Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1177/00208728251314998
Antonio López Peláez
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Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1177/00208728251318070
Patrick O’Leary, Ming-sum Tsui
{"title":"‘From volunteer to social worker’","authors":"Patrick O’Leary, Ming-sum Tsui","doi":"10.1177/00208728251318070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728251318070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"323 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143528329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1177/00208728251319492
Emma Boonzaaier, Mahloma Molakeng, Elmien Crofford, Ansie Fouché
Moral distress among South African child protection social workers (CPSWs) remains unexplored despite familiarity with the concept. A qualitative analysis of interviews with 20 CPSWs in two South African provinces interpreted their reports of workplace risk through a moral distress lens. Thematic analysis identified that internal and external constraints are contributing to experiences of moral distress among CPSWs in South Africa, paving the way for developing solutions to mitigate these causes. Policy-level changes, operational improvements for CPSWs, and guidance to help CPSWs create their own solutions, might follow because of the dissemination of our study findings.
{"title":"Moral distress in South African child protection social workers: A qualitative study","authors":"Emma Boonzaaier, Mahloma Molakeng, Elmien Crofford, Ansie Fouché","doi":"10.1177/00208728251319492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728251319492","url":null,"abstract":"Moral distress among South African child protection social workers (CPSWs) remains unexplored despite familiarity with the concept. A qualitative analysis of interviews with 20 CPSWs in two South African provinces interpreted their reports of workplace risk through a moral distress lens. Thematic analysis identified that internal and external constraints are contributing to experiences of moral distress among CPSWs in South Africa, paving the way for developing solutions to mitigate these causes. Policy-level changes, operational improvements for CPSWs, and guidance to help CPSWs create their own solutions, might follow because of the dissemination of our study findings.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143470625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1177/00208728251319491
Natallie Gentles-Gibbs, Kameika S Murphy
Social work practice has become increasingly concerned with decolonization and anti-oppressive approaches. Both terms can be ambiguous and practice examples are often difficult to identify. This article describes the Jamaican Diaspora movement and its use of transnational communities to broker power and resist the status quo, serving as examples of decolonial and anti-oppressive orientations. The authors trace the evolution of the Diaspora as a transnational movement, and discuss how centering interdependence and community can be used to move practice toward decolonization. Implications for social work practice and education are discussed, particularly as it relates to serving diverse racial/ethnic communities.
{"title":"Decolonizing social work: Lessons for social work practice and education from the Jamaican Diaspora transnational movement","authors":"Natallie Gentles-Gibbs, Kameika S Murphy","doi":"10.1177/00208728251319491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728251319491","url":null,"abstract":"Social work practice has become increasingly concerned with decolonization and anti-oppressive approaches. Both terms can be ambiguous and practice examples are often difficult to identify. This article describes the Jamaican Diaspora movement and its use of transnational communities to broker power and resist the status quo, serving as examples of decolonial and anti-oppressive orientations. The authors trace the evolution of the Diaspora as a transnational movement, and discuss how centering interdependence and community can be used to move practice toward decolonization. Implications for social work practice and education are discussed, particularly as it relates to serving diverse racial/ethnic communities.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143470627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00208728241313036
Abraham Tetteh Teye
This article examines the global dimensions of social work in Ghana, using systematic literature review and qualitative content analysis. It explores how globalization affects social work practice, challenges, and opportunities in Ghana. It shows that social workers are vital for tackling social problems and enhancing service users’ well-being. It recommends indigenizing social work practices, promoting co-production, increasing social service funding, and improving social work education curriculum. The article aims to contribute to the understanding and development of social work as a global profession in Ghana.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1177/00208728241309484
Hilary Gallagher, Kylie Ross, Sylvia Ramsay
This article reports on a quantitative research project with Bachelor of Social Work students in Queensland, Australia, about student involvement in environmental activities and environmental curriculum content. As environmental perspectives in social work are still emerging, research into student perceptions of the environment is limited, particularly in Australia. This project found most students valued the natural environment both personally and as emerging practitioners. Students participated in many environmental activities, with students more focused on future micro social work practice. Many students identified environmental content within their degree and expressed a desire for more, to support the future needs of clients.
