{"title":"PATHWAYS TO POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT","authors":"A. McLaughlin, M. Rothery, J. Kuiken","doi":"10.7202/1064659ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1064659ar","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, in an unexpected political upset, Alberta’s New Democratic Party was elected to govern for the first time in the province’s history. There were eight social workers amongst those elected, all of whom were interviewed for this research. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the motivations that led these social workers to seek political office, to identify factors in their personal and professional histories that explained their high level of political engagement, and to explore how the profession can increase the numbers of social workers pursuing political practice in the future. A standard qualitative thematic analysis of these interviews revealed that families of origin were influential motivators, and that social work education also played a significant role, as did professional experience and networks. Recommendations for change emerged from our findings. We discuss these with an emphasis on professional education and on what the academy can do to heighten levels of political engagement among future graduates.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71164050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homeless Youth and the Search for Stability, Jeff Karabanow, Sean Kidd, Tyler Frederick and Jean Hughes. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018, 150 pages","authors":"J. Hulchanski","doi":"10.7202/1068554ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068554ar","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles Gaucher, H. Albert, Lise Savoie, Linsay Flowers
{"title":"CE QUI SE CACHE DERRIÈRE LA PRÉCARITÉ DOMICILIAIRE","authors":"Charles Gaucher, H. Albert, Lise Savoie, Linsay Flowers","doi":"10.7202/1068550ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068550ar","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article presente les resultats d’une etude sur l’itinerance menee dans la region de Moncton, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Il aborde deux pratiques qui sont ressorties d’une serie d’observations participantes : (1) le regard pose par les intervenants oeuvrant dans des organismes dedies aux personnes en situation de precarite domiciliaire et (2) l’organisation des ressources communautaires en soutien a cette population. L’analyse presente en quoi ces deux pratiques contribuent a invisibiliser l’itinerance en participant au masquage et au maquillage du phenomene dans un contexte de quasi-ruralite.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING (MAID)","authors":"Alona Amurao","doi":"10.7202/1068553ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068553ar","url":null,"abstract":"Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) is a legal federal framework for medical practitioners to assist in the cessation of life upon request from eligible patients who seek assisted death in order to die peacefully and with dignity. MAID’s ‘mentally competent’ eligibility criteria currently create confusion for social workers because they provide little guidance on how to best implement the desired practices intended to support the aims of MAID. Secondly, current criteria pose challenges for vulnerable populations, particularly patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS patients who are deemed mentally incapable are denied access to MAID, suffering in pain every day until they die. Canada’s MAID policy infringes on their autonomy, and removes their choice to die with dignity. This injustice calls for further reconsideration of the ways MAID can be reformed to serve dying Canadians who are falling through the cracks of MAID. Policy recommendations include inclusion of advanced directives and substitute decision makers. Due to this unequal access in health care services, this concern constitutes a social work issue. Recommendations for social work include increasing competency, and advocacy regarding the provision of MAID.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TEACHING POSTMODERN AND NARRATIVE SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE THROUGH THE USE OF FILM-BASED CLIENTS","authors":"Catrina Brown","doi":"10.7202/1068549ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068549ar","url":null,"abstract":"This paper elaborates on the use of film-based clients in teaching narrative therapy in social work. In this paper, I provide my rationale for the use of film-based clients and then highlight the life story of Lars, taken from the film Lars and the Real Girl (2007), as an example of how film clients can be a helpful way of learning how to practice narrative therapy. The theory and epistemology of narrative therapy—and specifically a postmodern approach to the central organizing concepts of story, experience, self, knowledge, and power—are discussed. I then illustrate key elements of narrative practice with Lars as a film-based client. The attention to creating counternarratives challenges dominant social discourses in Lars’ story about mental health and coping with difficult life events, and the internalization of these ideas as part of the story of his identity. A positioned approach against the medicalization and pathologization of Lars’ struggles reflects the social justice commitment of narrative practice.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INITIATIVE DE CONCERTATION Locale afin de prévenir les homicides intrafamiliaux","authors":"C. Drouin","doi":"10.7202/1068551ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068551ar","url":null,"abstract":"L’evolution des connaissances au sujet des homicides intrafamiliaux a permis au cours dernieres annees de mieux cibler les situations a risque et ainsi optimiser leur prevention. Pour les divers acteurs oeuvrant aupres des personnes vivant dans une situation ou un risque de letalite est present, il apparait que la collaboration entre les divers partenaires des milieux concernes est une condition importante pour assurer une meilleure prevention des homicides intrafamiliaux, C’est dans cette optique que les partenaires de la Monteregie-Ouest, une region du Quebec, se sont dotes d’un nouveau mecanisme de collaboration : l’Entente P.H.A.R.E. (Prevention des Homicides intrafamiliaux par des Actions Rapides et Engagees). Cet article fait etat du fonctionnement de cette entente de collaboration et dresse un bilan de celle-ci a partir du discours d’intervenants-cles au coeur de cette initiative. Les resultats montrent une appreciation positive du fonctionnement, de l’utilisation et des repercussions sur les pratiques de l’Entente P.H.A.R.E, ainsi que sur le partenariat dans cette region du Quebec. Faire appel aux partenaires de l’Entente s’avere une aide precieuse lors de la gestion des situations a haut risque d’homicide et lors des situations de danger imminent.