scholarly journals Arts in working with youth on sensitive topics: A qualitative systematic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Tumanyan ◽  
Tuija Huuki
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Qualitative Systematic Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Publications

This study examines existing research on the use of arts-based methods in approaching issues sensitive for youth and children. We conducted a qualitative, systematic review of twenty academic publications on this topic from 1997 to 2017. Our results show the use of arts-based methods to (1) recognize and make visible previously invisible experiences, acts, voices and histories; (2) nurture change and transformation in the lives of the youth; and (3) allow exploring the more-than-human, more-than-present and less-than-conscious aspects in the lives of youth and children ‐ aspects that traditional study methods might not readily access. Our findings offer teachers, researchers, practitioners, psychologists and social workers greater awareness of the use of arts-based methods in matters young people find sensitive. This review allows education professionals to achieve a broader view of methods emerging from the arts in addressing the social and psychological issues that young human beings might face.

The use of mobile health technology for Parkinson's disease self-management: a Systematic Review (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Grosjean ◽  
Eliza Bate ◽  
Tiago Mestre
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Qualitative Systematic Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mhealth Technology

BACKGROUND The use of mobile health (mHealth) technology for Parkinson’s disease management has developed quickly in recent years. Research in this area often focuses on evaluation of the technology in terms of accuracy and reliability. The social dimension and patient perspectives have not been systematically evaluated and are vital considerations in terms of acceptability and long-term use of novel mHealth technologies. OBJECTIVE This qualitative systematic review aims to investigate the barriers to and facilitators of using mHealth technologies for disease self-management from the perspective of People with Parkinson's disease. METHODS MedLine, Embase, PsychInfo, Scopus and CINAHL databases were searched using specific key words, and published peer-reviewed articles from 2008 to 2018 were scanned for inclusion criteria. RESULTS A total of 10 articles were included in this qualitative systematic review. The articles highlight the social and technical factors including: usability, social acceptability, perceived benefits to treatment and quality of life that have the potential to impact mHealth technology use from the perspective of People with Parkinson's disease. CONCLUSIONS The results of this systematic review suggest that it is important to strongly consider social dimensions in the design of mHealth technologies for People with Parkinson's in order to improve their social acceptability, a key feature of mHealth. We suggest that a co-design approach could contribute to the design and development of mHealth technologies that are more socially acceptable to People with Parkinson's, and enable their successful long term use in the context of daily life.

scholarly journals Creative minds and neurosciences…

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e00173806
Author(s):  
Ricardo F. Allegri
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Brain Region ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Multiple Solutions ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

Creativity is the ability to generate original ideas in the arts or sciences, leaving traditional stereotypes behind, ultimately introducing innovation to the social context in which they arise. It has been associated with "divergent thinking" which prioritizes the generation of multiple solutions, different from traditional ones. Some authors have observed creative individuals present higher incidence of affective disorders, possibly related to hypomania or disinhibition. Similarly, “creativity” has been described in patients with frontotemporal dementia, a brain region linked with creativity on fMRI. Creativity is one of the most salient characteristics that human beings possess.

scholarly journals Restorative Justice: A Systematic Review of the Social Work Literature

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Gumz ◽  
Cynthia L. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distribution Of Resources

Restorative justice is an alternative paradigm for dealing with the effects of crime and wrongdoing that seeks to bring healing to victims, offenders, and the community. Although a key element of social work's ethical code is the obligation to work toward social justice, this has been viewed primarily as efforts to ensure a fair distribution of resources and opportunities. Yet justice is also restorative in nature–-seeking to restore and enhance victims, offenders, and communities to fuller functioning. This article systematically reviews 80 social work peer-reviewed articles dealing with restorative justice. The role of social workers in restorative justice programs remains largely unknown. Suggestions are made for enhancing social work practice in the restorative justice arena.

Humility: A Qualitative Review

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Everett L. Worthington ◽  
Lillian Goldstein ◽  
Brianne Hammock ◽  
Brandon J. Griffin ◽  
Rachel Garthe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Character Strength ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Qualitative Review ◽  
Qualitative Systematic Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Related

Humility has gained empirical traction as a character strength. Between January 2000 and August 2015, 96 empirical articles on humility were published, and we conducted a qualitative systematic review. Humility was defined as having three aspects: accurate self-presentation and attitude of teachability; modest self-presentation; and other-orientedness. Several types of humility were identified. The findings are organized into seven hypotheses. The most support was found for the social hypotheses, spiritual hypothesis, virtues and vices hypotheses, societal peace hypothesis, and structure of humility hypothesis. For the structure of humility, the first two aspects are well supported, but it is unclear whether humility requires an orientation toward others or merely lack of self-focus. Little evidence supported the Humility–Health hypotheses. Little evidence supported the connection between humility and ultimate life satisfaction. The chapter suggests an urgent need to investigate little-studied hypotheses, especially health-related hypotheses.

