scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on the Social Workers’ Perception and Subjective Experience of Case Management in Community Welfare Centers

2007 ◽  
Vol null (30) ◽  
pp. 287-310
Author(s):  
우국희 ◽  
임효원 ◽  
김영숙
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals “My private theory is that it’s all in the head”: Understandings of chronic widespread pain among social workers from municipality job centers in Denmark

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 205510292199536
Author(s):  
Rikke Schultz ◽  
Peter la Cour ◽  
Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard ◽  
Annette Sofie Davidsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Chronic Widespread Pain ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Widespread Pain ◽  
Sickness Benefits ◽  
To Receive

People with chronic widespread pain (CWP) are often unfit for work, and consequently they are dependent on the municipality job center to receive social support and sickness benefits. The job center’s case management is based on a social worker’s assessment of the citizen’s health condition. This qualitative study investigates social workers’ understandings of CWP. Interviews were carried out with 12 social workers. The results showed that the participants predominantly experienced the citizens’ illnesses as psychosocially mediated—referring to trauma, or a lack of meaning in the citizens’ lives. Only a few participants mentioned possibilities for somatic explanations of CWP.

Understanding professional distress through social representations: Investigating the shared experience of healthcare social workers in Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282096742
Author(s):  
Lilian Negura ◽  
Maude Lévesque
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Workplace Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Provinces

Our study sought to refine our understanding of professional distress by examining the experience of healthcare social workers in the following three Canadian provinces: Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick. Thirty semi-directed interviews were conducted to explore the social workers’ social representation of professional distress and its ties to professional identity and growing organizational constraints. Attitudes, work–life imbalances, and negative workplace experiences were found to increase the subjective experience of distress. Current psychosocial and organizational contexts of front-line practitioners are contributors to their professional distress, a matter further exacerbated by the misrepresentation of social work by colleagues and service beneficiaries.

scholarly journals Conceptualization of Culture and Ethnicity within Social Work in Two Indigenous Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-30
Author(s):  
Reidunn Håøy Nygård ◽  
Merete Saus ◽  
Shanley Swanson Nicolai
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us

This qualitative study compares social work in Sami communities within Norway and Native American communities in Montana in the US. A total of 39 social workers were interviewed. We investigated the conceptualization of culture and ethnicity, as well as the implications of these constructions for a culturally adequate social work practice. We find that social workers in Sápmi conceptualize culture and ethnicity as hybrid and fluid, while the social workers in Native American communities have a more fixed and static conceptualization. When working in Native American communities, social workers’ theme of inequality among groups, and the continuing effect of assimilation on family life. Among social workers in Sami communities in Norway, little attention is given to power relations among ethnic groups. These differences in construction affect both the framing and the legitimacy of culturally adequate social work within these two contexts.

scholarly journals KEADAAN PEMENUHAN HAK PENDIDIKAN ANAK REMAJA PASCA REUNIFIKASI

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Nurliana Cipta Apsari ◽  
R. Nunung Nurwati
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Save The Children ◽  
Family Based ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Child Resilience

ABSTRACTFamily is the first and utmost place for child rights fulfilment. Commonly, family is the place to guarantee the development and child rights fulfilment, however, many children are being placed in orphanages in order for the children to acquire their rights of education. Children reside in orphanages are vulnerable of discrimination. In order to protect the vulnerable children, Save the Children with its program of Child and Family Support Center (PDAK) returning children residing in orphanages into their families, known as reunification, to receive family based care and still acquiring their rights including rights of education. Sequential mixed of quantitative and qualitative approach is used in this research. Data is collected from children and parents involved with reunification process and child care. The focus of this research is the fulfillment of child rights to develop and survival, mainly rights of education.The result shows that after reunification, one youth is not pursuing his study and decided to work because his father could not afford the educational expenses. The result also found that although the parents are economically deprived, but no youth have return to orphanages to receive institution based care. The research found strength of parent and resiliency of children thus keeping the children reside in their family and receive family based care. The strength of parent and child resilience exists because of social work support through case management model of PDAK Save the Children. The social workers have assisted the parents to gain access needed in order for them to fulfill the child rights. The social workers also assist and provide understanding to the children about their parents’ condition which then resulting in child resilience. Case management model serves as model for direct services for children and their families in keeping the continuity of family based care received by children after reunification. With this model, service providers will be able to synergized the policies and programs of social insurance planned and implemented by the government thus overcoming the limited access of parents to fulfill their children’s rights.

scholarly journals Höga förväntningar på kontaktpersoner?

