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{"title":"Bereaved mothers and widows’ grief and their unfolding relationships: Implications for social work","authors":"Yael Hochman, E. Segev, I. Regev, Yafa Zafrani, Yafa Sharfi, Ayelet Elkayam","doi":"10.1177/14680173221101272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221101272","url":null,"abstract":"Summary\u0000 The literature on coping with loss has examined parental loss and widowhood largely independently, pointing to the enduring and developing grief along the lifecycle. Little is known about the relationship between bereaved mothers and widows as it develops over time. This qualitative study explored how bereaved mothers and widows perceived and described the unfolding relationship between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, following the loss of a son or husband in the Israeli security forces. Interviews were conducted with ten bereaved mothers and ten non-related widows from Jewish families to explore their developing relationship with their in-laws following the loss. \u0000 Findings\u0000 Thematic analysis revealed three main stages in the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law, relationship: disruption of the status quo directly after the loss; testing the relationship; and a process of decision-making, whether to continue cultivating the relationship and establish a new status quo. Participants described key events that challenged the newly created status quo, serving as milestones of difficulty and tension, but also as opportunities for renewal. \u0000 Applications\u0000 The study points to the centrality of the relationship between the bereaved mother and widow in the process of coping with the loss, and reveals that this relationship is not static but rather dynamic and evolving over time. Social workers in the field of bereavement may be able to improve their effectiveness in helping families cope with loss by also considering multigenerational and longitudinal perspectives in their assessment and interventions.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1323 - 1344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47289006","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":"Book Review: Social work, cats and rocket science – stories of making a difference in social work with adults by Elaine James, Rob Mitchell and Hannah Morgan with Mark Harvey and Ian Burgess","authors":"Joseph Burns","doi":"10.1177/14680173221116450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221116450","url":null,"abstract":"user feels angry and betrayed by a social worker sharing confidential information. Chapter 12 presents a fascinating exploration of the advantages and risks of using humour with service users. This includes a potentially controversial – and thus thoughtprovoking – consideration of ‘gallows’ humour expressed within the confines of a professional team. While some of this makes for uncomfortable reading, it is good to see this topic out in the open and it could prompt a lively discussion for student and staff groups. Like the other chapters, this one ends with a set of principles to guide decisions about the appropriate use of humour. Technology-assisted interventions are debated in Chapter 13. The author takes account of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social work interactions, whilst acknowledging that research evidence on the effectiveness of technology-assisted practices is only just beginning to unfold. This chapter would provide a useful springboard for readers to reflect on their own experience in developing this method of practice, including the importance of ethical considerations. Written in the United States of America, the relational aspects of the vignettes are mostly easy to apply across a broader range of settings and statutory contexts. A particular strength is the author’s extensive and consistent drawing on classic and current research evidence from North America, Australia, Northern Europe and the United Kingdom. With the growing interest in indigenous approaches (Shek, 2017), however, I would have liked to see some acknowledgment that the described interventions and research studies reflect a Western model of social work. That said, students, practitioners and social work educators will find in the book a wealth of thought-provoking material to extend and deepen learning. The book certainly meets its aim of exploring the nuances of the professional relationship and its influence on the effectiveness of social work interventions. It is likely that readers will find it a useful source of reference and inspiration to be returned to again and again.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1448 - 1450"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45118497","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":"Book Review: Self-neglect. Learning from life by Shona Britten and Karen Whitby","authors":"Hilary Brighton","doi":"10.1177/14680173221116459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221116459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1455 - 1456"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41658122","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":"Book Review: Social work with autistic people: Essential knowledge, skills and law for working with children and adults by Yo Dunn","authors":"Philip Heslop","doi":"10.1177/14680173221116451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221116451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1450 - 1451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42966202","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":"Book Review: Ethics and risk management in online and distance social work by Frederic Reamer","authors":"J. Hanley","doi":"10.1177/14680173221116458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221116458","url":null,"abstract":"microaggression towards participants. However, there is one flaw in the idea of this collection. As a pedagogical tool, I am not sure I would require my students to purchase the book, given it is a collection of papers from three special editions of a scholarly journal, to which many students and educators would have access through their institutional databases. I would have appreciated some added value or benefit in the collection form, for example, perhaps updates from the authors and researchers since the original publication or putting the works in dialogue with one another through editorial curation. The book is therefore perhaps more valuable for non-academic practitioners without access to expensive scholarly journals. The collection though is a wonderful opportunity to integrate applied social justice research into the curriculum and has some really good tools to consider in order to enhance our capacity to deal with microaggressions in social work practice, in our pedagogy, and in our classrooms.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1453 - 1454"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41723973","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":"Book Review: The dynamics of the social worker–client relationship by Joseph Walsh","authors":"Fran Wiles","doi":"10.1177/14680173221116449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221116449","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1447 - 1448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43863475","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":"Child protection investigations by private consultants or municipally employed social workers: What are the differences for children?","authors":"A. Bergman, K. Arnesson, Ulrik Berggren","doi":"10.1177/14680173221109710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221109710","url":null,"abstract":"Summary In Sweden, a practice has developed where the social services have started to hire private consultants in child protection investigations. This article analyses and compares the handling of child protection investigations carried out by private consultants and municipally employed social workers with regard to the reasons for the reports, the investigations, the assessments, and