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Gould, Nicholas G. "Contributions to social work education, social work and social theory." Thesis, University of Bath, 1993. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387209.

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Isfeld, John Alexander. "Postmodernism and social work, is social work oppressive?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0008/MQ32142.pdf.

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Stenson, Kevin. "Social work discourses and the social work interview." Thesis, Brunel University, 1989. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5011.

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It will be argued that, in order to understand particular exchanges between social workers and clients, it is essential to go beyond the view that sees them simply in terms of interaction between unique persons, and locate them within the wider discursive settings within which they occur. Most of the talk which takes place in these interviews concerns problematic issues within family life, particularly in terms of the relationships between parents and children. Behind these apparently mundane conversations lie agendas of social work issues which have been constructed historically with the rise

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Eliasson, Benitha. "Social Work Approaching Evidence-Based Practice. : Rethinking Social Work." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arbetsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-18343.

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The Swedish public sector has undergone major changes over the last decades, with increased demands to be effective and perform their tasks with high quality, but also with the demand to increase the influence of users and citizens over the support given. This development has influenced how social services organise and how their work is perform, and is one motive given as to why evidence-based practice was introduced. This development can also be traced back to the manager philosophy new public management and neo-liberalism. Evidence-based practice has its origin in evidence-based medicine, wh

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Trevillion, Steven. "Social work and social networks." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5522.

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An exploration of the relationship between patterns of social interaction and social work practice which incorporates thirteen publications. The thread running throughout is the way in which new forms of social care practice are made possible by cross-boundary linkages. A 'Critical Review' sets the context and analyses the works. This is followed by the first published work which applies anthropological models to the study of social marginalisation. The second publication introduces the social network concept and investigates patterns of reciprocity and dependency in social care. The next sect

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Roffe, Michael. "The social organisation of social work." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1996. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7334.

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The need to try to work in partnership with parents during a child protection investigation is a legally-derived expectation of social work practice. Yet very few empirical studies have examined what social workers and their clients say to each other when parents are being assessed for the risk they might present to their children. The patterning of such talk, and how this might perform a range of activities is addressed in this thesis. Social work can be said to derive its practice from twin concerns with 'care' and 'control'. I describe the ways these themes are made relevant by participants

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Delgado, Araceli. "Social Work Students' View on the Integration of Religion in Social Work." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/842.

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This study focused on social work students’ views on the integration of religion in social work. This study allowed students to gain knowledge and insight on the importance of discussing religion with clients. The study examined social worker students’ experiences during their involvement in the social work program which looked into how prepared they were in situations where religion was necessary to discuss with clients and other outcomes. Qualitative interviews were conducted with ten participants who discussed their experiences in internships during their involvement within the social work

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Preston-Shoot, Michael. "Researching social work law." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402840.

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Thompson, Neil. "Existentialism and social work." Thesis, Keele University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293995.

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Hall, Christopher J. "Social work as narrative : an investigation of the social and literary nature of social work accounting." Thesis, Brunel University, 1993. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5293.

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This thesis investigates what can be gained by approaching social work reports and conversations as narratives. A conventional approach to social work accounting practices is to treat such documents as (more or less) accurate descriptions of social workers' clients, their problems and proposed remedies. Such a realist approach was found to be flawed, since it assumes straightforward access from accounts to external reality, not considering the constructedness of such documents. Drawing on theoretical themes from the sociology of scientific knowledge, literary theory, conversation analysis, eth

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Scholar, H. F. "Qualifying social work education and the collective identity of social work in England." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/44661/.

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This critical review examines seven peer-reviewed papers reporting research related to aspects of social work education in England, carried out against the backdrop of reforms following the work of the Social Work Task Force. The review takes a reflexive approach to the task of demonstrating the doctoral qualities and credentials of the portfolio, that is, the papers and commentary together, drawing on ideas from critical realism to support this process. It discusses the papers individually, considering their limitations; their originality and impact at the time they were produced; and the con

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Mompati, Tlamelo Odirile. "The dissonance between social work education and social work practice : the case of Botswana." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23426.pdf.

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Kallestad, Tommy. "Social Work Values : Empowerment, organizational values & professional doxa inside the social work field." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-55153.

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This study explores the field of social work values in the social work profession. The aim of the study is to explore how social work values are related to empowerment practices and organizational structures inside the social work field. By using the perspective of empowerment and professional doxa these structures inside the social work field are explored in interviews with nine social workers. These nine interviews show how social workers relate to values insides their profession, how empowerment practices are done, and what kind of organizational conflicts social workers may experience. By

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Baisley, Kerry Wade. "Aids : social construct and implications for social work." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27284.

