Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 165 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-144). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (M. Ed.)--Lancaster Bible College, 2004. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-67).

Thesis (M. Ed.)--Lancaster Bible College, 2004. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-67).

Proefschrift--Rotterdam--Erasmus Universiteit, 1996. / Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : A @new world for women : gender and history of social work in the Netherlands and in the United States. Résumé en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 314-330. Index.

[pt] A presente dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a importância da Prestação de Serviços à Comunidade como modalidade de Pena Alternativa e seus benefícios, tanto para os apenados como para a comunidade e a sociedade. Para tanto, iniciamos a discussão traçando um quadro sócio-histórico dos tipos de penalidades desde a Antiguidade até os dias atuais mostrando suas reais funções políticas e econômicas nas mais diversas sociedades. Seguimos analisando as Penas e Medidas Alternativas apresentando seu processo de implantação nas leis brasileiras e a diferenciação entre as duas expressões. Apresentamos como são aplicadas as Penas e Medidas Alternativas e como se deu o processo de instalação da Prestação de Serviços à Comunidade na Central de Penas e Medidas Alternativas da comarca de Duque de Caxias, local onde foi realizada a pesquisa de campo. Assim, constituem-se como elementos norteadores da pesquisa os limites e as possibilidades relacionados ao cumprimento e a efetivação da Prestação de Serviços à Comunidade, assim como são analisadas as instituições parceiras que participam diretamente da realização dessa modalidade de pena. Por fim, analisamos a contribuição do Serviço Social na Prestação de Serviços à Comunidade, apresentando o processo histórico de sua inserção no Sistema Judiciário, e procuramos analisar como essas penas são monitoradas no dia-a-dia e qual a postura do Serviço Social frente a essa temática. / [en] This dissertation aims to analyze the importance of the Community Service Penalty as a form of Alternative Penalty and its benefits, as for inmates as the community and society. For this, we started the discussion by drawing a picture of social and historical types of penalties since the ancient history until the present day, showing their actual political and economic functions in diverse societies. We analyze the Sentencing Alternative Measures showing its implementation process in Brazilian laws and the distinction between the two expressions. We present how the Sentencing Alternative Measures are applied and how was the installation of the Community Service Penalty on the Sentencing and Alternative Measures Centre in the town of Duque de Caxias, where the field research was conducted. Therefore, the guiding elements of the research are the limitations and the possibilities related to the accomplishment and the effectiveness of the Community Services Penalty, as well as the analysis of the partner institutions that participated directly in the realization of this type of penalty. Finally, we analyze the contribution of Social Service over the Community Service Penalty, presenting the historical process of their integration into the Judicial System, how these sentences are monitored daily, and what is the attitude of the Social Service about this theme.

Following in the footsteps of Neitzsche (1968) and Foucault (1980), Clegg et al (2006) and Haugaard and Clegg (2009) have argued that power is the most central concept in the analysis of organization and organizing. The desirability of further developing the theorization of power in health and social care policy in the United Kingdom has been identified in a number of recent publications (Hunter, 2008; Crinson, 2009; Ham, 2009). This critical overview analyzes relative power to connect policy at the macro level (ending the internal market in NHS Wales) with specific policy issues encompassed by the four projects within the portfolio on: • locality commissioning; • delayed transfers of care; • governance, incentives and integration; and • safeguarding adults. The contribution to knowledge that flows from this critical overview: identifies that theorizing power in health and social care policy may help to explain apparent disconnections between policy intent and the effect of policy in practice in the context of post-devolution Wales; • suggests that, at its most extreme, neglecting to take into account the role of power in the design, implementation and review of policy in this particular policy arena becomes a matter of life and death; and • proposes that exploring power in health and social care policy through Foucauldian-informed critical discourse analysis of relative power could to some extent facilitate translation of policy aspirations into practice.

The goal of this Thesis was finding out the views of social workers on the situation of youth crime on Třebíč area and also focused on the development of social services in Třebíč area, especially social-activation services for families with children. Another issue are the most frequent crimes done by juveniles.

