scholarly journals Reflections About the Specificiy of Social Work with Families, A Matter of Permanent Debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-140
Author(s):  
Luz Miriam Agudelo ◽  
◽  
Luisa Fernanda Zuluaga ◽  
Daniela Saldarriaga ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Academic Units ◽  
Interdisciplinary Intervention

In this article, the results of a research report will be shown, this research report made it possible to recognize the professional specificity of Social Work in the intervention with families through information collected in the research “Professional Specificity of Social Work in the interdisciplinary intervention with families in Emerging dynamics: Reading from the knowledge and practices of six academic units in Colombia”, in which the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín and five other academic units from Colombia participated. A conceptual theoretical tracking and information gathering was carried out through interviews with graduates and a focus group with Social Work teachers, where topics such as the notion of Social Work, the understanding of Social Work with families and the professional specificity of Social Work in the intervention with families were addressed, in order to provide theoretical and methodological foundations in the training and intervention processes of professionals in this discipline.

scholarly journals FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE SELECTION OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT NURSES IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Lita ◽  
U. Alberts ◽  
A. Van Dyk ◽  
L F Small
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Selection Of

T he researcher, being a nursing lecturer, questioned the method of selection of learning opportunities for student nurses in two training hospitals in the Northern part of Namibia.The study therefore focused on the following objective: To identify the factors that influence the selection of learning opportunities for primary health care in hospital units. A qualitative research design utilising focus group discussions were used. The population consisted of conveniently selected lecturers, student nurses and registered nurses. The same initial question was asked in each focus group to initiate the discussions. The data were analysed according to Tesch's method.The results indicated that there is positive commitment from the lecturers and registered nurses to be involved in selecting appropriate learning opportunities. The student nurses also demonstrated a willingness to learn and to be exposed to learning opportunities in primary health care. There were however certain constraints that emerged as themes, namely: • Managerial constraints • Educational constraints Under the theme "managerial constraints" categories such as workload, nursing staff shortages and communication problems were identified. Under the theme "educational constraints" categories such as a lack of guidance, and the correlation of theory and practice emerged.Recommendations based on this research report include improvement of in-service education on managerial and educational aspects to facilitate the primary health care approach in hospitals.

Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Nygren ◽  
Julie C Walsh ◽  
Ingunn T Ellingsen ◽  
Alastair Christie
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social work intersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for gender equality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structural barriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are considered more progressive as compared with the UK and Ireland. Here, we draw on focus group data collected from child welfare social workers in England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden to compare these different contextual changes and how these are reflected in related social work practice decisions. The focus group discussions were based on a vignette, and thematic analysis was applied. Overall, welfare social workers are aware of the need to support gender equality in parenting, there is a heavy focus on mothers in child welfare practice decisions, and fathers are largely absent. Uniquely, we show that this is influenced by both a strong child-centred perspective, and a gendered risk perspective, in which fathers are seen to pose more risk to the children than mothers.

Immigrant Adolescents and Culture Conflict

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Joan Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Culture Conflict ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
The Social

In the research report Welfare of Migrants (1975), it was noted that all the ethnic groups surveyed were deeply concerned about the problem of “culture conflict”, which was seen as a generation gap in which cultural differences were significant in producing conflict. For the social worker the anxiety, tension and intra-psychic confusion, which this paper attempts to describe, indicates that it offers an important and challenging area for social work concern and involvement.

scholarly journals Exploring the experiences of practice teachers who are not social workers

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Chris Laycock ◽  
Laura Walker ◽  
Laura Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Work Student ◽  
And Training

Professionals without a social work qualification have been involved in the practice teaching of social work students since the days of CCETSW (the former education and training body for social work in the UK). Historically this has always happened more in the voluntary sector. With the advent of the Social Work Degree in England, the 50% increase in demand for placements in a variety of settings has seen reliance on practice teachers who are not social workers.This raises some interesting questions about how professionals who are not social workers should be trained and supported in the role of practice teacher.We will attempt to explore these questions, drawing on responses to a questionnaire sent to a range of practice teachers in a county in northern England as well as feedback obtained from a focus group drawn from respondents to the questionnaire. The participants in the research came from a range of work backgrounds in the voluntary and statutory sectors. The experiences discussed in the research, in the main, relate to the Diploma in Social Work (the former UK qualification) as the degree only started in 2003- 2004. We will refer to research participants as Practice Teachers. The key criterion for involvement was that all participants in the study had had sole responsibility for at least one social work student.

Looking Back, Thinking Forward: How a Television Series Facilitated the Development of the Social Work Profession in Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Kin Kwan ◽  
Oi Ngor Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Long Term Impact

Abstract The healthy development of the social work profession rests on the public’s understanding and trust. The media play a significant role in shaping the public image of social work. This article describes a focus group study that was designed to retrace the long-term impact of an iconic television series in 1976 on the public’s reception of the nascent profession of social work amongst a group of social work practitioners. Four focus groups were conducted with thirty practicing and retired social workers. The content of the focus group discussions was coded and analysed to generate three major themes: (i) the television series gave a real-world articulation of the work of social workers and catalysed the profession’s public receptivity; (ii) it inspired a call amongst conscientious young people to join the profession; and (iii) it contributed to the construction of social workers’ professional identity. The findings demonstrate the contribution of this television series, hence the role of media, to the early development of professional social work in Hong Kong.

