Journal of Social Work Practice最新文献

{"title":"Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff","authors":"Ellen Ramvi, M. H. Lavik, B. H. Gripsrud","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1981277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1981277","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to gain insight into how death is a theme of communication and reflection among staff at a multicultural nursing home. Sixteen interviews with healthcare providers from five nursing homes in Norway were conducted and interpreted through a depth-hermeneutic approach. Our analysis across the dataset yielded an emergent finding related to a prominent lack of communication about death between the healthcare personnel and the patients, as well as among the staff community. We present a psychoanalytically informed interpretation of the absence of talk about death in the nursing homes. Our results indicate the operation of a social defence that helps health care providers maintain distance from anxiety associated with death. Reflection that foregrounds healthcare personnel’s own experiences, feelings and thoughts related to death is needed to encourage staff to open up to, and digest, the various impressions death can generate.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"331 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43848294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A message of hope: the challenges of relationship-based practice in a time of social distancing, but why it is more important than ever to come together","authors":"Emilie Wright","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1991899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1991899","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article was written during June 2020, during the first Covid-19 national lockdown, with the aim of exploring fundamental changes within our profession as a result. It is written in a reflective and pensive style, with the intention of questioning how, as social workers, we can continue to work in a relationship-based way, at a time of social distancing when this has seemed impossible. This article argues that, despite ways of working having changed, it is more important than ever to strengthen human connections and relationships, despite the challenges and complexities we now face.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"469 - 474"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44806310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Whittaker, G. Kirwan","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1996697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1996697","url":null,"abstract":"An editorial is presented on themes of connection and identity with contributions from authors in the Great Britain, Sweden, Italy, Canada, and the US. Topics include immediate social identity and relationships being threatened and strained through social isolation;and having the valuable role to play in understanding and preventing both psychological and physical violence.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"333 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42923154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Utilising ubuntu in social work practice: ubuntu in the eyes of the multimodal approach","authors":"R. K. Chigangaidze","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1981276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1981276","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT African social workers and psychologists have called for the utility of ubuntu philosophy in the fields of social work and psychology. Ubuntu is an African philosophy that is based on humanness, kindness, communality, socio-structural issues such as social justice, and human rights. This paper explores the philosophy of ubuntu guided by the seven modalities of the multimodal approach, which are behaviour, effect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relationships and drugs/biology. The article suggests that ubuntu as an African philosophy has potential to contribute two modalities in addition to the seven modalities in the multimodal approach by the South African psychologist Arnold Lazarus. It argues that ubuntu contributes two domains in assessments and these are as follows: the person-physical environment relationship and the spiritual relationship. Given the emphasis on eco-spiritually informed social work, this paper calls for the adoption of these two modalities for the assessment and intervention plans in social work practice.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"291 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43712390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis. New perspectives on race, gender and sexuality","authors":"R. Farooqi","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1980773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1980773","url":null,"abstract":"Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (3rd ed.). The Guilford Press. Sifneos, P. (1967). Two different kinds of psychotherapy of short duration. American Journal of Psychiatry, 123 (9), 1069–1073. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.9.1069 Sifneos, P. (1972). Short-term, psychotherapy and emotional crisis. Harvard University Press. Strupp, H., & Binder, J. (1984). Psychotherapy in a new key: A guide to time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. Basic Books.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"478 - 479"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44879437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. A developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people","authors":"Emma Tilbury","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1962827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1962827","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"475 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48398522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances","authors":"Abreham Mekonnen, Bonnie K. Lee","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1964454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1964454","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Addiction is a severe social and mental health problem that requires concerted interdisciplinary efforts to address. Social workers routinely encounter addiction in their practice and can play an important role in its prevention, intervention and policies. However, social workers’ competence in working with addiction is currently compromised by inadequate academic training and reliance on a dominant medical and individualistic paradigm that is at odds with the person-environment philosophy of social work. Based on a critical review of the literature, three addiction theories that feature ecological, relational and humanistic-systemic concepts and practice compatible with social work orientation are presented. Existing knowledge gaps in addiction, formation of interdisciplinary allies and action steps are identified for social work to contribute to addiction theory, research and practice more centrally.