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Indonesia is building a child protection system where primary preventions aim to support families and intervention is based on community-based care options rather than the current reliance on institutional care. Social work has been identified as the lead profession in this structural change. This requires social work to be better recognized as a profession in Indonesian society. This article outlines exploratory research in establishing a role for social work in child protection in Indonesia. Key learning outlines the need for global collaboration and the need for an indigenous Indonesian approach to the identity of social work.

Stress and mental health are among the biggest causes of sickness absence in the UK, with the Social Work and Social Care sectors having among the highest levels of stress and mental health sickness absence of all professions in the UK. Chronically poor working conditions are known to impact employees' psychological and physiological health. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected both the mode and method of work in Social Care and Social Work. Through a series of cross-sectional online surveys, completed by a total of 4,950 UK Social Care and Social Workers, this study reports the changing working conditions and well-being of UK Social Care and Social Workers at two time points (phases) during the COVID-19 pandemic. All working conditions and well-being measures were found to be significantly worse during Phase 2 (November–January 2021) than Phase 1 (May–July 2020), with worse psychological well-being than the UK average in Phase 2. Furthermore, our findings indicate that in January 2021, feelings about general well-being, control at work, and working conditions predicted worsened psychological well-being. Our findings highlight the importance of understanding and addressing the impact of the pandemic on the Social Care and Social Work workforce, thus highlighting that individuals, organizations, and governments need to develop mechanisms to support these employees during and beyond the pandemic.

The goal of the paper is to analyze the social work quality dilemma. The essence of the dilemma is the impossibility to set up the measurable standards for social work quality. There are several reasons for dilemma. The interest groups demand for different standards. The local context needs the adaptation to the specificity of location. Introducing business logic into social sphere rise conflicts. The complexity of social work action and quality. The author proposes three conditions under which the problem of social work dilemma can be solved.

In focus of this article are two selective parenting programs, both developed locally by Social Services and by a Women´s Shelter organisation in Sweden. Parents with a foreign background is the target group. Their needs are formulated in terms of `change values based on patriarchal beliefs in honour´. In the article the programs are described in relation to universal evidence-based parenting programs and a also a three-part dilemma of 1; offering preventative but also normative interventions to 2; selected target groups and 3; based on the idea that migrant parents have special needs due to cultural differences. The aim is to investigate in what ways the practices of conducting parenting programs for this target group could be framed as cultural imperialistic practices or democratic practices in social work. Cultural imperialism leads to oppression while democratic practices are emancipatory. A conclusion is that both practices are apparent and concurrent. Yet the dualism dismantles the risk of reproducing oppression of the selected target group. Another conclusion is that instead of defining parents with foreign backgrounds as culturally different the target group could be defined as a group with migration experience e. g. experience of leaving the home country and family and finding ways of resettlement in a receiving country. Selective parent programs are relevant but an alternative definition would promote democratic practice, where authorities and social workers meet the demands of the participating parents on their own terms, and with the goal, not to change 'unwished cultural differences' but to support empowerment. ; Epub 2019

