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Weinreich, Heidi Marie. "Burnout among National Association of Social Workers Healthcare Social Workers." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/611.
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Burnout is a common occurrence for many healthcare social workers, though little academic literature addresses the impacts of the organizational environment on burnout among healthcare social workers. The purpose of this correlational study was to evaluate what organizational factors predict burnout in the healthcare environment while considering sociodemographic and organizational factors. An adaptation of Maslach's multidimensional theory of burnout served as the framework for this study. Surveys were distributed to members of the National Association of Social Workers who are employed in healthcare environments, resulting in a sample size of 237 useable responses. A multiple linear regression statistical analysis indicated that workload, reward, values, and level of care predicted emotional exhaustion, and therefore the potential for burnout (p < .001). Findings were consistent with the theoretical framework employed. Policy implications include the need for healthcare environments to develop standard operating procedures to address organizational barriers for social workers that contribute to social workers burnout. Implications for social change include an identified need to address burnout through healthcare organizations, professional associations, and academia using education, intervention, and policy.
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Kee, Chi Hing. "Developing social workers to run social enterprises." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33473/.
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Purpose: To explore the variables associated with the adaptation of social worker to the role of social entrepreneur. Literature: Literature on the conflict inherent in institutional logics in hybrid organisations mostly focuses on the organisation level. The current research fills a gap in the literature by studying the conflict within the individual and identifying problematic competencies. Educators in SE programs can then design the curriculum to address these competencies. Method: The financial performance of the social enterprise (SE) is used as an indicator of the adaptation. A quantitative survey was conducted among 42 social enterprise managers. Findings: Years of SE experience and supportiveness for the practice of dismissing employees were associated with the adaptation. Moreover, the pace of adaptation slowed around the end of the third year of SE experience. In those novice participants with less than three years of SE experience, both the year of SE experience and leadership skills were associated with the adaptation. In those experienced participants with three or more years of experience, only their supportiveness for the practice of reviewing productivity was associated with the adaptation. Finally, when comparing the novice group and the experienced group, the mean of the leading skills changed significantly, but no significant change was found in the level of support for the three practices of dismissing employees, leadership skills, and reviewing productivity. Research limitations: The association of these four variables (years of SE experience, dismissing employees, leadership skills, and reviewing productivity) with the adaptation to the role of social entrepreneur may not be generalized to situations outside Hong Kong.
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Olovsson, Rebecka, and Amanda Öhman. "Social workers in small communities." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-147994.
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Sammanfattning Denna kvalitativa undersökning handlar om hur yrkesverksamma socionomer upplever arbetet med utsatta människor i mindre samhällen. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur det kan vara att jobba inom det sociala arbetet på mindre orter och de olika omständigheter, fördelar och utmaningar det kan innebära. Undersökningen genomfördes på sex socionomer i mindre kommuner för att ta reda på hur de upplever och uttrycker sitt arbete utifrån aspekter som etiska riktlinjer, sekretess, anonymitet och lokalkännedom. I studien användes tidigare forskning på området och de teoretiska utgångspunkter studien utgått ifrån är systemteori och ekosystemteori. Författarna av studien använde ett målinriktat urval för att få tag i intervjupersoner som arbetar i kommuner i Norr och Västerbotten med en befolkning från 2000 upp till 12 000 invånare. Kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer var den datainsamlingsmetod som användes i undersökningen. Intervjuerna analyserades därefter med tematisk analys. Slutsatsen från undersökningen visar att intervjupersonerna upplevde att det sociala arbetet i mindre samhällen kan ha vissa specifika egenskaper, fördelar och utmaningar till skillnad från arbetet i större städer. Aspekter som etik, sekretess, anonymitet och lokalkännedom kan vara svårare att förhålla sig till och de kan påverka arbetet och utövningen i mindre samhällen.
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Fung, Yin-king Helina. "Government training policy of social workers." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31975823.
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Castle, Frances Rhoda. "Disabled social workers : contribution and difficulties." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440358.
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Fung, Yin-king Helina, and 馮嬿琼. "Government training policy of social workers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975823.
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Kirk, Edith Cordelia. "Undergraduate social workers and professional development /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487322984316042.
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Russek, Lisa Marie. "Social workers' responses to religious clients." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1042.
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Daniels, Keynasia Kami. "Do educators value school social workers?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2834.
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The purpose of this study is to examine educators' (teachers and school administrators) level of knowledge about the professional role of school social workers and the value that educators place on the functions carried out by social workers as pupil support personnel.
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Johnson, Mirta Escobedo. "Social workers' knowledge of substance abuse." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3205.
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This study was designed to determine how knowledgeable child welfare social workers are of substance abuse when working with substance abusing clients. The results indicated that social workers within San Bernardino County have competent levels of knowledge in substance abuse which allow them to provide appropriate services to the community members they serve.
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Acklin, Abraham I. "Beliefs About Fatherhood Among Social Workers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/371.
