Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2128311
C. McMillen, A. Doyle, E. Claypool
ABSTRACT Validation as a clinical strategy – communicating that a person’s responses to a situation make sense – may be a particularly valuable skill for social work practitioners working within and across many traditions. This article makes several contributions to the literature on validation. It argues for a narrow definition of validation, reviews laboratory and clinical research on validation, and proposes research directions that will help determine how and if it works. It also uses psychodynamic and behavioural theory to posit mechanisms underlying its helpfulness and to suggest what to validate. Because of its many potential uses, clinical validation deserves to be widely taught in social work curricula alongside other interviewing strategies.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2123461
Andrew Richardson
ABSTRACT As a key driving force in adult social care policy in both the United Kingdom and internationally personalisation has wide-ranging implications for the social work profession. Yet its meaning can be elusive and is often contested. This article explores findings from a doctoral study which sought to explore the current meanings associated with the notion of personalisation, by asking those with lived experience how it is experienced by them. Unique features of the study’s participatory and psychosocial research design, which placed lived experience at its centre, are outlined. Original findings from the study explored in this paper include a range of themes related to dependence, independence and interdependence, depersonalisation and reciprocity. Risks associated with contemporary practice models in adult social work, including strengths-based approaches are explored. Based on the findings a reorientation towards ‘contribution-focused practice’ within a relationship-based practice model is proposed.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2128098
Rosemary Lamport
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2119948
Francesca Pozzoli
ABSTRACT ‘Personalisation’ is nowadays a very popular concept in disability policy and this article – drawing on my PhD research project in the English and Lombardian context of social care services for disabled people – aims to explore the translation of personalisation from policy into practice; hence the ways in which personalisation policy makes its way into disability services. In particular, drawing on street-level-bureaucracy, policy practice and network theories, personalisation is analysed here through the lenses of professional actors. The application of a mix of qualitative research methods brought me to two main conclusions: 1) narrow approaches to personalisation coexist with broader ones, leading to very different roles for professionals charged with translating personalisation policy into practice; 2) power differences and asymmetries are at play among different professional actors, with some having stronger discretional and policy steering capacity compared to others when it comes to informing person-centred care practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2124240
Laure H. Lienard
ABSTRACT Applied theories in social work are social constructs that evolve according to cultural, political and social trends. The history of community work in Europe after the Second World War provides an example of a family of practices that is constantly evolving, in terms of its integration into social work, its methods, and the political project that underpins it. While the development of broad-based and conscientising approaches were challenged by neo-liberalism from the 1980s on, community work practice is currently undergoing a revival based on community building and person-centred methods, under the influence of the new public management. This paper is based on a doctoral research conducted in six European countries, examining the relationship between social work and community work, and the various forms of community work across Europe.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2124239
Bronwen Williams
ABSTRACT This paper is offered as a thought piece rather than an academic paper. It will summarise some key points from the previous piece written jointly with Andrew Tyson in 2010, reflect on some of the specific assertions in that paper, and introduce a range of broader musings that seem relevant developed since that time. To put these in context, after a short note on terminology, I begin by summarising my work in social care and other roles.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2119950
Helen A. Smith, C. Parkinson
ABSTRACT In this co-produced paper, we write about a collaboration that developed over more than a decade between a service user advisor and a social work educator within a higher education context. Starting with how we came to work together, the paper outlines early apprehensions about service user involvement, both as we experienced them and as expressed by colleagues, students, and managers. The paper discusses such themes as confidentiality, professional boundaries, and power imbalance. As authors w identify principles that have underpinned our relationship as well as obstacles faced and understandings reached. We emphasise possibilities discovered from this project which may have application for other courses and settings for the service user advisor role. As we write, we are confronting a new challenge as one of us continues in the work and one of us retires from it.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2119946
Tanya Moore
ABSTRACT Strengths-based social work is a deceptively simple approach that is conflated with community strengths-based models, causing confusion for local authority commissioning processes as well as for practice. This has led to the reductionist question ‘what are your strengths’ now being seen as an acceptable basis for assessment. It may be that in our determination to avoid a deficit approach, we are ignoring the realities of living with care and support needs. But it may also be that in the face of overwhelming need, a simplistic approach to assessment serves the unconscious need to contain anxiety for social workers and wider system. This article uses a local authority case study to explore the meaning of strengths approach for social work. An approach of Relationships and Reciprocity is proposed to build upon the affirming principles of strengths and contributions whilst recognising the centrality of the relationship in forming authentic collaboration and containment.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2128584
A. Richardson, Francesca Pozzoli, C. Parkinson
The extensive efforts made by individuals and institutions to publicize factual information about the vaccines and to debunk the related misinformation, therefore can be credited for the increased uptake of the vaccines and consequently the steady decline of the impact of the virus. The pandemic has been instrumental in bringing some global issues to the fore, creating endless opportunities for global communities to launch initiatives to promote public education through reliable sources. [...]of the pandemic and all the challenges associated with it, the world was presented with complex problems that require critical thinking and creativity to adapt, particularly when these challenges presented in disparate proportions across genders.
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Richardson, Francesca Pozzoli, C. Parkinson","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2128584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2128584","url":null,"abstract":"The extensive efforts made by individuals and institutions to publicize factual information about the vaccines and to debunk the related misinformation, therefore can be credited for the increased uptake of the vaccines and consequently the steady decline of the impact of the virus. The pandemic has been instrumental in bringing some global issues to the fore, creating endless opportunities for global communities to launch initiatives to promote public education through reliable sources. [...]of the pandemic and all the challenges associated with it, the world was presented with complex problems that require critical thinking and creativity to adapt, particularly when these challenges presented in disparate proportions across genders.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"379 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43725328","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 : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2119947
Colin Slasberg, P. Beresford
ABSTRACT Concern about the role social workers play in adult social care is long standing. Social workers, whose ethics commit them to supporting the empowerment of service users and to social justice, are required to work within a system that fails to secure either and is widely identified as in long-term crisis, despite a number of unsuccessful efforts to transform it. This article describes a detailed examination of the way one council operates. It reveals the gap between how the council says it does this and how this is experienced. It is suggested that the council, however, is not an exception. It follows the national template. The role social workers are required to play in this scenario is critical. They are key to delivery of the template. With little sign of resistance from the social work system itself, hopes for change rely on the emergence of grassroots and political initiatives that seeks a better future for social care.
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