scholarly journals Activating the Practice of Social Work in Confronting Intellectual Extremism of University Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1086-1096
Author(s):  
Mostafa Mohamed Ahmed Elfeky ◽  
Muhammed Abu-El Hamd Sayed Ahmed ◽  
Walid Atef Mansour Elsayad ◽  
Mohammed DAhim Faihan Alotaibi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Youth Welfare ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Generalist Practice ◽  
Descriptive Method

The study aimed to Determine the level of the professional practice of social work in confronting the intellectual extremism with university youth. determine the relation between the level of professional practice of social work in confronting the intellectual extremism for university youth and variables (gender, geographical territory of faculty, specialization of faculty, age, qualification, training courses), And Rais a group of procedural suggestions to activate the professional practice of social work in confronting the intellectual extremism with university youth, The study used the descriptive method through a social survey applied in youth welfare departments in faculties of Al – Azhar University in all governorates a questionnaire was applied on (128) social workers, The results showed that level of social workers’ practice at Youth Care offices, Al Azhar University from perspective of the generalist practice in dealing with intellectual extremism phenomenon reached 60.14% which is a medium ratio that reflects weakness of familiarity with knowledge and skills of generalist practice of social work and hence weakness of ability to employ social work profession in dealing with various systems related to intellectual extremism phenomenon.

Requirements for the development of a professional social work practice with groups in light of Saudi Vision 2030

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282095938
Author(s):  
Fatma F Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Vision 2030

This descriptive-analytical study aims to identify the requirements of professional practice of social work with groups to achieve the 2030 vision. The researcher utilized the scientific method in a comprehensive social survey of members at the Faculty of Social Work, Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University, and with a random sample of social workers, and the sample consisted of teaching staff members ( n = 26) and social workers ( n = 35). The study found a set of cognitive, skill, value, and institutional requirements that are needed in the method used for working with groups in order to keep pace with new social developments.

Qualitative Research Habits and the BSW Student: Preparing Competent Generalist Practitioners

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne A. Unrau ◽  
Heather Coleman ◽  
Cheryl Stampley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Generalist Practice ◽  
Practice Framework

Integrating research with practice is not common among social workers. Social work educators are challenged with the problem of teaching BSW students to include research knowledge and skills as they build their generalist practice framework. This article introduces five research habits that can easily fit into existing curricula. Developing research habits is a new strategy that may increase students' use of research knowledge and skills both during and after their BSW education. The five research habits are based on a qualitative research paradigm but are general enough that they can be woven into all BSW courses throughout the curriculum.

Political Social Work: An Essential Component of the Profession

2021 ◽  
pp. 359-381
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Social Work Faculty ◽  
Field Placements ◽  
High Level ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Work Knowledge ◽  
Initial Results

Social workers have played a key role in political settings from the profession’s historic roots to present day. Their knowledge, skills and values position social workers to practice in political settings. Social work faculty and students were interviewed to assess a) how field placements in legislative offices and participation in Campaign School and NASW-sponsored Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) impacted students’ professional development and perspectives on political social work, and b) social work faculties’ perception of these activities in students’ social work education and necessary political social work knowledge and skills. Initial results demonstrate a high level of support for these activities among faculty and students with opportunities to further include them in the explicit and implicit social work curriculum.

Reconfiguring professional autonomy? The case of social work in the UK

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Chandler ◽  
Elisabeth Berg ◽  
Marion Ellison ◽  
Jim Barry
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk

This chapter discusses the contemporary position of social work in the United Kingdom, and in particular the challenges to what is seen as a managerial-technicist version of social work. The chapter begins with focus on the situation from the 1990s to the present day in which this version of social work takes root and flourishes. The discussion then concentrates on three different routes away from a managerial-technicist social work: the first, reconfiguring professional practice in the direction of evaluation in practice, the second ‘reclaiming social work’ on the Hackney relationship-based model and the third ‘reclaiming social work’ in a more radical, highly politicised way. Special attention is devoted to a discussion about how much autonomy the social workers have in different models, but also what kind of autonomy and for what purpose.

Virtual Communities of Practice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Pender Greene
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Virtual Communities Of Practice

Sociologists and social workers have long been invested in understanding the role of communities in shaping identities and influencing behavior; however, the study of virtual communities is still new despite the dramatic ways in which online social networks have replaced traditional, geographically bound conceptions of community. The present article briefly reviews some of the early theories of community that have influenced practically all scholars studying computer-mediated virtual communities. The focus then shifts toward an analysis of early, important theorists focusing on virtual communities. The article concludes by examining contemporary research and practices utilizing virtual communities in social work, with a particular emphasis on ways to integrate virtual communities into professional practice.

scholarly journals A reafirmação do Projeto Ético-Político do Serviço Social: um desafio urgente

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Fabiana Aparecida de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Study Group ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Paradoxical Movement ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
And Training