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This research was conducted to study the beliefs about fatherhood among social workers. Data for this project were gathered through separate interviews which were conducted using a sample of five individual social workers that worked with children and families. The participants were asked a series of questions regarding their beliefs about fatherhood. Ultimately, this study found that social workers believe that fathers are important and can contribute to their children’s lives in a healthy manner through emotional, educational, and financial support.
The results from this study suggest that fathers play an important role in their children’s lives and greatly contribute to their emotional, mental, financial, educational, health, and overall well being. This study also suggests that though fathers are held in high regard by the social workers in this research study, there is still a pressing need for resources and programs for fathers that support the father/child relationship. Finally, suggestions for future study include the need for quality programs focused on the needs of fathers, training for staff to involve and engage fathers, and to identify the barriers obstructing father involvement.
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Wilson, Sandra E. "A comparison of the attitudes of medical social workers and mental health social workers toward mental illness." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1989. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/468.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of medical social workers (MSWS) and mental health social workers (MHSWs) toward mental illness. The sample consisted of 87 subjects, 56 MSWs and 31 NHSWs. The instrument utilized was the Opinions About Mental Illness Scale which measured five attitudinal factors: Authoritarianism, Benevolence, Mental Hygiene Ideology, Social Restrictiveness and Interpersonal Etiology. Data was analyzed, using Pearson’s r. No significant differences were found on the Authoritarianism dimension. However, MSWs scored higher on Benevolence, Mental Hygiene Ideology, Social Restrictiveness, and Interpersonal Etiology as compared to MHSWs. One of the most significant implications was that the clinical environment should be less physically and socially restrictive so that the patient would not feel as though s/he was in prison and had committed a crime.
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Asano, Takahiro. "Professional learning as a way of being a social worker : post-qualifying learning among Japanese social workers." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11499/.
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This study examined how the experienced social workers continued to learn as professionals in the context of Japanese social work. The findings have suggested that the challenges and struggles they confronted were closely related to their professional ways of being. We cannot understand their learning unless we set each person’s learning experiences in the context of their way of being a social worker. They saw their learning as something about changes in their understanding in varying ways. Though those perspective changes in learning varied widely depending on their learning situation, three components of professional learning have been identified: Experience; Opportunity; and Reflection. Experience describes how professional learning involves the interconnection of cumulative background experiences they had, which can include both within their professional work and outside. What counts as a learning Opportunity can vary considerably according to them. It makes good sense to treat learning opportunities not as a distinct one but as a unified entity. Reflection involves them seeing practice from different perspectives, in that their taken-for-granted assumption is challenged, which may lead to new possibilities that can make their practice different in their working context. These three components are not entirely distinct from each other, but inextricably interwoven. The findings reveal that there is the significant gap between what the social workers value in learning and what is expected from their organizations, professional associations, and universities in today’s uncertain working environments, in which they are required to ensure increased professional accountability for their performance with measurable standards. In the gap, voices of social workers have been underrepresented in the discourse of professional development. To share awareness of diverse and complex learning as experienced by social workers can be a first step in making a difference to professional learning in the context of Japanese social work.
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Perriam, Christine. "Social work is what social workers do: A study of hospital social workers’ understanding of their work and their professional identity." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1674.
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Hospital social work in Australia appears to be undergoing a crisis of identity. The current socioeconomic context of economic rationalism and managerialism is not always compatible with social work values and social workers working in hospitals talk about feeling threatened, despite evidence of numerical growth comparable to other professions. In this study I interviewed five social workers who were practising in hospitals. The method used was the Long Interview which allows the responders freedom to express their thoughts while providing a common framework for all the interviews. Using grounded theory methodology I distilled their common understandings about what it meant to be a social worker and to do social work in a hospital. Using a theoretical framework of critical theory I also examined how the hospital setting influenced these social workers perception themselves and their work.
Overall the results were positive. The social workers were insightful and articulate and demonstrated good understanding of their context and how it influenced their practice. They all felt the hospital environment was not supportive of social work but believed they made a positive contribution both to the outcomes for individual patients and for the hospital as an organisation. They all drew strongly on their social work values to confirm their identity so there was a strong common understanding of what being a social worker meant.
The ‘doing’ of social work was illustrated by the social workers by the use of bridge metaphors. They identified that they built bridges between patients in the hospital and their lives outside the hospital. As patient advocates they also built bridges between the patient and other staff to help the other staff understand the patient’s perspective. A third bridge between discourses, the dominant discourse of economic rationalism and the quieter discourses about upholding rights was described but not named. The only problematic area for all the social workers was their difficulty in naming the skills and knowledge used in their practice. This is noted as an area for development.
Despite acknowledging the contextual difficulties confronting hospital social work, the results of this study showed the social workers interviewed to be confident in all their roles and optimistic about their future.
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Acciari, Louisa. "Paradoxes of subaltern politics : Brazilian domestic workers' mobilisations to become workers and decolonise labour." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3839/.