{"title":"Is the natural environment important to social work education and practice? Perspectives from social work students in Queensland, Australia","authors":"Hilary Gallagher, Kylie Ross, Sylvia Ramsay","doi":"10.1177/00208728241309484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241309484","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a quantitative research project with Bachelor of Social Work students in Queensland, Australia, about student involvement in environmental activities and environmental curriculum content. As environmental perspectives in social work are still emerging, research into student perceptions of the environment is limited, particularly in Australia. This project found most students valued the natural environment both personally and as emerging practitioners. Students participated in many environmental activities, with students more focused on future micro social work practice. Many students identified environmental content within their degree and expressed a desire for more, to support the future needs of clients.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143026630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1177/00208728241305444
Polly Evans McGinn, Dag Øystein Nordanger, Magne Olav Mæhle, Øivin Christiansen, Hanne Cecilie Braarud
In Norway, legislation requires consideration of a child’s culture in all phases of child welfare work. Through a quantitative content analysis of 285 child welfare expert assessment reports, we explored experts’ utilisation of a cultural perspective, comparing reports concerning immigrant and non-immigrant background children. We found that experts were rarely instructed to employ a cultural perspective but do so more frequently in reports concerning immigrant than non-immigrant background children. We found little evidence of critical reflection and interpreters were used rarely. The article discusses the possible explanations for and implications of a limited cultural perspective in child welfare expert assessments.
{"title":"Utilisation of a cultural perspective in child welfare expert assessments in Norway","authors":"Polly Evans McGinn, Dag Øystein Nordanger, Magne Olav Mæhle, Øivin Christiansen, Hanne Cecilie Braarud","doi":"10.1177/00208728241305444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241305444","url":null,"abstract":"In Norway, legislation requires consideration of a child’s culture in all phases of child welfare work. Through a quantitative content analysis of 285 child welfare expert assessment reports, we explored experts’ utilisation of a cultural perspective, comparing reports concerning immigrant and non-immigrant background children. We found that experts were rarely instructed to employ a cultural perspective but do so more frequently in reports concerning immigrant than non-immigrant background children. We found little evidence of critical reflection and interpreters were used rarely. The article discusses the possible explanations for and implications of a limited cultural perspective in child welfare expert assessments.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1177/00208728241309476
Tamar Shwartz-Ziv, Orna Shemer, Yochay Nadan
This study examines the challenges involved in community interpreting in multicultural social services in Israel. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with interpreters and social workers working with Ethiopian and French immigrants, the findings reveal three types of challenges: translation of sensitive content, ethical issues, and interpreter employment policy. Consequently, the study suggests employing the concept of ‘experiential knowledge’ to understand the complexity of the triadic relationship among social workers, interpreters, and service users. In this way, it illustrates the power relations at the intersection of different types of knowledge in professional interventions and makes recommendations for linguistic-sensitive social work.
{"title":"Bridging worlds: Unveiling challenges in community interpreting in Israel","authors":"Tamar Shwartz-Ziv, Orna Shemer, Yochay Nadan","doi":"10.1177/00208728241309476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241309476","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the challenges involved in community interpreting in multicultural social services in Israel. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with interpreters and social workers working with Ethiopian and French immigrants, the findings reveal three types of challenges: translation of sensitive content, ethical issues, and interpreter employment policy. Consequently, the study suggests employing the concept of ‘experiential knowledge’ to understand the complexity of the triadic relationship among social workers, interpreters, and service users. In this way, it illustrates the power relations at the intersection of different types of knowledge in professional interventions and makes recommendations for linguistic-sensitive social work.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1177/00208728241309480
Ayana Halpern, Ulrike Urban-Stahl, Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky, Reli Mizrahi
Several studies have reported that non-hegemonic fathers who are clients of welfare services are undertreated compared with mothers. This issue is examined here from a previously unexplored angle by comparing perspectives of two groups of social workers from different cultures and working spheres in Israel and Germany. Transcripts of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 14 German and Israeli social workers were analysed using a qualitative method of content analysis. The findings showed that unique aspects of practice were evident in each country according to its specific demographic and cultural contexts and social workers’ idiosyncratic gender socialisation, feminist approaches and world views.
{"title":"Fathers in the eyes of family welfare services social workers in Germany and Israel: Feminism, ideals and disappointments","authors":"Ayana Halpern, Ulrike Urban-Stahl, Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky, Reli Mizrahi","doi":"10.1177/00208728241309480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241309480","url":null,"abstract":"Several studies have reported that non-hegemonic fathers who are clients of welfare services are undertreated compared with mothers. This issue is examined here from a previously unexplored angle by comparing perspectives of two groups of social workers from different cultures and working spheres in Israel and Germany. Transcripts of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 14 German and Israeli social workers were analysed using a qualitative method of content analysis. The findings showed that unique aspects of practice were evident in each country according to its specific demographic and cultural contexts and social workers’ idiosyncratic gender socialisation, feminist approaches and world views.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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