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{"title":"”I don’t think a lot of people respect us” – police and social worker experiences of interagency working with looked-after children","authors":"Dennis Kaip, L. Ireland, J. Harvey","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2036109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2036109","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This original qualitative study investigated the experiences of police and social workers who worked closely with Looked-after Children (LAC) and each other in an inter-agency capacity. Participants were based in different local councils and police stations across various regions in Scotland including rural communities and the Northern Isles. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with an experienced cohort (n = 12). Those participants, police (n = 6) and social workers (n = 6), occupied different roles within their disciplines. The interview findings elicited three distinct main themes including numerous instances of traumatic experiences in working with LAC, some conflict in inter-agency working, and a lack of formal support in the workplace. The practical implications of those findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"29 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44383717","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 more ‘child-centred’ system? The discretionary spaces of the child protection social worker","authors":"Ciarán Murphy","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2031935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2031935","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Munro Review called for reform of the English child protection system so that practicing social workers were better able to exercise their discretion in the best interests of the individual child. This paper reports on the results of a multiple qualitative methods case study of a local authority child protection team. Utilising observation, documentary analysis, focus group, questionnaire, interview and ‘Critical Realist Grounded Theory’, the study explored the extent to which practicing social workers identified discretionary space within their practice. The main findings were that social workers had discretionary space in a de facto, de jure and entrepreneurial sense, and that this runs counter to assertions of ‘curtailed’ and ‘eroded’ discretion previously reported. The research does offer some evidence in favour of Munro’s image for discretion within a ‘child-centred’ system. However, it also suggests that further reform may be required to better imbed formally granted discretionary space into local policy and procedures, so that discretion becomes less ‘risky’ for the practitioner, and so social workers can more consistently employ their discretion in the interests of the individual child.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"3 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45324625","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 systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings","authors":"Violeta Ramírez-Guarín, Nuria Codina, J. Pestana","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2031934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2031934","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This systematic review was carried out to identify and evaluate psychosocial intervention strategies and procedures addressed to child soldiers. Following an exploration of peer-reviewed articles published between 2004 and 2018 in the PILOTS, Psycnet, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases, 28 of them were finally selected. The predominant theme was post-traumatic stress disorder. The intervention techniques used to deal with this and other problems consisted of established therapies (i.e. interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy), creative-expressive activities (such as dance, music and drama), and other activities promoting training and social interaction (skills training for leadership, self-regulation and reintegration). The cultural adaptation of the techniques and instruments used for intervention was limited to the translation of the instruments – but without verifying their comprehensibility in the majority of cases, which constitutes a problem when assessing the impact of the interventions carried out in the target population. Given that in most cases the results obtained from the interventions present limitations regarding their explanatory potential and generalisation, this review highlights aspects that can inform and improve psychosocial interventions and research geared towards the recovery of the collective of child soldiers.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"79 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43289554","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":"Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?","authors":"G. Kirwan, A. Whittaker","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2033010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2033010","url":null,"abstract":"Since the last issue, the discovery of a new and highly contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19 has led to renewed concern and frustrated hopes of a return to ‘ordinary’ (or pre-pandemic) life. Indeed, debates are increasingly focusing upon whether a return to a pre-pandemic world is possible and whether COVID will enter into a new phase as an endemic illness that we learn to live with, like flu. The enduring issue is how we manage hope in the vicissitudes of a pandemic that has created, for many people, a sense of pervasive anxiety in the face of ongoing uncertainty. Our first article of 2022 invites us to think beyond the present Covid-19 situation and into the possibilities of social work renewal in a post-pandemic world. In their article titled ‘Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the remaking of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it’, the three authors, Harry Ferguson, Laura Kelly and Sarah Pink, present findings from a longitudinal study of social workers, managers and family support workers based across four local authority areas in England. Their study findings reveal many dimensions of practice, including the changes that have occurred as a result of Covid-19 restrictions, social distancing in particular. Their study illustrates examples of the increased bureaucratisation of practice in child protection services and it shines a light on how the Covid-19 crisis, which they refer to as ‘a moment of dramatic disruption’, has amplified the challenges social workers encounter in trying to fulfil regulatory and administrative requirements whilst simultaneously ensuring sufficient direct contact with service users. The study shines a light on the creativity, skills and determination of practitioners and managers to persevere with their work despite the challenges which exist within the current pandemic context. The second article in this issue, ‘Sharing Lived Experiences Framework (SLEF): a framework for mental health practitioners when making disclosure decisions’ by Brendan J. Dunlop, Bethany Woods, Jonny Lovell, Alison O’Connell, Sally RawcliffeFoo and Kerry Hinsby, addresses the issue of self-disclosure by practitioners. The SLEF framework, which the authors set out in this article, highlights the role that supervision and reflective practice can play in helping individual practitioners to make decisions about when and to what extent self-disclosure is useful or appropriate in their work. The framework is designed to assist practitioners in their decision-making about self-disclosure, and it details a range of factors that surround such decisions. Tom Casey’s article details a practice model which aims to interpret and work with the relational dynamics that can occur within the relationships that surround children in care. The article, titled ‘The evolving use of Mentalization informed thinking with the “Care Team” in the Irish statutory child protection system’, examines the usefulness of JOURNAL OF