scholarly journals Udsatte familiers perspektiv på koordinerede, helhedsorienterede sociale indsatser

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Tanja Miller ◽  
Trine Lolk Haslam
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Vulnerable Families ◽  
Holistic Training

ResumeFormålet med denne artikel er at søge svar på, hvordan deltagelse i et helhedsorienteret tilbud kan styrke familiers indflydelse på eget liv. Det forekommer at være lidt af et paradoks, at større indblanding i privatsfæren kan føre til øget indflydelse på eget liv. Artiklen har til formål, i et borgerperspektiv, at undersøge, hvordan paradokset opleves. Artiklens empiriske grundlag og fund stammer fra udforskning af projektet Familiens Trivsel – Barnets Trivsel over en periode på tre år. Et af formålene med projektet er at styrke udsatte familiers motivation og involvering – og give dem øget indflydelse på løsning af egne udfordringer. Artiklen behandler dette formål set i familiernes perspektiv. Analyserne har især fokus på tre fund. Det første fund handler om, hvorfor familierne har sagt ja tak til at deltage i tilbuddet, og hvordan den nye praksis tilbyder nye erfaringer med velfærdssystemet. Det andet fund drejer sig om, hvilke erfaringer familierne har med at have en medarbejder tæt på i privatsfæren, og hvordan udvikling af tillid forklares af familierne. Det sidste fund peger på, at helbredsudfordringer spiller en stor rolle i familiernes selvforståelse, og arbejdet hermed opfattes meget bredt. Vi konkluderer på fund om, hvordan tillid udvikles trinvis, og vi perspektiverer til, hvordan nye identitetsmuligheder potentielt giver adgang til nye fællesskaber. Vi perspektiverer desuden til det professionelle arbejde, der foregår i den forbindelse, som en tilførsel af socialpædagogik til det socialfaglige felt. Distinktionen mellem socialpædagogisk og socialfaglig tilgang defineres, kort fortalt, som forskelle mellem interventioner på borgerens præmisser i modsætning til interventioner på velfærdssystemets præmisser. AbstractVulnerable Families’ Perspectives on Coordinated and Holistic Social Efforts. On Empowering their Competencies to ActThe purpose of this article is to examine how participation in holistic training – as an offer to families – can strengthen families´ influence on their own lives. It seems paradoxical that increased interference in the private sphere can lead to increased influence on one’s own life. The article examines, from a citizen perspective, how this paradox is experienced. The empirical basis and the findings of the article derives from exploring the project The Family’s Well-Being – The Child’s Well-Being (Familiens Trivsel – Barnets Trivsel) for tree years. One aim of the project is to strengthen the motivation and engagement of vulnerable families and provide them with more influence on solving their own challenges. The article addresses this purpose from the families’ perspective.The analyses focus in particular on three findings. Firstly, why the families have accepted to participate in the training and how this new practice provide them with new experience regarding the welfare system. The second finding deals with the families’ experience with having an employee close to them and how development of trust is explained by the families. The last finding points out that health challenges play a major role in the families’ self-understanding, and the work on this covers a wide field. We conclude on findings on how trust develops incrementally, and we put into perspective how possibly new identities can provide access to new communities. Moreover, we put into perspective the professional work that takes place in this context, which is a supply of social pedagogy to the field of social science.

Capitalism Beyond Mutuality?

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Economic Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Great Output

Our quest for prosperity has produced great output but not always great outcomes. The list of concerns is growing and familiar. Fundamentally, when it comes to well-being, fairness, and the scope of our humanity, the modern economic system still leaves much to be desired. In turn, trust in business and the liberal market system (aka “capitalism”) has been declining and regulation has been rising. A variety of forces—civic, economic, and intellectual—have been probing for better alternatives. The contributions in this volume, coauthored by eminent philosophers, social scientists, and a handful of thoughtful business leaders, are submitted in this spirit. The thrust of the work is conveyed in the volume’s titular question: Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? Mutuality, or the exchange of benefits, has been established as the prime principle of interaction in addressing the chronic dilemma of human interdependence. Mutuality is a fundament in the social contract approach and it serves us well. Yet, to address the concerns outlined here, we must help evolve an economic paradigm where mutuality is more systematically complemented by reasoned and elective morality. Otherwise the state will remain the sole (if inadequate) protector and buffer between market and society. Hence, rather than just regulate power we must also educate power. Philosophy has a natural role, especially when education is the preferred vehicle of transformation. Accordingly, the essays in this volume integrate philosophy and social science to outline and explore concrete approaches to these important concerns emanating from business practice and theory.

