Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2234633
C. Stock, Maggie May Kerinaiua Punguatji, Aileen Tiparui, Kate Louise Johnston, C. Cubillo, G. Robinson
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2234632
Fiona Robinson, N. Midgley
{"title":"Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting","authors":"Fiona Robinson, N. Midgley","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2023.2234632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2023.2234632","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43791926","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 : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2234630
W. Tsang, T. Chan, Chiung-Tao Shen, Jwu-Shang Chen
{"title":"Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma","authors":"W. Tsang, T. Chan, Chiung-Tao Shen, Jwu-Shang Chen","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2023.2234630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2023.2234630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47020768","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 : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2241978
A. Whittaker, Gloria Kirwan
We begin this editorial with the sad news of the death of Andrew Cooper, former Editor of this journal and Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Andrew’s contribution to the social work profession over many decades has been considerable and his loss will be felt by many nationally and internationally. We offer our deepest condolences to his family, friends and all whose lives he has touched. The articles in this issue address both new topics and novel ways of approaching enduring issues faced by social work practitioners and academics. Across many fields of practice, including child protection, healthcare, mental health and addictions, the authors bring a focus to the psychosocial and emotional challenges of social work practice. They address a range of important topics, ranging from emerging issues such as the emotional impact of climate change and the need to decolonise the university curriculum to the ongoing challenges of supporting client self-determination and providing high quality supervision. The first two articles address contemporary issues. The first by Aseel Takshe, Zahra Hashi, Marwa Mohammed and Annisa Astari, explores the concept of eco-anxiety as the ‘chronic fear of environmental doom’. Increased environmental instability combined with an increasingly hyperconnected world has raised awareness of climate change and the challenges to sustainability. Using a Q methodology to analyse the discourses of four stakeholder groups, the study found five distinct discourses that examined the connection between environmental awareness and psychological well-being, coming to terms with emotional responses to climate change, the importance of climate change, awareness about eco-anxiety leading to a more positive outlook, and a disbelief that eco-anxiety and climate change can affect mental well-being. Reflecting upon the emotional labour of decolonising social work curricula is the focus in the second article by Farrukh Akhtar. The Black Lives Matters movement has fostered global calls to decolonise the university curriculum, which is particularly felt within disciplines such as social work that have a commitment to anti-oppressive practice and addressing social injustice. This requires a process of questioning and reflection that can be challenging, and dependent upon the moral virtues of courage, honesty and justice in educators. The article explores a critical incident that highlighted some of the challenges and complexities involved and highlights how psychoanalytic ideas can be helpful in the process. The value of theory in understanding enduring challenges is continued in the next two articles. The first by Jo Williams examines the value of attachment theory in understanding the process of supervision. Based upon a literature review using a critical interpretive synthesis, the article explores attachment patterns and the supervision dyad and how the supervision process is influenced by attachment dyn
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2211227
Cathleen M. Morey
{"title":"Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach","authors":"Cathleen M. Morey","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2023.2211227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2023.2211227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45252501","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 : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2206116
Arlene Weekes
ABSTRACT Today, most social care decisions in the UK are made by groups of professionals, often known as panels. Given the importance of these decisions, which often determine the future of children and adults, it is important that they produce optimal outcomes for all concerned. This article investigates the impact of the management of these meetings in achieving the best possible outcomes. In particular, it sets out to understand in greater depth how psychoanalytic factors impact on individual and group thinking, and seeks to identify aspects of meeting management, such as effective chairing, which could minimise the impact of these factors. To achieve this, the operation of adoption and fostering panels in the UK was observed, and the data analysed to determine the factors which most affect panel performance. The study identified four themes of meeting management relevant to social care, and other, meetings, that could improve decision making. These themes are task focus, structure and organisation, professionalism and scrutiny.
