Thesis (MPH.) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / Background: Employee Health and Wellness Programme is an intervention by government to build and maintain a health promoting workplace. The programme aims to address various health and wellness problems employees‟ face that may negatively impact their performance and productivity. The programme is available for social workers; however, their utilisation is low. It is important to understand how social workers perceive the programme, in order to enhance provision of this programme to them and to promote their general health and wellness. Objectives: The study was aimed at exploring and describing the perceptions of social workers about the Employee Health and Wellness Programme. Methods: A qualitative, exploratory descriptive study was conducted using semi-structured face-to-face interview. The study site was at the selected locations in the Polokwane Municipality. Purposive sampling was used and due to data saturation, 10 participants were interviewed. All the interview sessions were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed using content analysis. Results: The results highlighted positive and negative perceptions about the Employee Health and Wellness Programme among social workers and the Department of Social Development. The positive perceptions include alleviating stress and burnout, reduced sick leaves and increased productivity. The negative perceptions include stigma and confidentiality issues. The results also revealed challenges of accessibility, awareness, promotion and marketing of the programme. These challenges make it difficult for social workers to utilise and benefit from the programme as expected. Conclusions: The Employee Health and Wellness Programme should be well implemented, widely marketed and promoted to all employees within the Department of Social Development.

Thesis (M.A. (Social Work)) -- University of Limpopo, 2022 / Social workers are working with vulnerable, marginalised and abused clients on a daily basis. Hence, Employee Assistance Programme services are vital to nurture the emotional well-being of employees. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of social workers regarding utilisation of Employee Assistance Programme services in the Greater Giyani Municipality of Limpopo Province. The objectives of the study were to determine social workers' awareness of Employee Assistance Programme services available to them and to establish factors that contribute to the utilisation of Employee Assistance Programme services. The study adopted a qualitative approach and used face-to-face interviews aided by a semi-structured interview schedule to collect data. Non-probability sampling and purposive sample technique were used to select the participants. Moreover, exploratory design was used as a blue print of the study to obtain insight about the perception of social workers of the utilisation of Employee Assistance Programme services. The researcher used thematic analysis to analyse and interpret data. The findings show that participants are not taking advantage of the available psychosocial services within the Department of Social Development. The study also found that participants had never used the EAP, despite the fact that the majority of them had felt the need to seek professional help at some point. Furthermore, participants do not believe in the credibility of the Employee Assistance Programme resulting in them not utilising the available services. Participants expressed concerns about confidentiality, a lack of office space, resources, and poor marketing. The study has concluded that social workers based at the Greater Giyani Municipality of Limpopo Province, have a negative perception regarding the use of EAP services, hence the programme is under-utilised.

The purpose of the current study was to clarify the importance of social relationships in the retention of social workers in Child Welfare agencies. Data had been gathered by the California Social Work Education Center, University of California Berkeley, in a 2-year state funded study, titled "Retention of California's Child Welfare Workers".

The purpose of this study was to examine forensic social workers' levels of knowledge about skepticism toward Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in light of the controversy that surrounds the diagnosis. Relationships between demographic and professional practice variables and workers' levels of knowledge and skepticism were analyzed to assess the possible etiology of skepticism toward DID.