Structured well-being assessments in public child welfare: Observations across two states

2021 ◽  
pp. 251610322110046
Author(s):  
Crystal Collins-Camargo ◽  
Jessica Strolin-Goltzman ◽  
A. Nathan Verbist ◽  
Alison Krompf ◽  
Becky F. Antle
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Functional Improvement ◽  
Public Child Welfare ◽  
Case Planning ◽  
Over Time

Children entering custody within the child welfare system have been found to have high levels of trauma and significant behavioral health needs. In this paper, authors demonstrate how a structured functional well-being assessment can be used with the custody population to promote an understanding of behavioral health needs, inform case planning, and measure functional improvement over time. Specifically, this paper will: (a) briefly describe how two states implemented a common standardized assessment of functioning to inform case planning and measure well-being progress of children in the custody of a public child welfare system (b) examine what this common assessment tool reveals about the strengths and needs of children entering custody across two sites and (c) describe the magnitude of change in functional improvement measured across 6 months. This paper will contribute to the existing knowledge by sharing possible themes in functioning related to children entering custody while examining changes in functioning over time. Implications for practice, policy, and future research will be discussed.

scholarly journals Risk of Future Maltreatment: Examining Whether Worker Characteristics Predict Their Perception

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755952110314
Author(s):  
Kristen Lwin ◽  
Joanne Filippelli ◽  
Barbara Fallon ◽  
Jason King ◽  
Nico Trocmé
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Child Welfare Workers ◽  
Perception Of Risk ◽  
Worker Characteristics ◽  
Welfare Workers

Child welfare workers aim to promote the well-being and safety of children and are the link between the child welfare system and families. Families served by the child welfare system should expect similar service based on clinical factors, not based on their caseworker’s characteristics. Using secondary data analyses of the most recent Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2008) and multilevel modeling, this study examines whether child welfare worker characteristics, such as education level and field, age, and experience predict their perception of the risk of future maltreatment. A total of 1729 case-level investigations and 419 child welfare workers were included in this study. Several one-level logistic regression and two-level logistic regression analyses were run. The best-fit model suggests that caseworkers with a Master’s degree, more than 2 years of experience, and more than 18 cases were significantly more likely to perceive risk of future maltreatment. Further, the interaction between degree level and age also significantly predicted the perception of risk of future maltreatment. Results suggest that the perception of risk of future maltreatment may be influenced by caseworker factors, thus service to families may differ based on caseworker characteristics.

scholarly journals Multiple Practices of Social Pedagogy: The Case of The Smile of the Child , a Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Children’s Protection and Well-Being

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Costas Yannopoulos ◽  
Stefanos Alevizos ◽  
Marina Kavallieraki
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health

The Smile of the Child is a Greek non-profit, voluntary organization in the field of social pedagogy. It has been an NGO active in the field of child protection and children’s rights since 1996. It began as the dream of 10-year old Andreas Yannopoulos, who, shortly before losing his own battle for life, documented his vision in his journal. The Smile of the Child, empowered by committed employees and the support of hundreds of volunteers, provides services 24 hours a day throughout the year, including programmes for children’s welfare and protection of their physical and psychological health, as well as for the safety of thousands of children in danger in Greece.

scholarly journals Abolition, settler colonialism, and the persistent threat of Indian child welfare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Edwards ◽  
Theresa Rocha Beardall
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Indian Child ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Indian Child Welfare Act ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Tribal Nations

