Pub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2162492
Brynulf Bakkenget, Eystein Victor Våpenstad
ABSTRACT The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) gives the right to participate and be heard in situations that affect their lives to all children, even pre-verbal children and infants. Even so, infants are often denied the right to participate because they don’t possess verbal language. But the last 50 years of infant research has shown how infants powerfully communicate their intentions in quite refined ways. The crux of the matter is to develop methods to find the voice of pre-verbal children, that is: to register their impact on us and decode their influence into common language and practical action. A research project building on intersubjectivity and qualitative methodology grounded in a depth-hermeneutical interpretation of narratives made by parents before and after birth of their first child is outlined. We describe the epistemological foundation and the procedures of the research project from data collection to interpretation.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-16DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2097209
Joe Whelan
ABSTRACT Poverty aware practice suggests that understanding poverty and its effects can, in turn, shape practice. Arguably, this understanding is something that should underpin social work processes from referral, to assessment, through to intervention. Yet just what it means to experience poverty with respect to the day to days lives of those who do often remains ‘hidden in statistics’. This article goes beyond statistics to relate understandings of poverty to lived experience. The method for doing so consists of taking up a definition of poverty developed as part of the National Anti-Poverty Strategy in Ireland in the 90s and juxtaposing this with an unblemished snapshot into the lives of persons experiencing poverty. In doing so, it is shown that those who experience poverty do so in an excluded social space which consists of material disadvantage but also instability, the inability to take part in society and experiences of social demotion.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-16DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2162491
Darka Kovič, Aisling McMahon
ABSTRACT The experience of power dynamics for five Irish supervisees attending transdisciplinary workplace supervision was explored through in-depth interviews and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Three superordinate themes were identified: Struggling to find my place in the organisation; Navigating through vulnerability; and Clicking into relationship. The supervision relationship was a source of both vulnerability and empowerment for supervisees, and it took time to build trust and safety for greater openness. The team and organisational context, and perceived status differences in transdisciplinary supervision, impacted supervisees’ experience of vulnerability and power. This study illuminates the under-researched area of power dynamics within workplace supervision with qualified practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2022-02-07DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2034767
Lenore M McWey, Ming Cui, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak
Positive family relationships are important for child well-being. However, family relationships are unique for youth in out-of-home child welfare placements because they involve both biological and foster parents. The aim of this study was to test the interactive association between current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents on youths' externalizing symptoms using a sample representative of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements in the United States. Findings supported a significant interaction between current caregiver involvement and the amount of biological parent contact on youths' externalizing symptoms, such that there was a more pronounced buffering effect of high caregiver involvement on youth externalizing symptoms when there was more frequent youth contact with biological parents. Results can be used to support education initiatives about the importance of visitation for caseworkers and parents, and interventions aimed at promoting positive biological family and foster parent relationships focused on the best interests of the child.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2155627
Hannah Linford
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2146665
Bronwen Williams
Despite having practised in many different roles over the 47 years since I took on my first job in social work, I have read very few social work texts thoroughly, finding the theory often lacking a conceptual framework, with unacknowledged biases and implicit perspectives, and over-elaboration obscuring common understanding and everyday concepts. As a social work student in the late 1970s, I was drawn primarily to works in the fields of sociology and social policy which offered plausible frameworks that I could use creatively in my work, whilst Pauline Hardiker’s work on practice theory was for me the most meaningful approach to understanding practice. However, Bill Jordan’s work stood out from most other texts about social work. His direct and clear communicative style, looking at what makes helping work without resorting to jargon, taking account of the relationships between worker and organisation and the person being helped, all made great sense to me. His focus on the importance of material conditions fitted with my own political sensibility. Unlike many writers on social work, he paid attention to the personal and the political, the individual and wider society and the relationship between them. This most recent book is no exception, looking both historically and internationally at social issues and related private troubles and the relationship between this social context and the role of social work. In this book social work emerges as relationship-based in several ways. Firstly, its form is highly dependent on the context in which it takes place. Secondly, it is an activity concerned with relationships. Thirdly, Jordan sees social work as a kind of Socratic endeavour (see p. 77, ‘Social work practice consists in reasoning with fellow citizens about how to deal with stressful situations in dialogues towards negotiated solutions (Jordan, 1990)’. The book is set out in chapters which describe overarching social themes and relate them to social work. In the following overview I focus on the first two chapters in most detail as these set the grounds for the rest of the book.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2142769
Sophie Mckenzie-Brook
ABSTRACT A student essay for Clare Winnicott Essay Competition. A review of Critical Pedagogy by Paulo Freire and the use and importance for social work practice. The essay also looks at Open Dialogue, a treatment method of treating psychosis, which is currently being studied for use in the NHS. The essay discuss both methods use of ‘Dialogue’ and ‘Praxis’ and the impact this can have on practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2142768
Éilis Long
ABSTRACT This article explores the possibilities for systemic approaches in supporting a neurodiversity perspective, and how these lenses may improve social workers’ abilities to support autistic people. These ideas are rooted in an Action Research project I undertook, as an autistic practitioner-researcher, in a statutory children’s services department of a UK Local Authority. Social workers are very likely to encounter autism in their work. Autism is widely misunderstood, often misrepresented, and carries a persisting social stigma, but neurodiversity offers a new paradigm for appreciating and understanding autism as part of a person’s diversity, bringing strengths and challenges (Haney, pp. 63–64). Social workers are mandated to advocate for the rights of oppressed groups and promote diversity in all its forms. Therefore, reflecting on presumed knowledge and challenging deficit-driven dominant discourses about autism that currently govern practice should be part of all good social work practice. The findings of my project, and subsequent reflections call for UK social workers, local authorities and social work education programmes to embrace neurodiversity, which can be aided by systemic approaches and techniques.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2137120
A. Takshe, Zahra Hashi, Marwa Mohammed, A. Astari
ABSTRACT Humans are witnessing extreme events such as droughts, floods, heat waves, wildfires, and emergence of novel diseases causing unprecedented changes to our planet. These rapid changes coupled with a transparent world that enjoys access to information mean that today’s population is more aware and attentive about the progress of climate change. The purpose of this study is to discover attitudes towards new gained consciousness and the term Eco-anxiety. The American Psychological Association (APA) defines eco-anxiety as a ‘chronic fear of environmental doom’. To investigate this phenomenon, we use Q-methodology to analyse discourses on the topic. Thirty-nine people from four different stakeholder groups were surveyed. Five distinct discourses were generated covering the connection between environmental awareness and psychological well-being, coming to terms with emotional response to climate change, importance of climate change, awareness about eco-anxiety leading to a more positive outlook, and disbelief that eco-anxiety and climate change can affect mental well-being.
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