CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL WORKERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Author(s):  
Alexandra Teodora Lăcătuș-Iakab ◽  
Bela Olimpiu Lăcătuș-Iakab

This article provides an overview of various important aspects of the work of the social workers in day care centers during the coronavirus pandemic. It explores how the activity of social workers is being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the impact of the use of online platforms for communication on the relationship of assistance. Interviews were conducted with 10 social workers working at 5 day care centers in Cluj-Napoca to explore the challenges they faced in order to prevent school dropout, in pandemic context. It were exemplified the ways in which the responsibilities of social workers are adapted to the context and measures imposed in the pandemic context. A low motivation for learning from students was emphasized as well as socioeconomic difficulties at the family level and the importance of face-to-face communication with beneficiaries was also stressed.

Author(s):  
Alexandra M. Konovalova

Relevance. The article is devoted to the study of adolescents who do not have evaluative and/or prescribed respect for their parents as well as presents factors associated with disrespectful attitude to their parents: gender, family composition, financial security of the family, social status of the parent, features of upbringing and child-parent relationships. The disrespect for parents has not yet been studied in detail Objective. Identification of factors contributing to disrespectful attitude of adolescents towards their parents. Sample. In total, 294 people participated in the study: 218 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years; 76 parents of these adolescents aged 33 to 48 years. Methods. Adolescents were offered the author’s questionnaire “Respect for Parents”, the ADOR method — “Adolescents about Parents”, Parents answered questions from “Analysis of Family Relationships” (AFR). Results. Four groups of adolescents were identified based on cluster analysis of “Respect for parents” method: respectful, disrespectful, evaluatively respectful, and prescriptively respectful. It was found that boys do not respect their parents more often than girls. Adolescents from single-parent families are also more likely to disrespect their parents. The gender of the parent is not related to respect indicators. The social success of the parent and the financial security of the family are important factors associated with the respect of adolescents for their parents. The relationship of a large number of features of parenting and child-parent relations (both in the perception of adolescents — ADOR method and their parents — AFR method) with indicators of respect for parents among adolescents was analyzed. Conclusion. Adolescents may not have evaluative respect (conscious deference, the result of evaluating a person) or prescribed respect (the result of assimilating social norms of honoring elders) for their parents, or they may not fully respect them. Adolescents do not respect parents who lack psychological acceptance of children, lack parental feelings, and are hostile to them. Also, adolescents do not respect parents who show dominant hyperprotection


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-224
Author(s):  
Marcin Prościak ◽  
Beata Prościak

Aim. The aim of this thesis is to present the impact of students exclusion (including SPEs) on their virtual behaviour in social media. Students with no special educational needs and those with SEN were taken into account. The relationship between exclusion of SPE and digitisation exclusion will be indicated . In addition, social exclusion in the family area was included. Methods: The analysis was based on statistical methods, such as: range, standard deviation, variance. Surveys were used. They were conducted on the Internet through the Facebook social portal on a national and global scale. Results: Respondents from around the world feel more excluded by the SPE than respondents in Poland. In contrast, respondents from the SPE use fewer social networking sites than in groups of computer players, both in Poland and worldwide. Conclusions: In Poland, SPE is not a barrier to communication with peers for most respondents, unlike global respondents. Respondents from the SPE spend less time on social portals because it absorbs their time devoted to learning, which can be an indicator of digital exclusion. Cognitive value: The originality of the research is to focus on introducing the global and Polish scale of the problem excluding students from SPE from the social media, which was calculated by the author’s method based on the indicator digital exclusion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Putri Erika Ramadhani ◽  
Hetty Krisnani

