Acknowledging Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Treatment Utilisation Amongst Israeli Bedouin and Jewish Combat Veterans
AbstractMany veterans coping with combat-post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) refrain from seeking psychological treatment. We explored the nature of illness recognition and treatment utilisation in two different cultural groups of Israeli veterans —Bedouin and Jewish. Using qualitative research methods, we interviewed twenty veterans dealing with PTSD (ten Bedouin and ten Jewish) and ten mental health professionals. Participants shared their experiences of symptoms, the ways they coped, and their perception of the costs and benefits of psyc hological treatment. Two main themes emerged: (i) ‘Veterans’ Perceptions of...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
‘Inspiring Conversations’: A Comparative Analysis of the Involvement of Experts by Experience in Italian and Scottish Social Work Education
This article explores these similarities and differences through discussion of the different models of EBE involvement in use at the two European universities, and thus provides a comparative European insight into approaches, experiences and impact of EBE involvement in social work education. The authors contextualise the pedagogy and core values underpinning EBE involvement and introduce the concept of ‘inspiring conversations’. The comparative analysis is centred on five areas of EBE involvement in social work education: context and types of involvement; recruitment of EBE; roles and responsibilities of EBE; resource...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The end of social work
This article argues that the profession of social work cannot be reformed and must be abolished. Specifically, the master narrative of Anglophone social work must be abandoned along with the institutions which maintain it; the professional bodies, the academic discipline and the formal title. Four reasons for this are presented: social work ’s lack of coherent theory base, the problem of professionalism, social work’s historical abuses and the profession’s inability to rise to contemporary challenges. The fundamental theoretical tensions in social work theory are identified as preventing the profession from reconcili...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Developing the Child Protection Workforce: Collaborative Development of Somalia ’s Certificate, Diploma and Bachelor Degrees in Social Work
This article describes the highly participatory and collaborative process used to create social work curricula that would meet workforce development needs for child protection in Som alia. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Photovoice: Integrating Course-Based Research in Undergraduate and Graduate Social Work Education
AbstractResearch skills are vital to students ’ professional careers and must be cultivated in the social work curriculum. While students and faculty may hesitate to participate in a course-based research project, the authors believe that the Photovoice method is easily adapted to a variety of class and student needs. Photovoice is a field-or iented and qualitative research method that visually documents and communicates community assets and needs. The first purpose of this article is to offer Photovoice as a potential model for instructors to implement a course-based research project. The second purpose is to quantitati...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Creating ‘Deep Knowledge’ and Transformative Change: A Critical Social Work Approach to Researching Formal Kinship Care
AbstractIn a context of rapidly changing social and economic conditions and increasing practice complexity, critical research perspectives can create in-depth explanatory knowledge for social work practice. Drawing on a broader knowledge base, these approaches provide a comprehensive view of social phenomena and the causes of personal and social harm. They also offer a framework to guide ethical intervention based on principles of collaboration, social justice and social transformation. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how critically oriented research can deliver useful and actionable knowledge directly to the fie...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Vouchers and Consumer-Directed Care: Implications for Community Care Services in Hong Kong
AbstractThere has been considerable interest in the concept of consumer-directed care (CDC) for ageing populations. One type of CDC employs vouchers that older people can use to procure a panel of social services that best fits their needs. The voucher-based strategy has been institutionalised in Hong Kong as the Community Care Service Voucher for the Elderly (CCSV). Using a qualitative, semi-structured interview method, researchers probed the experiences of two groups (twenty-six CCSV users and twenty-seven CCSV non-users) with the voucher programme between March 2014 and September 2015 during the first phase of CCSV. The...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Re-Imagining the Resettlement of Refugees by Engaging with an Ethic of Thriving
This article shares how an ethic of thriving in resettlement, with its focus on relationality, could transform the way we think about ‘integration’ and what ‘suc cessful resettlement’ means within the Australian context. To anchor what the ethic of thriving offers the resettlement sector we share lessons learned from applying a thriving paradigm to YoungMILE—a mentorship project dedicated to launching young refugee arrived leaders in the community. This unique programme embraced relational, experimental and exploratory approaches characterised by flexibility, mutual learning, curiosity, listening to bigger goals ...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Claim-Making Processes in Criminal Justice Social Work in India
This article discusses approaches and strategies in criminal justice social work that assert the claims of criminal justice clients over welfare and entitlements, in a context where their voices are compromised. It discusses claim-making and the dynamics underlying the process. The article reflects on the field experiences of a social work intervention project that the authors are associated with, that promotes legal rights and social re-entry of marginalised populations in criminal justice. The project ’s work highlights the need for claim-making and participatory approaches towards development of policy and programmes ...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Covariates of Burnout and Secondary Traumatisation in Professionals Working with Child Survivors of Trauma: A Research Synthesis
AbstractIt has been demonstrated that working with trauma-exposed children increases the risk for developing secondary traumatisation (ST) and burnout (BO). High correlations between ST and BO have been reported, suggesting an empirical overlap between the constructs. The purpose of the present review was to synthesise research investigating covariates of BO and ST to explore whether this overlap extends to covariates. Seven research databases were searched for studies investigating covariates of both BO and ST. Identified studies were screened in accordance with predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, resulting in th...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - December 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cross-Cultural Child Development for Social Workers: An Introduction, 2nd edn, Lena Robinson
Cross-Cultural Child Development for Social Workers: An Introduction, 2nd edn, RobinsonLena, London, Red Globe Press, 2020, pp. 238, ISBN 9781137607003, £27.99 (p/b) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Why Are You Backing Such Positions? Types and Trajectories of Social Workers ’ Right-Wing Populist Support
This article questions this assumption, presenting the findings of a qualitative study carried out in the Italian context. The interview study involved a sample of twenty-one social workers recruited to participate via Facebook, where they had published posts and comments supporting right-wing populist parties and positions. The findings indicate different attitudes, experiences and trajectories which are summarised in an interpretative model, reconstructing four ideal-typical profiles of social workers supporting right-wing populist positions. The article suggests abandoning the hypothesis of social workers being immune t...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Editorial: New Beginnings and Enduring Concerns —Inequalities, Social Justice and Understanding of Structural Issues in Social Work Practice, Education and Knowledge Production
Preparation of this editorial coincides with the start of the academic year in the UK and in many other countries across Europe. In the UK, finalist social work students are getting ready to re-start their practice learning, having had this experience disrupted earlier this year. Practitioners and academics in the UK are juggling return to office-based work, work from home and care commitments. These two sentences may, at least broadly, echo the experiences of some of the social work students, practitioners and academics. Nonetheless, they are not all-encompassing and inclusive representations of how social work is learned...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Strengthening Social Welfare Administration Practice in India: A Context Centric Social Work Approach
This article explores the possibility of strengthening social welfare administration practice in social work training and education to respond to complex and varied issues located within Indian social reality keeping in view the people in concrete situations of vulnerabilities. Based on the case analysis approach, it situates the history of social work education and practice closely linked to the social welfare administration practice in Mumbai School of Social Work. The experience in this school reaffirms the contribution of social work administration practice towards welfare and development of people, and suggests the ne...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social work praxis in policy: Reflections from India
This article presents the robustness of methods in firming policies, for addressing situations of exclusion and powerlessness, with the values of inclusion and empowerment. Drawing on the Bordieu’s fields of power, capital and habitus, the article elucidates the application of methods of social work in a neo-liberal world to challenge structures that perpetuate inequity and translates the operationalisation of individual agency. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
