scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI NILAI DAN ETIKA PEKERJA SOSIAL DALAM PENANGANAN KLIEN KORBAN PENYALAHGUNAAN NAPZA DI CAMP ASSESMENT, YOGYAKARTA

KOMUNIKA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ageng Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Efficient Treatment

This journal describes the implementation of values and ethics of social workers in handling drugabuse clients at Camp Assessment, Yogyakarta. Social workers as professionals in to do helpingmust be guided by values and ethics. The implementation of values and ethics of social workersapplied in the assessment camp includes several things. First, the service that prioritizes the goalto help people in need and focus on social problems. Secondly, social justice is notdistinguishing between rich and poor clients. Third, attaching importance to human relationsconsiders the client as a partner for effective and efficient treatment. Fourth, integrity andcompetence, as social workers must have the skills, knowledge, and values to do helping.However, in applying values and ethics, social workers experience a dilemma including anan imbalance between clients and social workers and then inadequate facilities.

scholarly journals The Caged Bird Sings: The Voice of the Workfare Generation

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 2022-2039
Author(s):  
Steven Brandt ◽  
Rudi Roose ◽  
Griet Verschelden
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Generational Theory ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Voice

Abstract Social work literature suggests that three depoliticisation tendencies characterise the youngest generation of social workers. First, they exhibit less interest in the structural level of social problems. Secondly, they are supposed to incline towards the idea of welfare conditionality. And thirdly, they are evolving towards increasingly shallow technical, box-ticking professionals. As such, this generation of social workers seems to conform with a policy climate in which social justice is increasingly under pressure. It is our contention that this debate is one-sided and negative. It dismisses the perspective of the social workers themselves. For organisations in social work, it might appear paradoxical that the youngest generation of social workers—although submersed in the context of workfare—hold the key to revising institutional processes and guidelines. Based on generational theory, however, we argue that social work needs to consider the ability of the newest generation to signal procedural and institutional barriers that hinder the pursuit of social justice.

scholarly journals Structural Social Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlinda Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Structural Theory ◽  
Dyadic Relationship ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Underlying Causes

This paper, utilizing case illustrations, argues that structural theory is a necessary but insufficient analytic device for social workers concerned with social justice. Because it is a moral theory (concerned with unearthing underlying causes for social problems and suggesting what kind of society should be constructed), it offers direction about the values social workers should adopt. It corrects modern liberal humanist thinking by broadening the discussion of ethical concerns beyond the dyadic relationship to wide-ranging political issues. It provides a measure of certainty in the paradoxical area of ethics in practice, countering the relativism of post-structuralism.

scholarly journals Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona B Livholts
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Writing Genres

Exhaustion is not about being tired. It is an intense feeling of restlessness, of insomnia, and awakening when I ask myself: have I exhausted all that is possible? Such a state of restlessness and wakefulness represents a turning point for having enough, and opens for new possibilities to act for social change. This reflexive essay departs from the notion that the language of exhaustion offers a wor(l)dly possibility for social work(ers) to engage in critical analytical reflexivity about our locations of power from the outset of our (g)local environment worlds. The aim is to trace the transformative possibilities of social change in social work practice through the literature of exhaustion (eg. Frichot, 2019 ; Spooner, 2011 ). The methodology is based on uses of narrative life writing genres such as poetry, written and photographic diary entrances between the 4th of April and 4th of June. The essay shows how tracing exhaustion during the pandemic, visualises a multiplicity of forms of oppression and privilege, an increasing attention and relationship to things, and border movements and languages. I suggest that social work replace the often-used terminology of social problems with exhaustive lists to address structural forms of racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, which has been further visualized through death, illness, violence, and poverty during the pandemic. I argue that the language of exhaustion is useful for reflexivity and action in social work practice through the way it contributes to intensified awareness, attention, engagement, listening, and agency to create social justice.

Social workers, critical theory and the political sphere: addressing political misrecognition and marginalisation in the Republic of Ireland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Electoral Representation ◽  
Irish Politics

Despite the traditional social justice mandate of social work, and critical and radical theoretical traditions that pursue egalitarian and just societies, the engagement of the social work academy with Irish politics has been underwhelming at best. While there are abstract analyses that address sociopolitical theory and ideological wrongdoings related to neoliberalist rationality, attention in social work academia to the nuts and bolts of everyday political life in Ireland, such as democratic party politics and electoral representation, leaves much to the imagination. This article therefore pursues a more grounded reading of social justice in Irish politics for social workers. The supporting proposition is that to effectively interject in political misrecognition and marginalisation, social workers must understand the present political state of play. Towards achieving this, Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition aids thematic critical commentary on the literature.