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The social construction of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), or the ways in which people perceive or think about it, is the focus of this thesis. Exploratory research is conducted through guided interviews with social workers involved in AIDS care. Their responses and perceptions are compared to those gathered from similar interviews with individuals diagnosed with AIDS or ARC (AIDS Related Complex) and family members and lovers of people with AIDS and ARC. The constructivist model is employed as the methodological framework in this process. News magazines and professional literatur

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Radian, Elizabeth. "Social action and social work education in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ54806.pdf.

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Szabo, Alexander Gregory. "The social construction of altruism and social work /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1093831x.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University.<br>Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Paul Byers. Dissertation Committee: Herve Varenne. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-162).

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Gallagher, Geraldine. "Gender, social enquiry reports, and social work disposals." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3247.

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Throughout the nineties a range of factors, not least the series of suicides at Cornton Vale women's prison, highlighted concerns about how the criminal justice system deals with female offenders in Scotland. There has been a review of community-based disposals and the use of custody for women (Scottish Office, 1998a), an Inspection of Cornton Vale was conducted (HMI, 2001), and a Ministerial Group on Women's Offending was set up (Scottish Executive, 2002a). Despite this concern the numbers of female offenders being sentenced to custody has continued to rise. This study sought to examine the n

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Li, Hsien-Ta. "Learning in social work practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7939.

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The research question underpinning this study is ‘How is learning organised within the context of social work practice in the third sector?’ The research objective is to establish conceptual frameworks that theorise the organisation of learning in this context. Drawing upon literatures from Organisational Behaviour, Management, Social Work, Sociology and Psychology (e.g., Ballew and Mink 1996; Foucault 1995; Mayer and Salovey 1997; Ouchi 1979; Weihrich 1982) and undertaking an ethnographic inquiry in the Old-Five-Old Foundation in Taiwan, which collects documents as secondary data and gathers

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Thompson, Brigid Susan. "Social Work: Policy and Practice." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/922.

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This thesis explores the connection between policy creation and social work practices that are related to this policy. The main aim of the thesis is to fill a gap that exists in the research in relation to the connection between particular policies concerning the care and protection of children and the social work practices related to these. Primarily, I am interested in the experiences of social workers in community groups and the issues and problems they face in trying to integrate these policies into their everyday practice. The thesis presents four case studies that highlight the intera

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Ingram, Richard David. "Emotions and social work practice." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/5d51faba-aa6a-491e-8760-6fad435f250e.

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This thesis examines the role that emotions have within social work practice. The key tenets of the literature relating to emotions are considered and a conceptual framework is proposed which will provide a conceptual and definitional underpinning to the thesis. Emotions and emotional intelligence are located within wider social work literature, and links are established with reflective practice, relationships with service users, social work skills, policy, legislation and supervision. Social workers across a Scottish local authority were asked to respond to a survey questionnaire and a select

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Yuill, Chris. "Alienation, wellbeing & social work." Thesis, St George's, University of London, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687075.

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Alienation theory has been underused in research on workplace and wellbeing. This thesis therefore seeks to apply alienation theory to a study of the wellbeing of social workers. The specific objectives were as follows: 1) to identify potential causes of alienation among social workers who are employed in the public sector. 2) to analyse how those alienating experiences condition the wellbeing of those social workers. 3) to critically assess the utility of alienation theory in researching wellbeing in the workplace. A Marxist methodology was deployed in this research, which sought to analyse c

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Sokhela, Duduzile Martha. "Contracting in social work supervision." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09302008-095648.

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Sekudu, Johannah. "Abortion : a social work study." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28535.

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Bargawi, Khalid Yousef. "Social work community services provided by community development and social work centers : a comparative study of the perception and self-reporting of social work-educated and non-social work-educated professionals in Saudi Arabia /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486546889383701.

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Sibeon, Roger Alan. "A sociological study of the social work profession with special reference to social work education." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9734.

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Earlier work by Leonard (1966) and Heraud (1970) in formulating a holistic, comprehensive sociology of social work has been largely overtaken by developments both in sociology and in social work. Current sociological analyses of social work exhibit two distinctive features. First, relative detachment from major recent theoretical and empirical developments in mainstream sociology : second, a tendency to focus not upon the profession as a whole but upon specific, delineated aspects e:g the relation of theory to practice, professionalisation, social work education, professional socialisation, mo

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Shanks, Emelie. "Managing social work : Organisational conditions and everyday work for managers in the Swedish social services." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-129244.