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-06-04T12:36:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tuane Aline Rossatto.pdf: 2160567 bytes, checksum: 73fbffab57dfb9420f1810f49e3570b9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-04T12:36:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tuane Aline Rossatto.pdf: 2160567 bytes, checksum: 73fbffab57dfb9420f1810f49e3570b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-21 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The purpose of the present study is the political dimension of the Social Service profession, expressed in the work of professionals working with the Union of Housing Movements of São Paulo (UMM-SP), in Social Housing Programs (HIS), in the program My House My Life - Entities (PMCMV-E). UMM-SP is one of the oldest housing movements on the public scene and carries with it the history of struggle for access to housing in the city of São Paulo. The movement has among its flags of struggle urban reform, the right to city and self-management in housing production through popular participation and the organization and protagonism of workers in the struggle for rights and social changes. In addition to the defense of the construction of egalitarian cities, UMM-SP has historically claimed the recognition of social work in Housing of Social Interest (HIS) in Housing Policy. It also defends the possibility of working with professionals who share a world vision for the benefit of the workers. In this way, it works with multidisciplinary teams, within this scope are the social workers. The Social Service has an eminently political action, its trajectory is linked to the power struggle of the social classes. We defend here that, like all social activity, professional actions are crossed by a political dimension. The aim of the present study is to capture and analyze the political dimension of the professional work present in the daily work, it indicates, the need to problematize the expressions of the political dimension of the profession present in the daily professional work as a means of apprehending its determinations and with that to create strategies for a professional action linked to the ethical-political norms defended by the hegemonic project of the professional category. The hypothesis is that all professional action is crossed by the political dimension and can strengthen different professional projects and societal projects and also, contradictorily, both in the same action. The methodology of the research was based on the critical perspective and the studies of historical and dialectical materialism, involving scientific procedures: bibliographic research and qualitative research with professionals who work with UMM-SP. It also composes the procedures, the observation in the spaces of professional and academic insertion of the researcher and photographic records. The results of the study point to a significant power in the possibilities of materialization of the political ethical project of the profession from a professional insertion that establishes new contours between professional performance and the political struggle / O objeto do presente estudo é a dimensão política da profissão de Serviço Social expressa na atuação de profissionais que trabalham com a União dos Movimentos de Moradia de São Paulo (UMM-SP), em programas de Habitação de Interesse Social (HIS), mais especificamente, no programa Minha Casa Minha Vida - Entidades (PMCMV-E). A UMM-SP é um dos movimentos de moradia mais antigos na cena pública e carrega consigo a história de luta pelo acesso à moradia na cidade de São Paulo. Entre suas bandeiras de luta, consta a reforma urbana, o direito à cidade e a autogestão na produção habitacional, por meio da participação popular, e a organização e o protagonismo dos trabalhadores na luta por direitos e mudanças sociais. Além da defesa da construção de cidades igualitárias, a UMM-SP, historicamente, reivindica o reconhecimento do trabalho social em HIS na Política Habitacional. Defende, ainda, a possibilidade de atuar com profissionais que compartilhem da visão de mundo em prol dos trabalhadores. Desse modo, atua com equipes multidisciplinares, e, dentro desse escopo, estão os assistentes sociais. O Serviço Social tem atuação eminentemente política, e sua trajetória vincula-se à disputa de poder das classes sociais. Defendemos aqui que, assim como toda atividade social, as ações profissionais são atravessadas pela dimensão política. O objetivo do presente estudo é capturar e analisar a dimensão política do trabalho profissional na atuação cotidiana, assim, indica-se a necessidade de problematizar as expressões da dimensão política da profissão contida no fazer profissional cotidiano, como meio de apreender suas determinações, e, com isso, criar estratégias para uma ação profissional vinculada aos nortes ético-políticos defendidos pelo projeto hegemônico da categoria. A hipótese é que toda ação profissional é atravessada pela dimensão política, podendo fortalecer diferentes projetos profissionais e societários e ainda, contraditoriamente, a ambos em uma mesma ação. A metodologia da pesquisa foi embasada na perspectiva crítica e nos estudos dos materialismos histórico e dialético, envolvendo procedimentos científicos: pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa qualitativa com profissionais que atuam com a UMM-SP. Compõe também, os procedimentos, a observação nos espaços de inserção profissional e acadêmico da pesquisadora e registros fotográficos. Os resultados do estudo apontam para uma significativa potência nas possibilidades de materialização do Projeto Ético-Político (PEP) da profissão a partir de uma inserção profissional que estabelece novos contornos entre atuação profissional e a luta política

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