O artigo reflete ao redor da relação perfil profissional-estratégias de intervenção nas instituições públicas, a fim de revelar a coexistência de práticas antagônicas dentro do coletivo profissional. Neste sentido compreende-se o caráter heterogêneo do coletivo profissional e, do mesmo modo, reconhece-se a dimensão política que atravessa a prática profissional. Sendo assim, o projeto de sociedad e profissão ao que se adira, vinculado às condições objetivas e subjetivas em que se desenvolve a prática profissional,dará os alicerces para configurar os diferentes perfis profissionais. Por isso, a partir das declarações dos trabalhadores sociais e usuários de serviços sociais entrevistados,pretende-se reconstruir os modos como tais perfis ontologicamente opostos são apresentados na prática profissional, pois isso revela a continuidade de práticas a serviço das classes dominantes e o reconhecimento de um setor que vem rejeitando o conservadorismo profissional. ; The article analyzes the relation between professional profile and intervention strategies in public institutions, in order to reveal the coexistence of conflicting practices with in the professional collective. In this sense, the heterogeneous nature of the professional group is understood and, likewise, the political dimension crossing the professional practice is recognized. Now, the project of society and profession that it adheres to, linked to the objective and subjective conditions in which professional practice is developed, will set the basis for configuring the various professional profiles. Therefore, based on the testimony of the social workers and social service users interviewed, the purpose is to reconstruct the ways in which these ontologically opposed profiles are presented on the professional practice, as this reveals the continuity of practices at the service of the dominant classes and the recognition of an industry that is rejecting the professional conservatism. ; El artículo reflexiona en torno a la relación perfil profesional- estrategias de intervención en las instituciones públicas, a fin de develar la coexistencia de prácticas antagónicas dentro del colectivo profesional. En este sentido se comprende el carácter heterogéneo del colectivo profesional y, del mismo modo, se reconoce la dimensión política que atraviesa la práctica profesional. Ahora bien, el proyecto de sociedad y profesión al que se adhiera, vinculado a las condiciones objetivas y subjetivas en que se desarrolla la práctica profesional, sentará las bases para configurar los distintos perfiles profesionales. Por ello, a partir de los testimonios de los trabajadores sociales y usuarios de servicios sociales entrevistados, se pretende reconstruir los modos como dichos perfiles ontológicamente opuestos se presentan en la práctica profesional, pues ello revela la continuidad de prácticas al servicio de las clases dominantes y el reconocimiento de un sector que viene rechazando el conservadurismo profesional.

Cathode Ray Memories: Television as memory and social practice The history of television in Ireland is, predominantly, an institutional history. Indeed, rather than studying television in Ireland most commentary addresses Irish television as embodied by Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ). There are plentiful accounts of RTÉ, its programmes, personalities and the circuits of institutional power surrounding it. This is a history populated by political and clerical elites, and written by their cultural counterparts. Institutional crises surrounding RTÉ have been used as a proxy for the experiences of Irish people. With few alternatives, this perspective has underpinned common sense understandings of how television has helped to shape Irish society. Ironically, in attempts to explain the effect of the medium in Ireland the medium itself is overlooked. There is little comment on the changes in pace and scale that television technology has introduced. There has been no investigation of the medium's effect on the use of time, daily habits, family routines and so on. Such ubiquitous changes, lying outside the fields of parliamentary and cultural politics, have been overlooked. They are hidden in plain sight. To understand the effect of television in Ireland, as opposed to Irish television, this paper moves beyond the narratives that have predominated heretofore. Methodologically, it takes a necessary step beyond the limitations of a dependence on broadcast archives, newspaper records and official archives. It asks people, rather than tells them, how television has shaped their lives. Following the life story methods of Jerome Bourdon, it presents a pilot analysis of Irish memories of television. It tries to identify, and make explicit, common themes in the collective memory of television. Mindful of the medium, its affordances and the everyday rituals that are built around it, the paper traces and analyses memories of how television has re-shaped social practice.

AbstractThis paper seeks to add to the literature on working with fathers by focusing on early intervention. It draws on research into fathers involved in a home visitation service delivered by the Family Nurse Partnership in England and evaluates the men's experiences of the intervention. The vulnerability of fathers was striking and many were helped to develop their practical skills and confidence in caring for their babies. The intervention was effective because of the quality time that was invested in developing relationships with fathers (as well as mothers), the focus on their strengths as well as areas for improvement and the skilled, therapeutically oriented, holistic approach through which the service was delivered. The 'early' nature of the help was crucial to its success because of how it so effectively tapped into the men's redefinition of themselves as caring fathers during pregnancy and following the birth. We argue that there is important learning here for social care and health services in general about how to engage men and promote fathers' capacities to care for their children.

Poor health conditions such as diarrhoea are often associated with low- and middle-income countries. Diarrhoea in Nigeria contributes to an estimated 151,700 (16%) annual infant deaths, with a prevalence of 10–18 percent. With the high rate of diarrhoea-related infant mortality, it becomes important to investigate the barriers to its prevention. Data were sourced using five Focus Group Discussions involving 18 health workers and 30 nursing mothers. Findings show high prevalence of diarrhoea and identified ignorance, cultural/religious beliefs, and lack of funds as major barriers to its prevention. To address these problems, engaging social workers as welfare professionals is recommended.