Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.2025349
R. Booth
ABSTRACT This article discusses the implementation of a new creative life story work project within a statutory children’s services department of a UK Local Authority. The project looks to strengthen the use of life story work within statutory children’s social work teams, involving the introduction of a model developed by Professor Richard Rose. Staff training is provided, and creative life story groups with care experienced young people are led jointly by professional artists and children’s social care staff. As a social worker, I support the implementation of the project and offer any additional therapeutic support children attending the groups might need, including more in-depth individual therapeutic life story work. I explore here the dynamic nature of life story work in children’s social work, including a critical analysis of the use of self, and consider theoretical application and wider critiques of the model. I discuss some of the (often contested) literature in relation to trauma, before employing a psychosocial approach that draws on systemic and psychoanalytic theory in order to understand how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations in recovery from trauma and provides the potential to invite bigger questions in relation to how to reignite creativity and social pedagogy in social work practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.2000948
P. Higham
ABSTRACT Information-giving, a relevant approach for contemporary practice, is a method of communication and a skill whose purpose is to develop client’s abilities to distinguish between truthful information and inaccurate information. Building clients’ trust in a non-judgemental way, and avoiding being over-authoritative, are necessary precursors to using information-giving. The negative legacy of the class system imposed harsh discipline on children, failed to build their self-esteem, and led to their lack of trust in authority. A democratising movement beginning in the 1970s resulted in more paraprofessionals being employed in community-based charities. They drew on their own lived experiences and used information-giving to support clients who experienced poverty, violence, discrimination and low self-esteem. Information-giving’s theoretical influences include person-centred, constructive approaches, empathy, empowerment, resilience and self-actualisation. Information-giving is an effective approach that can help counter the growth of ‘fake news’ and false beliefs about the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-17DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.2000945
Sera Harris, B. Stout
ABSTRACT This article outlines social work practitioners’ understandings and practices of self-care, which consider the influence of technology. As part of an exploratory study on the use and experiences of technology by Australian social work practitioners, we examined implications for worker self-care. The study found that technology presents unique challenges and opportunities for self-care as social workers straddled multiple and contradictory conceptualisations of technology in the field. The use of technology raised mixed understandings of self-care, with social workers outlining the need for self-care to protect them from organisational reach and as a mechanism or space for self-care itself. The study findings highlight the need to consider technology in the understandings and practices of self-care for social workers.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.2000947
Adéla Recmanová, Soňa Kalenda, Ivana Kowaliková
ABSTRACT In the recent decades, social work has undergone quite extensive process of digitisation. Since the 1970s, it had faced computerisation, which peaked in the 1990s. However, since the start of the 21st century information and communication technologies have changed significantly. They developed in many forms, became more accessible and penetrated the performance of social work, where they have become a common tool of work. The aim of the research was therefore to find out and describe how information and communication technologies, according to social workers, affects the form of Czech social work interventions with vulnerable children and their families. We used a qualitative research strategy and situation analysis as our research approach. We conducted interviews with 37 social workers of the Department of Social and Legal Protection of Children and Social Activation Services for Families with Children. One of the topics of the interviews was the electronic communication between social workers and their clients, which currently appears to be extremely important for emergency measures related to COVID-19. We focus on the benefits and pitfalls of e-communication as perceived by social workers, and in the discussion, we will present various options of dealing with them in practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.2000949
Monique S. Bowen
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.2000946
K. Glumbíková, M. Mikulec, Jelena Petrucijová, Ivana Kowaliková, V. Zegzulková, Kristina Wilamová
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to understand the nature of imagined interactions among social workers in the child protection and to determine the implications for their social work. In the current social work social workers do not have enough space for reflection and this takes place mainly in their minds, often through ideas about (past or future) interactions between the worker and the client, through imagined interactions. However, these imagined interactions have not received sufficient research attention in social work in the past. Within the framework of the qualitative research two basic missions of imagined interactions were discovered in terms of the constructivist grounded theory. They were the intersubjective-creative and the subjective-emancipatory missions, within which there were other specific functions. The discovered nature of the imagined interactions is discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.1981277
Ellen Ramvi, M. H. Lavik, B. H. Gripsrud
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to gain insight into how death is a theme of communication and reflection among staff at a multicultural nursing home. Sixteen interviews with healthcare providers from five nursing homes in Norway were conducted and interpreted through a depth-hermeneutic approach. Our analysis across the dataset yielded an emergent finding related to a prominent lack of communication about death between the healthcare personnel and the patients, as well as among the staff community. We present a psychoanalytically informed interpretation of the absence of talk about death in the nursing homes. Our results indicate the operation of a social defence that helps health care providers maintain distance from anxiety associated with death. Reflection that foregrounds healthcare personnel’s own experiences, feelings and thoughts related to death is needed to encourage staff to open up to, and digest, the various impressions death can generate.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.1991899
Emilie Wright
ABSTRACT This article was written during June 2020, during the first Covid-19 national lockdown, with the aim of exploring fundamental changes within our profession as a result. It is written in a reflective and pensive style, with the intention of questioning how, as social workers, we can continue to work in a relationship-based way, at a time of social distancing when this has seemed impossible. This article argues that, despite ways of working having changed, it is more important than ever to strengthen human connections and relationships, despite the challenges and complexities we now face.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.1996697
A. Whittaker, G. Kirwan
An editorial is presented on themes of connection and identity with contributions from authors in the Great Britain, Sweden, Italy, Canada, and the US. Topics include immediate social identity and relationships being threatened and strained through social isolation;and having the valuable role to play in understanding and preventing both psychological and physical violence.
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Whittaker, G. Kirwan","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1996697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1996697","url":null,"abstract":"An editorial is presented on themes of connection and identity with contributions from authors in the Great Britain, Sweden, Italy, Canada, and the US. Topics include immediate social identity and relationships being threatened and strained through social isolation;and having the valuable role to play in understanding and preventing both psychological and physical violence.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"333 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42923154","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 : 2021-09-22DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2021.1981276
R. K. Chigangaidze
ABSTRACT African social workers and psychologists have called for the utility of ubuntu philosophy in the fields of social work and psychology. Ubuntu is an African philosophy that is based on humanness, kindness, communality, socio-structural issues such as social justice, and human rights. This paper explores the philosophy of ubuntu guided by the seven modalities of the multimodal approach, which are behaviour, effect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relationships and drugs/biology. The article suggests that ubuntu as an African philosophy has potential to contribute two modalities in addition to the seven modalities in the multimodal approach by the South African psychologist Arnold Lazarus. It argues that ubuntu contributes two domains in assessments and these are as follows: the person-physical environment relationship and the spiritual relationship. Given the emphasis on eco-spiritually informed social work, this paper calls for the adoption of these two modalities for the assessment and intervention plans in social work practice.
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