SOCI","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48255099","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":"Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma","authors":"R. Booth","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.2025349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.2025349","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the implementation of a new creative life story work project within a statutory children’s services department of a UK Local Authority. The project looks to strengthen the use of life story work within statutory children’s social work teams, involving the introduction of a model developed by Professor Richard Rose. Staff training is provided, and creative life story groups with care experienced young people are led jointly by professional artists and children’s social care staff. As a social worker, I support the implementation of the project and offer any additional therapeutic support children attending the groups might need, including more in-depth individual therapeutic life story work. I explore here the dynamic nature of life story work in children’s social work, including a critical analysis of the use of self, and consider theoretical application and wider critiques of the model. I discuss some of the (often contested) literature in relation to trauma, before employing a psychosocial approach that draws on systemic and psychoanalytic theory in order to understand how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations in recovery from trauma and provides the potential to invite bigger questions in relation to how to reignite creativity and social pedagogy in social work practice.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"119 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42864794","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":"Information-giving: an approach for contemporary practice","authors":"P. Higham","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.2000948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.2000948","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Information-giving, a relevant approach for contemporary practice, is a method of communication and a skill whose purpose is to develop client’s abilities to distinguish between truthful information and inaccurate information. Building clients’ trust in a non-judgemental way, and avoiding being over-authoritative, are necessary precursors to using information-giving. The negative legacy of the class system imposed harsh discipline on children, failed to build their self-esteem, and led to their lack of trust in authority. A democratising movement beginning in the 1970s resulted in more paraprofessionals being employed in community-based charities. They drew on their own lived experiences and used information-giving to support clients who experienced poverty, violence, discrimination and low self-esteem. Information-giving’s theoretical influences include person-centred, constructive approaches, empathy, empowerment, resilience and self-actualisation. Information-giving is an effective approach that can help counter the growth of ‘fake news’ and false beliefs about the Covid-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"97 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48869968","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":"‘Caring and connected’: technology and social worker self-care","authors":"Sera Harris, B. Stout","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.2000945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.2000945","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article outlines social work practitioners’ understandings and practices of self-care, which consider the influence of technology. As part of an exploratory study on the use and experiences of technology by Australian social work practitioners, we examined implications for worker self-care. The study found that technology presents unique challenges and opportunities for self-care as social workers straddled multiple and contradictory conceptualisations of technology in the field. The use of technology raised mixed understandings of self-care, with social workers outlining the need for self-care to protect them from organisational reach and as a mechanism or space for self-care itself. The study findings highlight the need to consider technology in the understandings and practices of self-care for social workers.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"359 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46630145","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":"Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client","authors":"Adéla Recmanová, Soňa Kalenda, Ivana Kowaliková","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.2000947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.2000947","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the recent decades, social work has undergone quite extensive process of digitisation. Since the 1970s, it had faced computerisation, which peaked in the 1990s. However, since the start of the 21st century information and communication technologies have changed significantly. They developed in many forms, became more accessible and penetrated the performance of social work, where they have become a common tool of work. The aim of the research was therefore to find out and describe how information and communication technologies, according to social workers, affects the form of Czech social work interventions with vulnerable children and their families. We used a qualitative research strategy and situation analysis as our research approach. We conducted interviews with 37 social workers of the Department of Social and Legal Protection of Children and Social Activation Services for Families with Children. One of the topics of the interviews was the electronic communication between social workers and their clients, which currently appears to be extremely important for emergency measures related to COVID-19. We focus on the benefits and pitfalls of e-communication as perceived by social workers, and in the discussion, we will present various options of dealing with them in practice.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"345 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45524174","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":"Communication and interpersonal skills in social work","authors":"Monique S. Bowen","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.2000949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.2000949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"129 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44771893","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":"Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?","authors":"K. Glumbíková, M. Mikulec, Jelena Petrucijová, Ivana Kowaliková, V. Zegzulková, Kristina Wilamová","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2021.2000946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2021.2000946","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to understand the nature of imagined interactions among social workers in the child protection and to determine the implications for their social work. In the current social work social workers do not have enough space for reflection and this takes place mainly in their minds, often through ideas about (past or future) interactions between the worker and the client, through imagined interactions. However, these imagined interactions have not received sufficient research attention in social work in the past. Within the framework of the qualitative research two basic missions of imagined interactions were discovered in terms of the constructivist grounded theory. They were the intersubjective-creative and the subjective-emancipatory missions, within which there were other specific functions. The discovered nature of the imagined interactions is discussed.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"36 1","pages":"261 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48121983","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}