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"303 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49307042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A framework for a community-based programme for people with mental illness and their families in a rural setting","authors":"T. Matsea, Elma H. Ryke, M. Weyers","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1952964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1952964","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While community-based programmes have gained recognition as an effective mental health intervention to improve the well-being and promote quality of life, their implementation remains a challenge. This is attributable to lack of necessary skills amongst professionals who have a responsibility to establish and manage these programmes. This article provides a framework for social workers to develop and implement community-based programmes for rural people with mental illness and their families. The framework was developed from an in-depth literature review and a comprehensive empirical study into the factors that influence the functioning and well-being of people with mental illness and their families at Mashashane, a rural community in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The article argues that incorporating community inputs in the development of a framework ensures the relevance of the interventions to the identified needs and increases the likelihood of community acceptance.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"317 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02650533.2021.1952964","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44480137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The experiences of reconciliation with destructive parents through imagery communication group psychotherapy","authors":"Renhui Lyu, Shuang Lu","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1952963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1952963","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Abusive or negligent parenting can negatively impact a child’s psycho-social functioning well into adulthood. Self-healing through forgiveness of dysfunctional parents can yield intergenerational benefits, yet the process of reconciliation between children and parents through psychotherapy is rarely studied. This study aims to identify patterns and processes of reconciliation in clinical contexts. We conducted semi-structured interviews with seven Chinese adult children raised through destructive parenting who forgave and reconciled with their parents through long-term group imagery communication psychotherapy. Data were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Our findings identify a series of themes relevant to the process of reconciliation: increased differentiation of self, psychological reconciliation with forgiveness and connectedness, and relationship restoration in actual family interactions. Our findings provide implications for the development of interventions for adult children, and indicate that healing childhood trauma and achieving differentiation from families-of-origin should be prioritised to ensure successful reconciliation.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"275 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02650533.2021.1952963","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43618566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"G. Kirwan, A. Whittaker","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.1960051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.1960051","url":null,"abstract":"We started our last editorial on a note of hope and optimism regarding the arrival of the Covid-19 vaccine and the gradual re-opening of society. In the intervening three months, there have been many examples of progress as society musters its capacity to overcome the dangers posed by this virus. There have been setbacks also, and the perseverance on the part of society, the ‘us collective’, to adhere to new ways of behaving and interacting with each other, has been tested many times. Change is not easy. In particular, sustained behavioural, cognitive and emotional change is challenging, even at the best of times. The articles in this general issue address the psychodynamic processes surrounding change in a variety of contexts, not necessarily Covid-specific types of change, but change of various kinds in relational or family contexts. In the first article of this issue, Stan Houston and Calvin Swords consider how the application of a psychodynamic lens can aid social workers to assess the capacity of parents to change in contexts where child safety and protection concerns arise. To understand and measure this capacity to change must, they argue, take into account the intra-psychic and relational dimensions of a parent’s lived reality. The title of their article, ‘Analysing a parent’s capacity to change: towards a model for child protection social workers’, signals the aim of their article which is to strengthen the knowledge base of social work in child protection assessment and intervention contexts. On a similar theme, but in a different context, Louise Sims, delves into the changing processes in adoption practices and the potential negative implications for new family formation which can arise when such processes are rushed. She titles her article, ‘Encounters with liminality: transformative practices in the building of an adoptive family’, and, in particular, she highlights the potential for transformative practice during the matching stage, which she identifies as a ‘liminal hotspot’ in which intense psychosocial processes are typically at play. Katarina Glumbiková and Marek Mikulec’s article is titled ‘Reflexivity and strategies of emotions (re)construction in social work with families in the Czech Republic’. In this paper, the authors provide important insights into the ways in which social workers use reflective practice to manage the emotional and stress-inducing elements of their work. The authors consider how the suppression of emotions on the part of the social worker is a coping strategy that is sometimes adopted but which may diminish the social worker’s ability to connect with their personal feelings in the context of their work with clients. The implications of social workers not connecting with these dimensions of their experiences are discussed. The fourth article in this issue is titled, ‘Rural grandparenting through a family development lens: implications for social work practice’ by Tamara Woods. This is the first of two art","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"229 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02650533.2021.1960051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43767449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}