scholarly journals “Roll back the years”: A study of grandparent special guardians' experiences and implications for social work policy and practice in England

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-535
Author(s):  
Helen Hingley‐Jones ◽  
Lucille Allain ◽  
Helen Gleeson ◽  
Bismark Twumasi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Social Work Policy ◽  
Roll Back

Adolescent Brain Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Black
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Brain Development ◽  
Structure Function ◽  
Brain Structure ◽  
Brain Growth ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Environmental Input ◽  
Adverse Conditions ◽  
Social Work Policy ◽  
Adolescent Brain Development

Although it was once widely held that development through toddlerhood was the only significant time of tremendous brain growth, findings from neuroscience have identified adolescence as a second significant period of brain-based changes. Profound modification of brain structure, function, and connectivity, paired with heightened sensitivity to environment, places adolescence both as a heightened period of risk and importantly as a time of tremendous opportunity. These findings are of key relevance for social-work policy and practice, for they speak to the ways in which the adolescent brain both is vulnerable to adverse conditions and remains responsive to positive environmental input such as interventions that support recovery and resilience.

Un/Helpful Help and Its Discontents: Peer Researchers Paying Attention to Street Life Narratives to Inform Social Work Policy and Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jijian Voronka ◽  
Deborah Wise Harris ◽  
Jill Grant ◽  
Janina Komaroff ◽  
Dawn Boyle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Street Life ◽  
Peer Researchers ◽  
Social Work Policy

scholarly journals Developing a Theoretical Framework to Discuss Mothers Experiencing Domestic Violence and Being Subject to Interventions: A Cross-National Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Arnull ◽  
Stacey Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
The United States ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
National Perspective ◽  
Social Work Policy ◽  
Mother Blame ◽  
Domestic Violence And Abuse

The discourse about domestic violence has developed in patriarchal societies, and so we position our understanding of ‘mother’ within a patriarchal framework. We explore the ways in which ‘mothering’ and ‘mother blame’ have been constructed within that framework and how this becomes relevant in the context of domestic violence and child welfare social work. We review literature from Australia, Canada, England and Wales, and the United States of America that has focused on child welfare responses to mothers experiencing domestic violence and abuse. On the basis of that review, we argue that mothers are responsibilised for violence and abuse they do not perpetrate. We show that the way legislation operates in some jurisdictions facilitates hegemonic, patriarchal constructions. We call for a review of current child welfare social work policy and practice in which domestic violence is present.

scholarly journals Carers, Choice and Personalisation: What Do We Know?

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Larkin ◽  
Wendy Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
And Control ◽  
Social Work Policy ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the long-term strategic shift to personalisation, with its emphasis on choice and control for those who use public services, there has been relatively little policy consideration of family carers’ choice within personalisation. The relationship between carers and personalisation also remains under-researched. This article is based on a review of existing knowledge around personalisation. It shows that carer choice is highly complex, not least because of the multifaceted and paradoxical nature of the concept of choice itself. The review demonstrates that choice for carers within personalisation is no less complex and is subject to new and overlapping variables which do not necessarily lead to improved choice for carers. In light of the limited empirical evidence about carers, choice and personalisation, the introduction of the Care Act 2014, and the importance of frontline practice in securing choice for carers, recommendations are made for future research and social work policy and practice.

scholarly journals At Cross roads: White Social Work in Australia and the discourse on Australian multiculturalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Devaki Monani
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Multicultural Communities ◽  
Social Work Policy

The profession of social work intervenes in the lives of the vulnerable and marginalised. In the majority, social work policy and practice in Australia has been founded on a western practice paradigm. Recent and rapid developments in the migratory trends of migrants and refugees places additional demands on social workers to practice with and for diverse communities. This article argues that the profession of social work is reluctant to embrace the multicultural face of Australia and lacks the intellectual apparatus to respond to diversity. The article underpins Professor Andrew Jakubowicz's analysis to multiculturalism as a powerful platform for social work academics and students to critically engage with by challenge existing racism and discriminatory trends towards multicultural communities that may possibly arise in social work practice.

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