Enhancing Potency Among Male Adolescents at Risk to Drug Abuse: An Action Research
In: Child & adolescent social work journal, Band 26, Heft 5, S. 383-398
ISSN: 1573-2797
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In: Child & adolescent social work journal, Band 26, Heft 5, S. 383-398
ISSN: 1573-2797
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 30, Heft 6, S. 665-673
ISSN: 0190-7409
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 75-94
ISSN: 1741-3117
This qualitative study reports a preliminary investigation of the intergenerational transmission of trauma across three generations, and across three types of trauma. Representatives of three families in which the first generation had experienced a trauma were examined. Trauma included experiencing the Holocaust, being placed in a transit camp following immigration from Morocco, and being forced to dislocate as the result of a war. The representatives of successive generations were administered qualitative, open–ended interviews regarding their life as survivors or victims, or as the second/third generation of survivors/victims. A content analysis revealed that the intergenerational transmission of three types of trauma was perpetuated across three generations.
In: Child & adolescent social work journal, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 199-210
ISSN: 1573-2797
In: International social work, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 323-332
ISSN: 1461-7234
This study compares Israeli social work students' perceptions of the rewards and costs of working in the profession with those held by Israeli senior social workers. Questionnaires examining this issue were administered to 91 participants. Findings indicated that students' perceptions were significantly higher than senior social workers' perceptions.
In: The Journal of social psychology, Band 140, Heft 5, S. 580-588
ISSN: 1940-1183
In: Marriage & family review, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 97-108
ISSN: 1540-9635
In: Journal of family social work, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 39-47
ISSN: 1540-4072
In: Journal of family social work, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 43-54
ISSN: 1540-4072
In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 79, S. 183-191
ISSN: 1873-7757
In: Child & adolescent social work journal, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 203-220
ISSN: 1573-2797
In: European addiction research, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 109-112
ISSN: 1421-9891
The study aimed to examine gender differences of causal and treatment factors in substance use as perceived by adults who are addicted to drugs in the southern region of Israel. Eighty-one men and a matched group of 81 women recruited from one methadone center and several welfare agencies, average age was about 31 years, about a third immigrated from the former Soviet Union, were administered self-report questionnaires, which measured the following: demographic variables, perceived causal and treatment factors. Results indicated the following: women drug users perceived familial circumstances such as domestic violence or incest to have higher impact on substance abuse than men; men reported curiosity and the influence of addicted friends to have higher impact on substance abuse than women. In addition, women perceived personality characteristics such as willpower to have greater impact on treatment retention than men; men regarded formal and informal social support to have greater impact on treatment retention than women. Results were discussed in light of planning and developing treatment programs.
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 57-75
ISSN: 1468-2435
ABSTRACTThis exploratory study examines the relationship between personal resources (sense of potency, marital quality, social support from family and friends), the duration of unemployment, and the level of state anxiety experienced by highly educated, unemployed, middle‐aged immigrants. Studying the anxiety levels among populations at‐risk such as unemployed immigrants is particularly important in the context of situations of military conflict. In such situations, when formal support systems are in the process of erosion, the unemployed must increasingly rely on social and familial support. The following measures were examined in an anonymous, self‐report questionnaire: potency (defined as a person's enduring confidence in his/her own capacities and confidence in, and commitment to, his/her social environment which is perceived as being characterized by a basically meaningful order and just distribution of rewards), social support from friends and family, marital quality, and state anxiety. Results indicate that personal resources – particularly potency and social support from family – predicted the level of state anxiety among immigrants. Duration of unemployment was also positively correlated with state anxiety. A major recommendation that emerges is the need to foster the development of social support groups consisting of both veterans and new immigrants in order to broaden the social ties of the immigrants. This may assist newcomers not only in finding jobs, but also in coping with political and economic uncertainties in a new cultural context.
In: International migration, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 57-75
ISSN: 0020-7985
In: International social work, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 67-78
ISSN: 1461-7234
Social workers and residents in areas of political uncertainty are exposed to special demands which derive from three sources, residence in the area, exposure to the anxieties and conflicts of neighbors as clients, and being representatives of the establishment. The results of a survey in 1995 of social workers in Judea/Samaria and the Golan Heights show a positive correlation between feelings of surfeit of political issues and difficulty of coping with the role of social worker and state anxiety. Most of the social workers reported difficulties in role performance resulting from political positions held by themselves, their clients and the local leadership. We conclude with a suggestion for a debriefing team model.