Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2215654
Jochen Devlieghere, R. Roose
In this year’s fourth issue, we take a closer look at social work education and social work as a profession. To better understand the history of social work education, we have to go back as early as the end of the nineteenth century. This is when social work education programmes were first established. The first full-time curricula for social work emerge in the early twentieth century. At the time, however, this was not evident as there was debate as to whether social work was a real profession. This debate – the so-called Flexner debate – was triggered started in 1915 at the 42nd National Conference of Charities and Correction in Baltimore, where Abraham Flexner addressed the audience. At the time, Flexner contributed to the recognition of medical practice as a scientific profession and was considered an authority in his field. At the conference, he claimed that social work, unlike medicine, was not a true scientific profession. According to him, social work was too abstract and works with unclear objectives to be recognised as a scientific profession. He also pointed out in that social work mainly relied on other ‘real’ professionals – such as medicine and psychology – to solve problems they faced. Although the debate on what kind of professional social work is, is still ongoing, more and more social work education programmes were emerging, and the Global definition of social work also recognised it as an academic discipline. With this issue, we further highlight some of these professionalisation debates and their significance for social work in general and social work education in particular. In this way, we hope to further stimulate the debate on social work as a profession. We wish you much reading pleasure.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2221829
Alexander Huber
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2219917
Niels Rosendal Jensen
This review could carry the title ‘ The many faces of power in social work – what ’ s to be done? ’ This is a textbook for social work students presenting and discussing the multifaceted problem of power by means of various theories and empirical fi ndings. It is not only a plain textbook but has become a standard work in social work and social pedagogical studies. The textbook is challenging as it wres-tles with an issue that exists in human relations – but an issue which at the same time is – allows me an exaggeration – a somehow blind spot in research. It is a truism that social work exerts in fl uence and power in its interactions with respect to its clients and to society, too. As a practice, it maintains a critical attitude towards power, though relations of power are surrounding as well as penetrating social work. Moreover, the relations between professionals and clients are not balanced but uneven concerning power. This is the fi rst challenge when dealing with interactions. As a second challenge, social work is dependent on other social forces, among other things its dependence or embeddedness in political power structures. The third challenge is to re fl ect itself as a societal force aiming at changing society by means of its potential for innovation. Bearing this purpose in mind, the book deals with power shaped by many contributions who on their side draw on a plethora of positions – critical-theoretical, agency-oriented, constructivist, etc. Despite the various perspectives, the basic purpose is to analyse social work as a practice as well as an academic discourse.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2219033
Rahel More
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Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2219914
Anca Mihai
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Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2219918
Niels Rosendal Jensen
pendent self, mind-body dualism, and culture as separate from biology are unfamiliar to many philosophies, and are rooted in Christian and liberal humanist beliefs. There is also a serious question about the relationship between social work and the state, however that is structured. Human rights may be defined differently by different philosophies, and social workers need to decide whether they are prepared to be agents of social control. The question is not whether Westernstyle social workers can work in state-controlled systems: it is whether social harmony can be achieved by state action, or whether it arises from action within natural communities. Henrickson gives enough detail of Confucian and Buddhist approaches to make one wish that he had started at this point, but that is ungenerous. One might hope that he would now go on himself to explore these and other approaches in proper detail. Some of his references provide signposts for those who wish to do the work themselves. He cites the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles, of 2018, as a valuable foundation for future work, but this can only be effective if there is a serious attempt by social workers everywhere, to recognise how the profession is dominated by Western culture. This seems to be the real challenge of the book. The long argument about the origins of western social work does not open one’s eyes to the alternatives. Henrickson does eventually recognise that there are historical forms of social aid in other cultures, but suggests that these are social care, rather than professional social work. This needs elaboration.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2219413
S. Lonbay, C. Southall
{"title":"Identifying and responding to domestic abuse in the older population: key challenges and complexities","authors":"S. Lonbay, C. Southall","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2219413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2219413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46567514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2219915
Anca Mihai
recognised as both a material and a symbolic/relational phenomenon. This recognition encompasses several facets: the emotional pain associated with poverty, the needs and knowledge of service users, and the ways in which service users resist poverty. In the PAP, people in poverty are seen as agents who actively resist poverty in their daily lives, both explicitly and indirectly, in conditions of severe lack of economic and symbolic capital. This perspective
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Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2219417
Ibrahim Mahajne
{"title":"Arab social workers navigating multiple jobs in Israel: a qualitative investigation of their experiences","authors":"Ibrahim Mahajne","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2219417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2219417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45802823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2220263
P. Higham
{"title":"Ambivalences of inclusion in society and social work. Research-based reflections in four European Countries","authors":"P. Higham","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2220263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2220263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":"26 1","pages":"966 - 967"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41749814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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