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This thesis investigates the possibilities and forms of subaltern politics through an empirical study of Brazilian domestic workers' mobilisations. Domestic work, often described as a legacy of slavery in Brazil, is characterised by the intersection of gender, race and class matrices of oppression, which makes domestic workers a subaltern group. As a result of their subaltern status and characterisation as 'non-standard' workers they are expected to be harder, or even impossible, to organise and represent. Yet, Brazilian domestic workers have been organising since 1936; they formed their own autonomous trade unions, and won partial recognition in 2015 when the Brazilian Congress approved a law extending basic labour rights to them. Thus, my thesis examines how this subaltern group has been able to organise, and argues that instead of considering subalternity as an impediment to collective action it should be understood as a potential resource for mobilisation. I have identified three paradoxes of subaltern politics. First, I show how the professional identity 'domestic worker' is both necessary for political recognition in the Brazilian corporatist state, but also rejected, as it re-inscribes domestic workers into the raced-gendered power relations they want to challenge. Furthermore, I find that while the intersecting nature of their oppression is what has constructed domestic workers as a subaltern group, it has also enabled the formation of broad-based alliances with women, black and workers' movements, thereby turning subalternity into a resource for collective action. Finally, domestic workers have used their perceived vulnerability to force recognition from the Brazilian state, yet, this has led to a paternalistic mode of recognition and a certain demobilisation of the domestic workers' local unions. As domestic workers gained partial recognition as workers, they were also forced into an industrial relations model that did little to respond to the complex and multi-sided forms of oppressions they face, posing new challenges to their modes of organising.
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Stasny, Kimberly. "How do clinical social workers stay enthusiastic about their work? : a project based upon an independent investigation /." View online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/5934.
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Mardirossian, Robert M. "The perceived impact of personal therapy on clinical social workers' professional identity and clinical practice." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1993. http://www.icsw.edu/resources/library/dissertations.php.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1993.<br>A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Tam, Shit-kun. "A study of job stress and coping strategies of staff working in hostels for ex-offenders /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13991255.
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Wu, Lai-man, and 胡麗敏. "Attitudes of social workers toward wife abuse." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978757.
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Morra, Mary. "Adolescent Sexuality| A Curriculum for Social Workers." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10784288.
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<p> Social work has not sufficiently addressed positive adolescent sexuality in its scholarship and education. This curriculum utilizes lecture, small and large group discussion, case vignettes, role-play and writing activities to increase social workers’ comfort, knowledge and skills about adolescent sexual well-being. This enhances the ability of social workers to address sexuality among adolescents using a strength-based framework. The curriculum provides implications for social work policy, practice and research. </p><p>
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Bennett, Robert M. "The Poverty Attributions of Professional Social Workers." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275349227.
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Samadi, Rad Anvar. "Study of social workers' perceptions of 'success'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21511.
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The study aimed at finding an acceptable, practical definition of "success" in social work practice as perceived by front-line social work practitioners. Two major questions were explored through in-depth interviews and discussions with some 28 experienced social workers coming from different practice teams within Lothian, who volunteered to participate in the study: 1) Whom did they value as a "successful practitioner?" and 2) What did they perceive as a "successful practice?" Two core themes were identified and followed up in the course of discussions, i.e. "Good Practice" versus "Successful Practice", and "Good Practitioner" versus "Successful Practitioner". The respondents happened to be more familiar with the concept of "good practice" since it was part of the social work mandate, and therefore, they believed that a practitioner who is competent in performing in accordance with the agency policy, code of ethics, and within the boundaries of professional standards, and in short, in conducting a "good process" of intervention, is a "good" worker, which they thought was equal to the concept of "successful". It was only after certain brain-storming questions and discussion that a practical definition of "Successful Practice" was grounded, which appeared to be an "Outcome-Oriented" concept. Data analysis supported the proposition that "successful practice" is attained whenever a piece of practice, with or without yielding to the criteria of "good practice" and keeping up with the routine "process" of social work, could reach a planned, desirable end result, namely, a client outcome, or a positive "change" in a client system. In this sense, "success" seemed to be a subjective, mental attitude much related to the workers' values, expectations and personal satisfaction derived from the change they could bring about in their clients' circumstances, while "successful practitioner" was perceived as a good practitioner who 'successfully' establishes good relationships with clients, conducts a good command of social work process, in compliance with the standards, in line with the code of ethics and principles of practice, with the hope of reaching a desired client outcome. Although they argued that in general at present, most social workers could be judged to be "successful" in regard to the quality of their practice, that did not necessarily mean that all their interventions with all clients would be "successful practice", in the sense that they, as well as the client, would be quite satisfied with the end result. Thus "successful practice" implied practice where a planned change or client outcome has definitely been achieved.
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Wu, Lai-man. "Attitudes of social workers toward wife abuse." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20130910.
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Veal, Jennifer Yvonne. "Social workers' perceptions of team decision-making." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3068.
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The purpose of the study was to examine child welfare workers' perceptions of the effectiveness of a TDM (Team Decision Making) meeting on permanency plans with Foster care youth who receive specialized alternative services.
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Harris, Tavon Antonio. "BELIEFS ABOUT SOCIAL WORKERS AMONG BLACK MALES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/365.