Family separation is a defining feature of the relationship between the U.S. government and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) families and tribal nations. The historical record catalogues this relationship in several ways including the mass displacement of Native children into boarding schools throughout the 19th century and the widespread adoption of Native children into non-Indian homes in the 20th century. Child removal was commonplace, and explicitly directed at the elimination of Native cultures and nations through aggressive assimilation. This violent legacy eventually prompted the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978. The ICWA introduced federal protections for Native children, families, and tribes against unnecessary removal and affirmed the role of the tribe as an important partner in child welfare proceedings. To what extent has this landmark legislation changed the prevalence and frequency of Native family separation since 1978? What can be done to reduce the threat of the child welfare system on the well-being of Native families today? In this Article, we use administrative and historical data to statistically evaluate the magnitude of change in AIAN family separation since the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act and locate the institutional pathways by which AIAN families are funneled into the child welfare system. Our findings reveal that despite long-standing treaty responsibilities to support the health and well-being of tribal nations, high rates of separation among AIAN children persist. In particular, we find that the frequency of AIAN children's placement into foster care has remained relatively stable since the passage of the ICWA, that AIAN children remain at incredibly high risk of family separation through the child welfare system, and that the post-investigation removal decision by child welfare agencies is a key mechanism of inequality in family separation. We situate these findings within theories about settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession to illustrate that the continuous removal of Native children from their families and tribal communities is not an anomaly. Instead, we argue that the very intent of a White supremacist settler-state is to dismantle Native families and tribal nations. Based upon these findings, we shift our focus away from the particularities of Indian child welfare and argue that the child welfare system more broadly must be abolished in order to stop the routine separation of Native children from their families by the state. Left intact, child protection systems prioritize surveillance and separation over welfare and support, affecting non-White children and families in immeasurable ways. We suggest that the ICWA has provided, and will continue to provide, a necessary intervention to protect Native families so long as this intrusive system remains. We conclude by exploring how an abolitionist approach to child welfare might positively impact Native families by immediately redirecting social and financial resources into the hands of Native families and working cooperatively with tribal communities to promote Indigenous communities of care.

scholarly journals Accessible Educational Environment and Pedagogical Support: Theories and Solutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
Ирина Атякшева ◽  
Irina Atayaksheva ◽  
Татьяна Литвинцева ◽  
Tat'yana Litvinceva ◽  
Татьяна Кель ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
School Events ◽  
Feasible Solutions

The research features the concept of accessible educational environment provided by educational institutions. The paper introduces some models of accessible educational environment, pedagogical support, its principles, forms, and methods. The authors define the pedagogical conditions that would contribute to personality development in an accessible educational environment. Potential and feasible solutions can be identified according to various educational technologies that reveal the subtleties of pedagogical activity in the context of modern personal development, the features of which are specified on the basis of psycho-correction, psycho-didactic, developmental psychology, social pedagogy, and social psychology. One’s involvement in the developmental and educational process is determined by various components of the activities carried out by the student, i.e. his or her well-being, desire to learn and communicate, to belong, entertain, help other students, parents, and teachers, to visit the library, participate in school events, etc. Modern pedagogy offers a variety of social and educational activities for people with special needs, thus ensuring continuous personality development.

scholarly journals How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Nerlich ◽  
Aleksandra Stelmach ◽  
Catherine Ennis
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Alternative Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Public Sphere

Epigenetics is a multifaceted field within genetics and genomics which focuses on discovering mechanisms involved in gene expression and regulation. It came to public attention around the turn of the millennium when the human genome began to be deciphered. Initial findings from epigenetics research held the promise of changing how we think about health and illness, evolution and heredity; speculations about how individuals and populations could begin to control such processes through epigenetics were then picked up in the public realm. In this article we concentrate on two normally distant domains within the public sphere: the advertising of alternative health products and services, and the promotion of alternative approaches to social science, especially around how social science deals with the ‘biosocial’. Using insights from social representations theory and methods aligned with metaphor analysis, we investigate the meanings of epigenetics rooted in the use of metaphors and commonplaces that are circulating in current popular parlance and that are used to promote academic theories and ideas as well as tangible products and services. We compare and contrast them and assess their implications for collaborations between natural and social scientists. Our findings reveal some surprising similarities between the metaphors and commonplaces used by advertisers and social scientists, based in large part on the fact that both groups draw on the work of prominent epigeneticists. In both instances some fundamental tenets of mainstream biology are contested, and hopes are created for improving individual or population well-being through the manipulation of epigenetic mechanisms. Both domains share some misunderstandings of epigenetics that might lead to problems with interdisciplinary collaborations between social and natural scientists.

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