O presente artigo reflete a necessidade urgente e contemporânea acerca da reafirmação do Projeto Ético-Político da categoria do Serviço Social. Através da participação de alguns fóruns de articulação profissional de base, como reuniões de comissões de conselhos de direito, grupo de estudos e eventos de formação profissional, como palestras e seminários em diversos municípios de diferentes Estados brasileiros, deparei-me com inúmeras assistentes sociais que questionam a legitimidade do Projeto Ético-Político, bem como do próprio Código de Ética da profissão. Trata-se de um evento que destaca um movimento paradoxal entre a academia e a base profissional. Nesse sentido, propõe-se o convite à (re)visitação a esses princípios e à reafirmação dos mesmos. Compreendendo assim, que a práxis profissional deve alcançar a práxis social e materializar-se em lutas políticas em favor de um novo modelo societário, que não seja o capitalismo e a sua insaciável sede de lucro e mais valia. Um modelo que não justifique suas crises capitais para adensar a miséria de muitos seres humanos. Abstract: This article reflects the urgent and contemporary about the reaffirmation of the ethicalpolitical project of the category of Social Work. Through participation in some forums to articulate professional basis, including meetings of committees of boards of law, the study group and training events such as lectures and seminars in various cities of different states of Brazil, I came across numerous social workers who question the legitimacy of the Ethical Political Project, as well as the Code of Ethics of the profession. This is an event that highlights a paradoxical movement between academia and professional basis. Accordingly, it is proposed to call for (re) visitation to the reaffirmation of these principles and the same. Understanding then, that professional practice must achieve social praxis and effect in political struggles in favor of a new corporate model, that is not capitalism and its insatiable thirst for profit and added value. A model that does not justify their attacks to capital deepening the misery of many humans.

scholarly journals Methods of reducing the obstacles facing families of Quadriplegia patients from the viewpoint of families and social workers: أساليب الحد من المعوقات التي تواجه أسر ذوي الشلل الرباعي من وجهة نظر الأسر والأخصائيين الاجتماعيين

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waleed Abdullah Alsaloom
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Support Methods ◽  
Professional Intervention

The study aimed to know the methods of reducing the obstacles facing the families of quadriplegic patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from their point of view and from the point of view of social workers. To achieve the goal of the study, the researcher used the Social Survey Methodology, and the study sample consisted of (120) of the families of quadriplegic patients, in addition to (70) social workers, and the researcher used the questionnaire as a study tool. The results of the study showed that the families of those with quadriplegia agree to methods of reducing obstacles that confront them with an average of (4.08) and that the most important of these methods are as follows: Increasing the social worker’s awareness of the professional intervention methods during the crisis, the need for the social worker to understand the tasks that he must perform towards the families of quadriplegic patients, educating the families of the importance of the social worker’s intervention and revealing the problems they face, especially social and economic, providing training courses for the specialist on support methods for families of quadriplegia patients. The results of the study also showed the approval of the social workers on methods to reduce the obstacles facing families of quadriplegia patients with an average of (4.04), and the most important of these methods are the following: Increased awareness of the social worker with methods of professional intervention during the crisis, the need for the social worker to understand the tasks that he must perform towards the families of quadriplegic patients, Sensitizing families on the importance of social worker intervention and revealing problems they face, especially social and economic, providing training courses for the specialist on methods of support for families of quadriplegia patients.

Social work in the face of emerging technologies: A technological acceptance study in 13 countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110416
Author(s):  
Evaristo Barrera-Algarín ◽  
José Luís Sarasola-Sánchez-Serrano ◽  
Alberto Sarasola-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Face ◽  
Clear Identification ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Relationship

Significant technological advances have taken place in recent years, especially in ICT, which are rapidly transforming the different professions, including social work. We want to verify the degree of technological acceptance of social workers at the international level and how the relationship between professional practice and the use of new technological possibilities is established. For this purpose we applied a specialized questionnaire and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) scale, to 1144 social workers from 13 countries. A high degree of technological acceptance is detected; a clear identification between professional practice, the use of technological advances, and their connection with NASW standards.

Recontextualization

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Linette Ann Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
South America ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Community Solidarity

The concept of recontextualization has received minimal attention in social work literature. Exploring the practical and political ways in which social work has been re-constructed in contexts different to mainstream human services is the focus of this chapter. By linking recontextualization with social work, the authors are extending its meaning beyond what it had come to mean to date. Reflecting upon the authors' lived praxis experience provides insights into how their wish to explore recontextualization in social work features at different stages in their own journeys. Contributions from social workers in Africa, Asia-Pacific, South America, and Australia provide a kaleidoscope of ways in which social work is being recontextualized. Some of the ways they achieve this is by reframing social work within the post-human space and integrating Ubuntu philosophy, which highlights Indigenous knowledge, wisdom, and relationships encompassing all people and their environments, enabling interconnectedness and community solidarity for collective power in professional practice and political activism.

Theorising social workers’ experiences of self‑conscious emotions

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Matthew Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Defensive Strategy ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
The Moment

This chapter provides a conceptual framework to understand the processes, relevant to self-conscious emotions, through which social workers come to acquiesce or resist organisational attempts at control. It first outlines the research on compliance and resistance in social work practice before developing and extending these ideas through the analysis of pride and shame in professional practice. Drawing on Oliver’s (1991) analysis of strategic responses within organisations to wider institutional processes, how social workers perform professional practice in the context of organisational attempts at control, and the strategies that social workers employ to manage the organisational pressures, expectations and demands, are outlined. While some social workers can actively identify with the organisational representation in the moment, motivating them to enact its meanings and expectations, some reluctantly identify with it as a defensive strategy to avoid being shamed and humiliated, motivating them to comply despite reservation. However, some social workers, in some contexts, resist the organisational representation, feeling unable to comply, and, therefore, seek to compromise what they are expected to do, conceal their acts of resistance or influence the source of organisational attempts at control.

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