Editorial: Focus on Social Work with Children and Families
(Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - September 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Ethnicity and Old Age: Expanding Our Imagination, Sandra Torres
Ethnicity and Old Age: Expanding Our Imagination, TorresSandra, Bristol, Policy Press, 2020, pp. 232, ISBN 9781447328124, £24.99 (p/b) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - August 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation; Analysing Meetings in Social Welfare, Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall and Juliet Koprowska (eds.)
Interprofessional Collaboration and Service User Participation; Analysing Meetings in Social Welfare, JuhilaKirsi, DallTanja, HallTanja and KoprowskaJuliet (eds.), Bristol, Policy Press, 2022,pp.Xi + 266,£75.00, ISBN: 9781447356639. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - August 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Religion and Belief Literacy: Reconnecting a Chain of Learning, Adam Dinham
Religion and Belief Literacy: Reconnecting a Chain of Learning, DinhamAdam, Bristol, UK, Policy Press, 2021, pp. vii + 197, £26.99, ISBN 978 1 4473 4465 0 (bk) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A History of the Personal Social Services in England: Feast, Famine and the Future, Ray Jones
A History of the Personal Social Services in England: Feast, Famine and the Future, JonesRay, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, pp. 494, ISBN 9783030461232, £16.24 (ebook); ISBN 9783030461225, £24.99 (pb) (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Adapting Service Delivery during COVID-19: Experiences of Domestic Violence Practitioners
This article examines service responses in Australia, exploring practitioners' accounts of adapting service delivery models in the early months of the pandemic. Data from a qualitatively enriched online survey of practitioners (n = 100) show the ways services rapidly shifted to engage with clients via remote, technology-mediated modes, as physical distancing requirements triggered rapid expansion in the use of phone, email, video calls and messaging, and many face-to-face interventions temporarily ceased. Many practitio ners and service managers found that remote service delivery improved accessibility and efficiency. ...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
COVID-19 and BLM: Humanitarian Contexts Necessitating Principles from First Nations World Views in an Intercultural Social Work Curriculum
AbstractUnprecedented trends of complex humanitarian contexts are unfolding globally, and they are driven by numerous humanitarian crisis drivers. Two of the more recent and ongoing crisis drivers are the Coronavirus Pandemic 2019 and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. While the pandemic has already caused a direct impact on unprepared health systems and caused secondary havoc on already fragile countries, the BLM movement has exposed the deeply held structural inequalities experienced by populations who do not identify as Western European. Both crisis drivers have also exposed the structural problems that have long un...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Animals in Disaster Social Work: An Intersectional Green Perspective Inclusive of Species
AbstractDisasters do not just affect humans. And humans do not only live with, care for or interact with other humans. In this conceptual article, we explain how animals are relevant to green and disaster social work. Power, oppression and politics are our themes. We start the discussion by defining disasters and providing examples of how three categories of animals are affected by disasters, including in the current COVID-19 pandemic. They are: companion animals (pets), farmed animals (livestock) and free-living animals (wildlife), all of whom we classify as oppressed populations. Intersectional feminist, de-colonising an...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
To Shield or Not to Shield? There Should Be No Question —Black African Social Workers Experiences during COVID-19 in England
AbstractUsing three tenets of Critical Race Theory as the analytical lens, namely, counter story-telling, everyday racism and whiteness as privilege, this qualitative study examined the experiences of twenty Black African social workers during the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic in England. The findings suggest that there was a different and often less favourable application of the rules and policies for Black African social workers in relation to COVID-19 and in comparison to their White peers. In addition, Black African social workers expressed frustration about the inadequacy of risk assessments undertaken to ga...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Introduction —When Social Work Meets Disaster: Challenges and Opportunities
As disasters have become more frequent and more devastating in recent years, social workers have become attuned to the incorporation of disaster work into their practice. Widespread, catastrophic events such as fires, floods, mud slides, sea level rises and earthquakes together with human-induced events such as bombings and terrorist acts have compelled social workers across the globe into the front lines of service responses. It was with this in mind that, in consultation with the journal ’s editorial team, we conceptualised the need for a special edition of the British Journal of Social Work addressing social work theo...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Educating Social Workers in the Midst of COVID-19: The Value of a Principles-led Approach to Designing Educational Experiences during the Pandemic
AbstractSocial work education in Australia in the midst of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) would not have been possible under our pre-pandemic accreditation standards due to assumptions about best practice in higher education that were not possible to enact during the pandemic. Rather than immediately arguing for a new set of standards, as Heads of Social Work programmes the authors of this paper promoted a principles-led approach to inform ‘the right’ way—in an ethical sense—of ensuring social work education could continue in Australia during the pandemic. This meant conceptualising the challenges of deliveri...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Work in the Time of COVID-19: A Case Study from the Global South
This article explores the experiences of social workers at a non-governmental organisation (NGO) involved in disaster responses to COVID-19 in a rural and resource-challenged region of Cambodia. The views of Khmer and international social workers in the NGO were gathered through an internal auditing process utilising survey and structured conversation methods. Key themes related to the importance of prioritising the safety of staff and clients, effective communication methods, responsiveness of case management systems, public health responses and adapting to emerging needs. To ensure responsiveness to future disaster event...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Israeli Health Care Social Workers ’ Personal and Professional Concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: The Work–Family Role Conflict
In conclusion, the work–home role conflict took an especially heavy toll during the COVID-19 pandemic on social workers who were mothers to dependent children. (Source: British Journal of Social Work)
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Disrupting Human Rights: A Social Work Response to the Lockdown of Social Housing Residents
AbstractThe article probes the disproportionate impact on marginalised populations to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (COVID-19 is an acronym that stands for coronavirus disease of 2019).. It explores this problematic through research with refugees residing in social housing in Melbourne, Australia. The focus is on the specific pressures facing this cohort with the 2020 deployment, without notice, of armed police to enforce lockdown in the central Melbourne housing high rise tower estates. Our research methodology comprises narrating experiences of a community leader who had direct contact with residents and is a co-author o...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Work Practice with Ethnic Minorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Arab Minority in Israel
This study examined action strategies adopted by social workers in the public service in response to the challenges faced by ethnic minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpo se, twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted with social workers employed in the public welfare services in Israel, who work with Arab communities. Research findings revealed seven action strategies that have the potential to provide protection and support to a minority population group during the pandemic, bridge language and cultural gaps and promote policies that strive for social justice. The discussion emphasises the need and i...
Source: British Journal of Social Work - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