the decisions taken about interventions. The concepts funnel and filtering and children's participation are used in the analysis. The study has a mixed-methods design, where qualitative and quantitative data and analysis are combined and integrated. Data consists of 120 case files regarding the social service's handling of investigations as well as interviews with managers of social service departments. Findings The results show several differences in the handling of child protection investigations carried out by social workers and private consultants in the municipalities studied. The private consultants worked to a greater extent with investigations that were initiated due to concerns about violence. Investigations conducted by consultants contained less information and specifically concerning children's perspective. These children also received interventions to a lesser extent than children assessed by the municipal social workers. Application The study indicates that from a child’s perspective, it matters whether a municipally employed social worker or a private consultant performs an investigation. Consultants generally work temporarily in a workplace, and it may therefore be more difficult to establish a trusting relationship with the children, which can be a barrier to children's participation and the implementation of a child’s perspective.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"103 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43166452","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 association among neighborhood mutual support, well-being, and social work","authors":"Hua-lei Yang, Wenchao Zhang, Yuan-yang Wu, Yi-dan Yao, Mohan Su","doi":"10.1177/14680173221093511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221093511","url":null,"abstract":"Summary With the increase in urbanization in China, people's neighborhood has an important influence on their well-being. This study aims to explore the impact of neighborhood mutual support on well-being from the perspective of social work. A total of 13,486 samples from the 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey were utilized. The data were analyzed by the ordered logit model and propensity score matching while controlling for individual, family, and socioeconomic features. Findings (1) The more the neighborhood mutual support, the higher individuals' degree of well-being; this conclusion is robust. 2) Neighborhood mutual support has a larger improvement effect on the well-being of groups with low social status. (3) Neighborhood mutual support improves well-being through two mechanisms: it can grow an individual's support network, helping them obtain more material support, and it enhances individuals' integration into society, improving their well-being through increased feelings of community security. (4) The influence of neighborhood mutual support is weakened when a community has formal social support (full-time social workers) because individuals can resolve their problems through formal social support, reducing their reliance on neighbors. Applications Based on the perspective of community development, understanding the influence of neighborhood mutual support on well-being is important. Social workers should adopt different intervention approaches according to characteristics of different groups to improve residents' level of neighborhood mutual support. Moreover, to promote community development, the government should consider arranging social work for less-developed communities.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1345 - 1373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47363365","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":"Vulnerability among older people ageing with deafblindness","authors":"P. Simcock, J. Manthorpe, A. Tinker","doi":"10.1177/14680173221109447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221109447","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Vulnerability is an underexamined concept in social work. Scholarly activity principally concentrates on policy analysis and theoretical debate; less attention is given to lived experience of vulnerability from the perspectives of particular groups, impoverishing understanding of the phenomenon. This article presents findings from the first United Kingdom-based study of the lived experience of vulnerability from the perspectives of older deafblind adults. Adopting a qualitative design, data were collected via 18 semistructured interviews with eight participants (aged between 49 and 83), undertaken between October 2014 and July 2016. Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings Participants interpret vulnerability as layered, describing what they feel vulnerable about, what they feel vulnerable to, and when they feel vulnerable. The latter layer is predominant: vulnerability experiences are time-limited, and situation and setting specific. Situational and pathogenic sources of vulnerability include the responses of other people, particularly the experience of being misunderstood or perceived as incapable. The layers of vulnerability are not discrete: they can be combined and avoidance of one vulnerability can exacerbate another. Applications Findings strengthen arguments against categorizing particular groups, including deafblind people, as permanently and immutably vulnerable. Such categorization, focused solely on impairment, provides an inadequate understanding of experience. Policymakers should consider adopting a layered approach to defining vulnerability. Assessment of these layers and how they interact may offer social workers an enhanced understanding of deafblind people's experiences and assist in determining what matters to them. Assessment should explore coping strategies, and assumptions of incapability based on impairment be rejected.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"60 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49151703","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":"Indigenised approaches to addressing elder abuse in Uganda","authors":"Charles Kiiza Wamara, Thomas Strandberg, Maria Bennich","doi":"10.1177/14680173221109687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221109687","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The social gerontological field has long called for a culturally appropriate framework to understand, prevent, and respond to elder abuse in the Global South. This emphasis is, in part, based on the notion that elder abuse is a cultural and structural concern that cannot be effectively addressed using mainstream social work approaches. Therefore, indigenised approaches are preferred while tackling cultural and structural forms of elder abuse. However, despite several attempts, there is limited research on indigenised approaches and practices within the gerontological social work field. Therefore, we investigated how social work could promote indigenised approaches to better address elder abuse. We explored this through in-depth semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 21 social workers. Findings Elder abuse is a cultural and structural social problem that requires family- and community-centred approaches premised on the Indigenous values of togetherness, reciprocity, solidarity, responsibility and love for humanity. These approaches must be embedded in people’s cultures and knowledge to address the social structural changes that have contributed to elder abuse in the Global South. Applications Social workers should strengthen family and community support to achieve social capital and inclusion for older people. This will not only enable families and communities to safeguard their older members, but also enhance community-based solutions to address elder abuse. Social work educators should engage in robust and rigorous research and curriculum change for social work education to enable the integration of post-colonial theories and approaches into social work training.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"19 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44002595","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}