The Art of Community Social Work in the Ultra-Orthodox Community
AbstractThe matter of the role of the social worker within religious communities has occupied researchers and professionals during the last several years. One of the religious communities discussed in the literature is the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, as a result of its insular nature, the distance it keeps from society at large and the growing need for professional treatment within this sector. To date, the literature regarding religious communities has focused mainly on individual and group interventions. The current article, however, focuses on the unique task of community social workers in the ultra-Orthodox commun...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Working with Children and Young People Who Have Displayed Harmful Sexual Behaviour, Stuart Allardyce and Peter Yates
Working with Children and Young People Who Have Displayed Harmful Sexual Behaviour, AllardyceStuart and YatesPeter, Dunedin Academic Press Limited, Edinburgh, London, 2018, pp. XX + 198, £24.95, ISBN: 978-1-78046-068-0 (pb) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Tribes and State Policy in India: Revisiting Governing Principles from a Decolonial Social Work Perspective
AbstractSocial work theorists have begun talking about a fundamental shift in social work education, marked as the rise of decoloniality and decolonial thinking. Within this context, distinct social work formulations that make a fundamental break from past paradigms are being posited in the form of decolonial social work. In India, decolonial social work is constituted primarily by two theories —Tribal Social Work and Dalit Social Work. The former arising directly out of British colonialism and the latter premised on an anti-caste social work perspective. Taking the case of tribal policy with specific reference to princi...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - November 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Opening the Time Capsule of ACEs: Reflections on How we Conceptualise Children ’s Experiences of Adversity and the Issue of Temporality
AbstractIn this article, we engage with some of the fundamental concepts underpinning the original adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) study and subsequent work, whilst recognising that the terminology of ACEs has in some ways become reductionist and problematic. Although an imperfect concept covering a range of childhood adversities at a personal, intrapersonal and community level, ACEs have utility in bridging scientific and lay communities. The evidence clearly identifies that ‘numbers matter’ and that whereas children may be able to cope with a little adversity over a short period of time when they have good suppo...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychosocial Interventions Situated Within the Natural Environment with Young People Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Scoping Review
AbstractThe natural environment is increasingly used in therapeutic psychosocial interventions for young people who have experienced trauma. However, as the research in this area has yet to be synthesised, very little is known about the types and outcomes of interventions. This prevents the optimisation of social work interventions in outdoor settings. Consequently, a scoping review of peer-reviewed research published from 2008 to 2018 was undertaken to examine how nature is being used in psychosocial interventions with young people aged ten to twenty-four years who have experienced trauma and the impact of these intervent...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Care Experience and Friendship: Theory and International Evidence to Improve Practice and Future Research
AbstractDrawing on a review of recent international literature, this article argues for the first time that an understanding of, and engagement with, the theory and practice of friendship is essential to working alongside those who have care experience. Drawing on theory from philosophy, psychology and sociology, the care system is explored as a unique and challenging context for making and keeping the reciprocal, caring friendships which research suggests are important for a ‘happy, healthy life’. Our analysis shows how theories of friendship have failed to consider the friendship experiences of those in the care syst...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Supporting Troubled Young People: A Practical Guide to Helping with Mental Health Problems, Steven Walker
Supporting Troubled Young People: A Practical Guide to Helping with Mental Health Problems, WalkerSteven, St Albans, Critical Publishing, 2019, pp. 184, ISBN 9781912508730, £19.99(p/b) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Pilot Programme to Facilitate the Use of Mental Health Treatment Requirements: Professional Stakeholders ’ Experiences
Conclusion: The MHTR pilot protocol was generally well-received and appeared to address previous barriers to the use of MHTRs. Future work is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of MHTRs and the experience of offenders who receive them. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Editorial: Black Lives Matter, Biopolitics and the Social Work Response
As the current issue went into production, the extraordinary constellation of bio-political and socio-political events facing our communities was in full force. COVID-19, the novel coronavirus pandemic, continues to affect every aspect of our lives ‘targeting’ some of the most vulnerable people in our society. At the same time, contradictory state responses to the pandemic confirm that the handling of illness and disease in modern societies is ultimately a political matter. Michel Foucault in his famous series of lectures at the Collège d e France, in 1978, conceptualised the term biopolitics. Through this conceptuali...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to: Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues, by Camillia Kong and Alex Ruck Keene
The British Journal of Social Work (2021) 51, 1121 –1122.https://doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcaa084 (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to: The Controlled Arena of Contested Practices: Critical Practice in Israel ’s State Social Services
The British Journal of Social Work (2021)51, 279 –296. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to: Protecting the Public? An Analysis of Professional Regulation —Comparing Outcomes in Fitness to Practice Proceedings for Social Workers, Nurses and Doctors
The British Journal of Social Work (2020)50, 1871 –1889. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Implementation of Connecting People in Community Mental Health Teams in England: A Quasi-Experimental Study
This study aimed to evaluate outcomes for mental health service users of a practitioner-led implementati on of Connecting People in CMHTs. It used a pragmatic non-randomised two-group pre-post study to evaluate the implementation process in CMHTs. Implementation materials co-produced with service users were provided to the intervention teams for practitioners to use with the support of a senior social worker in each mental health National Health Service Trust (n = 5). Service users were interviewed at baseline (n = 151) and at six-month follow-up (n = 127), and their outcome and cost data were analysed on an in...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - September 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effective Self-Care and Resilience in Clinical Practice: Dealing with Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout, Sarah Parry (ed.)
Effective Self-Care and Resilience in Clinical Practice: Dealing with Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout, ParrySarah (ed.), London and Philadelphia, PA, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017, pp. 176, ISBN 978 1 7859 20707, £19.99 (pbk) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - September 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Division and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality, Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs
Social Division and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality, GilleardChris and HiggsPaul, Bristol, Policy Press, 2020, pp. v + 216, ISBN 9781447338604 (pbk), 9781447338598 (hbk), 9781447338628 (ePub), 9781447338611 (ePdf), £26.99 (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - September 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