In this study Complementarity in Therapy, it has been outlined how the construct, cybernetic complementary description or complementarity can be used in therapy to invent an imaginary team for the helper working solo. Complementarity is used to create alternative ideas, simulating the contribution of a team especially in pre-session hypothesising. A literature study explores the possibilities of complementarity as a cybernetic constructivist construct. Of special significance is the contributions of Varela's formulation of complementarity as trinities, introducing the slash (/) Keeney's emphasis on recursion indicated by circulating arrows and Flemeons emphasis on imbrecation and levels of connection illustrated with different types of lettering. A case study is described to illustrate how complementarity was applied. / Social Work / M.A. (Social science (Mental health))

The research study was aimed at exploring the narratives of motivations and challenges that home-based health care workers experience in their voluntary service provision. It was conducted in East London in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. A total of seven participants who volunteer in home based care programmes were interviewed and their mean age was 30 years; all were females, two married, one a widow, one divorced and two single females. The narrative framework was used to explore the volunteers' interpretation of volunteering experiences, highlighting themes that emerged on what encourages them to volunteer as home based health care workers, and how they deal with challenges that arise during the provision of services. The research was also aimed at exploring the social factors supporting the volunteers' decision to continue volunteering. Narratives from the interviewed community health workers [CHWs] indicate that the motives for participating in CHW programmes are mainly altruistic although people are sometimes motivated by self-interest. Self-interest seems to be particularly relevant in the case of the younger volunteers as they expressed their hope that providing voluntary service may help to enhance their skills so as to facilitate future learning and employment prospects. The recurring themes within the CHWs' narrative indicate that they identify with the helping role and feel it empowers them as they participate in meaningful ways in their communities, and they gain strength to cope with challenges that come with community health work. This study highlighted the complex nature of home based care roles, which inevitably reflect the intervention approach, the mode of working, professional roles and relationships with communities.

Orientador: Fernanda de Oliveira Sarreta / Banca: Cirlene Aparecida Hilario da Silva Oliveira / Banca: Kathleen Elaine Leal Vasconcelos / Resumo: Trata-se de um estudo sobre a importância do debate acerca do conceito da Determinação Social da Saúde no Serviço Social e das estreitas relações entre o projeto político profissional desta categoria, e o projeto político ideológico que orienta a Determinação Social da Saúde. A pesquisa retoma as concepções da Medicina Social e Saúde Coletiva Latino-americana, responsáveis pela construção do conceito da Determinação Social da Saúde, resgatando seu fundamento teórico e enfatizando seu caráter político e ideológico. Teve como objetivo geral analisar o conceito da determinação social da saúde visando descobrir as potencialidades de sua apropriação pelo Serviço Social. E, como objetivos específicos: refletir a determinação social da saúde a luz das perspectivas teóricas da MS e SCL; e realizar um diálogo entre a saúde e a questão social através do conceito da determinação social da saúde. A metodologia adotada consiste em uma investigação teórica de obras sobre Determinantes e Determinação Social da Saúde, e do Serviço Social no âmbito da saúde. O estudo pretende contribuir para discussão deste debate no interior do Serviço Social, e instrumentalizar o discurso da categoria rumo à defesa da saúde coerente com os direcionamentos éticos e políticos da profissão. / Abstract: This is a study about the importance of the discussion concerning the concept of Social Determination of Health in Social Work and the strait relations between professional political project of this category, with the ideological political project that guides the Social Determination of Health. That work resume conceptions of Social Medicine and Collective Health in Latin America and rescue the theoretical foundation, emphasizing its political and ideological feature. The research aims to analyze the concept of social determination of health in order to discover the Potential of their appropriation by Social Work. Moreover, had as specific objectives: to reflect the social determination of health according to the theoretical perspectives of MS and SCL, and conduct a dialogue between health and the social issue through the concept of social determination of health. The methodology chosen is a bibliographical and documentary review of the works on Determinants and Social Determination of Health. This study aims to contribute to the insertion of this discussion within the Social Work, and instrumentalize the speech of the category towards a health defense consistent with the directions ethical and political aspects of the profession. / Mestre