Perceraian tidak hanya berdampak bagi yang bersangkutan (suami-isteri), namun juga melibatkan anak khususnya yang memasuki usia remaja, perceraian merupakan beban tersendiri bagi anak sehingga berdampak pada psikis. Reaksi anak terhadap perceraian orangtuanya, sangat dipengaruhi oleh cara orang tua berperilaku sebelum, selama dan sesudah perceraian. Metode dalam penulisan artikel ini menggunakan studi literatur. Studi literatur yaitu data sekunder yang dilakukan dengan diawali mencari kajian kepustakaan dari berbagai literatur seperti buku, jurnal ilmiah,  artikel, ataupun hasil penelitian sejenis yang telah dipublikasikan mengenai dampak perceraian orang tua terhadap anak remaja. Hingga saat ini dampak perceraian orang tua memang dapat memberikan dampak buruk bagi anak, baik fisik maupun psikologis anak. Sehingga perceraian memang perlu dipertimbangkan matang-matang, dan orang tua harus bisa memberikan pengertian yang baik kepada anak sehingga dapat mengurangi dan mengatasi dampak buruk pada anak pada saat perceraian terjadi. Tetapi fungsi keluarga untuk memberikan pengertian dan perhatian pada anak/remaja ternyata tidak berfungsi dalam kaitannya dengan kasus perceraian. Untuk mengatasi perlakuan salah tersebut, maka dalam praktik pekerjaan sosial, seorang pekerja sosial harus berupaya mewujudkan ketercapaian akan kesejahteraan bagi anak. Pekerja sosial dapat melakukan proses pertolongan sesuai dengan tahapan pertolongan pekerjaan sosial, pekerja sosial memberikan layanan konseling, serta  pekerja sosial memberikan layanan konseling keluarga.  Divorce is not only an impact to the concerned, but also involves children, especially those entering adolescence, divorce is an individual burden to the child so that it affects the psychic. The child's reaction to the divorce of its parents, is heavily influenced by the way parents behave before, during and after divorce. The method in writing this article uses literature studies. The study of literature is secondary data conducted by beginning to seek literature study from various literatures such as books, scientific journals, articles, or similar research results that have been published regarding the impact of divorce of parents To teenage children. Until now, the impact of parents ' divorce can adversely affect children, both physical and psychological. So the divorce does need to be considered mature, and parents should be able to give a good understanding to the child so as to reduce and overcome the adverse effects on the child at the time of divorce occurs. But the family function to provide understanding and attention in children/adolescents is not functioning in relation to divorce cases. To overcome such mistreatment, in the practice of social work, a social worker must strive to realize the welfare of the children. Social workers can do the relief process in accordance with the social job relief phases, social workers provide counseling services, as well as social workers to provide family counseling services.


2021 ◽  
pp. 251610322199905
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Cudjoe ◽  
Debora Daisy Kwabia ◽  
Marcus Yu Lung Chiu ◽  
Alhassan Abdullah

Children living with a parent with mental illness experience challenges as some may take on the roles of their parents. Physical distancing restrictions introduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic means that many children will spend more time at home which could heighten the impact of parental mental illness. For many of these children, engaging in activities with peers provides them a sort of normal life outside their family environment. However, face-to-face interactions with others outside the family may be limited under existing public health protocols. Moreover, services for children in families where there is parental mental illness may also be limited considering limitations placed on people’s movements to reduce the rate of COVID-19 infections. This opinion article draws on existing research and practitioner knowledge to suggest how social workers can continue supporting these children and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Support, in the form of online interventions, have been recommended to meet the needs of children during the pandemic period. Online support is timely because it is easily accessible and often does not require face-to-face interactions. Social workers and other human service professionals should be able to adapt existing online services to the needs of the children which they serve.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-E) ◽  
pp. 650-660
Author(s):  
Iryna Kychko ◽  
Halyna Samiilenko ◽  
Veronika Khudolei ◽  
Nataliia Bondar ◽  
Yurii Kravchyk

The article investigates the risks of transforming labour relations in Ukraine under the influence of digitalization processes. The relationship of the digital economy with the processes taking place in the social and labour sphere is substantiated, its impact on the state of the labor market is assessed. Positive effects of automation application are affected, and the negative consequences of digitalization in the HR sphere. The risks of rotors and employees are addressed by the issues of the impact of digital technologies and automation on social and labour relations. It is argued that in the context of increasing remote, remote work, the work rings to comply with the principle of permanence. Works become inherent in the principles of episodicity, individualism. It is determined that the result of episodic labour relations may be the risk of non-payment of taxes on the income of workers, non-receipt of funds to the budget, loss of a significant part of taxes received from the incomes of the population, and therefore - a decrease in the base of financing social functions of the state.


