations where social workers are prevented from accessing an adult at risk. The paper focuses on the Scottish approach to legal powers in adult safeguarding, established by the Adult Support and Protection Act (Scotland) 2007 and draws out messages for adult safeguarding in England and elsewhere. The literature review identified that debates over the Scottish approach are underpinned by differing conceptualisations of vulnerability, autonomy and privacy, and the paper relates these conceptualisations to different theoretical stances. Social implications The paper concludes that the literature suggests that a more socially mediated rather than an essentialist understanding of the concepts of vulnerability, autonomy and privacy allows for more nuanced approaches to social work practice in respect of using powers of entry and intervention with adults at risk who have capacity to make decisions. Originality/value This paper provides a novel perspective on debates over how to overcome challenges to accessing adults at risk in adult safeguarding through an exploration of understandings of vulnerability, privacy and autonomy.

scholarly journals Social Work with Military Servants – Participants of Anti-Terroristic Operation Released for Reserve

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (6 (344)) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Svitlana Arkhypova ◽  
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Olesia Bik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

In today's conditions, the issue of providing social (including educational) services to demobilized ATO soldiers is extremely important.The study of the issue in socio-pedagogical theory and practice led to the choice of the purpose, which is to analyse modern approaches and theoretical and methodological foundations of the organization of social work with servicemen-participants of the anti-terrorist operation.To solve this purpose, a set of methods was used: study and analysis of scientific and special literature and practical experience on the research problem; pedagogical observation, conversation.The understanding of social work with servicemen-participants of anti-terrorist operation as an integral complex of social services is presented, in particular: informing, counseling, mediation, rendering of various educational services, socio-psychological rehabilitation.The general approaches to social work with servicemen of participants of anti-terrorist operation are opened. It was found that social work is associated with adaptation, socialization, psychological, legal, social assistance and other social services, which was demonstrated by the example of specific projects.The study does not cover all the issues of social work with servicemen participating in the anti-terrorist operation. Topical issues include moral-ethical and pedagogical aspects of social work with members of the ATO and their families. It is promising to study the areas of socio-pedagogical work with servicemen-participants of the anti-terrorist operation, which can be carried out by educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and public organizations.

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.

Inter-Agency Guidelines for Psychosocial Intervention in Emergencies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha S. Bragin
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Reference List ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) is the arm of the international community that provides guidelines for practice in humanitarian emergencies and coordinates among the three parts of the humanitarian system: the United Nations and its agencies; the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Committee for the Red Cross; and the consortia of International non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This article describes the IASC Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, their role and history, and the role of social work in their development. The article notes the concurrence of various aspects of the Guidelines with social work practice, and provides case examples of social work interventions in the context of the Guidelines. Practical tools that social workers can use when confronting emergencies at home or abroad are included in the reference list.

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