What constitutes social work is a central question in theory building. If social work wants to be more than a model idea, we cannot answer this question without looking at social work practice. The article presents ‘doing social work’ as an approach to theorising social work through ethnographic research. In addition to the basic theoretical and methodological characteristics of the approach, we present four modes of doing social work, which have been developed based on a comparison of different ethnographic studies in different fields: deciding in uncertainty; playing with ambiguity; using categories of difference; and disciplining the everyday. In the following, the mode of playing with ambiguity will be singled out and presented in detail, as it has an important impact on doing relationship while doing social work. In the article, we will use ethnographic data and examples to show how actors actively deal with different roles without making this explicit.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1332/27551768y2024d000000013
Fabienne Malbois, Benjamin Tremblay, Alexandre Lambelet
Dementia affects memory, language and motor functions, engenders behavioural and psychological disorders, and progressively weakens the ability of older people to communicate and interact. Simultaneously, maintaining residents in social exchanges and enabling them to behave as a ‘person’, a status to be understood in moral terms, is a main objective of care work in nursing homes. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in a long-term Swiss care facility and by focusing on professionals’ inquiries, this article uncovers two ‘arts of doing’ used by professionals to make contact with residents and maintain them in the fabric of relationships. First, ‘sensitive arts of doing’ are in play when professionals seek to interpret a situation from a resident’s gestures and emotions in order to (re)establish the fine-tuning necessary for continued interaction. Second, ‘hermeneutic arts of doing’ are employed when professionals try to determine how residents perceive their environment and elucidate how to make sense of what they are doing together. Highlighting these two ‘arts of doing’ gives depth and substance to the relational activities undertaken by professionals and proposes concrete methods that can support care, interaction and value-based practice with older people with dementia.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1332/27551768y2024d000000011
Helen Gleeson, L. Allain, H. Hingley‐Jones
In this article, we discuss the challenges in engaging with research participants from marginalised communities, including from some minority communities where there are interconnecting issues of poverty, racism, school exclusion, family breakdown and sometimes youth crime. This is aligned with experiences of developing research partnerships with local services in evaluation work. Two research case studies, from evaluation research with child and family social work and the youth justice system, discuss experiences of researching within inner-city areas, navigating researcher–practitioner relationships and maintaining ethical research standards. In both cases, entering the research field presented challenges related to sensitivities and distress experienced by participants. Our case-study discussions demonstrate how the researchers responded to risk and unwitting involvement with young people in conflict, in prison and experiencing family bereavement. Highlighted is the vital importance of local agencies providing accurate information about the families and young people that the researchers are asked to contact in order to ensure that respect and research ethics are upheld and no trauma is caused. Planning and building trust are key to ensuring that time is given for respectful engagement and that agencies are ready for ongoing support and follow-up as needed. The article will explore how these methodological considerations can be taken forward.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1332/27551768y2024d000000012
Alessandro Sicora
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Pub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1332/27551768y2024d000000004
Viviene E Cree, Bob MacKenzie, Douglas Edgar, Rose Foy
‘Gnatola ma no kpon sia, eyenabe adelan to kpo mi sena’ (‘Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always have the best part of the story’) (Ghanian proverb, available at: http://thelionandthehunter.org/). Historically, both the discipline and profession of social work have been imagined and constructed by those who oversee social work services – ‘the hunters’, according to the aforementioned Ghanaian proverb. Thus, it has been predominantly white, middle-class, non-disabled, mainly female, Global North voices that have determined what social work looks like and how it is carried out across the world. However, this is changing. Today, many more ‘lions’ are telling their stories, as this article demonstrates. Through the curated narratives of Bob, Doug and Rose, as well as that of their storyteller/collaborator, Viv, we learn that growing up in care in Scotland in the 1940s and 1950s was ‘confused and confusing’ for the children at the heart of it. Contradictory discourses competed for dominance, and the children experienced unintended consequences from the ‘care’ they received. While not attempting to universalise on the basis of three people’s stories, we believe that they have much to teach social work.
Gnatola ma no kpon sia, eyenabe adelan to kpo mi sena"（"在狮子拥有自己的说书人之前，猎人永远拥有故事中最精彩的部分"）（加纳谚语，见 http://thelionandthehunter.org/）。从历史上看，社会工作学科和职业都是由那些监督社会工作服务的人--即上述加纳谚语所说的 "猎人"--来想象和构建的。因此，一直以来，主要是白人、中产阶级、非残疾人、主要是女性、全球北方的声音决定了社会工作的面貌以及在世界各地开展社会工作的方式。然而，这种情况正在发生变化。今天，更多的 "狮子 "正在讲述他们的故事，正如本文所展示的那样。通过鲍勃（Bob）、道格（Doug）和罗丝（Rose）以及他们的故事讲述者/合作者薇薇（Viv）的叙述，我们了解到，20 世纪 40 年代和 50 年代，在苏格兰的看护环境中成长的孩子们是 "困惑和迷茫 "的。相互矛盾的话语竞相占据主导地位，孩子们从他们所接受的 "照顾 "中体验到了意想不到的后果。虽然我们并不试图根据三个人的故事就将其普遍化，但我们相信他们的故事对社会工作有很多启示。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1332/27551768y2024d000000006
Ravit Alfandari, Andrew Whittaker, Duncan Helm, Campbell Killick, Joel Gautschi, Michael Rölver, Brian J. Taylor, Liesanth Yde Nirmalarajan, Holger Suarez, Floor Middel, Lorraine Agu, Anette Bolin, Vaike Raudava, Tuuli Lamponen
The Decisions, Assessment and Risk Special Interest Group of the European Social Work Research Association (DARSIG) dedicated a pre-conference event at the 2023 European Conference for Social Work Research in Milan, Italy, to the application of innovations using big data and machine-learning algorithms in social work risk assessment and decision-making processes. Here, we share some ideas from these discussions.
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