Social Work / (M.A.(Social Work)

SOCIAL WORK / MDIAC (SOCIAL WORK)

SOCIAL WORK / MDIAC (SOCIAL WORK)

Social Work / (M.A.(Social Work)

SOCIAL WORK / MDIAC (SOCIAL WORK)

SOCIAL WORK / MDIAC (SOCIAL WORK)

A simulation game was designed to examine the impact of a guaranteed annual income (GAI). The sample of 158 player-objects included factory and clerical workers, high school dropouts, single mothers, and CEGEP and university social work students. To establish the validity of the game, the working and spending behaviour of players was compared with results reported for the New Jersey negative income tax experiment, and found to be similar in a number of respects. The game also simulated two features not present in the New Jersey experiment: (a) variable labour-market conditions, and (b) comparison of a partial, time-limited GAI with a permanent, universal plan. For players on a GAI, working hours were significantly lower when fellow-players were not on a GAI than when they were. Results suggest that work effort may be related to comparisions with a reference group on visible consumer goods.

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Safer injection facilities (SIFs) provide a clean and supervised environment, thereby reducing health risks to drug users. Potential benefits include fewer overdoses, decreased rates of HIV, Hepatitis, and other blood-borne viruses, a reduction in open drug use, increased opportunities for health services and treatments, and cost savings to society. A pilot safer injection site is expected to open in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in September 2003. This study assesses community attitudes and concerns with respect to SIFs. Focus groups with police officers, street nurses, and injection drug users in February and March 2003 revealed that they are supportive of the sites. Concerns related to the community impacts, external supports, administration, process, safety, and special populations (e.g. women, youth) were indicated. Special attention should be paid to the involvement of injection drug users in planning and programming, the inclusion of peer workers, the relationships between injection drug users, the wider population, and the police, and safety for marginalized populations. Recommendations to address concerns and ensure inclusive processes are provided.

Child Welfare Responses to Suspected Cases of Child Sexual Abuse: A Critique It is posited that the incest taboo, and associated horror, constitutes obstacles to clinical intervention with incestuous families. Twenty-eight child welfare workers were sampled through qualitative interviews, demographic questionnaires, and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). Interviews explored topics associated with their personal and professional experiences investigating allegations of abuse among incestuous families. Subjects were questioned regarding their understanding of incest, its etiology, existing and ideal public strategies for mediating incest, their clinical experiences with incestuous families, and systemic aspects related to working within child welfare when dealing with incest. The Mental States Rating Scale (MSRS) was exploited to identify emotional reactions to clinically relevant material, complementing qualitative data and providing for quantitative data analysis. Although exploratory, results with this sample population suggest both systemic and individual obstacles to clinical intervention with incestuous families. / L'intervention clinique dans le traitement des abus sexuelles: une critique. Il est généralement reconnu que les sentiments d'horreur et les tabous associés à l'inceste constituent un obstacle pour les professionnels placés en situation d'intervention clinique auprès de familles soupçonnées d'inceste. Vingt-huit intervenants rattachés auprès des services et des sociétés de la protection de la jeunesse ont été invité à se prononcer sur différents sujets tous reliés à leur travail mené auprès des familles soupçonnées de relations incestueuses. Les questions portaient surtout sur leurs expériences personnelles et professionnelles. Le questionnaire couvrait plusieurs points d'intérêts; leur compréhension de l'inceste, son étiologie, les stratégies de médiation existantes et idéales servant à favoriser l'intervention auprès des familles touchées, leurs expériences cliniques et finalement leur rôle professionnel. L'échelle d'évaluation MSRS <Mental State Rating Scale> a été utilisée pour mesurer la mobilisation de mécanismes de défenses ressenties en situation d'interventions cliniques. Le CTQ <Childhood Trauma Questionaire> a été utilisé pour qualifier les histoires d'abus. Ces deux outils se complémentent dans l'analyse des données qualitatives et quantitatives. Le résultat de cette enquête exploratoire auprès de cette population sélective suggère qu'il y a des obstacles systémiques et individuels lorsque les intervenants sociales se trouvent en situation d'intervention clinique auprès des familles en situation incestueuse