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NEOLIBERALISM AND SOCIAL WORK REGULATION","authors":"Barbara Heron","doi":"10.7202/1064661ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1064661ar","url":null,"abstract":"The question of how through social work practice, theory and research social workers engage in “epistemic disobedience” in respect to the “epistemicide” of Others’ knowledges is crucial in the current neolielberal context. However, the possibilities of such resistance are becoming increasingly constrained by the encroachment of licensing requirements for social work professionals. This paper considers how the turn to professional regulation in social work via licensing competency standards further entrenches Western ways of knowing, while at the same time working in concert with neoliberalism to transform the social work profession in ways that stand to remove it from the reach of epistemic disobedience. The Canadian Council of Social Work Regulators’ competency standards are taken as the starting point for an analysis, which seeks to articulate the intersecting impacts of neoliberalism in social work practice, and the crucial place of social work regulation within this web of effects. In conclusion, the implications for social work education are raised and the urgency of epistemic resistance is considered.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7202/1064661ar","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71164244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TOWARDS A RECOGNITION OF THE PLURALITY OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOCIAL WORK","authors":"Lisa Ellington","doi":"10.7202/1068547ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068547ar","url":null,"abstract":"Social work as a profession has undergone significant change in recent decades, modulated by the various social, political, and organizational transformations of the society in which it evolves. Today, there is increasingly diversified research encompassing a number of coexisting visions of social work. These multiple visions come hand in hand with values, principles, as well as ideologies, some of which are dominant, and others that are marginal. Indigenous Peoples are among the most marginalized groups in society and so are Indigenous worldviews within the profession. Currently, there seems to be a willingness to recognize the plurality of knowledge in the area of social work. In line with this objective, the purpose of this article is to present the Indigenous research paradigm. This is a theoretical contemplation centered around the historical context that led to the paradigm’s creation, a description of what it consists of, as well as a presentation of a few examples of its use by social work researchers. Finally, the paper brings up certain persistent issues related to the recognition of the Indigenous paradigm within the profession.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LE NÉOLIBÉRALISME ET LA RÉGLEMENTATION DU TRAVAIL SOCIAL","authors":"Barbara A. Heron","doi":"10.7202/1068546ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068546ar","url":null,"abstract":"L’engagement des theoriciens et des chercheurs en travail social, a travers leur pratique, dans une « desobeissance epistemique » face a « l’epistemicide » des savoirs des Autres est une question essentielle qui se pose dans le contexte neoliberal actuel. Toutefois, les possibilites d’opposer une telle resistance sont de plus en plus limitees par les exigences d’obtention de permis pour les professionnels du travail social. Le present article examine les effets de la reglementation professionnelle du domaine du travail social au moyen de l’etablissement de normes de competence pour l’octroi de permis qui consistent a consolider les modes de connaissance occidentaux tout en transformant la profession, de concert avec le neoliberalisme, de maniere a la soustraire a la desobeissance epistemique. Les normes de competence elaborees par le Conseil canadien des organismes de reglementation en travail social serviront de point de depart d’une analyse des effets croises du neoliberalisme sur la pratique du travail social et de la place essentielle que tient la reglementation de la profession dans cet echeveau d’effets. Les repercussions pour l’enseignement du travail social et l’imperatif d’une resistance epistemique seront abordes en conclusion.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Élise Milot, Marie Grandisson, A. Allaire, M. Couture, S. Tétreault, Myriam Chrétien-Vincent, C. Bédard, Romane Couvrette
{"title":"MISER SUR L’ENGAGEMENT ÉTUDIANT POUR RÉPONDRE AUX BESOINS D’ACCOMPAGNEMENT DES FAMILLES AVEC UN ENFANT PRÉSENTANT UNE DI OU UN TSA","authors":"Élise Milot, Marie Grandisson, A. Allaire, M. Couture, S. Tétreault, Myriam Chrétien-Vincent, C. Bédard, Romane Couvrette","doi":"10.7202/1064662ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1064662ar","url":null,"abstract":"Au Quebec, les besoins de repit des familles avec un enfant ayant une deficience intellectuelle (DI) ou un trouble du spectre de l’autisme (TSA) de tous âges demeurent nombreux. Pour y repondre, des partenaires de la ville de Quebec ont developpe un modele d’offre de services destine a ces familles et misant sur l’engagement d’etudiants en sante et services sociaux de l’Universite Laval. Les points de vue de parents et d’etudiants ont ete recueillis grâce a des questionnaires en ligne (106 etudiants et 87 parents). La majorite des repondants ont dit desirer offrir ou recevoir de tels services. Les etudiants souhaitent que leur implication puisse etre flexible, remuneree et realisee aupres de familles demeurant a proximite de leur domicile. Pour leur part, les parents ont besoin d’acceder a une offre de services stable et continue. Ils aimeraient beneficier d’allocations financieres plus importantes pour assumer les frais associes. Les donnees presentees dans cet article contribueront au developpement d’un modele d’offre de services adapte aux besoins des familles vivant avec un enfant ayant une DI ou un TSA, tout en enrichissant la formation theorique et pratique de futurs professionnels.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71164659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}