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It’s been more than a decade since the National Institute of Mental Health (NAMI) initiated its public campaign, ‘Real Men Real Depression.’ Despite increased awareness, research and relevant studies indicate that African American / Black men continue to underutilize mental health treatment while still having the highest all-cause mortality rates of any racial/ ethnic group in the United States. When reading this statement, one must question what impact that the beliefs about ‘social workers’ through the lens of Black males in the United States, may play. This very simply, yet flammable, question not only seems pertinent but also seems to warrant further exploration due to the research that shows that service access and help-seeking by African-American males across the lifespan is significantly lower than that of their non-Black counterparts. That same research seems to make assumptions about why this is, however it is only responsible and ethical, given the National Association of Social workers’ (NASW) Code of Ethics calling for cultural competence in practice, that we challenge and test the rationales being offered.
This study was exploratory in nature, employed a snowball sampling methodology, and utilized an electronic survey offered through social media and promoted by word of mouth, targeting Black males over the age of 18, to assess their overall knowledge about being a social worker, and their beliefs and perceptions about social workers and how they believe social workers perceive them. The goal of this study was to begin to explore the reasons for overwhelming statistics that speak to the fact that Black males do not access mental health services, especially those provided by social workers. A total of 59 were started, and 43 completed, by the target respondents, which included a 5-item scale, to assess basic knowledge about social workers, a 10-item scale to assess the general beliefs about social workers, and 13-item scale to assess the beliefs about the perceptions of social workers about Black males. Univariate and bivariate analyses were performed using SPSS, and the results revealed that although there was a moderate level of general knowledge about social workers, the general belief of the respondents were primarily negative, with their beliefs about how social workers see Black males was just slightly more positive. These results seemed to be across the board and were not shown to be correlated with level of education, income, or whether they has received direct services provided by social workers or had no affiliation with such services. What did seem to have some relevance was an overall negative belief about social workers, and a level of suspicion and distrust for how their information would be used, as evidenced by 16 respondents who started the survey but would not completed it.
In keeping with the NASW Code of Ethics, recommendation are provided to helps clinicians and those social workers providing direct service, be informed of the suspicions and apprehensions among this population, while encouraging the importance of continuous learning and increasing of cultural competence, awareness and humility. Lastly, recommendations for future research are also provided for the same purposes.
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Chavez, Hannah. "Social Workers' Perceptions of Resource Family Approval." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/825.
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Resource Family Approval (RFA) is a policy that was recently enacted in California. The process seeks to merge existing policies on the regulations of families who wish to care for children involved in the foster care system. The purpose of this study was to understand the perceptions of resource family approval social workers and the implementation of RFA. Ten participants were chosen from the resource family approval unit from a county child welfare agency. The study was a qualitative design with in person interviews.
Common themes emerged in responses to social worker's thoughts about RFA, social worker's ideas for preparing other workers, families and the agency, and advice to new workers in RFA. The study found that participants had mixed responses regarding their own thoughts about RFA. The majority of the participants in the study felt that RFA was good in theory but not in execution. The study also revealed that RFA workers needed to be open-minded and focus on communicating with all parties involved in RFA. One of the recommendations is for policy makers to assess the effectiveness of the policy before enacting changes and give the policy time to work itself out before trying to change things so often. Another recommendation is that it is critical to offer ongoing trainings to both the workers and the families for RFA to be implemented and run smoothly and effectively within the community.
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Lozito, Melissa. "Self-Care Practices among Geriatric Social Workers." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5636.
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Within the social work profession, there is a lack of understanding about self-care practices of social workers working with older adults. This lack of knowledge is a concern for the profession because as the older adult population continues to grow, so will the need for social workers to address their needs. Using action research, a focus group of 7 female social workers working with older adults in the Pacific Northwest discussed the research questions related to their use of self-care practices and identifying strategies to increase the use of self-care. Self-compassion theory enhanced understanding the relationship between social workers' experiences with older adult clients and self-care. Coding protocols were used to analyze the data. Key findings provided a further understanding of the self-care practices of these social workers including the use of appropriate boundaries, effective communication, education about responsibilities and expectations, and advocacy regarding the need for self-care. Additional strategies to increase self-care involved mindfulness about job roles, primarily related to team and system barriers. Recommendations from this project included adding self-care to education and training in social work courses required for degrees, licensure renewal, and employment-based continuing education courses. By exploring self-care practices of social workers working with older adults, the findings of this study may bring about social change by increasing the awareness of current and future social workers about the importance of self-care and providing strategies that enable social workers to implement self-care.
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Oyegun, Caleb. "Supporting social workers transition to remote work : A design concept for tackling communication challanges on social workers digital practices." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44965.
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The main theme of this thesis is the impact of the sudden transition on service delivery caused by the COVID 19 pandemic on social workers and career practitioners in related fields. Like most professional careers that the sudden takeover of the virus has obstructed, the field of social work has been one ofthe professions that the global pandemic has negatively impacted because of its heavy reliance on face-to-face interactions. By employing research methods, challenges faced while working remotely by the social workers were identified, and a main design concepts was proposed in supporting the work of the social workers.
