scholarly journals Social Work in The Greek Schools: A Review of Policy Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 3325-3330
Author(s):  
Georgia Eleni Lempesi

Social work is an applied science that finds application in a multitude of fields, health, education, social protection, protection of the elderly, addiction, human rights, etc. Specifically, in the field of education both in America and in European countries, the social worker has an active presence in schools in various forms. This article will analyze the evolution of the role of the social worker in education in Greece through the study of the legislative framework from 1975 to 2018.

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yi Chen ◽  
I-Chen Tang

The human rights concept is that everyone is entitled to enjoy those rights inherent to being human, without distinction. However, should human rights be considered a self-evident value for the social work profession? This study was to explore how social workers in Taiwan perceive the human rights concept. Responses from 276 social worker participants were analyzed by using a self-administered questionnaire. This study showed that social workers had a general knowledge of human rights. Receiving human rights educational training and engaging in social protests were important variables in increasing human rights awareness for social work practitioners.


Author(s):  
Fahri Özsungur

Social work plays an important role in managing the process of planning, supervising, and ensuring the sustainability of protective and supportive measures applied to children who are dragged into crime and in need of protection in order to prevent incompatibilities that may arise in society. Social workers are actors in the field in the execution of the process. In this chapter, these practitioners who have made significant contributions to social work by giving reports and opinions about the measures taken by the courts about the children dragged into crime, determining the criminal tendencies of the children and the necessary precautions and training, are examined closely in the context of the Turkish legal system. The chapter includes the issues of judicial control, protective and supportive measures, preparation of a plan for the implementation of cautionary decisions, confidentiality, the role of the social worker and the social worker board for children who are dragged into crime and in need of protection.


Author(s):  
Sana Loue

The strengths-based approach to the provision of social work services is said to rest on a respect for the worth and dignity of every individual and a concern that every individual be able to fulfill his or her potential. The strengths perspective transforms the role of the social worker role from that of an authority to that of a collaborator and seeks to facilitate client identification of internal and external strengths and resources and delineation of goals. Numerous criticisms have been raised about the approach, which has not been standardized in practice and has not been systematically evaluated through rigorous research to ascertain the effects of the approach or its acceptability to clients. As a consequence, numerous ethical issues are raised, including questions relating to client self-determination and informed consent. Additional research is needed to further evaluate the value of this perspective to client growth and development.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Makhmudjon Ziyadullaev ◽  

This article presents ofthe content of the right to social security, which is considered as one of the constitutional rights of citizens, the role of state pensions in the social protection of pensioners and the world pension systems, including distributive, mandatory and conditional pension funds.As well as the size of pensions and their components, the relevance and importance in the Republic of Uzbekistan, the ratification of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and changes in thepension sector over the past 3-4 years, taking into account the types of pension provision, frombeginningsof independence of our country


Author(s):  
Brid Featherstone ◽  
Anna Gupta ◽  
Kate Morris ◽  
Sue White

This chapter explores the experiences of families enmeshed in child welfare systems. Stories of pain, hurt, betrayal, and violence are told to professionals everyday. However, a key theme of this book is a concern that the language and theoretical and practice tools available to them are impoverished and increasingly inadequate. This is partly due to the inadequacy of a model that translates need to risk routinely, colonises a variety of sorrows and troubles within a child protection frame, and has abandoned or lost a sense of the contexts — economic and social — in which so many are living lives of quiet desperation. The chapter draws on a number of studies conducted by the authors, in particular a detailed study of families and their experiences of welfare services; and an enquiry on the role of the social worker in adoption, ethics, and human rights, which looked at the perspectives of birth families, adoptive parents, and adopted young people.


1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bleiweiss Wilson ◽  
Sharon Simson ◽  
Mary Duncan ◽  
Mary Lloyd

Author(s):  
Haider Esteban Bautista Joaqui ◽  
Joseph Vicent Castillo Niño

El presente artículo pretende evidenciar algunas reflexiones sobre la necesidad del profesionalen Trabajo Social como sujeto político en la cotidianidad ante la arremetida del modelo neoliberal. El objetivo fue establecer la relación entre el movimiento de reconceptualización y la construcción de un/a trabajador/a social como sujeto político acorde a la cuestión social. Se empleó una revisión bibliográfica de carácter cualitativa en diversas bases de datos y mediante múltiples buscadores académicos. Se presenta el contexto socio-histórico del proceso de la reconceptualización en Latinoamérica. Sumada una búsqueda sobre las implicaciones de ser sujeto social y la comprensión de la cuestión social de cara a nuevas representaciones de la desigualdad social.  Luego, una articulación y reflexión de las categoríasseñaladas anteriormente dando un apartado de discusión donde son expuestos algunos argumentosque sustentan el objetivo central de la investigación. A manera de conclusión, se destaca la necesidadde ser sujeto político desde la formación y ejercicio profesional frente a las nuevas representacionesde la cuestión social en concordancia con la vigencia de los aportes realizados por el movimiento de lareconceptualización (1960-1970). Se finaliza la discusión con una invitación para ampliar y fortalecer el área de investigación como una apuesta ético-política This article aims to highlight some reflections on the need of the social worker as a political subject in all his professional actions, is a qualitative research, conducted under a documentary review in various databases and repositories, indexed books and journals, both nationally and internationally. It is divided into a review of the socio-historical context of the process of reconceptualization and its contributions to the construction of critical social work, a review of the importance and implications of being a social subject, the understanding of the social question emanating from a capitalist model that constantly generates inequalities and precarious living conditions for a large part of the world’s population, followed by an articulation and reflection of the categories outlined above, finally, conclusions are presented that point to the need to be a political subject from the training and professional practice as a response to the community and in accordance with the validity of the reconceptualization as an emancipating struggle for the social subjects that see afectted their integrity and the guarantee of their human rights, calling on him or the professional in Social Work, to be a participant in the processes he carries out and not seen as a third , oblivious to that reality, to conclude the invitation is extended to expand and strengthen the area of research as an ethical-political bet.


1980 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 416-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barton E. Bernstein

Certain areas of concern by their nature require expertise from both the legal and the social work professional. An interdisciplinary team of lawyer and social worker can serve clients effectively in such areas as premarital or cohabitation counseling, the divorce process, custody, and estate planning for the elderly.


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