scholarly journals CLINICAL ORIENTATION OF SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN DIFFICULT LIFE SITUATIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 236-243
Author(s):  
Оксана Александровна Малашенко ◽  
Светлана Александровна Куликова
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
The Family ◽  
Clinical Orientation ◽  
Families With Children

Рассмотрен феномен социального сопровождения семьи с детьми в контексте концепта клинической направленности социальной работы. Обоснована детерминированность поиска и привлечения ресурсов и способов преодоления сложного жизненного сценария семьи как уникального случая. Охарактеризована интегративная мультидисциплинарная организация помогающей практики, многоаспектность профессиональной деятельности специалиста, реализующего функции социального сопровождения семьи с детьми в трудной жизненной ситуации. The article considers the phenomenon of social support for families with children in the context of the concept of clinical orientation of social work. The determinism of the search and attraction of resources and ways to overcome the complex life scenario of the family as a unique case is justified. The article describes the integrative multidisciplinary organization of the helping practice, the multidimensional nature of the professional activity of a specialist who performs the functions of social support for a family with children in a difficult life situation.

A Danish Poverty Line? Poverty Judgements by Students of Social Work, Pedagogy and Health Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Merete Monrad ◽  
Morten Ejrnæs ◽  
Tine Fuglsang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Labor Market Participation ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
The Family

AbstractWhen is a family poor? We examine what factors are emphasized when people judge whether a family is poor or not. The article is based on a factorial survey with 356 respondents who study social work, nursing, nursery teaching, nutrition and health. Based on theories of poverty, we study what aspects of a family’s life situation are accentuated when people judge whether the family is poor or not. The respondents primarily emphasize income in their poverty judgements. Some deprivations also enter into the judgements, while the duration of deprivations, gender and labor market participation have no or minimal significance for the judgements.

PROJECT ACTIVITY AS A FORM OF REGIONAL SUPPORT OF THE FAMILY, MOTHERHOOD AND CHILDHOOD

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
N.V. Zakharkina ◽  
I.V. Iljin
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Project Activity ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Health And Well Being

Social protection of motherhood and childhood is a subject of special attention of the state as through the care about health and well-being of women and children the country’s healthy pop-ulation increase is guaranteed. Project activity plays special role in effective social support of families with children at the country level in general and at the level of its separate regions. In the article the authors study project initiatives on the family, motherhood and childhood regional support on the example of Lipetsk region.

scholarly journals Narrative Child Protection in Hungary. The Importance of Knowing the History of the Families in Need in the Social Work with Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Andrea Rácz ◽  
Ernő Bogács
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Professional Attitude ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Families With Children

AbstractThe study is reflecting on the nature and features of social work with families with children, attempting to discuss social work as assistance and apprehension and to detect whether there is any causal link between the efficiency of social work and the narrative approach and the “unstoried”, “faceless” condition of the families. We argue that professional attitude aimed at providing child protection support is not possible without knowing the story of families with children. Without a helping attitude, no real social work is possible, and thus the client remains invisible and faceless in the process of child welfare or child protection interventions. Besides the actual situations of story-based intervention in social work (micro level), narrativity is also important for the transparent and adequate functioning of the system (mezzo level); moreover, it can become a factor of paradigm shift in social and political discourse on social work and its target groups (macro level). The study is based on the research entitled Child Protection Trends Supporting Children’s Well-Being carried out within the Research Scholarship granted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017–2020). The research focused on the family concept of child protection professionals and their views of the clients that can be deducted from this concept. The research also examines the notion and functions of the family from the viewpoint of children, young people and their parents as well as the professional attitudes and interventions determined by these perceptions. Research results show that due to the diversity and complexity of the problems of families in the purview of the child protection system one cannot reflect on professional solutions along types of problems. Successful functioning and efficient child protection rely rather on revealing individual and specific needs. All this indicates that child welfare and child protection work is possible only if built on personal stories.

scholarly journals Family social work: the realities of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4 (133)) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Olha Stoliaryk ◽  
Olha Zubchyk ◽  
Tetyana Semigina
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Social Service Providers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Public Organisations

The family social work in Ukraine is only at the stage of its developing. Deriving from the paternalistic philosophy, the demonopolisation of the market of social services places new demands on social policy aimed at implementing and regulating social work with families as a separate social structure. The purpose of the research is to characterise the institutional structure of family social work, to determine the assessment of social services and their quality on the example of a study of families raising children suffering from autism, basing on the system- and structure-centred analysis. The paper highlights the indicators of family-oriented practice, describes the market of social service providers for families, identifies the functions of individual institutions, structural entities and the specifics of their activities. It is revealed that in Ukraine there are two types of social work with families: regulated (state bodies and structural entities) and unregulated activities (individuals-entrepreneurs, public organisations, charitable foundations, volunteers), but this does not ensure its integrity, because most social service providers are not focused on the needs of families of certain social categories. The family social work in Ukraine could be divided into three types in the framework of its professionalization: a professional activity, a non-professional activity and a "mixed" (partly professional) activity. The survey provides an assessment of individual indicators of social services by the families raising children who suffer from autism (targeting family social work, access to services offered in the region, the presence of stigma, the effectiveness of social advertising of existing services, their compliance with family needs, etc.). It was discovered that most of the services offered are not in demand; they do not take into account the contextual and environmental background in which families operate either; service providers are biased towards families raising children with autism. Many families are in an information vacuum, which becomes an obstacle to expanding their rights and opportunities, the work done with them can be defined as fragmentary and chaotic; it does not take into account the role of the community in maintaining family resilience.