{"title":"The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels","authors":"Arlene Weekes","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2023.2206116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2023.2206116","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Today, most social care decisions in the UK are made by groups of professionals, often known as panels. Given the importance of these decisions, which often determine the future of children and adults, it is important that they produce optimal outcomes for all concerned. This article investigates the impact of the management of these meetings in achieving the best possible outcomes. In particular, it sets out to understand in greater depth how psychoanalytic factors impact on individual and group thinking, and seeks to identify aspects of meeting management, such as effective chairing, which could minimise the impact of these factors. To achieve this, the operation of adoption and fostering panels in the UK was observed, and the data analysed to determine the factors which most affect panel performance. The study identified four themes of meeting management relevant to social care, and other, meetings, that could improve decision making. These themes are task focus, structure and organisation, professionalism and scrutiny.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42488261","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 : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2207728
Isobel Moore, P. Archard
{"title":"Interrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives","authors":"Isobel Moore, P. Archard","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2023.2207728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2023.2207728","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46058585","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 : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2207726
J. Koprowska
{"title":"Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work","authors":"J. Koprowska","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2023.2207726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2023.2207726","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"277 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44567447","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 : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2162490
L. Allain, Helen Hingley‐Jones, Tricia McQuarrie, Helen Gleeson, Diane Apeah-Kubi, Bola Ogunnaike, Sarah Lewis-Brooke
ABSTRACT Support approaches and interventions to keep families together are major goals in family welfare services. Different service models are used including some targeted at families where the assessment is part of family court pre-proceedings. Although outcomes of family interventions have been extensively researched, there is limited recent research regarding the subjective experiences of young people, their parents/carers and professionals who experience an intervention where they all live together for a short period and where mutually agreed goals and a family programme are co-created. This article presents findings from an exploratory qualitative study into a residential family learning project where families from an English inner-city local authority and professionals reside together for up to a week with engagement in intensive family work. Findings revealed mixed experiences of the intervention with a key theme being that a sense of time and space allowed the families to reflect and listen to each other’s perspectives leading to relationships improving and shifting. However, despite positive changes being made during the intervention sustaining these changes when returning home was often challenging. Findings, which are linked to the systemic idea of punctuation where families saw professionals differently and vice versa, had particular significance for families experiencing social and economic deprivation.
{"title":"Young people on the ‘edge of care’: perspectives regarding a residential family intervention programme using social pedagogic and systemic approaches- striving for ‘humane practice’","authors":"L. Allain, Helen Hingley‐Jones, Tricia McQuarrie, Helen Gleeson, Diane Apeah-Kubi, Bola Ogunnaike, Sarah Lewis-Brooke","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2162490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2162490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Support approaches and interventions to keep families together are major goals in family welfare services. Different service models are used including some targeted at families where the assessment is part of family court pre-proceedings. Although outcomes of family interventions have been extensively researched, there is limited recent research regarding the subjective experiences of young people, their parents/carers and professionals who experience an intervention where they all live together for a short period and where mutually agreed goals and a family programme are co-created. This article presents findings from an exploratory qualitative study into a residential family learning project where families from an English inner-city local authority and professionals reside together for up to a week with engagement in intensive family work. Findings revealed mixed experiences of the intervention with a key theme being that a sense of time and space allowed the families to reflect and listen to each other’s perspectives leading to relationships improving and shifting. However, despite positive changes being made during the intervention sustaining these changes when returning home was often challenging. Findings, which are linked to the systemic idea of punctuation where families saw professionals differently and vice versa, had particular significance for families experiencing social and economic deprivation.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"247 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43550069","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 : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2023.2207729
Gary Broderick, G. Kirwan, Brian Melaugh, H. Loughran
ABSTRACT This article reports on a poverty awareness project which was conducted by participants and staff based in an organisation for women affected by addiction and poverty. Through the application of material ethnography methods, this initiative led to the creation of a set of artefacts which culminated in the exhibition titled, Object Poverty. This article traces the history of this initiative and its effectiveness in building poverty awareness within and external to the host organisation.
{"title":"The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition","authors":"Gary Broderick, G. Kirwan, Brian Melaugh, H. Loughran","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2023.2207729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2023.2207729","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reports on a poverty awareness project which was conducted by participants and staff based in an organisation for women affected by addiction and poverty. Through the application of material ethnography methods, this initiative led to the creation of a set of artefacts which culminated in the exhibition titled, Object Poverty. This article traces the history of this initiative and its effectiveness in building poverty awareness within and external to the host organisation.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"199 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46133598","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}