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"The Just Practice Framework in Action: Contemporary Case Studies presents a collection of essays illustrating the application of the Just Practice framework in diverse contexts of social work practice. It is designed to serve as a companion reader to Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work (Finn, 2020) and as a stand-alone text. The Just Practice framework provides a model for the integration of social justice into social work from the most intimate spaces of individual, clinical practice to macro-level policy analysis, advocacy, and community building. The contributors to this volume show how they have brought the Just Practice framework to bear to inform and transform their practice as clinicians, researchers, advocates, organizers, educators, and program directors. Their stories bring the framework to life, illustrating its potential for transformative social work practice. Their accounts offer grounded insights into challenges and possibilities of social justice-oriented social work that both strengthen and inform the Just Practice framework"--

This practice paper explores a direct work tool within a reflective supervision session relating to spatial social work, inspired by Christian Spatscheck's 2019 article 'Spatial approaches to social work – theoretical foundations and implications for practice and research'. I talk about using a map with a young person to look at their social spaces and what they mean to them, gaining an insight into their lived experiences linked to exploitation. The paper also looks at how COVID-19 has changed our ways of working, and what opportunities this may bring for future planning of social spaces and the inclusion of young people.

Recognizing the prevalence of initiatives to align technology with social values through design and "by design" (such as privacy by design, security by design, and governance by design), this dissertation explores the current and potential role of design techniques in attending to values, and analyzes user experience (UX) professionals' "values work" practices—practices used to surface, advocate for, and attend to values—within large technology companies. The first part of the dissertation interrogates the relationship between values and design practices, looking at privacy as a case study. A review of human computer interaction literature about privacy and design suggests the importance of thinking about the purpose of design, who does the work of design, and on whose behalf is design work done. In order to better understand how design in the service of "values work" could be used towards purposes of exploration, critique and speculation, I create a set of speculative design fictions depicting a range of fictional products that suggest different sets of privacy harms. These designs serve as way to surface and foster reflection on values. The success of this design intervention in a laboratory setting sparked interest in understanding whether and how design approaches were used in values work within the technology industry. The second part of the dissertation seeks to understand the practices and strategies of UX professionals who already see addressing values as a part of their practice. I conducted interviews with UX professionals working at large technology companies, and field observations at meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area about technology design and values. These UX professionals report doing values work as a part of everyday configurations of UX work, such as when designing interfaces or conducting user research. More strikingly, UX professionals also report on engaging in a range of other activities aimed at shaping the organization, rather than a technical product or system. These practices are used by UX professionals to re-configure how values work is conducted at their organizations in several ways: by making more space for UX professionals' values work; by getting others in the organization to adopt human-centered perspectives on values; and by changing the politics and strategies of the organization regarding values. Moreover, UX professionals' values work practices occur within relations and systems of power. UX professionals often engage in tactics of soft resistance, seeking to subtly subvert existing practices towards more values-conscious ends while maintaining legibility as conducting business-as-usual within the organization. Together, these values work practices create social and organizational infrastructures to promote an alternative sociotechnical imaginary of large technology companies in a way that views these companies and their workers as more cognizant, proactive, and responsible for identifying and addressing social values, in particular reducing harms to users and other stakeholders.The last part of the dissertation reflects on the politics of using speculative design techniques in the service of values work. Experiences sharing speculative designs with others who interpreted the designs in ways that do not recognize their speculative, critical, and reflective nature, raises questions about how speculative design can be re-appropriated by or co-opted towards the very ends that are being critiqued and reflected upon. One approach to this dilemma might be to conduct speculative design work with and for specific groups of stakeholders, instead of for broad public discussion. Another approach might be to create organizational fictions that focus a designer's and viewer's attention more on practices and social relationships, compared to traditional speculative designs that focus attention on fictional products. Informed by the practices of UX professionals involved in values advocacy, the dissertation concludes by suggesting a new purpose for design, design for infrastructuring imaginaries, to complement the social practices of values advocacy. I reflect on the politics of choosing design as a mode of action when conducting values work, and reflect on implications that this work has for values in design researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders.

