Gender- and power sensitivity, securitisation and social peace: rethinking protection for children exposed to post-separation violence

This article offers a rethinking of protection based on synthesised data from Finland and Sweden on children’s and mothers’ experiences of post-separation stalking, and social workers’ case reports on children risking exposure to gender-based violence after separation. Drawing on critical childhood studies and a feminist approach to violence and security, we ask how children’s everyday lives can be incorporated in a rethinking of protection for children in post-separation contexts. Departing from identified limitations in protective solutions for children, we propose three ways of rethinking the issue of protection: (1) protection as gender- and power sensitivity, (2) protection as securitising the here and now, and (3) protection as social peace. Our findings call for some changes in professional practices, social policy and legislation.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Protective solutions to the problem of gender-based violence in post separation are limited, if existing at all, for exposed children.</li><br /><li>Orientation towards adults and therapy desecuritise childhoods and children’s social peace.</li></ul>

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اتجاهات الأخصائيين الاجتماعيين نحو حالات العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي = The Attitudes of Social Workers towards Cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV)

IUG Journal of Humanities Research ◽

10.12816/0050059 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 263-292

Author(s):

أمل سالم العواودة

Keyword(s):

Social Workers ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Gender Based

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Gendered dimensions of the 2004 tsunami and a potential social work response in post-disaster situations

International Social Work ◽

10.1177/0020872807076042 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 307-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Eileen Pittaway ◽

Linda Bartolomei ◽

Susan Rees

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Workers ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

De Re ◽

Las Mujeres ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

2004 Tsunami ◽

Post Disaster

English The majority of people who died in the 2004 tsunami were women. Women endured rape, and sexual and gender-based violence in camps and places of supposed refuge. Similar reports have come from other disasters. This article examines the roles that social workers can take to respond to these issues. French La majorité des personnes emporté es par le tsunami de 2004 é taient des femmes. Par ailleurs, les femmes sont victimes de viol et subissent d'autres types d'agressions sexuelles et de violence lié e au genre dans les camps de ré fugié s ou les lieux dits de refuge. On relè ve les mêmes constats dans d'autres situations de catastrophe. Cette é tude examine l'apport potentiel des travailleurs sociaux face à ces enjeux. Spanish La mayoría de la gente que muró en el tsunami de 2004 eran mujeres. Las mujeres soportaron el rapto y la violencia sexual y de gé nero en campos y lugares supuestamente de refugio. Reportes similares provienen de otros desastres. Este artículo examina los roles que los trabajadores sociales pueden asumir para responder a estos temas.

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COVID-19 feminist framework and biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective for social workers and mental health practitioners to manage violence, abuse, and trauma against children, women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ during and post-COVID-19

International Social Work ◽

10.1177/00208728211067158 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002087282110671

Author(s):

Sonia Mukhtar

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Workers ◽

Service Providers ◽

Mental Health Practitioners ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Health Practitioners ◽

Spiritual Perspective ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

The Individual

This article explains the integrated implementation of a COVID-19 Feminist Framework (CFF) and biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective (BPSS-P) on the inclusive equitability of social service providers, practitioners, and policy-developers on global platforms. Mechanisms of CFF and BPSS-P entail the process to address/mitigate institutional inequities, mental health issues, violation of human rights, race/sex/gender-based violence, abuse, and trauma amid COVID-19. This discourse is about raising consciousness, collective liberation, wellbeing, and equality for women, children, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and gender-diverse people. This article further discusses social workers and mental health practitioners’ uniqueness for short-term and long-term support for emotional, cognitive-behavioral, and psychosocial repercussions on the individual and community levels.

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Gender-Based Violence and Alcohol Consumption in Youth Leisure Contexts: Challenges for Spanish Social Work

Affilia ◽

10.1177/0886109920963018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088610992096301

Author(s):

Juan López-Morales ◽

Gloria Álvarez-Bernardo ◽

Nuria Romo-Avilés

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Social Work ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Social Workers ◽

Gender Violence ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Work Intervention ◽

Gender Based ◽

Alcohol Users

Adolescent leisure contexts in which alcohol are abused have undergone changes in recent decades, with the incorporation of girls/women to more intensive forms of consumption and with new forms of gender-based violence becoming more visible. This article studies the gender differences in the use and enjoyment of time in leisure contexts, the differences in the consumption of alcohol, and the vulnerabilities to which girls/women are subjected to in order to create proposals for Spanish social work intervention. We present empirical data from a qualitative study in which a sample of students from southern Spain have been interviewed in depth with the aim of establishing the connections between alcohol use and abuse and the instances of gender violence that occur in leisure contexts. Our final objective is to reflect upon and make innovative proposals for the role of Spanish professional social workers in prevention and intervention with young alcohol users and in the gender violence that is produced in the spaces of consumption.

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