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Engstrom, Sandra Jane Kelk. "Organisational justice and emotion among social workers : an exploration of the lived experience of child and family social workers." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30986.
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There is still much to learn about what it means to be a child and family social worker. Child and family social workers have a job that often entails making difficult decisions regarding vulnerable children and families in collaboration with other professionals, under stressful conditions in an increasing cost-restrictive climate and with diminishing resources. The lived experience of these social workers has been rarely researched and is poorly understood. Using primarily a deductive qualitative approach, seventeen Scottish social workers were interviewed by employing the framework of ‘organisational justice’. The organisational justice framework is mostly used quantitatively and was converted to a qualitative interview schedule in order to gain further insight as to the experience of the social workers. The advantages of using the organisational justice framework in a qualitative way is that it allows for a deeper analysis of people’s experience within their agency. With regards to the social work profession, analysis of the field data allowed for insight into the organisational elements that are primary influences on a social worker’s working life. Utilising a secondary, more inductive approach, emotions experienced by the respondents also emerged. The results suggest that social workers experience a range of emotions that have been under-explored. The results also offer a deeper understanding of where these emotions stem from because not only are they due to personal experiences, they are also the product of working in a profession that is regarded with ambivalence by the public, unlike other ‘people’ professions that are generally the subject of admiration such as nursing. The research has shown that an organisational justice framework can be used to access qualitative perspectives as well as quantitative ones. Above all, this research concludes that there are aspects of the lived experience of child and family social work practitioners that have hitherto been under-examined and need to be fully understood in order to ensure best practice. Areas of impact for education, practice and policy are discussed at the end.
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Clark, Terry L. "A study of the availability of training for child welfare professionals a comparative look at the past and the present /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1996. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University, 1996.<br>Abstract precedes thesis as [4] preliminary leaves. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2936. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-83).
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Rickle, Robert B. "Craft and culture clinical social workers' perception of the impact of personal therapy on clinical supervision and their professional growth /." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 2002. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/rickle_2002.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, .2002<br>A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Chui, Wing-tak Ernest. "Political participation in Hong Kong the politicization of social workers /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1988. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3197532X.
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Omo-Izobo, Freda, and Florence Nwoko. "A Qualitative Study of Emotional Labour among Domestic Violence Shelter Workers : Interviews with professional social workers." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30235.
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The aim of this study was to explore the emotional labour of domestic violence shelter workers. A qualitative approach was used and four professionals were interviewed. The interviewees described that they were expected to provide different types of services which include empowering their clients so that they can survive independently after leaving the shelter. The findings showed that the shelter workers hide or suppress different types of emotions, especially when they are frustrated or emotionally affected by the client's situation. According to the workers, they experienced stress as a consequence of the emotional labour, and they expressed that working in the field of domestic violence had made it difficult for them to trust men. Making a difference in the lives of the clients was described as a source of motivation and help them to cope with the negative aspects of the shelter work. Even though the findings cannot be generalised, the study provides comprehensive information about how emotional labour in this particular context can be perceived. The shelter workers described that the levels of satisfaction they get from helping clients resolve their problems were more significant than the negative consequences of emotional labour.
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Dennis, Kelly Sullivan. "Clinical Social Workers' Use of Computer-mediated Intervention and Social Justice." Thesis, Fordham University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10743852.
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<p> The aim of this study was to explore how clinical social workers use computer-mediated intervention, as well as, how they incorporate, if at all, the social justice framework in their practice. A qualitative dominant mixed method design using a phenomenological approach was used. The 28 participants in the sample were recruited using purposeful, convenience sampling with criterion and snowball-sampling techniques. The sensitizing concepts of computer-mediated intervention and social justice were measured using the Internet-based Survey including the self-developed questionnaire C<i>omputer-mediated Intervention and Social Justice</i> and the <i>Social Justice Attitudes Subscale </i> (Torres-Harding, Siers, & Olsen, 2012). More in-depth data was acquired through <i>semi-structured interviews,</i> which were conducted through video or telephone conference. The findings suggest that a foundational commitment to social justice plus the increased use of technology within clinical practice contribute to the promotion of social justice.</p><p>
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Gavran, Claudia. "The mentoring relationship, professional social workers mentoring university social work students." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53158.pdf.
