Coda: love reawakened?

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Sue White ◽  
Matthew Gibson ◽  
David Wastell ◽  
Patricia Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Relational Networks ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Right

This coda summarises the main arguments of this book. It calls for the ethical use of attachment theory. All theories are tools, and tools need to be used in the right way, addressing the thing they were designed to explain or improve. There are parts of attachment theory that were designed to understand love and relationships, and parts that were designed to change policy and practice to create a more humane system of public services. These aspects provide a good fit for child welfare practice and some of the ideas of attachment theory were developed within, and inspired by, child welfare practice. If attachment theory is to be used ethically in policy and practice, practitioners need to properly understand the theory, its origins and original intentions. The book has also outlined the need to place attachment theory into a wider context for practice. Professional ethics necessarily involve respecting familial relational networks, seeking to develop, strengthen, and deepen those relationships that provide connection and belonging. Without these central values, attachment theory can result in the opposite.

scholarly journals Wanted: Moral Courage in Canadian Child Welfare

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Blackstock
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Canadian Child ◽  
The Right ◽  
Good Research

Child welfare stifles change and innovation in a system that desperately needs it by promoting conformity and awarding subordination to bad ideas (Blackstock, 2009). If neglect means not doing the right thing for children even when you know better and can do better, and have the resources to do it, then too often child protection neglects First Nations children and their families. This essay explores whether emancipating moral courage in child protection is the key to ensuring good research translates into real benefits for First Nations families. This paper begins with a description of moral courage in child protection across the decades before drawing on my own experiences with moral courage in the child welfare field. It concludes with stories of how moral cowardice diminishes children and how moral courage uplifts them. Implications for research, policy and practice are discussed.

Awareness and Decision Making in Professional Ethics

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronny Swain
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aid Decision

The paper describes the development of the 1998 revision of the Psychological Society of Ireland's Code of Professional Ethics. The Code incorporates the European Meta-Code of Ethics and an ethical decision-making procedure borrowed from the Canadian Psychological Association. An example using the procedure is presented. To aid decision making, a classification of different kinds of stakeholder (i.e., interested party) affected by ethical decisions is offered. The author contends (1) that psychologists should assert the right, which is an important aspect of professional autonomy, to make discretionary judgments, (2) that to be justified in doing so they need to educate themselves in sound and deliberative judgment, and (3) that the process is facilitated by a code such as the Irish one, which emphasizes ethical awareness and decision making. The need for awareness and judgment is underlined by the variability in the ethical codes of different organizations and different European states: in such a context, codes should be used as broad yardsticks, rather than precise templates.

The changing landscape of OSH regulation in the UK: Achieving the right balance in policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hollis ◽  
Stavroula Leka ◽  
Aditya Jain ◽  
Nicholas Andreou
Keyword(s):  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

FACTORS THAT MITIGATE WAR-INDUCED ANXIETY AND MENTAL DISTRESS

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
ASTIER M. ALMEDOM
Keyword(s):  
Mental Distress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
The Right ◽  
Effects Of War ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Psychosocial Transition

The effects of war-induced anxiety and mental distress on individuals and groups can either be mitigated or exacerbated by ‘humanitarian action’. This paper focuses on two key factors that protect the mental well-being of war-affected populations: organized displacement or assisted relocation; and coordinated humanitarian aid operations that are responsive to local needs. Qualitative data from two internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Eritrea are presented. Analysis of these data serves to substantiate and refine a working hypothesis: that social support of the right type, provided at the right time and level, can mitigate the worst effects of war and displacement on victims/survivors. An integrated model of psychosocial transition is suggested. The implications of this approach for humanitarian policy and practice are discussed in the wider context of current debates and lamentations of the ‘humanitarian idea’.

Child Welfare as a Woman's Issue

1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Child Welfare Policy ◽  
The Impact

The recognition that ensuring the welfare of children is not possible without addressing the welfare of their female caregivers is notably missing from the child welfare literature. This article seeks to correct this omission by analyzing the welfare of children in the context of societal structures for caregiving. The author places the gender analysis of child welfare in historical context, discusses current themes of gender bias, and analyzes the impact of child welfare policy and practice on several categories of women. Policy implications and practice guidelines for improving the well-being of children are discussed.

scholarly journals Youth in Public Housing: Place attachment and Quality of Life Index

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Kamarul Ariff Omar ◽  
Dasimah Omar ◽  
Saberi Othman ◽  
Zaharah Mohd Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Quality Of Life Index ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the quality of life (QoL) satisfaction through place attachment theory upon neighbourhood area among youth in Kuala Lumpur. The objectives are to test the impact of neighbourhood sense of place on QoL index. For place attachment, the environmental factors closest to the home of the residents exerted a greater influence than the more distal factor. These findings contribute to understanding the relationship between place attachment theory and quality of life among youth. The discussion also considers personal dimensions of place belonging and identifying associations amongst them as ways to explore youth quality of life in the PPH. Keywords: Quality of Life; Place Attachment Theory; Youth; Public HousingISSN: 2398-4287© 2017. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

scholarly journals KINERJA LEMBAGA PERWAKILAN RAKYAT DAERAH (Studi Deskriptif Kualitatif Di DPRD Kota Bengkulu)

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harius Eko saputra
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Research Seminar ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Implementation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Almost every day, in various mass media, especially in newspapers, it is found that there are so many complaints and unsatisfactory opinions from the community, as the customer, towards the current implementation of public service. These complaints and unsatisfactory opinions can describe how bad the quality of the current public service is, which is benefited by the community. It may be the right time for the community to be treated as citizens, who will have rights and give priority to their rights for being served afterwards. They are not anymore being considered as clients who previously have no any choice in choosing and in determining what kind of service that they really want to. There are so many results from research, seminar and writings that are conducted by experts in which their works talk about the implementation of a good and qualified public service. Currently, however, the qualified public service has not yet implemented as should have been. The implementation of public service still acts as however it please to be and only emphasize on its own interest without considering the consumer’s importance as the party that should really be served as well as possible. For this reason, a research, which is done in Service Integrated Unit of the Jember Regency, tries to find out any factors affecting quality of the public services. The main core of the public service implementation is the quality of norm of the service executor. The matter that should be realized is that the executor is the person who should serve for the community, and the community is the one who should be served as well as possible.Keywords: Implementation of public service, legislatif

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