Paula McFadden, Anne Campbell, Brian J. Taylor
Child protection social work is acknowledged as a very stressful occupation with high turnover and poor retention of staff being a major concern. This paper highlights themes that emerged from findings of 65 articles that were included as part of a systematic literature review. The review focused on...
Scott Reeves
This paper presents final results from a 15-month project which evaluated the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) for first and second year medical, nursing and dental students on a community-based placement. The paper initially discusses the current issues within the IPE literature. ...
Paula McFadden, John Mallett, Michael P. Leiter
Burnout has been disproportionally reported in child protection social work. This paper presents data from 162 child protection staff in Northern Ireland, assessed for burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Path models were estimated, based on an extension of the two-process demands and values...
Foreword by Katherine A. Kendall An Introduction to the World of Social Work Education by Thomas D. Watts North and South America United States: L. Diane Bernard Canada: Estelle Hopmeyer, M. Dennis Kimberly, and Frank R. Hawkins Mexico and Central America: Marian Angela Aguilar South America: Rosa P...
Scott E. Wilks, Kristina Little, Heather Gough, Wanda J. Spurlock
This study assessed impact of Alzheimer's patients' aggressive behavior (AD aggression) on caregiver coping strategies (task-, emotion-, and avoidance-focused) and caregiver resilience, and examined whether coping strategy moderated the AD aggression-caregiver resilience relationship. Informal careg...
Stewart Ranson, Margaret Arnott, Penny McKeown, Jane Martin et al.
This study of school governors across the UK has suggested that while school governors and school boards had adopted (modernizing) perspectives of monitoring schools to improve performance they have nevertheless developed conceptions of governance which are independent of ‘the state’ and reflect loc...
Gillian Ruch, Karen Winter, Viviene E. Cree, Sophie Hallett et al.
Abstract Reports into incidents of child death and serious injury have highlighted consistently concern about the capacity of social workers to communicate skilfully with children. Drawing on data collected as part of an Economic and Social Research Council funded UK‐wide research project exploring ...
Thomas D. Watts, Doreen Elliott, Nazneen S. Mayadas
<JATS1:p>Experts from around the world fill a major gap about social work education with their survey of the state of the field in over 23 countries and regions within the Americas (United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America, South America, Argentina), Europe (United Kingdom, Sweden, France, ...
Cecilie Sudland
Abstract Social workers within child protection services report that families marked by high levels of conflict between separated parents are among the most challenging cases to handle. Few studies however have focussed on how social workers themselves experience and meet with parents involved in ho...
Amy Østertun Geirdal, Per Nerdrum, Tore Bonsaksen
BACKGROUND: When enrolled in university or college, students receive varying degrees of training in managing practical situations in the workplace. However, after graduation, the young professionals meet their responsibilities at work. The experience of the transition between education and work may ...
Talieh Sadeghi, Silje Bringsrud Fekjær
Frontline workers play a crucial role in implementing activation policies. Nevertheless, research on what competencies are required for activation work is limited. We explored activation competency based on a survey of 1,735 frontline workers in the Norwegian labour and welfare administration. Facto...
Heather Fraser, Kate Seymour
In Understanding Violence and Abuse, Heather Fraser and Kate Seymour examine violence and abuse from an anti-oppressive practice perspective and make connections between interpersonal violence and structural, institutional and cultural violence. Using case studies from Canada, the U.K., the U.S., Au...
Stan Houston, Tom Magill, M. J. McCollum, Trevor Spratt
ABSTRACT The paper represents a further development of work previously reported in this journal by Spratt & Houston (1999) and Spratt et al. (2000) . The authors have sought to develop ways of understanding current social work with children and families in line with the critical theory of Jurgen...
Caroline Skehill
* Summary: This article reports on research carried out into the nature and position of social work in the child protection and welfare system in Ireland. Employing a methodology of a history of the present, this research sought to critically examine the nature and position of social work within the...
Ravinder Barn
BACKGROUND: This paper draws on a two-year Department of Health research study on social worker conceptualisations of ethnicity, gender and mental health. The findings and discussion are placed within the 'culturalist' and an 'integrative' perspective on the mental health needs of Asian women. It is...