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Youth work in a digital society
? by Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, Seyedali Ahrari, Steven Eric Krauss, Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah & Siti Zobidah, Hershey, PA, USA, IGI Global, Business Science Reference, 30 March 2020, 332 pp., Hardcover: 323.71€, Paperback: 249.01€ (online), ISBN: 978-1-7998-5251-3
Babis Papaioannou
Published online: 08 Jun 2024
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A new history of social work: values and practice in the struggle for social justice
by John H. Pierson, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 230 pp., £108.00 (hb), £31.19 (pb), £31.19 (eBook), ISBN 9780367110055 (hb), ISBN 9781032024219 (pb), ISBN 9780429024276 (eBook)
Jing Zhang & Chenjiong Qi
Published online: 08 Jun 2024
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Europäische Gesellschaften zwischen Kohäsion und Spaltung: Rolle, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven sozialer Arbeit (Series: Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, volume 25)
edited by Florian Baier, Stefan Borrmann, Johanna M. Hefel and Barbara Thiessen, Opladen, Berlin, Toronto, Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2022, 369 pp., ISBN 9783847426134 (paperback), eISBN 978-3-8474-1772-9 (eBook), (Open Access)
Niels Rosendal Jensen
Published online: 08 Jun 2024
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Newcomers navigating the welfare state: experiences of immigrants and street-level bureaucrats with Belgium’s social assistance system
edited by Hanne Vandermeerschen, Elsa Mescoli, Jean-Michel Lafleur and Peter De Cuyper, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2023, 316 pp., ISBN 9789462703827 (Paperback), ISBN 9789461665249 (ePDF), (Open Access)
Sigamani Panneer & Sildia Thomas
Published online: 08 Jun 2024
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Handbook of transnational families around the World
edited by Javiera Cienfuegos, Rosa Brandhorst and Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Cham, Springer, 2023, X + 328 pp., ISBN 978-3-031-15277-1 (hb)
Mieke Schrooten, Jiayin Li-Gottwald, Federica Moretti, Rosalina Pisco Costa & Maja Savić-Bojanić
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Social work in post-war and political conflict areas. Examples from Iraqi-Kurdistan and beyond
edited by Kristin Sonnenberg and Cinur Ghaderi, Wiesbaden, Germany, Springer VS Wiesbaden, 2021, 159 pp., EUR 50.28 (eBook), ISBN Softcover 978-3-658-32059-1, ISBN eBook 978-3-658-32060-7
Anca Mihai
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona
Margot Mecca & Eduard Ballesté-Isern
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support
Cristina Joy Torgé, Pia Nilsson & Magnus Jegermalm
Published online: 31 May 2024
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Rights-based social work as a practice. The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria
Noora Kivioja & Sanna Mustasaari
Published online: 31 May 2024
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Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers
Melanie Boyce, Anna Dadswell, Sarah Burch & Adriana Sandu
Published online: 30 May 2024
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Hitting the road together: how do care workers develop pedagogical praxis in relation to a positive living climate in residential youth care?
Delphine Levrouw, Stijn Vandevelde, Jan Naert & Rudi Roose
Published online: 29 May 2024
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Making sense of sense-making in child protection: insights from a study exploring social workers’ practice of personal reflexivity in a statutory setting
John Cavener
Published online: 29 May 2024
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The voice of social workers in the Italian reception field: criticalities and solutions through the photovoice technique
Nadia Rania, Davide Lacqua & Ilaria Coppola
Published online: 26 May 2024
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Call for Papers
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Facilitators and barriers for creating a sustainable working life for first-generation immigrants – perceptions of multiple stakeholders in Sweden
Therese Hellman, Maria Brendler-Lindqvist, Simon Asplund & Magnus Svartengren
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges
Digital kommunikation og børneinddragelse: et litteraturstudie af muligheder og udfordringer
Sofie Henze-Pedersen & Sine Kirkegaard
Published online: 16 May 2024
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Latino gangs in Spain: from the Latin Kings & Queens to the Dominican don’t play
Carles Feixa
Published online: 16 May 2024
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The role of financial support in preventing the need for child protection services: a mixed method study on the effects and pathways of additional income support
Teemu Rantanen, Tarja Juvonen, Kari Eklund & Timo Toikko
Published online: 09 May 2024
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A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families
Carmen Orte, María Valero, Joan Amer & Marga Vives
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Service users’ complaints concerning social workers’ professional functioning: Arabs in Israel as a case study
Ibrahim Mahajne
Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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Examining narratives of Swedish care-leaving bureaucracy from a lived citizenship perspective: framing the problem in political terms
Zulmir Bečević & Ingrid Höjer
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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The contribution of school social work to climate change education and mental health support
Silvia Wiedebusch
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe
David Andreas Bell & Marko Valenta
Published online: 09 Apr 2024
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Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions
Katerina Micheli, Kleio Koutra, Lina Pelekidou & Ioanna Smyrni
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Involving user representatives in the evaluation of the quality of social services – from a pilot to a large-scale project in Slovakia
Kvetoslava Repková
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory
Paul Michael Garrett
Published online: 02 Apr 2024
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Social sustainability: what implications for social work?