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SILVA, EDILMA SOARES DA. "FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND CHILDREN: SOCIAL WORKERS EXPERIENCE AT A SOCIAL CENTRE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13426@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>O estudo desenvolvido teve como proposta contextualizar a experiência de
uma Assistente Social em um Centro Social durante 04 anos, no bairro de Vila
Isabel, Rio de Janeiro. Dentre os achados do estudo destacaram-se a valorização
das relações familiares entre crianças, seus pais e demais membros adultos da
família numa perspectiva dialógica. E a importância de possibilitar a convivência
fraterna entre os membros da família, crianças, adolescentes, adultos e idosos,
resgatando laços familiares. Por fim, foi mostrada a relevância da criação e
execução de um projeto social de atendimento à criança voltado ao
desenvolvimento infantil através de atividades lúdicas.<br>The study developed had as its aim to contextualize a Social workers
experience at a Social centre, during 04 years, at the district of Vila Isabel in Rio
de Janeiro. Among the findings of the study it was highlighted the valorization of
the family relationships between children, their parents and other adult members
of the family in a dialogical perspective. And the importance of making it possible
for the members of the family children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, to
fraternally live together, rescuing family bonds. Finally it was shown the
relevance of creating and carrying out a social project for childrens assistance,
which is directed to infantile development through ludic activities.
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Baloyi, Thembhani. "Experiences of social work supervisors on supervising inexperienced social workers in the Department of Social Development Malamulele Area Office." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2383.
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Thesis (M. A. (Social Work)) -- University of Limpopo, 2017<br>Social Work supervisors experience a lot of challenges when supervising inexperienced social workers. The overall aim of the study was to explore and describe experiences of social work supervisors in supervising inexperienced social workers in the Department of Social Development Malamulele Area Office. The study objectives were to identify supervisors’ training needs that enable them to manage inexperienced social workers; to appraise how supervisors manage poor confidence among inexperienced social workers; to assess how supervisors manage time to meet deadlines coupled with supervising; and to establish knowledge gaps between supervisors and inexperienced social workers in terms of relevant theories, skills and techniques. The researcher used both explorative and descriptive research designs. The data was collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews from eight (8) social work supervisors who are employed by the Department of Social Development, Malamulele area office. The sample consisted of social work supervisors who were available and ready to participate in the study. Eight social work supervisors who had supervised inexperienced social workers were interviewed. The researcher followed the steps of thematic data analysis which are transcription of data, checking and editing, analysing and interpretation, and generalisation to analyse data. Ethical considerations such as voluntary participation, permission to conduct the study, anonymity, confidentiality and no harm to respondents were considered. The researcher found that Social Work supervisors who render supervision do not have relevant and up-to-date theoretical knowledge. They still apply relevant theories that they learned during their time as undergraduate Social Workers, and the fact that they do attend supervisory training makes the supervision to be poor. The researcher found that a lot of Social Work supervisors rely on their experiences because they do not have formal supervision training. The researcher also found that inexperienced Social Workers are not receiving enough supervision from their supervisors. The researcher concluded that these Social Workers are receiving enough supervision because their supervisors have a lot of work such as attending clients and meetings. Social Work supervisors in Malamulele area office are currently practising without supervisory training, but they are appointed based on their working experience. The researcher recommended that the Department of Social Development, Vhembe
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Muinjangue, Esther Utjiua. "Social work supervision in the directorate of Developmental Welfare Services in Namibia." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07222008-090203.
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Ngwenya, Mpumuzi. "Extension of social security to the informal hospitality industry workers in South Africa." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8128.
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Magister Legum - LLM<br>The hospitality industry is one of the largest economic sectors in the world.1 As a result, it is one of the top employment contributors, with its Travel and Tourism sector accounting for an estimated 10.3% of global GDP, translating to a US$8.9 trillion contribution to the world’s GDP and 330 million jobs in 2019.2 In the context of South Africa, the tourism industry also plays a crucial role in economic growth and job creation. Tourism in South Africa accounted for 2.8% of GDP in 2019,3 and employed an estimated 709 000 individuals.4 Therefore, the importance of this colossal industry in economic growth and development, coupled with its potential in poverty reduction cannot be overemphasised.
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Enros, Brynn Marie. "Mental health social workers : strategies for social justice advocacy in a hospital setting." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99163.
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This qualitative, quasi-phenomenological study presents strategies and methods hospital-based mental health social workers utilize to promote social justice and advocate for their clients. Three frontline mental health social workers and one mental health department head were interviewed. The findings of this research demonstrated that the participating social workers utilized a variety of creative and flexible approaches to promote social justice and successfully advocate for their clients. These approaches included: the use of appropriate language, using the system against itself, developing written standards and regulations for their tasks, and forming a network of allies.
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Toth, Michele Veronica. "Exploring a Relationship between Worker' Perceptions of Leaders and Workers' Self-Efficacy in Social Services." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1333397023.
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Thomas-Robinson, Shelley. "A study of social worker risk assessment practices conducted by day and alternate hours workers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1933.
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Magennis, Rachel Smith Deborah B. "Factors associated with burnout among social service workers." Diss., UMK access, 2005.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Sociology. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005.<br>"A thesis in sociology." Typescript. Advisor: Deborah B. Smith Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed June 26, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-102). Online version of the print edition.
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Maartens, Elize. "Mediating adolescent-caregiver conflict : guidelines for social workers." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/371.
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Sun, Wai-hung, and 辛偉雄. "Burnout among social workers working with ex-offenders." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31250129.
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Knauth, Nicolina, and Maria Mazanova. "How social workers assess sexual addiction among adolescents." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-16433.
