Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1860808
P. Bashyam, Venus Szee Chin Ther, Ching Yee Tan
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has impacted patients with terminal illness at the end-of-life phase and their families. This paper describes how Covid-19 affected these patients’ choice of care and families’ coping, including their bereavement experiences. It also explains the role of social workers in the home hospice setting in identifying and addressing social and psychological distress faced by patients and families. Social workers play an important role in advocating for equitable access to health and social care by seeking clarity in roles, and negotiating new boundaries and restrictions set in service provisions.
{"title":"Dying at home during Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic – insight and learning from the home hospice perspective","authors":"P. Bashyam, Venus Szee Chin Ther, Ching Yee Tan","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1860808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1860808","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID-19 has impacted patients with terminal illness at the end-of-life phase and their families. This paper describes how Covid-19 affected these patients’ choice of care and families’ coping, including their bereavement experiences. It also explains the role of social workers in the home hospice setting in identifying and addressing social and psychological distress faced by patients and families. Social workers play an important role in advocating for equitable access to health and social care by seeking clarity in roles, and negotiating new boundaries and restrictions set in service provisions.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90321361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-14DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1859408
J. N. W. Khng
ABSTRACT Unprecedented levels of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic seem to have resulted in greater stress, anxiety and distress among cancer survivors. Written by a social work practitioner in the city-state of Singapore, this reflective essay hopes to lend insights on how social work practitioners could help cancer survivors better manage the impact of the double crisis of experiencing cancer in the midst of a pandemic.
{"title":"Managing the impact of COVID-19 on cancer survivors in Singapore","authors":"J. N. W. Khng","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1859408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1859408","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Unprecedented levels of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic seem to have resulted in greater stress, anxiety and distress among cancer survivors. Written by a social work practitioner in the city-state of Singapore, this reflective essay hopes to lend insights on how social work practitioners could help cancer survivors better manage the impact of the double crisis of experiencing cancer in the midst of a pandemic.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89487793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-13DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1854843
Zhihong Yu, Weijia Tan, Liya Niu
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has been a worldwide crisis. During the pandemic, social workers have proactively participated in providing support. The Good Companions Response Team is a volunteer team started by social workers in Wuhan, China and serving people living in China and Chinese communities around the world. This paper introduces the experiences of the team in the makeshift hospitals in Wuhan and the ‘4 + 1 Online-Offline Remote Support Model’ developed by the team. Our goal is to inspire social workers and other professionals in the Asian Pacific regions to work collaboratively during a similar public health emergency in the future.
{"title":"The experiences of the Good Companions Response Team during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China: a multi-professional team led by social workers","authors":"Zhihong Yu, Weijia Tan, Liya Niu","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1854843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1854843","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has been a worldwide crisis. During the pandemic, social workers have proactively participated in providing support. The Good Companions Response Team is a volunteer team started by social workers in Wuhan, China and serving people living in China and Chinese communities around the world. This paper introduces the experiences of the team in the makeshift hospitals in Wuhan and the ‘4 + 1 Online-Offline Remote Support Model’ developed by the team. Our goal is to inspire social workers and other professionals in the Asian Pacific regions to work collaboratively during a similar public health emergency in the future.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73649174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-08DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1859409
J. Kwan
ABSTRACT Low fertility rates and an ageing population have resulted in smaller and increasingly non-nuclear Singaporean families, where the geographical proximity of nuclear and extended family members increases their accessibility to one another. This cross-sectional study of 107 adolescents from low-income families, involving five social service agencies, finds that those in two-parent households without access to a grandparent exhibit more positive development than those in single-parent households with access to a grandparent, suggesting that grandparents do not necessarily substitute absent parents. The study also demonstrates the need to evaluate different measures of family structure, quality of family ties, and grandparental needs.
