Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2023.2186460
C. Maylea, Lucy Bashfield, Sherie Thomas, Bawa Kuyini, Kate Fitt, Robyn Buchanan
ABSTRACT Parents and guardians in child protection systems are in unequal power relationships with child protection practitioners. This relationship is experienced as exclusionary or even oppressive by many parents and guardians. For families and communities in the child protection system who experience intersectional discrimination and disadvantage, such as people with intellectual disabilities and First Nations people, this unequal relationship and subsequent potential exclusion and oppression can be even more profound. A growing body of literature indicates that advocacy can assist in addressing unequal relationships in other contexts, such as involuntary mental health. This paper explores the role of representational advocacy in supporting parents in child protection settings through a case study of an advocacy service in Victoria, Australia. Using a human rights framework to guide the analysis, the paper highlights how advocacy can help support rights, but that broader structural change will be required to consistently uphold the rights of parents.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2023.2178328
Claire Dorrity
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2023.2173794
J. O’Riordan, Felicity Daly, C. Loughnane, C. Kelleher, Claire Edwards
ABSTRACT CareVisions (2022–2026) is an interdisciplinary researcj project reflecting on care experiences during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic to re-imagine care relations, practices and policies in Ireland and internationally. Inspired by feminist ethics of care perspectives and Irish traditions of relatedness and living in the community, epitomised in the quote: Is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine (We live in each other's shadow and in each other's shelter) (Higgins, M. 2021. Letter from the President of Ireland to the President of the United States of America, 20thJanuary 2021. Accessed 18 January 2022. https://twitter.com/PresidentIRL/status/1352162151817949184?s=20Q2), CareVisions prioritises the creation of deliberative and participative spaces to enable care debates from a wide and diverse range of voices. Thus, the project's essence required examination of and attention to ‘care-full' internal and external working relations. Informed by an advisory group comprised of care practitioners, researchers and activists, CareVisions' ethical statement recognises that adopting this approach requires a focus on ‘a dialogic and narrative form of practice' (Barnes et al. 2015b:238).This paper focuses on the process of conceptualising, operationalising and illustrating a feminist ethics of care from the early stages of the project’s development and in approaching its empirical studies.
CareVisions(2022-2026)是一个跨学科的研究项目，反映了2019冠状病毒病大流行期间和之后的护理经验，以重新想象爱尔兰和国际上的护理关系、实践和政策。受女权主义伦理关怀观点和爱尔兰传统的关系和生活在社区的启发，概括在这句话中:我们生活在彼此的阴影和彼此的庇护下scáth a ch ile a mhaireann na daoine。爱尔兰总统给美利坚合众国总统的信，2021年1月20日。于2022年1月18日发布。https://twitter.com/PresidentIRL/status/1352162151817949184?s=20Q2)， CareVisions优先考虑创造协商和参与空间，使护理辩论能够来自广泛和多样化的声音。因此，项目的本质需要仔细检查和关注内部和外部的工作关系。由护理从业者、研究人员和活动家组成的咨询小组告知，CareVisions的道德声明承认，采用这种方法需要关注“对话和叙事形式的实践”(Barnes et al. 2015b:238)。本文侧重于概念化，操作化和说明从项目发展的早期阶段和接近其实证研究的女权主义伦理的过程。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2023.2172197
G. Schweiger
ABSTRACT In Austria, foster parents are screened and selected by local child and youth welfare services, and then they are required to complete several weeks of training. This essay is a personal reflection on this training, which I completed with my wife in early 2022. However, I am also writing this personal reflection from an ethical perspective informed by my work as an ethicist and philosopher at the university. Topics that concern me are the understanding of child and youth welfare, the parental role of foster parents, the focus of the training on practical knowledge from experience, and the relationship between experts and foster parents.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2022.2159310
David Alvargonzález
ABSTRACT Three recent studies carried out in the Spanish regions of Madrid, Valencia, and Murcia have shown that medical residents at public hospitals are systematically required to work for more than 48 hours a week. This practice is institutionalised, and there are indicators suggesting that it also occurs in other public hospitals throughout Spain. The obligation to work excessive hours has been shown to have harmful consequences for workers’ physical and psychological health while jeopardizing residents’ and patients’ safety. I argue that behaviours contrary to people’s health and safety imply bioethical and, in this case, institutional, malpractice.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2022.2073381
Emily Keddell
ABSTRACT This article conceptualises theories of ethics relevant to the recognised problem of decision variability in child protection. Within this field, social workers are faced with multiple ethical imperatives when making decisions about children’s care. They must respond to justice principles concerned with duties and consequences, as well as ethical obligations created by the relational and contextual elements of each case. Recent scholarship on decision variability highlights the justice issues that arise when decisions in response to apparently similar cases differ. An ethical imperative is that similar cases should be treated ‘like for like’ so that children’s and family’s rights are upheld consistently. This article contends that ethical concepts relating to both universalist duties such as respect for persons, extended by the concept of interactive universalism, and contextual responses based on an ethic of care, help theorise the complexities of ethical decisions in child protection. These concepts develop a nuanced understanding of the ways social workers resist risk discourses, may make decisions reflecting the participation of service users, and contextual evaluations of risk based on understanding service user’s life histories. Understanding this combination helps explain the reasons behind variability, and evaluate the moral acceptability or otherwise of apparently variable decisions.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2022.2159294
