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{"title":"Book Review: Politics for social workers: A practical guide to effecting change by Stephen Pimpare","authors":"Nigel R. Parton","doi":"10.1177/14680173221125544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221125544","url":null,"abstract":"utilization, assigned to, one chapter at a time. Many of the chapters have specific individuals and locations named in the title, such as, “Berlin’s municipal socialism: a transatlantic muse for Mary Simkhovitch and New York City.” These descriptions are helpful in their specificity but may be unpalatable for readers who are not familiar with any of the components of the title. I would find it easier to follow chapter titles about a topic, such as municipal socialism, with the details of the individuals and locations in the text itself. Especially when describing important intersecting social movements, such as the feminist movement, the text might lose some readers by not mentioning the names of the movements in the title. Another area that this reviewer found somewhat difficult was the chronology of the movements described in the text. Due to the way the text is organized and the overlapping transnational social movements, readers learn about historical events out of chronological order in some parts, which may be difficult for conceptualizing a linear timeline of the history of these movements. Depending on how the readers of The Settlement House Movement Revisited plan to utilize the text, the 90USD price (for hardcover, which is the only paper version available) could be prohibitively expensive, especially as a supplement to existing college course materials.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"161 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43375592","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: Asian social work by Ian Shaw and Rosaleen Ow (Eds.)","authors":"Jyoti Prasad Bori","doi":"10.1177/14680173221125545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221125545","url":null,"abstract":"mechanisms for relief of destitution are clearly and coherently narrated as is the growth of organizations aiming to meet the needs of people economically harmed by major social changes such as industrialization and war. Social work activities became mechanisms for promoting the values of social justice, perhaps “peaking” in the 1970s and 1980s. I have read this book with the advantage of the long view, having joined the profession in the early 1970s. While feeling deep apprehension about the Covid injured global social condition I found this book illustrates historical precedents which offer optimism for the potential recovery of social work, now that challenges to concepts of deserving and undeserving, poverty and inequality are being voiced due to society’s new, uncharted experiences of hunger, homelessness, and hopelessness. It is a very valuable reading for students and social work educators.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"611 - 612"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44371650","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 future of social work: What next for social policy? by Bill Jordan","authors":"C. Turbett","doi":"10.1177/14680173221125647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221125647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"816 - 817"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45151042","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":"Asserting the right to care – Birth parents’ arguments in newborn care orders","authors":"Ida Benedicte Juhasz","doi":"10.1177/14680173221109691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221109691","url":null,"abstract":"Summary\u0000 Removing a newborn from his or her birth parents’ care is arguably a stark display of state power into the family. This study explores birth parents’ engagement with care proceedings in all (N = 177) newborn care orders in Norway between 2012 and 2016. The study asks which arguments parents use to assert their care rights, their focus, and whether arguments differ depending on the parents’ risks. \u0000 Findings\u0000 Applying the defence dichotomy and seeing arguments as accounts, the analysis revealed parents primarily both justifying and excusing risks, and in two-thirds of cases rationalizing their care rights. Parents primarily denied harm and pinpointed (failed) service provision efforts, as well as excused their situation by claiming sufficient change and placing blame on i.e. child welfare services. Rationalizations did not defend parenting as such, but claimed normalcy and deservingness, as well as echoing concerns raised. Arguments were primarily parent- and service-focused. Parents with substance use risks blamed significantly less than parents with personality risks, and parents with intellectual disability risks demanded significantly more leeway as ‘new parents’ than parents with personality risks. \u0000 Applications\u0000 The study reflects how a marginalized demographic similarly, comprehensively, and most often unsuccessfully, engages with the child welfare system. The arguments reveal both alignment and misalignment in understandings of acceptable state intervention and responsibilities. It points to the dire need for knowledge about parents’ actual understanding of child welfare services, as well as clear communication and feedback between parents, their legal counsel, and social workers in assessments and service provision.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"37 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41522303","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: Microaggressions and social work research, practice and education by Michael Spencer","authors":"T. Shute","doi":"10.1177/14680173221116456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221116456","url":null,"abstract":"sionals as well as those who require social care support. As such it is very informative and accessible with a straightforward and easy to read style. The chapters are clearly laid out and form a logical sequence. The first chapter sets the scene for the book’s relevance in social work, and I particularly like how the next chapter focuses on assessment, with safeguarding as the second last chapter; though important social work is more important than safeguarding. Good social work involves good assessments and identifying safeguarding and support needs are dependent on assessment. The final chapter is poignantly called” Behaviour which may challenge and autism”. As a teacher, social worker, and father I automatically question others who associate behaviour they find challenging with autism or denigrate one person’s activity as simply challenging behaviour without acknowledging any form of communication process. I really like the logical way in which Dunn takes the reader on a journey to understand how autistic people should be supported by social work and provides examples of support people may need. The chapters themselves are similarly well sequenced, beginning with an explanation and discussion of a topic, such as Social Care Assessment and Autism (chapter 2) and personcentred care planning and Autism (Chapter 4). This is then followed by examples of what practice should look like, supported with case studies and questions. The chapters develop, having introduced the topic, and provided examples, to recognise and identify areas requiring support or special attention such as sensory overload. The author clearly knows her subject, and it would be easy to rehash social work processes linked to autism, but Dunn does not do this, rather she contextualises social work, and social care, with autistic people. This is no mean feat, but what we have is a textbook which reflects the specific needs autistic people may have. It is worth remembering, or recognising, that autism is a wide spectrum which means autistic people are highly individual. Dunn does not lose sight of this individuality as well as the shared identity of being an autistic person. I have had to ask myself, would I buy this book, and my answer is yes. I think it is an important book, one which, though unique, helps promote better practice for a marginalised, and overlooked community. My other question is, why does social work overlook autistic people when it comes to practice. That, for me, is a far more difficult question to answer and one I feel this book helped to consider. Well done, Yo Dunn!","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"22 1","pages":"1451 - 1453"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43274655","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 Settlement House Movement Revisited: A Transnational History by John Gal, Stefan Kongeter and Sarah Vicary","authors":"Cynthia H. Nover","doi":"10.1177/14680173221120619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221120619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"160 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45613178","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":"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}