scholarly journals Clement Attlee and the Social Service Idea: Modern Messages for Social Work in England

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
The Social

Head Start and Social Work

1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Frankel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Service Component ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Head Start Programs

The author states that the social work profession is not sufficiently involved with Head Start. Data from a representative sample of Head Start programs shows the minimal role professional social workers play with Head Start even when ample financial resources to hire BSWs or MSWs are available. Evidence suggests, however, that Head Start is open to increased professional social work involvement. The author presents reasons social work professionals are underrepresented in Head Start and recommendations for increasing professional involvement and influence. The author also discusses the history and current status of Head Start, including a thorough description of Head Start's social service component.

scholarly journals FAITH-BASED SOCIAL WORK SERVICES: THE ANALYSIS OF THE MOSQUE CONTRIBUTION IN SRI LANKA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interview Survey

The mosque is a prime Islamic institution to articulate its vision and carry the engagement in the holistic development of the community as a community development Centre. The social service works are much highlighted and encouraged in Islam. The purpose of the study to investigate the mosque engagement in social works in two areas namely the welfare programmes and human services. This paper is mainly relied on the analysis of the data collected from the interview survey administered among the randomly selected mosque island-wide and field observation along with the review of the records and documents. The findings reveal that the mosque engagement in social services is up to the mark in both areas under the investigation. Moreover, the mosque people most likely pay attention to the social activities specially during the difficult time caused by the natural or communal disasters. This paper may provide the concerned people the idea and information to design the mosque programme in social works.

scholarly journals Reconceituação do Serviço Social: processo e movimento da Escuela de Trabajo Social da Universidade Católica de Valparaíso

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente De Paula Faleiros
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Trabajo Social

Resumo – Este artigo de micro-história reflexiva refere-se à história da mudança do paradigma do Serviço Social funcionalista no processo de reconceituação vivido na Escola de Trabalho Social da Universidade Católica de Valparaíso, no Chile, de 1970 a 1973. Tem por objetivo discutir a fundamentação e a prática do paradigma reconceituado no contexto da experiência chilena de transição para o socialismo com liberdade e da articulação com o marxismo. O relato histórico tem como referência a escrita de uma micro-história na perspectiva de uma análise da totalidade, com base em narrativa pessoal e em documentos da época, conforme sugere Burke (1992), numa perspectiva da sociologia reflexiva (MELUCCI, 2005). A discussão da experiência aponta para a construção de uma articulação do Serviço Social com a ação política comprometida com a transformação das relações de dominação. Palavras-Chave: Reconceituação do Serviço Social; Funcionalismo; Dialética; Experiência Chilena.  Abstract – This reflective microhistory article refers to the history of the paradigm shift of the functionalist social service in the process of reconceptualization lived in the Social Work School of the Catholic University of Valparaíso - Chile from 1970 to 1973. Its purpose is to discuss the fundaments and the practice of the paradigm reconceptualized in the context of the Chilean experience of transition to socialism with freedom and this articulation with Marxism. The historical account has as reference the writing of a microhistory in the perspective of an analysis of the totality, based on personal narrative and documents of the time, as suggested by Burke (1992), from a perspective of reflective sociology (MELUCCI, 2005). The discussion of experience points to the construction of an articulation of social work with political action committed to the transformation of relations of domination.Keywords: Social Work Reconceptualization; Functionalism; Dialectics; Chilean experience.

scholarly journals Class conflicts, defense of rights and Social Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Jaime Hillesheim
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Gyorgy Lukacs ◽  
Critical Social

Based on Marxian and Marxist assumptions, in particular, the contributions of György Lukács to law as ideology, we try to elicit reflection on the current theoretical and practical challenges to social service to prevent the profession from seeing its ethico-political project capitulate in view of the intensification of the capital offensive against labor. In this paper, the contradictions of the social worker’s work in defending and extending rights vis-a-vis the own logic of bourgeois sociability are discussed. We address the challenges imposed by the limits of such sociability, which require, to be faced, an understanding of critical social theory, given its potential to contribute to professional work in line with the values and principles of the aforementioned project.***Conflitos de classes, defesa de direitos e Serviço Social***A partir de pressupostos marxianos e marxistas, em particular, das contribuições de György Lukács sobre o direito como ideologia, procura-se, aqui, instigar a reflexão sobre os desafios teóricos e práticos do serviço social no tempo presente, para que a profissão não veja seu projeto ético-político capitular em face da intensificação da ofensiva do capital sobre o trabalho. No presente artigo são abordadas, essencialmente, as contradições do trabalho do assistente social na defesa e ampliação dos direitos em face da lógica própria da sociabilidade burguesa. São situados os desafios impostos pelos limites dessa sociabilidade que exigem, para o seu enfrentamento, a compreensão da teoria social crítica, haja vista seu potencial de subsidiar o trabalho profissional em consonância com os valores e princípios contantes do projeto supracitado.Palavras-chave: Luta de classes. Direitos. Emancipação Humana. Serviço social.