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The personal social services in Sweden have undergone major changes during recent decades, partly due to the reforms caused by the influence of New Public Management (NPM) and partly due to the trend towards greater specialisation. These changes have had consequences for both social work management and for social work practice. The consequences for practice have gained attention both from research and from the field, but the consequences for managers have rarely been discussed. In this thesis therefore, the attention is directed towards the managers. Inspired by a mixed methods approach, this

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Burrows, Daniel. "Social work within a medical setting : an ethnographic study of a hospital social work team." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/111557/.

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This thesis reports on an ethnography of a hospital social work team in Wales. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of the statutory social work role within hospitals, to examine how hospital social workers do their work, and to shed light on how social work fits into the hospital context. My findings indicate that hospital social workers face constant pressure from managers and clinicians to expedite patient discharges, and exclude almost all other tasks from their role. Their daily work is a sequence of bureaucratic tasks, focused on management of the failing body, often to the ex

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Downs, Saige. "Master of Social Work Student Perception in Access to Documentation Training in Social Work Programs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/471.

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This study explored the Master of Social Work (MSW) student perception of access to documentation training in their program. When a student graduates with a degree, there is an expected level of competency in regards to documentation when entering the field. Currently, there is literature available about the risk of poor documentation and the need for additional documentation training in the field of social work but the literature focusing on the perceptions of the student is very limited. The study contributed to the academic literature on social work documentation by providing awareness of t

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Harrison, Amy. "Social anhedonia and work and social functioning in eating disorders." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/social-anhedonia-and-work-and-social-functioning-in-eating-disorders(67fecf2d-8d91-407b-a03a-7971d8b2b9c4).html.

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Teague, Alan John. "Social change, social work and the adoption of children." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281812.

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Man, Kwong Wai. "Constructing social work : stories of the developing social worker." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/270fcd24-9b9c-444c-83ea-94d85e4631b6.

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Choi, Moo Youl. "Korean Presbyterianism and social work: a critical analysis of the social work of four presbyterian denominations." Thesis, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421115.

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Higgins, Martyn. "The dilemmas of contemporary social work: a case study of the social work degree in England." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587547.

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The social work degree was established in 2002 to improve the status and competency of social workers. However, after the death of Peter Connelly in 2007 and the final report of the Social Work Task Force (2009) it became subject to a series of significant changes with the establishment of the Social Work Reform Board to implement the revisions to social work education and social work practice. The aim of this study is to identify how the degree can illuminate the dilemmas of contemporary social work practice. A qualitative case study of a social work degree programme in England was undertaken

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Owens, Sharon. "Attitudes of graduate social work students toward providing social work services to persons with HIV/AIDS." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1989. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3016.

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This study investigated the attitudes of graduate social work students toward providing services to persons with HIV/AIDS. The following areas were addressed: attitudes of social work graduate students toward providing services to persons with AIDS; similarities between the attitudes of first year students and the attitudes of second year students toward providing social work services to persons with AIDS, the relationship between fear of AIDS transmission and services to AIDS clients, the relationship between knowledge about AIDS and services to AIDS clients and the relationship between moral

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Machado, Alice. "Social Work Students' Attitudes and Willingness to Work with Incarcerated Parents." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/540.

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Parental incarceration is a serious problem in the United States, due to the significant number of parents and children impacted by incarceration. The sizable number of individuals incarcerated in the United States has resulted in the development of forensics as a growing field that requires social workers to integrate a working knowledge into their professional practice. The researcher hypothesized social work students who had personal and/or professional experience with the criminal justice system have a more favorable attitude towards incarcerated parents and are more willing to work with t

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Roscoe, Karen D. "Social work discourses : an exploratory study." Thesis, University of Chester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/613313.

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This study aims to critically analyse and explore how social workers (operating in the adult social work practice domain) draw on wider social (and social work) discourses in accounting for the work that they do. Utilising purposeful samples of students and qualified social work practitioners, this exploratory study of discourses analyses the implications this has on the construction of the social work identity, role and practice (action). Driven by a series of research questions, the objectives of this research were: 1) To critically analyse and explore the discourses on which students and so

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Hodson, Ann. "Pre-birth assessment in social work." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2011. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/13037/.

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The Children Act 1989 imposes a duty on Local Authorities in England to ‘safeguard and promote the welfare of children’ and to ‘promote the upbringing of children by their families’ wherever possible. If, during pregnancy, concerns are identified that suggest the child may be at risk of harm a referral may be made to the Local Authority for a pre-birth assessment. When completing a pre-birth assessment social workers and other professionals are often involved in the process of collecting and analysing information, which will ultimately be used as a basis for planning and decision-making and ca

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Sanders, R. "Siblings, social work and child abuse." Thesis, Swansea University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638762.