{"title":"Family structure, the quality of family ties, and the positive development of adolescents: the family social capital of grandparents in low-income Singaporean families","authors":"J. Kwan","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1859409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1859409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Low fertility rates and an ageing population have resulted in smaller and increasingly non-nuclear Singaporean families, where the geographical proximity of nuclear and extended family members increases their accessibility to one another. This cross-sectional study of 107 adolescents from low-income families, involving five social service agencies, finds that those in two-parent households without access to a grandparent exhibit more positive development than those in single-parent households with access to a grandparent, suggesting that grandparents do not necessarily substitute absent parents. The study also demonstrates the need to evaluate different measures of family structure, quality of family ties, and grandparental needs.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83573581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-08DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1859407
Jongserl Chun, Jinyung Kim
ABSTRACT Emergency situations render children vulnerable; hence, this study reviewed child-related policies and services in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus far, the government has proposed online health promotion programmes for children, emergency care services and allowances, and school meal delivery services. Based on these findings, we recommend the establishment of mental health, sexual abuse, and child abuse online messaging services, allocation of additional financial and educational support to low-income families, and prioritisation of childcare services.
{"title":"Child welfare policies and services during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea","authors":"Jongserl Chun, Jinyung Kim","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1859407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1859407","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Emergency situations render children vulnerable; hence, this study reviewed child-related policies and services in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus far, the government has proposed online health promotion programmes for children, emergency care services and allowances, and school meal delivery services. Based on these findings, we recommend the establishment of mental health, sexual abuse, and child abuse online messaging services, allocation of additional financial and educational support to low-income families, and prioritisation of childcare services.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83954230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1833749
S. Larmar, Merina Sunuwar, H. Sherpa, Roopshree Joshi, L. Jordan
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to serious socio-economic consequences globally. These impacts are disproportionately disruptive to vulnerable groups and low- and middle-income countries. This paper explores the case of Nepal and challenges faced by NGOs and community-based organisations (CBOs) to reduce child labour in brick production, embroidery (zari) and the carpet industry amidst the strict lockdown laws, and industry closure during the pandemic. The case of the Sakriya Project, a child protection initiative headed by World Education Inc. (WEI) Nepal illustrates challenges and opportunities for social work in building capacity to support this vulnerable population during the pandemic.
{"title":"Strengthening community engagement in Nepal during COVID-19: community-based training and development to reduce child labour","authors":"S. Larmar, Merina Sunuwar, H. Sherpa, Roopshree Joshi, L. Jordan","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1833749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1833749","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to serious socio-economic consequences globally. These impacts are disproportionately disruptive to vulnerable groups and low- and middle-income countries. This paper explores the case of Nepal and challenges faced by NGOs and community-based organisations (CBOs) to reduce child labour in brick production, embroidery (zari) and the carpet industry amidst the strict lockdown laws, and industry closure during the pandemic. The case of the Sakriya Project, a child protection initiative headed by World Education Inc. (WEI) Nepal illustrates challenges and opportunities for social work in building capacity to support this vulnerable population during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84908572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-26DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1850332
Jie Wang, I. Katz, Jiajun Li, Qiang Wu, Chunqing Dai
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for ‘Internet plus social work’ service delivery for older people. We analysed the China Family Panel Studies and the Resident Help-seeking Data and interviewed eight older people. We found that a growing age-based mobile digital divide of China in the last decade. In the pandemic, older people encountered difficulties when using mobile phones to access the internet to seek help, which highlighted the problem of the mobile digital divide. We propose that Interactive TV could be a way of enabling older people to access internet-based remote social work services.
{"title":"Mobile digital divide and older people’s access to ‘Internet plus social work’: implications from the COVID-19 help-seeking cases","authors":"Jie Wang, I. Katz, Jiajun Li, Qiang Wu, Chunqing Dai","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1850332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1850332","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for ‘Internet plus social work’ service delivery for older people. We analysed the China Family Panel Studies and the Resident Help-seeking Data and interviewed eight older people. We found that a growing age-based mobile digital divide of China in the last decade. In the pandemic, older people encountered difficulties when using mobile phones to access the internet to seek help, which highlighted the problem of the mobile digital divide. We propose that Interactive TV could be a way of enabling older people to access internet-based remote social work services.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75789366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1848616
Faezeh Akbari, Asal Sadat Niaraees Zavare, F. Rezaei
ABSTRACT Companies recently have increased the focus on performing social responsibilities. Charitable aids are one dimension of corporate social responsibility. In this regard, following the COVID-19 epidemic in Iran, private sectors (PSs) offer some assistance in wider and coherent cooperation. Therefore, PSs’ association created a campaign, where donations were allocated based on the need priorities. The campaign revived the missing link between the public and the private sectors and the NGOs (non-Governmental Organisations), and forward to achieving the goals of sustainable development.