The article analyzes contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to community social work in Poland. The research was carried out at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). Desk research methods were used in order to conduct a comparative analysis of Ukrainian and Polish laws and regulations, scientific publications, official websites of government agencies, non-governmental organizations, social service providers, etc. Since different terms are used in the Polish-speaking world when addressing community social work (such as "praca środowiskowa", "organizowanie społeczności lokalnej", "praca socjalna ze społecznością lokalną", etc.), it was decided to interpret them within the article as synonymous, so that the terminological confusion would be avoided. It was found out that contemporary community social work in Poland takes its origins in American and Western European sources. The key theoretical and methodological approaches to community social work, which were developed directly in Poland, are identified and characterized, in particular: Model of local community organization, Model of local activity center, Local activity programs. In addition, various local variations of community social work, which are predominantly the offshoots of the above-mentioned approaches were developed in Poland over the last few years. The article also indicates the presence of critical views on the community social work practice in Poland, primarily due to the fact that models, which are already implemented in the country have a rather limited environmental impact and require a certain initial level of community self-organization, etc. Given the longer history and wider implementation of Polish models of community social work, it is concluded that their further study is justified. Moreover, it is reasonable to consider Polish experience, while implementing community social work in Ukraine. ; Статтю присвячено аналізу сучасних теоретико-методологічних підходів до здійснення соціальної роботи з місцевими громадами в Польщі. Дослідження, результати якого представлено у статті, здійснювалося на базі Вроцлавського університету (Польща) у формі так званого «desk research» та передбачало здійснення компаративного аналізу українських і польських нормативно-правових актів, наукових публікацій, офіційних вебсайтів урядових установ та організацій, громадських організацій, соціальних служб тощо. Констатовано наявність термінологічних розбіжностей у польській науковій думці щодо визначення третього з «класичних» методів соціальної роботи. Так, до найчастіше вживаних термінів належать «середовищна соціальна робота», «організація місцевих громад», «робота з місцевими громадами». Для уникнення термінологічної плутанини прийнято рішення про їх використання в межах статті як синонімічних. З'ясовано, що сучасна соціальна робота з місцевими громадами в Польщі бере свої витоки від американських та західноєвропейських джерел. Визначено й охарактеризовано основні теоретико-методологічні підходи до здійснення середовищної соціальної роботи, які були розроблені безпосередньо в Польщі, зокрема: Модель організації місцевої громади, Модель центрів локальної активності, Програми локальної активності. З опертям на ці підходи у країні створюються різноманітні локальні варіації соціальної роботи з місцевими громадами. Вказано на наявність критичних поглядів на імплементацію всіх зазначених підходів насамперед через обмеженість їх середовищного впливу, необхідність існування певного вихідного рівня самоорганізації громади тощо. З огляду на більш широке та тривале впровадження у практику діяльності польських соціальних служб наведених теоретико-методологічних підходів до здійснення соціальної роботи з місцевими громадами обґрунтовано доцільність їх детального вивчення для розроблення вітчизняних моделей.

Background: Social worker input into hospital emergency department (ED) services would appear to be central to the provision of effective, durable and comprehensive services. Unfortunately, there are few literature overviews to summarise this potential.Methods: A practice-based scoping review was conducted to identify the role and potential of social worker involvement in emergency department settings. After initial screening, abstracts of 252 articles were read and screened, resulting in 37 articles, which were reviewed and thematically analysed by pairs of reviewers, and also appraised for quality and relevance.Results: Three key practice areas of social work involvement in emergency departments were identified: mental health, suicide risk and crisis, and chronic disease. Details of social work involvement in each key practice area as noted in the literature were outlined. Beyond this, two priority focus areas were also noted: social work screening and assessment in ED, and developing a social work model that is relevant to ED.Conclusion: The identified key practice areas and priority focus areas provide a useful guide for practitioners (to more clearly define their assistance and interventions in ED), and for managers and academics (to more clearly guide the development of social work policy, practice and staffing models in ED settings).

As we all know, on March 23, 2020, the Moroccan government took drastic measures to face the economic, financial, and social consequences of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, among these measures; the prohibition of people to leave their residences, and any displacement, except in case of absolute necessity, the prohibition of any gathering or meeting of a group of people and the closing of businesses and other establishments open to the public during the period of containment. Overnight, and with the scourge of coronavirus, companies, in order to ensure their survival as well as the continuity of their activities, found themselves in the obligation to adopt remote working for alĺ or some employees. Remote work, this convenient way of working, has become in a short time "a necessity". We are experiencing a paradigm shift where many of our habits are being disrupted by new uses, new ways of doing things. The world of work and management within companies is no exception. The rise of remote working promised since the 70s is starting to become a reality. This pop-up is disrupting our conception of work by breaking with the unity of place and time that are generally associated with it. The posture of the manager is changing: we are moving from a controlling manager to a manager who trusts and empowers his employees. It is in this context, where we have tried to highlight these important concepts, insofar as they have become opportunities and solutions for the continuity and growth of the activity, thus giving rise to considerable changes for both workers and managers and forcing the latter to adopt new measures to face this new situation. To this end, a narrative literature review was conducted in order to shed light on the link between remote work and new management practices during the period of crisis to deal with this situation. Keywords : Remote work, self-monitoring, autonomy, management by control, health crisis. Jel Classification: Paper Type: Theoretical Research

ADCS's Rachael Wardell responds to five key developments in the children's social work workforce

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The article is a personal story about my grandmother and how she experienced care in her old age. By sharing my grandmother's life story about caring and reflecting on it, I inductively develop a thesis on caring and argue that caring is an asymmetrical phenomenon, and we can do better. The discussion includes the role of caring in social work practice and how to inculcate a focus on caring among workers so that they may contribute to creating caring communities. First, it exposes the complex phenomenon of dispossession at both personal and political levels and its implications for caring for elderly people. Secondly, it suggests the need for basic technology transfer. Thirdly, it points out the significance of emotional and material care and commitment to caring and challenges to sustaining it, and the need for innovations to enhance human caring. Fourthly, it emphasises the best interests of elderly people when choosing the place and space for caring arrangements. Finally, to creating caring communities, it suggests implications for integrating reason and emotion, and altering the professional values-base and policies. Social workers and similar professionals can contribute to caring communities to meet the challenging needs of growing ageing populations in the world.

This article engages with the sociological concept of 'display', that is, the process by which families show that they are family. The article argues for the need to include considerations of how displays are done at the local interactional level. In conversations between children, parents, and an interactive app, this study identifies two distinct patterns regarding how children develop their answers to the question Who are the people in your family?: the nuclear family display and the family of choice display. Each pattern is characterized by both a specific content and specific interactional, structural properties. Such matches between content and structure show that how something is displayed, as revealed by minute details of interaction, form part of participants' display work.