Realising Values: The Place of Social Justice in Health Social Work Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand

IF 0.7 Q4 SOCIAL WORK
Kelly Glubb-Smith
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ABSTRACT Values are numerous, interrelated and hard to discern in professional practice. This article reports on key findings from research into locating professional values within health social work practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. The research explores how 15 health social workers experience and negotiate value demands when working with newborn infants. A staged methodology underpinned by constructivist grounded theory was utilised to generate theoretical knowledge through two phases of semi-structured individual interviews. The research firmly located health social workers practice in the middle ground of a complex, tension-ridden practice environment with health social workers courageously striving to balance competing requirements. Within a health model influenced by neoliberal policy, key tensions related to challenges faced due to professionals oversimplifying social circumstances in risk-laden situations. This resulted in issues of judgements, bias and racism being a central concern for the participants’ social work practice. Despite these tensions, the place of social justice as a primary organising value was affirmed by the research. A stronger focus on the profession’s values would strengthen the collective voice of health social workers and their identity, in order to better address the systemic drivers of health inequities.
实现价值:社会正义在新西兰奥特罗阿保健社会工作实践中的地位
摘要价值观是众多的、相互关联的,在专业实践中很难辨别。本文报告了新西兰奥特亚卫生社会工作实践中职业价值定位研究的主要发现。这项研究探讨了15名卫生社会工作者在处理新生儿时如何体验和协商价值需求。以建构主义为基础的分阶段方法论通过半结构化的个人访谈的两个阶段来产生理论知识。本研究将卫生社会工作者的实践定位在复杂、紧张的实践环境中,卫生社会工作者勇敢地努力平衡竞争需求。在受新自由主义政策影响的健康模式中,关键的紧张关系与专业人员在充满风险的情况下过于简化社会环境所面临的挑战有关。这导致判断、偏见和种族主义问题成为参与者社会工作实践的核心问题。尽管存在这些紧张关系,但社会正义作为主要组织价值的地位得到了研究的肯定。更加关注该行业的价值观将加强卫生社会工作者的集体声音和他们的身份,以便更好地解决卫生不平等的系统性驱动因素。
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期刊介绍: Ethics and Social Welfare publishes articles of a critical and reflective nature concerned with the ethical issues surrounding social welfare practice and policy. It has a particular focus on social work (including practice with individuals, families and small groups), social care, youth and community work and related professions. The aim of the journal is to encourage dialogue and debate across social, intercultural and international boundaries on the serious ethical issues relating to professional interventions into social life. Through this we hope to contribute towards deepening understandings and further ethical practice in the field of social welfare. The journal welcomes material in a variety of formats, including high quality peer-reviewed academic papers, reflections, debates and commentaries on policy and practice, book reviews and review articles. We actively encourage a diverse range of contributions from academic and field practitioners, voluntary workers, service users, carers and people bringing the perspectives of oppressed groups. Contributions might include reports on research studies on the influence of values and ethics in social welfare practice, education and organisational structures, theoretical papers discussing the evolution of social welfare values and ethics, linked to contemporary philosophical, social and ethical thought, accounts of ethical issues, problems and dilemmas in practice, and reflections on the ethics and values of policy and organisational development. The journal aims for the highest standards in its published material. All material submitted to the journal is subject to a process of assessment and evaluation through the Editors and through peer review.
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