{"title":"Private Sector Participation during the COVID-19 Epidemic in Iran: Lessons from a Practical Experience","authors":"Faezeh Akbari, Asal Sadat Niaraees Zavare, F. Rezaei","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1848616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1848616","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Companies recently have increased the focus on performing social responsibilities. Charitable aids are one dimension of corporate social responsibility. In this regard, following the COVID-19 epidemic in Iran, private sectors (PSs) offer some assistance in wider and coherent cooperation. Therefore, PSs’ association created a campaign, where donations were allocated based on the need priorities. The campaign revived the missing link between the public and the private sectors and the NGOs (non-Governmental Organisations), and forward to achieving the goals of sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76580875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1845229
Yixuan Wang, Fuhua Zhai, Q. Gao, Fei Pei
ABSTRACT Among one of the first social work studies to probe the mechanism between cultural orientations and parental distress, this study examined the mediating role of parent–child acculturation conflict among Chinese immigrant families. A sample of first-generation immigrants from mainland China to the United States (N = 268) was extracted from the Study of Asian American Families, which was conducted in New York (2011–2012), New Jersey (2013–2014), and Hawaii (2015–2017). Mediation results suggest that Chinese immigrant parents who had a stronger cultural orientation to the United States had less parent–child acculturation conflict, which in turn, lessened parental distress. For social workers, these findings echo existing theories and highlight the importance and potential arrays of cultural competence for social service delivery to support family resilience among first-generation Chinese immigrant families in the United States.
{"title":"Cultural orientations and parental distress among Chinese immigrants in the United States: the mediating role of parent–child acculturation conflict","authors":"Yixuan Wang, Fuhua Zhai, Q. Gao, Fei Pei","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1845229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1845229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Among one of the first social work studies to probe the mechanism between cultural orientations and parental distress, this study examined the mediating role of parent–child acculturation conflict among Chinese immigrant families. A sample of first-generation immigrants from mainland China to the United States (N = 268) was extracted from the Study of Asian American Families, which was conducted in New York (2011–2012), New Jersey (2013–2014), and Hawaii (2015–2017). Mediation results suggest that Chinese immigrant parents who had a stronger cultural orientation to the United States had less parent–child acculturation conflict, which in turn, lessened parental distress. For social workers, these findings echo existing theories and highlight the importance and potential arrays of cultural competence for social service delivery to support family resilience among first-generation Chinese immigrant families in the United States.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82213556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-08DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2020.1829499
Tauchid Komara Yuda, J. Damanik, Nurhadi
ABSTRACT This article seeks to examine an emerging model of social policy governance during the COVID-19 crisis. Our observation indicates although positive welfare model reform that leads to protective-developmental orientation is underway, there remains important issues that need to be addressed. We recommend developing a community-based support system that is able to capture the community’s needs based on their real-time conditions, especially for vulnerable groups which have often been neglected. This system would provide better direction for governments, NGOs, and donors to more effectively allocate resources to communities, and be applicable should a similar crisis arise in the future.
{"title":"Examining emerging social policy during COVID-19 in Indonesia and the case for a community-based support system","authors":"Tauchid Komara Yuda, J. Damanik, Nurhadi","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2020.1829499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2020.1829499","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article seeks to examine an emerging model of social policy governance during the COVID-19 crisis. Our observation indicates although positive welfare model reform that leads to protective-developmental orientation is underway, there remains important issues that need to be addressed. We recommend developing a community-based support system that is able to capture the community’s needs based on their real-time conditions, especially for vulnerable groups which have often been neglected. This system would provide better direction for governments, NGOs, and donors to more effectively allocate resources to communities, and be applicable should a similar crisis arise in the future.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80470530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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