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{"title":"International social work and forced migration: developments in African, Arab and European countries","authors":"Niels Rosendal Jensen","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2178699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2178699","url":null,"abstract":"messages more acceptable. Chapter 5 provides a brief overview of the previous contents and presents themmore concisely in an integrated framework. The content of this chapter is a distilled essence for policymakers and social workers trying to find a scientific basis for their decisions and responses. Part II uses specific cases to illustrate that culture, politics, religion, and different national contexts can profoundly impact people’s behaviour in a crisis besides individual, group, and social factors. These cases can help confine the aspects social work can act. The case in Chapter 6 is from Poland. Although it is not a successful example, combined with the analysis in Part I, we can visualise some characteristic reasons for the failure of Poland in COVID-19 prevention and control. Chapter 7 shows the top-down impact of culture and religion on pandemic control by examining examples from Islam and Hinduism, respectively. The final chapter compares and analyses the interventions and effectiveness of pandemic prevention in 29 representative OECD countries, demonstrating the potential role of systematic data sets on interventions to support the development of public policy responses to the crisis. In a nutshell, this book will not only provide insights for researchers in psychology, behavioural sciences, and social workers but also supply a more objective and realistic picture for the general readers interested in human behaviours during a pandemic and thus protect them from pseudoscience. More importantly, it can inspire potential short-term and long-term solutions for policymakers and social work practitioners.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":"26 1","pages":"608 - 609"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46396301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Frontline discretion from a Bourdieu-inspired field perspective: an ethnographic case study of a Norwegian activation measure for sick-listed employees","authors":"Karianne Nyheim Stray, O. Thomassen","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2167069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2167069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Frontline work is increasingly undertaken in multi-stakeholder settings, indicating a need to revisit issues of frontline discretion. This ethnographic case study, based on an activation measure for sick-listed employees in Norway, applies a Bourdieu-inspired field analysis of frontline discretion. We approach frontline discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) as comprised by ‘position-takings’ in an available space of possibilities in the field of work reintegration. A key feature of this field is that stakeholders employ opposing forms of capital: the NAV caseworker employs activation capital; sick-listed employees use individual or client capital; client employers draw on economic capital; and the clients’ general practitioners employ medical expertise capital. We find that NAV caseworkers undertake three specific position-takings in manoeuvring the other forms of stakeholder capital: nudging and negotiating with and between stakeholders; legitimising NAV’s interests and demands; and making other stakeholders accountable. Notably, frontline discretion is constituted in the configuration of the forms of stakeholder capital, including that of their own organisation, which requires administration and compromises between them. Our theoretical contribution is that an administrative form of capital becomes symbolic, potentially incorporating frontline workers’ future professional habitus.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43738512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods","authors":"M. Schrooten, P. Raeymaeckers","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2178693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2178693","url":null,"abstract":"political and social context. In Croatia, the authors presented the ‘challenges for social work education: lessons from a post-socialist context.’ They divided their presentation into five components to tackle the professional social work profile and education; and then started by stating the history and evolution of the context and the profession of social work describing the synergy between the education and the state intervention, the academic influence, to conclude about the current social work situation. In Latvia, the chapter is about ‘Social work education: post-crisis impact and development.’ The authors presented three main components: the history, the main areas of social work (professional activities, most relevant work areas and triggers and causes of these developments), the current model of social work. In the Netherlands, the authors highlight the ‘Reconstruction of social work education.’ They describe clearly and with a deep understanding the social work profession, history and most importantly the reconstruction of the social work profile. Every paragraph characterises parts of the puzzle that created the profile of social work today in the Netherlands. Starting from the history (citizenship identity, multi-nationalities, challenges), reconstruction, VET and Higher education ethics, relationship to the political aspects, the professional identity, the international profile. In Romania, ‘the revival of Romanian social work education and its prospects’ is the focus. The author presented the history of social work and how throughout the years it evolved, it also presents the main challenges of today’s education, and it also presented the curriculum of the social work academic programme (list of courses, and the pedagogical framework). In the United Kingdom, the social work education was the main theme. The authors provided a general overview about the history of social work, its evolution, and challenges throughout the years. They highlighted the profession of social workers and its operational models within the regions of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Then, the authors mentioned the development of the profession of Social Work on the Educational, academic, and professional level emphasizing the solution provided to empower the profiles of the social workers.