New report recommends improved rights for health and social service users

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Service Users

scholarly journals ‘Med 3’ rock and blues band to Trieste

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 509-510
Author(s):  
Rod Bale
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Medical Certificate ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

On a recent visit to the UK, Dr Guiseppe Dell Acqua, a leading exponent of the Italian psychiatric reforms, heard the ‘Med 3’ band play and extended an invitation to visit Trieste and give a concert. ‘Med 3’, the name being an allusion to the medical certificate, were formed in 1992. A Mental Health Week was held in the City of Portsmouth that year. In association with the Arts Connection, a local organisation promoting the arts to a wide audience, and the Portsmouth Care Consortium who were organising the event, artists in many fields ran workshops for mental health service users. Guy and Emma Heape, session musicians, ran a workshop at the Social Service Mental Health Day Centre and it was so successful it led to a band being formed. The band achieved recognition by winning a Mental Health Task Force award in 1993. An invitation to accompany the band to Trieste was readily accepted.

scholarly journals Challenges and Prospects for Digitizing the Social Service Providers' Activities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.E. Gasumova
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Social Service Providers ◽  
The Social

This article presents the author’s definitions of “digitization of social service provision” and “digitization of social services” concepts and identifies the difference between them. It presents the results of an interview with 18 experts — the heads of institutions and organizations of social service provision implementing the rehabilitation of disabled people in Perm region. The research was conducted in 2019 and sought to identify problems and prospects for the digitization of the social services sphere. Interviewees rated their satisfaction regarding the convenience and time cost of automated systems that are currently being used in their organizations; characterized their needs in introducing various innovative interactive services, mobile applications, and other digital software; and expressed their attitude to various innovations. Social innovations were developed by the researchers and offered to experts by interviewers (for example, services for assessing the quality of work of specialists by service users, quick selection of the right social service, filing a complaint, referring a citizen to another organization, counseling in video mode, electronic appointment service, etc.). The research has shown how innovations can improve the performance of social service providers’ work and the quality of their interactions with citizens, which will ultimately increase the satisfaction of social service users and will positively affect the level of social well-being in society as a whole. A number of problems have been identified that currently impede the development of digitization: they are related to staff resources, the level of computerization, the lack of motivation among managers and personnel of social service organizations to implement innovative IT, and a certain distrust that such technologies can facilitate the activities of the organization and increase its effectiveness. Keywords: digitization, social service provision, social services, social institutions, social work

scholarly journals Japanese translation and cross-cultural validation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) in Japanese social service users

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Nakamura-Thomas ◽  
Mie Morikawa ◽  
Yoko Moriyama ◽  
Takeru Shiroiwa ◽  
Makoto Kyougoku ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Care Outcomes ◽  
Japanese Translation ◽  
Cultural Validation

Social Assistance via the Internet

2014 ◽  
pp. 177-195
Author(s):  
Minna Strömberg-Jakka
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Gain Access

This chapter examines the connection between social assistance and the use of information communication technologies to gain access to social rights as human rights. The research is based on data consisting of 594 online questions and answers related to social assistance. Of these, 160 analysis units were chosen for a detailed content analysis. The aim of the study was to determine what different positions and combinations of positions officials and service users found themselves in during online social service consultation and how service provision was affected by an official’s educational background and the phase of the social assistance process that was in progress. The results show that there are several possible combinations of outcomes and that the educational background of an answering official, as well as the phase of the process for which answers are given, have an impact on the service received.

As Neverending Story. An Inquiry into the Influence of the Fairy Tale

Diogenes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zlatinka Georgieva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Care Center ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Parental Style ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Day Care Center

The article deals with questions related to the influence of fairy tales in the modern life of young people. A survey was carried out with social service users at the Day Care Center for the Elderly with Disabilities in Veliko Tarnovo. Analyzes and outcomes are generalizations revealing the parental style of education and the influence of fairy tales during childhood.

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