Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes proposed project report. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-161, 57-62).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes proposed project report. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-161, 57-62).

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-09-17T16:58:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 KELLI FAUSTINO DO NASCIMENTO TESE PPGCS 2011..pdf: 4416497 bytes, checksum: ced4bbf5aa1c0235a3f521948832ad13 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-17T16:58:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KELLI FAUSTINO DO NASCIMENTO TESE PPGCS 2011..pdf: 4416497 bytes, checksum: ced4bbf5aa1c0235a3f521948832ad13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-21 / Após a promulgação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, em 1990, a questão da exploração do trabalho infantil vem ganhando visibilidade pública, tanto na mídia, como na academia e nos espaços das organizações governamentais e não governamentais. As formas perversas de exploração do trabalho de milhares de crianças suscitaram a criação de um programa governamental que tivesse como meta a sua erradicação. Foi com esse propósito que surgiu o Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil-PETI. No entanto, apesar dos esforços dos segmentos sociais que se empenham no combate e na erradicação do trabalho infantil, a realidade tem demonstrado a existência de um número significativo de crianças e adolescentes que se encontram em situação de exploração do trabalho. Essa constatação nos levou a refletir e a questionar sobre quais são os reais fatores constitutivos dessa problemática social. Uma questão que se colocava para nós era que o trabalho infantil não podia ser pensado em termos generalizantes, ou seja, considerando apenas as condições do trabalho infantil que são condenadas, que se apresentam em níveis de exploração histórica e culturalmente inaceitáveis. Na nossa percepção, a compreensão desse fenômeno requer tanto um estudo da estrutura das relações de trabalho nas quais estão submetidas não apenas as crianças, mas também suas famílias, quanto a análise do sistema de valores e representações socialmente construídos sobre o trabalho, sobre a infância e adolescência pobre em nosso país. Além disso, percebemos que apesar de haver uma produção acadêmica sobre o trabalho infantil, ainda existe uma lacuna no que se refere ao trabalho das crianças nas famílias camponesas. Foi a partir dessas questões e inquietações que decidimos realizar um estudo no qual pudéssemos analisar quais eram as concepções das famílias sobre o trabalho das crianças e sobre o PETI. Para tanto, realizamos um estudo bibliográfico e uma pesquisa de campo sobre o modo de vida camponês, o trabalho das crianças e o Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil-PETI. A pesquisa foi realizada numa área de produção familiar camponesa, denominada de Sítio Aningas, localizada no município de Massaranduba na região do Agreste da Borborema, na Paraíba. Tal pesquisa apontou que as famílias concebem o trabalho das crianças como uma forma de socialização, de formação, de transmissão de valores e saberes que possibilitarão a formação de homens e mulheres dignos, que se constituirão em herdeiros não somente dos bens materiais, mas, sobretudo de um modo de vida camponês. As famílias representam o PETI de forma positiva, principalmente pela possibilidade de aumento na renda familiar e por considerar que tal programa poderá ser mais uma possibilidade de formação para seus filhos, assim como a escola. Por outro lado, foi observado que o projeto de vida pensado para as crianças pelas famílias está em desacordo com as propostas do PETI quando se trata do trabalho infantil. / After the enactment of the Children and Adolescents in 1990, the issue of child labor has gained public visibility, both in the media, as in academia and in the space of governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The perverse forms of exploitation of labor of thousands of children have led the creation of a government program that has the goal of eradication. It was with this purpose that came the Eradication of Child Labor-PETI. However, despite the efforts of social groups that engage in combat and eradicate child labor, the reality has shown the existence of a significant number of children and adolescents who are in a situation of labor exploitation. This finding led us to reflect on and question what are the real factors constituting the social problem. A question posed to us was that child labor could not be thought of as generalizing, ie, considering only the conditions of child labor that are condemned, which are in exploitation levels historically and culturally unacceptable. In our perception, understanding this phenomenon requires both a study of the structure of labor relations in which they are subject not only children but also their families, and the analysis of the system of values and socially constructed representations of the work on childhood adolescence and poor in our country. Also, realize that while there is an academic research on child labor, there is still a gap with regard to child labor in rural households. It was from these issues and concerns that we decided to conduct a study in which we could analyze what were the views of families on child labor and on PETI. To this end, we conducted a literature review and field research on the peasant way of life, child labor and Eradication of Child Labor-PETI. The survey was conducted in a peasant family production area, called Aningas Site, located in the region of Massaranduba Agreste of Borborema, Paraíba. This study showed that families perceive child labor as a form of socialization, training, transmission of values and knowledge that will enable the formation of worthy men and women, which will form the heirs not only of material goods, but especially a peasant way of life. The families represent the PETI positively, mainly by the increase in family income and believe that this program may be more a possibility of training for their children, as well as school. On the other hand, it was observed that the life plan designed by families for children is at odds with the proposals of PETI when it comes to child labor.