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This research seeks to unravel the definition of sexual addiction amongst adolescents from the perspectives of professional social workers, working with these types of issues. This has been conducted through a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with social workers in various youth clinics in Stockholm. The results gathered from the interviews are presented and then analyzed through discourse analysis using the social constructionism as our theoretical framework. The primary results gathered, conclude that sexual addiction amongst adolescents is to be defined within the personal contact between the client and the social worker in order to build an individual case discourse. The results also depicts that shame and anxiety are the driving forces for the phenomenon. Furthermore, inconsistency was discovered regarding the terminology of the phenomenon amongst the social workers. It is important to note that the adolescent years are time of rapid change and, thus, the behavior resembling sexual addiction may not be permanent. The results are then discussed and compared to previous research.
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De, Jager Este. "Foster care of AIDS orphans : social workers' perspectives." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6500.
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Thesis (M Social Work (Social Work))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The goal of this study is to shed some light on the needs of children orphaned by AIDS
as well as on the training and support that their foster parents will need, in order to
provide guidelines for equipping foster parents to care for AIDS orphans. The motivation
for this study was the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in the South Africa and the one million
South African AIDS orphans left in its wake. Most of these children end up in substitute
homes, and many of them in foster care. Researchers agree that AIDS orphans have
special needs because of the circumstances surrounding their parents’ death. Foster
parents will therefore need to be prepared to meet these needs. It is an internationally
documented fact that foster parents have a need for training and support to meet the
demands of foster care, and having an AIDS orphan as a foster child will increase, and
focus this need. The study was also motivated by the current shortages and challenges
in the foster care system in South Africa which makes it difficult for social workers to
effectively train and support foster parents, and aims to contribute towards overcoming
some of these problems so that foster parents can be properly prepared to see to the
well-being of the AIDS orphans in their care.
The research was done based on a literature study, which firstly made use of the
Ecological Systems Perspective to explore the effects of parental death by AIDS on their
children. Subsequently an overview of foster care within the South African context is
given, with emphasis on foster care in general, foster care within the challenging South
African context and foster care of AIDS orphans. The last part of the literature review
discusses foster parent cell groups as a means of training and supporting the foster
parents of AIDS orphans for the parenting process.
The empirical investigation of the study investigated to what extent, and in what ways,
social workers are training and supporting foster parents to care for AIDS orphans. This
investigation confirmed some of the findings of the literature study, namely that AIDS
orphans have needs that differ from those of other foster children and that social workers
are too overburdened to be able to give the foster parents of these orphans the needed
training and support. In light of the findings derived from the literature study and empirical research,
conclusions and recommendations are made concerning the phenomena under
investigation. The recommendations focus on guidelines that can be used by social
workers to train and support the foster parents of AIDS orphans. The recommendations
centre on the utilisation of resource-friendly methods to train and support foster parents;
bringing structure into the foster care process and on social workers having to use
research for guidance.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie is om lig te werp op die behoeftes van kinders wat deur VIGS
wees gelaat is, sowel as op die opleiding en ondersteuning wat hul pleegouers nodig
het, ten einde riglyne te verskaf vir die toerus van pleegouers om na VIGS-weeskinders
om te sien. Die studie is gemotiveer deur die vinnige verspreiding van MIV/VIGS in Suid-
Afrika en die een miljoen VIGS-weeskinders wat agtergelaat is. Die meeste van hierdie
kinders word in plaasvervangende huise ingeneem, waarvan baie pleegsorgplasings is.
Navorsers stem saam dat VIGS-weeskinders spesiale behoeftes het as gevolg van die
omstandighede wat met hul ouers se dood gepaard gaan. Pleegouers sal dus voorberei
moet word om in hierdie behoeftes te voorsien. Internasionale studies bewys dat
pleegouers self ‘n behoefte aan opleiding en ondersteuning het om aan die vereistes
van pleegsorg te voldoen. Hierdie behoefte verdiep en word meer gefokus vir ‘n
pleegouer wat ‘n VIGS-weeskind in pleegsorg neem. Die studie is ook gemotiveer deur
die huidige tekortkominge en uitdagings inherent aan die pleegsorgstelsel in Suid-Afrika
wat dit vir maatskaplike werkers moeilik maak om pleegouers genoegsaam op te lei en
te ondersteun. Die studie het dus ten doel gehad om ‘n bydrae te lewer tot die
oorkoming van sommige van hierdie probleme sodat pleegouers voorbereid kan wees
om na die welsyn van hierdie weeskinders in hulle sorg om te sien.
Die navorsing is gebaseer op ‘n verreikende literatuurstudie. Die literatuurstudie het
eerstens gefokus op die gebruik van die Ekologiese Sisteemperspektief om die effek van
ouers se afsterwe weens MIV/VIGS op kinders te ondersoek. Daarna is ‘n oorsig gegee
van pleegsorg binne die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Klem is geplaas op pleegsorg in die
algemeen, pleegsorg binne die uitdagende Suid-Afrikaanse konteks, en pleegsorg
spesifiek met VIGS-weeskinders. Die laaste deel van die literatuuroorsig bespreek die
moontlikheid om pleegouer-selgroepe te benut om pleegouers die nodige opleiding en
ondersteuning te gee vir die proses van ouerskap.
