Holistic Engagement and White Neoliberal Social Work: Resistance or Accommodation?

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK Journal of Progressive Human Services Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI:10.1080/10428232.2023.2259782
Darren Cosgrove, Loretta Pyles
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ABSTRACTThe article situates key themes on holistic engagement practice (HEP) within the context of white neoliberal social work practice. Through a secondary analysis of qualitative data using a critical phenomenological framework, the authors analyze the narratives of social workers who completed a 2-day training on holistically engaged social work practice and reflected on the impacts of the training on their work and lives. The authors explore the role that neoliberal structures, along with social work culture, training and institutional expectations, play in the meaning participants assign to HEP, and their ability to engage such practices in their daily personal and professional lives. Findings reveal themes around the culture of busyness, self-care as a means to an end, the challenges of vulnerability, and importance of relational social work. These findings shed light on the structural and cultural changes needed in the profession to embody whole person practice. Implications focus on needed structural changes in organizations and in social work education, as well as the need for practitioners to have opportunities for longer- term immersion in holistic practices.KEYWORDS: Holisticcritical social workcolonizationqualitative secondary analysis Disclosure statementNeither author(s) has any conflicts of interest to declare.Additional informationFundingFunding to support this research was provided by the University at Albany’s S Faculty Research Awards Program.
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整体参与与白人新自由主义社会工作:抵抗还是适应?
摘要本文在白人新自由主义社会工作实践的背景下,对整体参与实践(HEP)的关键主题进行了定位。通过使用批判性现象学框架对定性数据进行二次分析,作者分析了完成为期两天的全面参与社会工作实践培训的社会工作者的叙述,并反思了培训对他们的工作和生活的影响。作者探讨了新自由主义结构,以及社会工作文化,培训和制度期望,在参与者赋予HEP的意义中所起的作用,以及他们在日常个人和职业生活中参与此类实践的能力。调查结果揭示了围绕忙碌文化的主题,自我照顾是达到目的的一种手段,脆弱性的挑战,以及关系社会工作的重要性。这些发现揭示了在职业中体现全人实践所需的结构和文化变革。影响集中在组织和社会工作教育中需要的结构变化,以及从业者有机会长期沉浸在整体实践中的需要。关键词:整体批判社会工作殖民化定性二次分析披露声明作者均无任何利益冲突需要申报。支持这项研究的资金是由奥尔巴尼大学的教师研究奖励计划提供的。
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期刊介绍: The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.
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