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":"26 1","pages":"602 - 604"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49435923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human behaviour in pandemics: social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis","authors":"Jing Zhang, Yingjiao Li","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2178700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2178700","url":null,"abstract":"necessary tools to go beyond the narrow focus of current studies that– according to the authors – suffer from a fragmented and segregated knowledge base by focusing on particular ethno-national groups or by focusing on specific sectors such as public healthcare or civil society. Moreover, most current studies do not provide a comprehensive overview of the entire welfare ecosystem, including informal dimensions of provision (Schrooten, Thys & Debruyne (eds) (2019) Sociaal schaduwwerk. Politeia), a perspective that is well elaborated in this book. Another important asset of the concept is its multiscalarism, which includes scapes and resources ranging from the local to the transnational and the virtual. By making visible how resources from all over the world are connected to solve health – or welfare – concerns, the concept has the potential to contribute to overcome themethodological nationalism still present in social work (Schrooten (2021) Transnational social work. Journal of Social Work, 21:5, 1163–1181). Yet, apart from a reference to the existence of transnational and virtual resources, these perspectives are largely absent from the book. The connection of resources across welfare regimes and borders is not elaborated, nor is the transnational or the virtual explicitly included in the ‘welfare ecosystem’ approach developed in the book, which is limited to a local organisation perspective. This is a missed opportunity to pay attention to ‘the hidden’, including transnational resources as well as resources without a formal organisational structure. Further developing these hidden aspects would strongly contribute to the potential of the concept and further enrich its ability to bring innovation to healthcare systems and beyond.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":"26 1","pages":"606 - 608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46710182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flight and migration from Africa to Europe: contributions of psychology and social work","authors":"Niels Rosendal Jensen","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2178698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2178698","url":null,"abstract":"and how to further develop the ecosystems of our cities. Although the concept of the book Life after Covid-19 is intriguing, the realisation/implementation of the concept seems rushed and not well thought trough, also because the impact of the pandemic was still unravelling and the impact and trends from the pandemic were not as visible as they are today. I would be very curious and would encourage the authors to consider writing some of the stories from today’s perspective, in a much more coherent way with enough space to be able to explain the observations, ideas and their implications for the future. I am confident that such an approach will bring a lot more value and considerations, reflections and new ideas to its readers.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":"26 1","pages":"402 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42317105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective","authors":"Limor Gadot, Noga Pitowsky-Nave","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2176469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2176469","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent years have seen growing research interest in and application of the social work subfield of employment promotion practices (EPPs), designed to help populations coping with poverty and unemployment to integrate in the labour market. The aim of this study was to identify and conceptualise professional EPP in social work. Data were collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews with sixteen EPP social workers in Israel, who offered direct, practice-oriented knowledge regarding these practices. The results indicated that despite differences between employing agencies, three common themes could be identified as characterising this subfield. First, the content of professional interventions, including an inherent dilemma between emotional therapy and task-oriented occupational interventions. Second, intervention processes, including five main stages: occupational intake, setting occupational objectives, dealing with obstacles and skills improvement, work placement, and on-the-job supervision. Third, the results showed that EPP social workers focused mainly on casework and individual counselling, to the neglect of macro practices aiming to change unjust labour policies. The findings enable conceptualisation of the EPP social worker’s practices and contribute to the developing body of knowledge in this emerging subfield. Implications for further professional development and policy are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45700066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal","authors":"Ruhia Mahama, Rikard H. Eriksson, P. Ellingsen","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2022.2149474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2022.2149474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43074183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Under the surface of the professional practice the challenge of anti-oppressive practice in forced migration","authors":"Francesca Falcone","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2168628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2168628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41732937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: a delphi study","authors":"Thomas Noordink, L. Verharen, R. Schalk, Tine Van Regenmortel","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2168627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2168627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The value of empowerment as a central concept for social work implies the potential benefits of measurement to understand how this value is materialised in social work. The way in which instruments are developed and constructed impact their quality. With regard to the complexity of measuring empowerment, this article aims to provide insights in experts’ views on the theoretical requirements to measuring empowerment in social work. A Delphi study of 3 rounds was conducted to achieve consensus into the appropriate method of instrument development for empowerment. By retrieving, organising, exchanging and combining opinions and arguments from different experts, this study provides insights into their views on requirements when developing measuring instruments for empowerment. The results show elaborations on substantive requirements and considerations that should be taken into account when developing empowerment measures in social work and that have led to the development of new guidelines. These provide social work and its researchers the opportunity to construct instruments that align with methodological standards, theoretical requirements, and ethical principles.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45590596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family support services reduce the demand for emergency child removals at the community level","authors":"Juulia Hietamäki, P. Seppälä, Laura Häkkilä, Timo Toikko","doi":"10.1080/13691457.2023.2167811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2167811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to examine whether the characteristics of the child protection systems can explain the demand for emergency child removals at the community level. The material of the study consists of Finnish municipalities (N = 292) and their child protection indicators. The study was undertaken by using a conditional process analysis software programme and estimating the regression coefficients in the conditional model. It was found that family support services reduced the demand for emergency child removals. On average, family support seems to be an effective intervention, and also in case of increasing child welfare notifications. The present study underlines the significance of a system-level approach to child protection.","PeriodicalId":12060,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46805546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}