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Franséhn ◽  
Helena Johansson ◽  
Therése Wissö
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Parental Practices ◽  
Contact Person ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Intervention

High expectations of contact persons? A study of parental practices and the contact person intervention for young people in social servicesA contact person for teenagers, an intervention offered by the social services, is discussed in this article on the basis of a qualitative study accomplished in 2010–2014. It is based on focus groups, documents and interviews with teenagers, parents, contact persons and social workers. Research dealing with the contact person intervention takes partly contradictory views. In qualitative studies the contact person system has been described as a positive intervention of all categories involved. During the last few years it has been questioned, especially in a comprehensive quantitative study, indicating that the intervention even seemed to increase the risk of being placed in out-of-home care in the future. In this article we present a deepened picture of the teenagers in the study with a focus on their backgrounds and life situations. The background factors we have discovered, often invisible in a register study, point to the very complex situations the social services have to handle. Another part deals with how the intervention can be understood in relation to parenting and specifically which dimensions of parenting the social services judge as inadequate. In the analysis of the contact persons’ assignments it is obvious that the social services plan the intervention based on the parents inabilities to guide and support their teenagers. The contact person is often supposed to act as a ”compensating” parent.

Social Work, Inter-Disciplinary Cooperation and Self-Neglect: Exploring Logics of Appropriateness

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 664-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Mason ◽  
Tony Evans
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social

Abstract Working in a cooperative manner with other disciplines or agencies is often cited as an essential element of social work with adults who self-neglect. Cooperative working is now a legal requirement for agencies involved in adult social care in England. However, little is known about how social workers engage cooperatively with other disciplines in practice. This study sets out to explore this issue, employing the ‘Logic of Appropriateness’ perspective to theorise the ways in which social workers talked about working with other disciplines in self-neglect casework. The article presents a qualitative study, which was undertaken through semi-structured interviews with eleven social workers in an urban, adult social care team in an English local authority. Thematic analysis was not only used to draw out four key logics used by the social workers—leadership, joint-working, conflict and proxy—but also highlighted the ways in which social workers moved between different logics when talking about inter-disciplinary cooperation and working with adults who self-neglect. The results highlight the complex dynamics of cooperation and suggest that these dynamics need to be understood in assessing the implementation of integrated policies for social care in this area.

Being a social worker in the unrecognized villages in Israel

2020 ◽  
pp. 146801732095856
Author(s):  
Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail ◽  
Mahajne Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Professional Role ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Aggression

Summary This qualitative study presents the experiences of social workers whose clients are the inhabitants of unrecognized Bedouin Arab villages in Israel. Bedouin Arabs are an indigenous people, a minority population residing throughout Israel. Half of those in the south of the country inhabit villages that are not recognized by the authorities. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted over two years by both researchers with 25 social workers, recruited by the snowball method. The interview guidelines included one open-ended question and 10 more-specific questions. Findings The findings provide perspectives on postcolonial social work and social work with indigenous peoples. The social workers report that they are caught between their personal values and professional values, between Israeli law and the institutional aggression against their clients –which greatly limits their ability to fulfil their professional role. They say they are working in a “grey area” in which the policy is unclear. This adds another layer of complexity to their work but also allows for freedom and creativity. The findings point to a lack of suitable intervention programs. Applications Learning about the experience of social workers in conflict areas Learning about the experience of social workers in a clash of values Learning about the significance of unclear policy and its implications for the functioning of social workers in conflict areas.

scholarly journals The Response of Pakistani Social Workers amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of the Main Challenges

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Abbas ◽  
Muhammad Inam Ul Haq ◽  
Wareesha Afaq Zaidi ◽  
Ahmed Kaleem ◽  
Hamza Sohail ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Mean

AbstractThe study aimed to highlight the main challenges faced by the social workers amid the pandemic. A qualitative study was conducted between March 2020 to May 2020 in Karachi, Pakistan. All participants who belonged to a non-profit organization were eligible to participate. Open-ended questions were asked by the participants. The mean age of the participants was 24.8 ± 5.9 years. The main challenges faced by the social workers were: i) resistance from the family and friends, ii) lack of personal protective equipment, iii) mistrust from public, iv) uncooperative government/authorities.

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