Case Management and Social Support System for Families in Distress: A Social Work Response

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
W akar Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Support System ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Support System ◽  
The Disappeared

History is witness to the fact that warring factions in any armed conflict often commit several human rights violations like murder, rape, torture etc., and the act of disappearance of person is one among them. While the persons who are subjected to disappearance are the primary victims, the families they leave behind are the secondary victims. The situation makes families of the disappeared person suffer great anguish when their loved ones go disappeared. The phenomenon produces anguish, fear and unspeakable sorrow for thousands of families. Appreciating the importance of social work professionals in helping families deal effective with their life situations the present paper aims to provide a case for social work interventional techniques of Social Support System (SSS) and Case Management to modify and make the social environment conducive for the families to live a normal life.

scholarly journals The Association of Sources of Support, Types of Support and Satisfaction with Support Received on Perceived Stress and Quality of Life of Cancer Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 153473542199490
Author(s):  
Iván Ruiz-Rodríguez ◽  
Isabel Hombrados-Mendieta ◽  
Anabel Melguizo-Garín ◽  
Mª José Martos-Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Informational Support ◽  
Cancer Data ◽  
The Family

Introduction: The aim of the present study is to carry out a multidimensional analysis of the relationship of social support with quality of life and the stress perceived by cancer patients. Methods: The participants were 200 patients with cancer. Data was gathered on sociodemographic characteristics, health, quality of life, social support and perceived stress. Results: Frequency of and satisfaction with different sources and types of support are related positively with improvement of quality of life and negatively with perceived stress. The emotional support from the partner and the emotional and informational support from the family are significant predictors of quality of life. Emotional support from the family reduces patients’ perceived stress. Satisfaction with emotional support from the partner and with the informational support from friends and family increases quality of life. Satisfaction with emotional support from the family and with informational support from friends decreases patients’ perceived stress. Instrumental support and support provided by health professionals are not good predictors of quality of life and perceived stress. Satisfaction with the support received is more significantly related with quality of life and stress than the frequency with which the sources provide support. Conclusions: These results have important practical implications to improve cancer patients’ quality of life and reduce their perceived stress through social support. Designing intervention strategies to improve satisfaction with the support provided to patients by their closest networks results in a global benefit for the patient’s quality of life.

scholarly journals Has the Economic Lockdown Following the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Gender Division of Labor in Israel?

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124322110012
Author(s):  
Meir Yaish ◽  
Hadas Mandel ◽  
Tali Kristal
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The Family ◽  
Allocation Of Time ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Families With Children

The economic shutdown and national lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 have increased demand for unpaid work at home, particularly among families with children, and reduced demand for paid work. Concurrently, the share of the workforce that has relocated its workplace to home has also increased. In this article, we examine the consequences of these processes for the allocation of time among paid work, housework, and care work for men and women in Israel. Using data on 2,027 Israeli adults whom we followed since the first week of March (before the spread of COVID-19), we focus on the effect of the second lockdown in Israel (in September) on the gender division of both paid and unpaid work. We find that as demand for housework caused by the lockdown increases, women—especially with children—increase their housework much more than men do, particularly when they work from home. The consequences of work from home and other flexible work arrangements for gender inequality within the family are discussed.

Police, Social Work and Medical Responses to Battered Women

1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Norman Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Marital Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Paramedical Personnel ◽  
The Family ◽  
Seeking Help

Battered women frequently experience difficulties in seeking help from formal sources. They do not always know what services are available and they may be deterred by feelings of embarrassment, shame and even guilt. They may also fear reprisals. A further problem is that services are poorly co-ordinated. This paper examines the response of the three agencies most frequently approached by battered women seeking help. The police, social workers and medical and paramedical personnel reveal the same or similar attitudes towards marital violence and the problem is either ignored or redefined (usually in terms of child care). There is a marked reluctance on the part of all practitioners to become involved in cases of marital violence which they see as peripheral to their main concerns. The privacy of the family and of marriage is constantly stressed and women are viewed primarily as wives and mothers. When practitioners do become involved, therefore, the emphasis is on reconciliation rather than firm action. This response has the effect of trivializing the problems, and the legitimacy of male violence as a means of controlling women remains largely unchallenged. It is small wonder that battered women frequently express dissatisfaction with the services concerned.

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