scholarly journals We are creative – are you?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Caroline Dickson ◽  
◽  
Kate Sanders ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Workplace Cultures ◽  
Do So

When thinking about this editorial, we knew we wanted to say something about creativity. Working creatively is a valuable means of accessing embodied knowledge and new insights about ourselves, our practice and our workplace cultures that can be used to inform development and transformation. However, being new to writing editorials, we first decided to have a look back through the journal’s editorial archives and seek the wisdom of previous authors. In doing so, it was interesting to see that our first Academic Editor, Professor Jan Dewing, had written an editorial about being creative back in May 2012; we encourage you to have a look. Jan began: ‘Yet again I recently heard someone saying they weren’t a creative person... ’and this is something we both experience when working with others. Is this because the word creativity is perceived to refer to the arts – for example, crafting, painting, movement and music – rather than a broader understanding, as suggested by the dictionary definition below: ‘The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination ’(dictionary.com). Taking this more expansive perspective opens up the possibility for us all to perceive ourselves as inherently creative. It could be argued that this creativity has come to the fore as we have adapted to new ways of living and working during the Covid-19 pandemic. While this crisis has brought huge uncertainty and challenge right across the complex mix of health and social care services, what has been remarkable is the ability people have shown to change their ways of working, to seek solutions – and to do so at pace. We believe this reflects the creative nature of human beings/persons. Oliver (2009) argues that creativity is everywhere, as humans and the world are constantly engaged in a process of making. He contends that we should view creativity as ‘openness’, which is person-oriented (Massey and Munt, 2009). In this way, we create the possibility for participatory exploration of the social, cultural and embodied context, and for improvisation and transformation, by engaging in people’s ‘interests, curiosities and passions ’(Massey and Munt, 2009, p 305).

Disrupting knowledge in the arts: encountering the colonial other through performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-403
Author(s):  
Mirna Carranza
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Women Immigrants ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Migration Analysis

‘We are not the Others’ is an artful representation of women’s migration stories woven together through a series of spoken vignettes, developed from social work research. This way of seeing lived experience is useful as it enhances knowledge that may not be ascertained in the social work encounter. These learnings provide feedback on services and the hazards of Canada. The article begins with a discussion of the colonial other in relation to migration. Analysis is centred on the questions: how does the performance of the colonial ‘other’ invoke the desire to contest women immigrants’ belonging? How does the display of migration and racialisation grant silent permission to demarcate who belongs? This article takes up how this knowledge is seen and challenged by viewers, which provides insight for social workers into how the terrain of belonging is mediated by racialisation and gender.

Social Work's Dialogue with the Arts: Epistemological and Practice Intersections

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thecla Damianakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Creative Writers ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Arts Infusion ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
Depth Interviews

Despite historical acknowledgements and recent advancements in conceptualizing the arts for social work, the calls for arts inclusion have yet to stimulate a sustained research program. Taking creative writing as exemplary art, this inquiry gathered accounts of key constructs related to the arts. Using M. van Manen's (1997) phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology, 31 creative writers, teachers of creative writing, “arts inclusive” social workers, and social work researchers completed in-depth interviews. The participants’ accounts illustrated that the arts’ intersection with social work facilitated integrated, nondual epistemologies for practice. The social workers also highlighted the limits and benefits of including the arts in practice. The proposed arts infusion approach calls upon an enlarged view of human reality for social work within an ongoing ethic of care.

Current issues in aesthetics and beyond: Revisiting lookism

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Peter Takáč
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common View ◽  
Aesthetic Medicine ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Public Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

AbstractLookism is a term used to describe discrimination based on the physical appearance of a person. We suppose that the social impact of lookism is a philosophical issue, because, from this perspective, attractive people have an advantage over others. The first line of our argumentation involves the issue of lookism as a global ethical and aesthetical phenomenon. A person’s attractiveness has a significant impact on the social and public status of this individual. The common view in society is that it is good to be more attractive and healthier. This concept generates several ethical questions about human aesthetical identity, health, authenticity, and integrity in society. It seems that this unequal treatment causes discrimination, diminishes self-confidence, and lowers the chance of a job or social enforcement for many human beings. Currently, aesthetic improvements are being made through plastic surgery. There is no place on the human body that we cannot improve with plastic surgery or aesthetic medicine. We should not forget that it may result in the problem of elitism, in dividing people into primary and secondary categories. The second line of our argumentation involves a particular case of lookism: Melanie Gaydos. A woman that is considered to be a model with a unique look.

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