Die empiriese studie ondersoek ook in watter mate en op watter manier, maatskaplike
werkers besig is om die pleegouers van VIGS-weeskinders op te lei en te ondersteun.
Hierdie ondersoek bevestig sommige van die bevindinge van die literatuurstudie;
spesifiek dat VIGS-weeskinders unieke behoeftes het en dat maatskaplike werkers te oorlaai is om die pleegouers van hierdie weeskinders die nodige opleiding en
ondersteuning te bied.
In die lig van die bevindinge van die literatuurstudie en empiriese navorsing is
gevolgtrekkings en aanbevelings gemaak. Die aanbevelings het primêr gepoog om
riglyne te verskaf wat deur maatskaplike werkers gebruik kan word om pleegouers op te
lei en te ondersteun. Die aanbevelings het gesentreer rondom die gebruik van hulpbronvriendelike
maniere om pleegouers op te lei en te ondersteun; die strukturering van die
pleegsorgproses en die noodsaaklikheid vir maatskaplike werkers om daadwerklik van
navorsing gebruik te maak vir leiding.
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Lucas, Elizabeth Johanna Maria. "Problematic internet use : the perceptions of social workers." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77379.
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The internet provides entertainment, education, and communication. Any subjectively rewarding activity may, however, become addictive. Constant and obsessive internet use has become a particular source of interest amongst scholars, leading to what is termed Problematic Internet Use (PIU). The problem statement of this study could be described as the gap in research and lack of understanding regarding social workers’ knowledge and skills in addressing or potentially addressing PIU. From the available literature, no research – both locally and internationally - could be identified focusing on the perceptions of social workers on PIU.
The goal of this study was to explore and describe social workers’ perceptions regarding PIU. Interpretivism as a research paradigm underpinned the applied research project operationalised through a qualitative research approach. A case study design, i.e. instrumental case study, was employed. The study population comprised social workers in the employ of treatment centres in the Gauteng Province. Non-probability, specifically purposive sampling, was used to recruit 15 participants for the study – to the point of data saturation. The researcher used semi-structured (email- and face-to-face) interviews with an interview schedule as the method of data collection. Data was analysed according to descriptive and interpretive thematic analysis. Trustworthiness meant considering the credibility, auditability, conformability, and transferability of the study. Ethical considerations such as avoidance of harm, voluntary participation, and informed consent were observed.
Key findings were based on the research question: “What are the perceptions of social workers regarding problematic internet use?” Participants indicated that PIU may be recognised as an addiction; PIU exposure is limited; identifying criteria for PIU should encompass a holistic approach, including sub-types and risk populations; PIU has harmful consequences; social workers have the responsibility to address PIU; and social workers have a need for input and training on PIU interventions and policies both in academia and practice.
Recommendations for the social work profession concerning PIU include practical guidelines for social work education and practice, also the role and responsibilities of treatment centres. Recommendations for future research emphasise the need for South-African based research, holistic interpretation of PIU, and social workers responsibility and aptitude towards addressing it.
KEY WORDS:
Internet
Internet use
Perceptions
Problematic internet use
Social worker<br>Mini Dissertation (MSW (Healthcare))- University of Pretoria, 2020.<br>2022/12/31<br>Social Work and Criminology<br>MSW (Healthcare)<br>Unrestricted
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Sun, Wai-hung. "Burnout among social workers working with ex-offenders /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1947071X.
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Smith, Curtis. "Homeless Social Service Workers as Street-Level Bureaucrats." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7277.
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Social service outreach workers serving homeless populations exemplify what Michael Lipsky calls street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) who exercise discretionary power in the performance of their professional roles. This dissertation draws on over 200 hours of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban center in the Mountain West to examine the challenges faced by homeless outreach workers and case managers in serving the needs of homeless clients and the practices they use to manage those challenges. Using a grounded theory analysis of participant observation and interview data, this dissertation focuses on what is termed “aggressive advocacy” in which social service SLBs creatively and actively pursue work arounds and solutions to potential barriers to homeless services for their clients. The analytic concept of “fitting stories” is used to describe the ways in which SLBs assist their clients in developing service-worthy narratives. They implement the Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool in ways that probe clients’ conditions and experiences to capture potentially missed vulnerabilities and enhance service-eligible vulnerability scores. Homeless SLBs also invoke discretionary power in negotiating with other agency gatekeepers and landlords, and they may go beyond their official job descriptions to spend time helping homeless clients who are resistant to services or at risk of losing them. In each of these aggressive advocacy activities, homeless SLBs demonstrate discretionary power in supporting their clients and fulfilling their agencies’ mission to serve homeless clients. Several implications of these findings for better understanding social services for the homeless are addressed as well as the broader implications of this study for understanding street-level bureaucracy more generally.