Moral Panic and Social Justice: A Guide for Analyzing Social Problems

Social Work ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Eversman ◽  
Jason D. P. Bird
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Moral Panic

scholarly journals The Impacts of Socioeconomic Crisis in Portugal on Social Protection and Social Work Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13198
Author(s):  
Inês Casquilho-Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews

The effects of the international crisis brought economic and financial risks, as well as consequences for human, social and sustainable development. This study aims to analyse the effects of social intervention with families since the 2008 crisis in Portugal. Through a qualitative approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with social workers (23), to identify the main impacts of the crisis and the adopted social intervention practices. We highlight a new increase in social problems and the growth of vulnerable groups facing an unprepared social protection system. The Portuguese case reveals that the effects of austerity have shown a decline in the welfare and benefits system, leading to worsened social problems, such as increased poverty and unemployment, as well as social inequalities. Social Work was required to respond to these consequences, although organisational contexts and austerity measures constrained practitioners’ autonomy. By reflecting on this critical period, we seek to contribute to better social protection and assistance models in the face of the current and future crisis. In this sense, Social Work practice ensures a means to guarantee fundamental rights and social justice, preparing social workers and social intervention for new challenges in crisis contexts.

Sin, Spirituality, and Primitivism: The Theologies of the American Social Gospel, 1885–1917

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spiritual Conversion ◽  
Born Again ◽  
Christian Society ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThis article seeks to draw attention to an often overlooked aspect of the social gospel. Rather than explaining social gospelers as theological liberals who took an interest in social problems, as many historians have done, this essay argues that they were possessed of a unique theology, one which welded evangelical ideas of conversion and experiential Christianity with liberal postmillennial hopes. Their devotion to combating social ills should be understood, therefore, not solely as a secular commitment to social justice or a nebulous allegiance to Christian charity but also as a theological obligation tied to evangelical conversion and a repudiation of social sin, a crime as offensive to God as murder or theft. The social gospelers modeled the ideal Christian society upon that of the biblical patriarchs, one in which no distinction between the secular and sacred existed and sanctification guided the Christian's actions in the economy as well as in personal morality. That society, that postmillennial Zion, would come again when all humanity experienced a spiritual conversion and were truly born again as Christians—a transformation not limited to individual salvation but which brought with it a new understanding of the nature of Christian life.

Facilitating CSWE's Social Justice Competency in Baccalaureate Social Work Courses

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Simon Funge ◽  
Nancy Meyer-Adams ◽  
Chris Flaherty ◽  
Gretchen Ely ◽  
Jeffrey Baer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Practice Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Education

The Council on Social Work Education identifies social justice as one of 10 core competencies in its 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Educators can find it daunting to address this particular competency. The National Association of Social Workers' Social Work Speaks can provide a practical guide for educating students in the policy positions of social work's primary professional association. This article offers uses of these materials that can infuse social justice concepts into foundation coursework, mitigating not only some of the challenges associated with teaching this content but also fostering the expected practice behaviors associated with the social justice competency. This model can apply to teaching strategies pertaining to the other nine competencies. Examples of assignments and methods for assessment are provided.

The Misrecognition of Social Problems

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
LaTonya J. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Organizational Power ◽  
Large State ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Professional Aspirations

This chapter assesses the challenges faced by the Forest Grove Elder Services' social workers, providing a better understanding of the hurdles faced by the profession at large. State disinvestment in social problems grounds the devaluation of social work as a profession. However, this may be of little interest to anyone who is not a social worker. If the Grove's members were getting their needs met by others—whether it be nurse practitioners (NPs), chaplains, or occupational therapists (OTs)—it is not readily apparent how this devaluation might impact anything other than the professional aspirations of social workers. The chapter then argues that there are consequences for relocating problems from one terrain to another. The tools found in the clinic may not be the same as those located outside it. Moreover, not all social work concerns are necessarily taken up by those best positioned as advocates. At the Grove, social concerns were addressed both by those with recognized credentials and by those without them. When anyone is perceived as able to do social work, clients may lose an ally with the organizational power to advocate on their behalf. The chapter illustrates that the relocation of social problems has implications for people's understanding of what constitutes those problems and what they envision as the available arsenal of solutions.

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