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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Social work research"”.
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Moving along: An exploratory study of women with children in a transitional housing setting
… are increasingly being used to service the social and housing needs of homeless women with children. However, there is minimal social work research pertaining to this shelter strategy. Instead, current knowledge focuses on the demographics of this population. Outcomes of shelter use are …
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Japanese Perspectives on Supporting the Well-Being of Maltreated Children in State Care: The Concept of Ibasho
… to maltreated children as well as frontline workers. By conducting research in Japan that examines Ibasho for maltreated children who lived in state care, I demonstrate that social work research conducted in a non-Western country can contribute to the expansion of the knowledge base of …
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The Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative: A Critical Realist Case Study
… posed by Margaret Archer (2000) to deepen social work's understanding of collaboration. Through the use of Danermark et al.'s (2002) stages of explanatory research based on critical realism, the author found that agential and structural interactions of the Colorado Community Organizing …
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Philosophical and sociological perspectives on social work: towards some new understandings of research and practice
… a commentary showing how the published works meet the academic criteria set out in the University's Postgraduate Regulations, and reproduced, selected published works. Twenty two publications were included covering a period of twenty years. The collective works have a common thread of …
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MALE PERPETRATORS PERSPECTIVES ON REASONS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS
… to their healing. Implications for future social work research, practice, policy, and programming are discussed.</p>
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Getting the job done...!? (Professional) challenges on the frontline of Public Employment Services in Vienna and Milan
… debate on activation policies and challenges to social citizenship has to go beyond formal policy and to take into account also its operational and street-level dimension which shapes what is eventually produced as policy on the ground. In this context, frontline practice plays a crucial role …
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An Officer and a Therapist: How Active-Duty Social Workers Navigated the Ethical Hazards of Their Dual Agency
… for them to satisfy (the National Association of Social Workers and the Department of Defense), and this concurrent commitment routinely forces them to prioritize one side of their dual agency as both an officer and a therapist. The experience of having to navigate the ethically hazardous …
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"Somewhere I'm Allowed to Exist as Myself": A Grounded Theory Exploration of Queer and Trans Young Adults Navigating Family Rejection and Housing Instability
… housing instability and offer implications for social work research and practice.</p>
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Walking Alongside: Moral Distress and Accompaniment in Social Work Practice with Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth
<p>Social workers in government settings, community organizations, schools and government-contracted agencies are instrumental in supporting unaccompanied youth seeking refuge in the United States. And yet, little scholarly attention has been given to the distress or the endurance of social workers …
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Iron sharpens iron : member experiences of collaboration in the Texas Hunger Initiative.
… in the last twenty years, there is a paucity of research about these groups – especially about organizational theories relevant to their structures and elements that make them effective. Furthermore, the research that is available comes from few authors and even fewer FPCs. This dissertation …
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Critical times: a critical realist approach to understanding services for looked after children and young people
… Foster Care, which reports on a piece of applied social work research, and the paper Critical Times: a critical realist approach to understanding services for looked after children which examines key theoretical issues relevant to the study. Two other book chapters ‘Changing Perceptions of …
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Coping with Intimate Partners' Substance Use and Gambling Problems: The Role of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
… we must understand the function of coping and social support in the task of dealing with a partner's SGP, as well as the role of IPV in that process.</p><p>To this end, 222 female intimate partners of people with SGP were recruited from the community to complete an online survey. IPV was …
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Resentenced and Released: Re-Entry Needs Following Release from Juvenile Life Without Parole
… representation also provided a temporal framework for the study.</p> <p>All participants endorsed deep histories of trauma, marginalization, socioeconomic disadvantage, and environmental vulnerabilities. Participants also described resilience through education, interpersonal relationships, …
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'Revolutionizing' Participation in Child Protection Proceedings
… of wishes and feelings during statutory social work practice (s.53 Children Act 2004) should give insight into the child’s lived experience, as well as highlighting their opinion of the impact of social work on their lives. However, with no statutory, participatory social work model …
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Socialinių pedagogų požiūris į delinkventinį paauglių elgesį skatinančias televizijos programas /
… reduce the formation of delinquent behavior of social educators uses various methods (individual, group and work with family) and forms (chat, games, discussions, etc.) of social work. Research problem - what is the approach of social educators to programs, which can potentially form delinquent …
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Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator Treatment: Potential Effects of Informational Media History and Treatment Knowledge
<p>Social workers in all care venues are increasingly responsible for clinical and case management services for people being treated with sophisticated medical interventions. Unfortunately, opportunities to aid in the promotion of quality of life (QOL), mental health, and informed consent are often …
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Operationalizing a New Method for Defining and Scaling Social Innovations Using Tiny Home Communities as a Case Study
<p>Social innovations are new approaches to addressing unmet need. In an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, social innovations propagate rapidly in response to the dynamic conditions of our modern world. An example of an emergent social innovation, tiny home communities are gaining …
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How do social work professionals construct asylum seekers as objects of knowledge and targets for intervention
… sensitive services is widely acknowledged within social work. However, the social work profession continues to draw heavily on outdated views and definitions of racism mainly based on skin colour and biological categorisation. This is in spite of the fact that the late 20th century has witnessed …
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An exploration into statutory Social Workers' perceptions and experiences of their child protection work
… measures (UNICEF, 2016). Concurrently, skilled Social Workers are in demand in South Africa but subject to complex social dynamics while working under immense pressure (DHET, 2018; Calitz, Roux, & Strydom, 2014). The purpose of this study was to explore Statutory Social Workers’ perceptions and …