The Survey Toolkit Curriculum Methodology for Researching Information, Survey Questioning, and Analyzing Data with TinkerPlots

2019 ◽  
pp. 599-604
Author(s):  
Thomas Walsh Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Research Report ◽  
School Students ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Research Questions

In an era where social media traffics fake news websites that publishes misinformation it is imperative to provide students’ experiences in The Survey Toolkit and TinkerPlots curriculum teaching sound research principles and information gathering techniques. The field-tested program was found effective in guiding students choosing research questions, writing a research report using a paragraph cluster information strategy, developing unbiased survey questions using reliable sampling, analyzing survey data with TinkerPlots, and sharing results. The paper will present support for teaching the curriculum, development based on research direction, implementation considerations, and use of the curriculum with elementary to middle school students.

Social workers’ adaptation in times of pandemic crisis: A Hong Kong case

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110645
Author(s):  
Henry Wai Hang Ling ◽  
Michelle Shum ◽  
Chi Kin Kwan ◽  
Mingdie Xu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Sessions ◽  
New Situation

Through the lens of the theory of planned behavior, this article explores how social workers adapt to a new situation due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three focus group sessions were conducted with 23 social workers from child and youth, family, and elderly services in Hong Kong. Three major themes were generated: (1) repositioning the social work profession, (2) renegotiating contracts with funders, and (3) exploring novel intervention methods. Implications of the findings are discussed. To ensure social workers can respond effectively in crises, an evolving nature of the profession is advocated to enshrine its spirit to serve.

scholarly journals The changing face of social work: social worker perceptions of a neoliberalising profession

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Butler-Warke ◽  
Chris Yuill ◽  
Janine Bolger
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Worker Perceptions

This article engages with literature on the neoliberalisation of social work but advances the debate by building an argument based on interviews with social work graduates that reveal the perceived changes to the profession over the last 50 years. Based on lived experiences, we show that social work as a profession has experienced significant changes that have occurred both internally and externally to the profession. These changes form part of a larger ideological shift towards neoliberalism. Beginning with the Thatcher administration, intensifying under New Labour’s Third Way and persisting under the Age of Austerity of Prime Ministers Cameron and May, the neoliberalisation of social work has sought to turn it into an outcome-oriented, information-gathering, surveilling profession that no longer relies on its critical and radical value base. We show, however, that despite the neoliberal assault, social workers remain optimistic about the future and loyal to their core values.

scholarly journals Exploring tentative lives

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-34
Author(s):  
Anne Juberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Future Outcomes

Much social work practice with adolescents involved in activities known to be risky, such as experimentation with substances or petty crime, seems to have been influenced by the conventional input-output model which assumes an unreflected relationship between the present manifestation of risk and adverse future outcomes. This model relies on an uncertain scientific basis and does not really allow for the adolescents’ own reflexivity. This article aims at contributing to the shaping of more reflexive concepts for social work in this area, and is based on material derived from a focus group made up of 17 adolescents from Central Norway, aged 16-18 years old. The major foci of analysis were: i) how the adolescents positioned themselves with regard to conflicting notions of respectability, ii) which constructions of meaning might be attached to this positioning and iii) how the positioning might inform social work practice.

scholarly journals Indonesian Journal of Social Work Volume 4 Nomor 2 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisna Dewi Setianingsih ◽  
Nono Sutisna
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Work Volume

Yayasan Lentera Surakarta adalah Lembaga Kesejahteraan Sosial Anak yang memberikan pelayanan kepada anak dengan HIV dan AIDS. Pada saat pandemi Covid-19 harus disesuaikan dengan kebijakan pemerintah yang mengikat dalam memberikan pelayanan kepada anak.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan gambaran tindakan manajemen dan pengasuh Lentera Foundation dalam 1) mengakui ancaman dan risiko pandemi Covid-19 pada keselamatan dan kesejahteraan anak; 2) mengembangkan perlindungan dan pengasuhan yang tepat untuk anak selama pandemi Covid-19; 3) membangun kesadaran dan diri sendiri -Perawatan berbagai risiko pandemi Covid-19.Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan tujuh orang informan yaitu pihak pengelola dan pengasuh Yayasan Lentera.Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara, focus group discussion (FGD), dan observasi. menunjukkan bahwa layanan yang diberikan oleh Lentera Foundation kepada anak-anak dengan HIV dan AIDS sama dengan situasi normal, hanya saja pada saat Covid-19. Pandemi para pengurus dan pengasuh punya tugas tambahan untuk melakukan pencegahan dan melindungi anak dan warga. Yayasan agar tidak terpapar Covid-19. Masalah yang dialami dalam upaya melindungi anak asuh dari risiko terpapar Covid-19 adalah kurangnya sarana dan prasarana yang sesuai dengan protokol kesehatan, kurangnya pengasuh baik secara kuantitas maupun kualitas untuk membantu anak mematuhi protokol kesehatan, pembelajaran online, melakukan kegiatan pengisian waktu luang agar anak tidak merasa bosan selama berada di Yayasan Karena adanya batasan sosial, sulitnya kesadaran anak dalam mematuhi protokol kesehatan. Kata Kunci: Pelayanan Sosial, Anak Dengan HIV dan AIDS, Pandemi Covid-19

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