scholarly journals Developing specialists’ skills of in social sphere in the context of continuous education

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Sychova ◽  
Larysa Khyzhniak ◽  
Svitlana Vakulenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Professional Skill ◽  
Development Working ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social

The article analyzes the impact of the transformation of professional activities of specialists working in the social sphere on the new approaches development to providing their continuous education. It is proved that continuous education is a professional improvement that is realized through specialists’ acquiring relevant competencies in the process of their development. It has been emphasized that there is a need for sociological support for the specialists' continuous education working in the social sphere, which includes the formation of competencies that develop a sociological imagination, the ability to construct social problems and ways to solve them in the field of social work. It has been found that sociological imagination plays a dual role in the practice of social work: on the one hand, it enables specialists to adequately perceive their professional role, to make aware of their functions following the new social reality, and on the other – to take into account the status features of different recipients of social services in an unstable social environment. The conceptual model of specialists' professional skill development working in the social sphere in the context of continuing education has been proposed. It considers the specific features of providing social and rehabilitation services in the conditions of decentralization of the social service system, and workers' training rendering social and rehabilitation services according to various programs, taking into account the peculiarities of social agencies and institutions. The paper presents the subject matter of classes contained in a curriculum developed by the authors’ educational program for conducting professional skill development courses for employees of territorial social service centres (provision of social services) and geriatric boarding houses in the Kharkiv region. The interconnection between the specialists' professional skills development working in the social sphere and the development of normative and legal, social, methodological, management, communicative and empathetic, conflictology and ethical competencies has been substantiated following the provisions of sociological imagination put forward by P. Sztompka.

BSW Perceptions of Tolerance for LGB Worker Stigma: An Exploratory Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Trevor Gates ◽  
Bryan Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Orientation Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stigmatizing Attitudes

Stigmatizing attitudes and behaviors affect many workplaces, and the social service workplace is no exception. Although professional social work values promote affirmative work with lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people, the social service workplace is not universally supportive of LGB workers. This exploratory, cross-sectional study of baccalaureate social workers (N=78) in a southwestern state in the United States examines perceptions of organizational tolerance of stigmatizing behaviors and attitudes toward LGB workers and whether those baccalaureate social workers' perceptions differed by other characteristics, including sex, race and ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation identity. The study found that these baccalaureate social workers perceived low to moderate organizational tolerance of stigmatizing attitudes and behaviors toward LGB workers. Their perceptions differed by sex, social class, and sexual orientation identity but not by race and ethnicity. Implications for policy, as well as baccalaureate social work practice and education, are explored.

scholarly journals YOUTH CLUBS AS AN EXAMPLE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTIVE-SOCIALIZATION CONCEPT OF SOCIAL WORK IN SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmytro Grуshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Establishment

Abstract: The article analyzes the adaptive-socialization concept of organization of social work in educational institutions and considers the content, directions and forms of activity of youth organizations in educational institutions as one of the effective forms of this concept. Based on the analysis of the literature, the relevance of further scientific research on the place of youth organizations in educational institutions of social and pedagogical influence on the educational recipients was revealed. Thus, the basis of the adaptive-socialization concept of social work determines the active movement of the individual to identify and solve social problems in interaction with a specific community (members of the youth organization and members of the territorial community). Adaptive-socialization activities of the social service in the educational establishment aim to accumulate the social potential of the student youth to respond to the social requests of the student and community. The leading role of the pedagogical team in the activity of the organization was emphasized and the first steps of creation of such organization and further mechanisms of interaction with it were determined. The role of the youth organization in the educational establishment in the process of personal development of the educational recipients, as well as the possible corrective work of the social service are emphasized. Accentuated on the site of organization in positioning of educational institution about territorial community. The adaptive and socializing potential of active public activity is highlighted both within the educational establishment and in the territorial community. The example of the activity of the Sokoly Youth Club at the Vasylkiv Academic Lyceum "Prestige" (Vasylkiv, Kyiv region) illustrates the positive dynamics of increasing the level of socialization of club members, adaptation to the realities and challenges of life in the local community, awareness of the organization and implementation of social activities, readiness for presentation and protection of their activities in relations with members of the community, motivation for further active social activity among both peers and adults. Prospects for further scientific research determine the development of a model of extracurricular activities of educational recipients on the example of school youth organization, determine the directions of relationships and interaction of members of the organization with socio-pedagogical and socio-psychological services in educational institutions, working out new directions of educational and educational organizations, social and pedagogical support of civic socialization in the activities of youth organizations in the institution and education.

“New new media” in social welfare

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Sergo Kuruliszwili
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Desk Research

The article is describing the use of ICT tools in social welfare, equally in area of social work, vocational training for social service and shaping the social policy. Based on the desk research the author explains the basic issues related to the implementation of new media tools into the practice of social work – case studies – and characterizes the potency of digitalization in the process of modelling the social welfare, innovative preventions measures and the improving the qualifications of social services.

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