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This dissertation is the result of exploratory research into the significance of sibling relationships in social work with children and families. It poses five research questions relating to the emphasis on sibling relationships by social workers, the impact of adversity on children's sibling relationships, how abuse influences sibling relationships, whether sibling relationships are able to buffer the impact of abuse, and finally considers the issue of differential risk to children within families. These questions are addressed both by a review of the literature and through two empirical stud

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Kwong, Har Man. "The knowledge construction of social work." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.656304.

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The ever-expanding boundary of knowledge for social work practice confronts social work practitioners with a great variety of theories and approaches which are incommensurable with each other and esoteric that renders the relationship between social work knowledge and practice problematic. To resolve this epistemological issue, proponents of the 'scientific designer-practitioner model' advocate production of scientifically proven intervention approaches for social workers' application to practice. However, the adherents of 'heuristic perspective on social work' pinpoint that the actual social

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Payne, Malcolm Stuart. "The politics of social work theory." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392984.

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Bourne, Iain P. L. "Groupwork approaches to social work supervision." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336833.

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Pietiläinen, Anna-Kaisa. "Opportunistic mobile social networks at work." Paris 6, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA066587.

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Les réseaux mobiles opportunistes ad-hoc se forment lorsque des terminaux mobiles portés par des utilisateurs communiquent entre eux sans aucune infrastructure. Ils diffèrent ainsi des réseaux classiques comme Internet dont l'architecture suppose la disponibilité instantanée de chemins reliant les hôtes et dont les délais de propagation, et le taux de perte des paquets, sont faibles. Dans les réseaux opportunistes, la mobilité des individus induit de nombreuses déconnexions et de grandes variations des délais. Dans cette thèse nous adoptons une démarche expérimentale pour concevoir et analyser

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Tkachenko, I., and P. Puzyrova. "Basic general methods of social work." Thesis, Академія Державної пенітенціарної служби, 2020. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/15516.

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Tonsing, Kerstin Monika. "Social conversation at the work place." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24865.

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Please read the abstract in the section, 00front, of this document<br>Dissertation (MLog)--University of Pretoria, 2001.<br>Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)<br>MLog<br>Unrestricted

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Sandell, Karen Sue. "Different voices: Articulating feminist social work." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1056639436.

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Petersén, Anna. "Evaluations that matter in social work." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-56146.

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A great deal of evaluations are commissioned and conducted every year in social work, but research reports a lack of use of the evaluation results. This may depend on how the evaluations are conducted, but it may also depend on how social workers use evaluation results. The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse evaluation practice in social work from an empirical, normative, and constructive perspective. The objectives are partly to increase the understanding of how we can produce relevant and useful knowledge for social work using evaluation results and partly, to give concrete suggest

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Johns, Jade Elizabeth. "Social work as a moral enterprise." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/61309/.

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The research undertaken explored social work as a moral enterprise. The study explored social work practice at the 'front-door' of services for children and older people in one English local authority. The study was primarily an interview-based study, but incorporated direct observation and conversational interviewing in order to explore social work practice within Walmsley local authority. Respondents in the four teams were responsible for undertaking assessments, which informed 'threshold-decisions'. The study found social workers were not neutral, impartial decision-makers. Social workers w

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Rai, Lucy. "Student writing in social work education." Thesis, Open University, 2008. http://oro.open.ac.uk/25820/.

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This thesis explores the experiences of a group of social work students undertaking assessed academic writing as part of their professional training through distance learning in the UK in 2001. Drawing upon the concept of 'academic literacies' and informed by a psychosocial approach, this thesis explores the nature of students' writing within the context of the experiences of students and tutors. Writing in social work requires students to include reflections on personal experience and values. Due to this personal aspect of writing in social work, I have taken a particular interest in the rela

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Vailu'u, Carley Yvonne. "Social Work Practice with Older Adults." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5669.

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Social workers working for adult protective services (APS) face many clinical challenges to ensure the safety and well-being of older adult clients. APS social workers often interact with older adults who engage in self-neglecting behaviors that compromise their ability to function in a healthy and independent manner. The purpose of this research study was to explore challenges in direct social work practice to identify how APS services can be improved when working with the older adult population, particularly individuals who engage in hoarding behaviors. Using action research methodology, 2 f

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Sheehan, Brooke. "Prison Nurseries and Social Work Practice." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7745.

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This study sought to examine what gaps existed in practice through the perspectives of correctional social workers in terms of helping incarcerated mother–infant dyads bond. Additionally, it examined whether a prison nursery was viewed as a possible option within a smaller correctional facility. Theories used to guide this study included attachment theory and separation-individuation theory, which align with the research questions that sought to explore gaps in services, supports that could be established, and program feasibility. Action research, using an anonymous online survey, resulted in

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