Author(s):  
Farouq Abdel Kareem Al-Jarrah Farouq Abdel Kareem Al-Jarrah

The study aimed to reveal the social system of the family, In the Islamic educational perspective, and the researcher used the analytical inductive approach, in his study of texts and opinions, and the deductive approach to extract the concepts and principles of the family's social system, and it consisted of the following investigations: The first topic: the family, its concept and its position, and the second topic addressed: principles The social system of the family related to the marital relationship is a comparative study with the structural functional, and as for the third topic: the principles of the social system of the family in the relationship of fathers with children, the study reached several results, the most important of which are: that the family idiomatically: the social entity consisting of a man and a woman linked by the marital bond, according to The law of God Almighty, and what results from this bond of children, is governed by the approach of Islam, and that the principle of marriage in the relationship is based on the difference of sex, a man and a woman are bound by a legal contract, and in accordance with the human instinct that God Almighty created, and one of the most important recommendations of the study: Explain what is involved He must bear international conventions and conferences about the dangers of violating the Islamic curriculum, with regard to the family, through specialized research studies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Fredy Andrés Cruz - Vega ◽  
Luz Eliana Figueroa - Granados

The research makes it possible to recognize the judgments of the users who are enrolled in the zero to always family modality and, in turn, establish the relationship they give to the program in the training of their children. The use of qualitative research for this proposal contributes or it establishes the relationship of describing and giving points of view to problems of the social educational and experiential context, the primary objective was to determine the degree of use by users of the program from zero to always family modality, in the municipality of Pamplona. It can be said that the application of this research contributes in part to diagnosing from a personal point of view the impact generated by the program in the training of minors, evidencing in it the theoretical, political and real positions in order to make them aware of the importance of training of children. The instruments used for families in certain rural areas who are the objects of study were semi-structured interviews; validated by experts from the area, they managed to produce key information for the analysis and triangulation. Thanks to the analysis units and the categories established in the interview, it was possible to focus and provide solutions to the objectives set, demonstrating the perception that the beneficiaries of the program of zero They always have in relation to the operation in rural areas of Pamplona. With the information obtained it is clear to establish the conformity of the operation of the program in terms of the role of care for families, the training of minors and the integration of society is thus how the show is getting on the right tide.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ngurah Seramasara

Religion and traditional performing arts in Bali are two fields that are not separated as cultural identities that make Bali famous in the eyes of the world and admired as being able to create peace and prosperity. Based on consideration of Hinduism and the traditional performing arts, tourists arrive to visit Bali. Therefore this paper aims to analyze the relationship between Hinduism and traditional performing arts and its relation to tourism development, as well as the impact it has on the social phenomena of Balinese society. There is an interest in maintaining the relationship of Hinduism with traditional performing arts as part of a whole religious ceremony with the development of tourism, but there is a very strong stream of commercialization, which can destabilize the relationship between Hinduism and the life of the performing arts. This inequality is a problem that needs to be studied because it is not uncommon for the packaging of sacred art to become a tourist art, thereby reducing the importance of traditional performing arts’ sacredness. The effort to counteract the aforementioned problem will be the main focus that will be studied in this paper. The method used to examine the problems above is qualitative research methods based on the historical paradigm. The historical paradigm understands changes through sources, documents, artifacts, texts on performing arts and observations and interviews in connection with the current conditions. As an analytical tool, the concepts of ideology, communication and acceptance are used. The results of this writing indicate that there is a cultural ideology, namely the classification of performing art and the concept of cultural tourism to counteract the negative influence of tourism on Hindu religious life and Balinese culture.


1984 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. 750-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE F. LEMP ◽  
WILLIAM E. WOODWARD ◽  
LARRY K. PICKERING ◽  
PEGGY S. SULLIVAN ◽  
HERBERT L. DUPONT

1960 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. T. Easterbrook

Present interest in communication research in the social and physical sciences raises some interesting and difficult questions for the economic historian. Arthur Cole, who claims that he is merely trying to carry further the work of Harold Innis and others at Toronto, but who is surely the moving spirit in this session, has suggested that we might begin by pin-pointing a few leading questions for examination. Is this comparatively recent development to be regarded as merely a passing phase in the history of fashions in thought? Is the process of relating communication to economic change mainly a process of sophistication and is there anything to argue about in this relationship? Or, on the other hand, does it in fact amount to a major break-through in scientific and historical analysis, something comparable to the impact made on economics about a century ago by the Austrian School?


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