Luca Pavani & Giulia Ganugi
Published online: 20 Mar 2024
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Modelling work-family conflict and turnover intention among social workers in China: the roles of job burnout and job satisfaction
Boqian Zhang, Meili Hu, Fengjia Ren, Wenzhao Wu & Enjian Wang
Published online: 03 Mar 2024
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Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations
Aleix Morilla-Luchena, Octavio Vázquez-Aguado & Manuela A. Fernández-Borrero
Published online: 03 Mar 2024
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Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
Ana Cunha, Marlene Matos & Mariana Gonçalves
Published online: 03 Mar 2024
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Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers
Amy K. Østertun Geirdal, Per Nerdrum & Alicja Olkowska
Published online: 25 Feb 2024
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Waiting as sociality – relational waithood in Norwegian activation
Heidi Moen Gjersøe & Anne Birgitte Leseth
Published online: 16 Feb 2024
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Social workers as politicians. A quantitative study on social workers holding elected office in Germany
Eva Maria Löffler
Published online: 14 Feb 2024
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Practice development in social work: differences between social workers with a bachelor's and master’s degree
Mariël van Pelt, Peter Sleegers, Rudi Roose & Giel Hutschemaekers
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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Features and outcomes of community–academic partnerships in social work: a scoping review
Nanne Isokuortti, Ilse Julkunen, Maija Jäppinen, Kaisa Pasanen & Ida Nikula
Published online: 11 Feb 2024
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Admission of an older person into a care home in Europe: exploring the dimensions of a ‘Healthy Transition’ and the potential role of social work
Alisoun Milne, Mo Ray, Sarah Donnelly, Sarah P. Lonbay, Lorna Montgomery, Francesca Corradini, Daniela Şoitu, Eeva Rossi, Sointu Riekkinen-Tuovinen, Giulia Notari & Janet Carter Anand
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Exit, loyalty and focus. Dutch social workers’ responses to swing-of-the-pendulum policies
Margo Trappenburg & Mariël van Pelt
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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‘Pushing forward’: resilience of youth from alternative care in Croatia
Ana Stojanović & Ines Rezo Bagarić
Published online: 21 Jan 2024
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Discretion for whom? Local policies and the agency problem between politicians and care managers in Swedish social service
Sara Wittberg
Published online: 05 Jan 2024
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When the outside penetrates the inside: the relationship between Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers in mixed cities during the events of May 2021
Sagit Lev, Neveen Ali-Saleh Darawshy & Shlomit Weiss-Dagan
Published online: 05 Jan 2024
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Constructing a client category of the experience of buying sex: an explorative study of how sexuality and masculinity construct the client category of men who buy sex within social work in Sweden
Narola Olsson & Mikaela Starke
Published online: 31 Dec 2023
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Exploring stakeholder perspectives to facilitate the implementation of shared decision-making in coordinated individual care planning
Peter Andersson, Ulla-Karin Schön, Petra Svedberg & Katarina Grim
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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Governing through bureaucratically imposed waiting: on stuckedness among asylum seekers and refugees waiting for residence permits in Sweden
Styrning genom byråkratiskt påtvingad väntan: om stuckedness bland asylsökande och flyktingar som väntar på uppehållstillstånd i Sverige
Tobias Jansson
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members
Sophia Yakhlef & Goran Basic
Published online: 15 Nov 2023
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Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics
Harald Kanestrøm, Marianne Stallvik, Stian Lydersen, Norbert Skokauskas & Jannike Kaasbøll
Published online: 29 Oct 2023
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Professional intervention strategies of social work students in practice situations
Professionelle Handlungsstrategien von Studierenden der Sozialen Arbeit in Praxissituationen
Carolin Auner, Birgit Dorner & Sabine Pankofer
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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No clear connections: a study of the association between news media use, public trust, and Swedish social services
Kristofer Nilsson, Annika Egan Sjölander & Evelina Landstedt
Published online: 12 Oct 2023
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Possibilities and pitfalls: exploring social welfare professionals’ experiences with interpersonal process recall followed by focus group discussions
Mari Husabø, Magne Mæhle, Målfrid Råheim & Aud Marie Øien
Published online: 12 Oct 2023
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Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)
Zorg en ondersteuning voor ouderen met verstandelijke beperkingen voorbij het streefdoel van ouder worden op de bestaande plaats: bouwen aan een plaats om te bestaan en erbij te horen
Tineke Schiettecat, Jorrit Campens, Griet Roets, Nico De Witte, Joan Lesseliers & Ilse Goethals
Published online: 04 Oct 2023
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Ubuntu-based social work: what can social workers in Global South learn from Ubuntu to promote children welfare in communities?
Joventine Mulumba & Maria Irene Carvalho
Published online: 26 Sep 2023
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