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Within this article we reflect on the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) Workforce Learning Development Improvement Service's response to Covid19, and the need to support social work students commencing their Practice Learning Opportunity/placement (PLO) within Adult Services in August 2020. It was recognised that the global response to the Covid19 pandemic generated a landscape of significant change and innovation for both the Workforce Learning Development and Improvement Service within the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) and students who were due to commence their PLOs within BHSCT for a period of practice learning from August – December 2020. The article explores how the Workforce Learning Development Improvement Service across in Adult Services within the BHSCT responded to meet changing need for social work students, BHSCT practice teachers (practice educators) and the operational context within which social workers practiced. The initiative, now consolidated within the student experience of their Practice Learning Opportunity (PLO) within BHSCT, is audited annually, and this article explores the learning from the initial audits in December 2020 and June 2021, as well as the ongoing changes embedded within the teams as we emerge from the Covid19 pandemic.
Within this article we reflect on the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) Workforce Learning Development Improvement Service's response to Covid19, and the need to support social work students commencing their Practice Learning Opportunity/placement (PLO) within Adult Services in August 2020. It was recognised that the global response to the Covid19 pandemic generated a landscape of significant change and innovation for both the Workforce Learning Development and Improvement Service within the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) and students who were due to commence their PLOs within BHSCT for a period of practice learning from August – December 2020. The article explores how the Workforce Learning Development Improvement Service across in Adult Services within the BHSCT responded to meet changing need for social work students, BHSCT practice teachers (practice educators) and the operational context within which social workers practiced. The initiative, now consolidated within the student experience of their Practice Learning Opportunity (PLO) within BHSCT, is audited annually, and this article explores the learning from the initial audits in December 2020 and June 2021, as well as the ongoing changes embedded within the teams as we emerge from the Covid19 pandemic.

Artha–the journal exclusively dedicated to Social Sciences and Humanities from Christ University, Bengaluru–has entered into its 15th year of life in 2016. It is indeed a long period considering the delicacy of the publishing industry in social science academia. This intervening period has also been quite turbulent and volatile, to say the least, for the paradigmatic changes it has seen in the domains of global politics and social thinking. There has been a rupture in the social existence of human beings as new technologies and ideas invade and occupy our surroundings on rampant scales. While economic reforms and neoliberal policies of states have a central role in generating these changes their impacts on the social, cultural, and political surroundings have been massive and clearly outside the immediate domains of economics. Mapping these social changes and structural realities then become a major task where other social science disciplines like Sociology, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies have a major stake. This is the larger background against which the current edition of AJSS is launched. As such it involves writings from the 'twin disciplines' of Sociology and Social Work and covers a wide range of issues. Having articles from these disciplinary platforms in the same space has its own merits and risks. Interestingly, when one of the editors of this volume had a discussion with a renowned professor, who, also happens to be the editor's teacher, regarding the issue, the professor did not conceal his unhappiness over universities and higher educational bodies still treating these disciplines as two sides of the same coin. "Their differences are not sufficiently respected" was what he had to say. The statement is indeed problematic in an era of interdisciplinarity.

ABSTRACTBuilding on the narratives of women selling sex in Mombasa, this article shows how the livelihoods and strategies of women who self‐identify as sex workers are influenced by the discourses and activities of the NGO sector, the sex workers' movement, and international tourism on the one hand, and by their struggle for survival and personal advancement on the other hand. More specifically, while the term 'sex industries' or 'sex workers' — as used by a number of local and international actors — is partly internalized by women selling sex, these terms obscure the more complicated realities of women who seek to secure income for their households.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- The Flâneur and the City as a State of Mind -- The Writing of Place -- Street Photography and Visual Ethnography -- Practice-Led Research -- Subsequent Chapters -- Works Cited -- 2: Tsim Sha Tsui as Labyrinth -- Works Cited -- 3: The Mall and Park as Heterotopic Spaces -- Works Cited -- 4: Street Markets of Sham Shui Po: Going on a Dérive -- Works Cited -- 5: Embodied Mobilities: On the Subway, Cycling, Running -- An Embodied Mobilities Approach -- Commuting by Subway -- Cycling -- Recreational Running -- Trail Running -- Works Cited -- Conclusion -- Index.

English The article addresses the plight of South Africa's poorest Black majority and the government's efforts to alleviate poverty. Qualitative findings associated with social work practitioners' perspectives on the success of the efforts and the use of a developmental practice approach for the reduction of poverty are discussed. French L'article s'intéresse au triste sort de la majorité noire la plus pauvre en Afrique du sud et aux efforts gouvernementaux en vue d'enrayer cette pauvreté. Il discute des résultats qualitatifs associés aux perspectives des praticiens en travail social sur le succès des efforts entrepris pour réduire la pauvreté et pour utiliser une approche développementale en pratique sociale. Spanish El artículo señala la difícil situación de los pobres en Sud Africa y los esfuerzos del gobierno para aliviar la pobreza. En él se discuten los hallazgos cualitativos, asociados con la perspectiva de los practicantes del trabajo social, sobre el desarrollo de los esfuerzos para aliviar la pobreza y la utilización de una práctica de desarrollo para aproximarse a la reducción e la pobreza.

In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, sociolinguistics, development theory and deal with issues such as causality, probability, and reflexivity in social science. Varied and lively contributions relate central methodological issues to detailed accounts of research projects which adopt a realist framework. Making Realism Work provides an accessible discussion of a significant current in

Defining and assessing child abuse and maltreatment has long been a challenge to both researchers and practitioners in social work. Taking an intersectional perspective, this article explores the meaning of class and ethnicity in professionals' investigations and assessments in child protection referrals. Overall, findings show that class power was particularly actualised for caseworkers facing parents with high social status. In these cases, the parents often resisted the investigation and the caseworkers therefore had difficulties in disclosing or defining the abuse. In comparison, culture was often made relevant in cases involving minority ethnic parents, where abuse was often actualised as corporal punishment. This practice tended to be seen as a cultural issue rather than related to social problems. In these cases, class power was not articulated. The article sheds light on intersections of class and ethnicity that may affect social work practice with children at risk of abuse and maltreatment.

This article examines how knowledge gathering is organized when interviewing a client and designing a treatment plan. When the focus of social work practice is upon adaptation (e.g., achieving a goodness-of-fit), knowledge gathering is organized by the presenting problem or need and the social worker's expertise on human functioning. When the focus of social work practice is upon identity formation (as advocated by postmodern approaches), knowledge gathering is organized by the client's dreams/goals and the client's preferred identity (of who she or he would like to be). Within these postmodern approaches, practice falls into three much different broad phases, encapsulated by the terms "confront, generate, solidify."