{"title":"The mentorship journey: Why social workers need it and how it works","authors":"Patrick O’Leary, Ming-Sum Tsui","doi":"10.1177/00208728261488531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261488531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148915422","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":"News from our societies: IFSW","authors":"Eva Ponce de Leon, Pascal Rudin","doi":"10.1177/00208728261481340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261481340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877300","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}
Hussein Soliman, Nada Eltaiba, Jennifer Koran, Mohanad Faroun
{"title":"Syrian refugees in Jordan: The impact of parental support and humanitarian aid on children’s adjustment","authors":"Hussein Soliman, Nada Eltaiba, Jennifer Koran, Mohanad Faroun","doi":"10.1177/00208728261476193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261476193","url":null,"abstract":"This study addresses the mental health impacts that refugee children experience following displacement and relocation in a new residency. The study question focused on testing the validity of a model of Syrian children’s adjustment to environmental and social challenges in a refugee camp in Jordan. The findings identify three predictors that significantly contribute to children’s adjustment: parental support, quality of services, and child trauma. Social workers can use the study’s findings to advance their services and mental health interventions for this population and to examine key variables relevant to stress and trauma in the field of refugee and child displacement.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148853367","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}
Tina Li Yan Yap, Surendran Rajaratnam, Nur Saadah Mohamad Aun
{"title":"Imagining an eco-social work approach in working with the Indigenous Peoples in Peninsular Malaysia","authors":"Tina Li Yan Yap, Surendran Rajaratnam, Nur Saadah Mohamad Aun","doi":"10.1177/00208728261476192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261476192","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change caused by human activities poses environmental challenges to the Indigenous Peoples in Peninsular Malaysia. The current policies and practices are insufficient. The authors recommend eco-social work considerations to promote Orang Asli rights and respond to the urgency of climate change.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768797","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":"A comparative systematic review of psychosocial outcomes of medical social work-led interventions in hospital and community health settings (2015–2025)","authors":"Richmond Asiedu, Bilge Önal Dölek","doi":"10.1177/00208728261463462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261463462","url":null,"abstract":"This review compares the influence of hospital and community settings on psychosocial outcomes in interventions led by medical social workers. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses methodology (2015–2025), 30 studies were selected. Findings indicate that psychosocial outcomes vary according to institutional and ecological contexts, including resource availability and mechanisms of community engagement. Hospital-based programs involve emotional stabilization and preparation for discharge, while community-based programs involve resilience-building, empowerment, and involvement in society. There is no single standardized intervention model, but common elements can be identified, involving the family, coordination at discharge with practical resilience measures or structural principles applicable to integrated psychosocial care.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"328 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693272","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":"From economic growth to social inclusion: A social worker’s experience of leading rural development in Divle Village, Türkiye","authors":"Necati Buğra Kuddaş","doi":"10.1177/00208728261470244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261470244","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents practice-based reflections from a rural development program implemented under social work leadership in Divle Village, Türkiye. Following the geographical indication registration of Divle Obruk Cave Cheese, the program aimed to turn economic opportunity into inclusive community development through cooperative strengthening, women’s participation, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and community-based tourism. Early outcomes included fairer production arrangements, greater women’s visibility, mentoring between generations, and increased youth engagement, despite limited resources and persistent gender norms. The article suggests that social workers can support rural development by linking economic growth with participation, equity, and social inclusion in marginalized communities internationally.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148587199","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":"AI challenges: Five tips for social work","authors":"Patrick O’Leary, Ming-Sum TSUI","doi":"10.1177/00208728261466077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261466077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148499148","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}
Amani Kasherwa, Helmut Spitzer, Lucio Kikuni Kangela, Yannick Mubakilay Tshinkola
{"title":"“Things are really not in order here” : Self‑help groups as a community‑led welfare architecture in volatile settings","authors":"Amani Kasherwa, Helmut Spitzer, Lucio Kikuni Kangela, Yannick Mubakilay Tshinkola","doi":"10.1177/00208728261463465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728261463465","url":null,"abstract":"Self-help groups are well-established mechanisms of mutual support and collective well-being. However, their developmental role in protracted crises remains underexamined. Drawing on qualitative interviews, focus groups, and collaborative vignette analysis in eastern DRC, this study explores how women’s self-help and rotating loan groups function as solidarity networks within developmental social work. The findings highlight self-help groups as a form of crisis governance, rotating loans as both means and ends of sustainable livelihoods beyond mere survival economies, and informal peer networks as emerging sites for accidental counselling. Together, the findings reposition self-help groups as community-led welfare infrastructures, offering a globally relevant alternative to state-centric and clinical models of recovery in protracted armed conflicts and forced displacement.","PeriodicalId":47606,"journal":{"name":"International Social Work","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148499153","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}