D. Watson, N. Perry
ABSTRACT The Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) has a pivotal role in a decision to detain an individual under the Mental Health Act 1983. This article is a reflective account demonstrating how a solution-focused approach can enable an AMHP to engage constructively with the person being assessed and apply the values of anti-oppressive practice. Using a solution-focused approach enables a creative and empowering discussion of risk and may lead to a less restrictive outcome. These techniques should be part of the training and ongoing education of AMHPs.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-27DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2022.2149831
Francesca Ribenfors, Lauren Blood
ABSTRACT This article draws attention to the ethical complexity researchers may be confronted with during fieldwork should an adult participant with intellectual disabilities disclose that harm or an illegal activity is occurring or has occurred in the past. The need to gain ethical approval and the positioning of people with intellectual disabilities as vulnerable within ethics review procedures can result in the adoption of paternalistic approaches as researchers are encouraged to break confidentiality to report concerns to other professionals. Whilst this may fulfil a researcher’s duty to ensure no harm occurs to participants, if it takes place against the participant’s wishes it may also violate participant autonomy, reinforce unequal relations of power, and may unwittingly contribute to subsequent harm occurring. Whilst the article begins from our experience as two UK-based researchers working with people with intellectual disabilities, it draws on existing literature and guidelines to expose the ethical tensions which may be encountered. It is intended that the paper acts as a starting point for researchers wishing to reflect on their practice and ethical decision-making, whilst contributing to wider debates on the position of people with intellectual disabilities within society.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2022.2147203
Cornelius Dudzai, R. K. Chigangaidze
ABSTRACT Faced with the serious threat of the deadly coronavirus, governments of different nations were swift to respond to the pandemic by declaring national lockdowns. Having confirmed fewer than ten cases of coronavirus that had tested positive, Zimbabwe called for a national lockdown which initially lasted three weeks before declaring it ‘indefinite’. Despite the fact that the lockdown declared in Zimbabwe was in the interest of public health, anecdotal evidence indicates that there has been an inextricable nexus between the lockdown and increased corrupt tendencies. This paper, which is a product of qualitative research, utilised a narrative research approach and documentary analysis to explicate the relationship between Zimbabwe’s coronavirus lockdown and corruption. The paper looks at the different forms of corruption that occurred during the coronavirus lockdown in Zimbabwe and the implication of these on the well-being and welfare of economically vulnerable groups. In conclusion, the paper indicates the role that can be played by pro-human rights professionals such as social workers in the fight against corruption during emergency times to ensure transparency and accountability.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-13DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2022.2134907
S. C. Simplican, Ross Graham, Sarah Suiter, Daniel R. Morrison
ABSTRACT Joan Tronto’s new paradigm of caring democracy bases citizenship on the need to ensure that all people receive and provide care equitably. But how exactly are citizens motivated to take up these caring responsibilities? The writings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) co-founder William ‘Bill’ Wilson provide one answer: he pathologizes the alcoholic – dooming him to inevitable relapse and death – to compel AA members to accept shared vulnerability and mutual care as the bedrock of sobriety and AA society. Wilson returns repeatedly to the threat of death to convince AA members to carry out their newfound caring and democratic responsibilities. We use Wilson’s thinking, as well as Michel Foucault’s work on biopower, to forward the concept of biocaring democracy, in which the acceptance of shared pathology compels people to care for each other but also limits their democratic responsibilities. More broadly, our analysis suggests how hinging democracy to shared vulnerability may constrain the radical possibilities that Tronto envisions.
琼·特朗托的关怀民主新范式将公民身份建立在确保所有人公平接受和提供关怀的必要性之上。但是，公民究竟是如何被激励去承担这些关怀责任的呢?匿名戒酒会(Alcoholics Anonymous, AA)联合创始人威廉·“比尔”·威尔逊(William ' Bill ' Wilson)的著作提供了一个答案:他把嗜酒者病态化——注定了他们不可避免的复吸和死亡——迫使匿名戒酒会成员接受共同的脆弱和相互关怀，这是戒酒和匿名戒酒会社会的基石。威尔逊反复以死亡相威胁来说服AA成员履行他们新发现的关怀和民主责任。我们利用威尔逊的思想，以及米歇尔·福柯(Michel Foucault)关于生物权力的研究，提出了生物关怀民主的概念，在这个概念中，对共同病理的接受迫使人们相互关心，但也限制了他们的民主责任。更广泛地说，我们的分析表明，将民主与共同的脆弱性挂钩，可能会限制特伦托设想的激进可能性。
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