The diploma thesis is focused on the field of children's palliative care. The objective of the thesis is to find out the current state of children's palliative care and ways of social work with families with children in the terminal stage of life. Interviews with the professionals working in this field make AN important part of the thesis. The outputs of the thesis are presented as recommendations for social workers dealing with these families. The thesis should be seen also as a point of considering the current state of children's palliative care and the need for the development of the field by the professional community.

There is renewed interest in the role that direct work and relationship-based practice does, should, or could play, in social work practice with children and young people. This study used a qualitative approach to explore day-to-day direct work with children and young people who are ‘looked after’ at home, from the perspectives of children, social workers and those supervising practice. The thesis explores the meanings ascribed to direct work, and identifies factors which enable direct work, and those which act as barriers. The research was undertaken in Scotland, and although the legislation, policy, and guidance underpinning practice differ from other jurisdictions, the messages to emerge are relevant across the UK and beyond. The study found that despite the existence of barriers, direct work which is characterised as meaningful by children, young people and professionals does happen; and that the relationships formed between children and social workers are both a precursor to and an outcome of direct work. A core theme is that although individual relationships are central, the everyday encounters between children and their social workers need to be understood and situated within the personal, professional and structural contexts in which they take place.

This dissertation examines the Conventions and Recommendations to regulate the minimum age for admission to employment between the years 1919 and 1973 – the ILO minimum age campaign. The adoption process has been studied in its chronological and historical context. The dissertation has three points of departure: that childhood is a historical construction and that the legal material is part of that construction; that the minimum age campaign suffered from a ‘hang-over-from-history’, namely, the history of Western industrialisation during the 19th and early 20th centuries; and, finally, that children had a subordinate and weak position in the minimum age campaign. The study was organised around five central themes: (1) the over-all theme of predominant conceptions of children and work; (2) the relationship between industrialised and colonised and developing nations; (3) the relationship between the child, the family and the state; (4) minimum age; and (5) the importance of school. The most important results of the study are that: (1) In view of the revolutionary changes during the 20th century the continuity in the minimum age campaign was remarkable. In 1919, the ‘child labour problem’ was an issue mainly for the Western industrialised word. By the end of the campaign, in 1973, the transformations in societies during the century had made ‘the child labour problem’ an issue mainly for the developing world and with different conditions and implications in many respects. The content and ‘grammar’ of the minimum age campaign was however never really challenged. (2) The study has verified that the minimum age campaign suffered from a ‘hang-over-from history’. The campaign built directly on the Western industrial experience during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Western dominance in the ILO, the legal transplants, and the roots in the labour movement all contributed to the ‘hang-over’. (3) The minimum age campaign was modelled on the ‘norm of the Western industrialised childhood’. The norms and realities of childhood in other parts of the world were neglected of considered as provisional and inferior phases in relation to the Western ‘norm’. In this way, there were two separate childhoods in the minimum age campaign: ‘the normal’ childhood conceived for Western conditions and ‘the other’ childhood conceived for the ‘imperfect’ conditions of poor children in the colonised and developing nations.(4) In the minimum age campaign the ‘best interests of the child’ was negotiable and was subordinated in case of conflict with other interests.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-54).

There is minimal research into families where a person who is receiving palliative care has dependent children. In particular, there is a lack of information about the work that palliative care social workers undertake with such families. This study examines the role of the palliative care social worker in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children of adults receiving specialist palliative care. This is a qualitative study involving the collection of information from a total of 57 palliative care social workers in three ways: focus groups, survey and semi-structured interviews. The analysis demonstrates that palliative care social workers understand the term 'safeguarding children' to mean more than child protection alone. The analysis also focuses on the process of referral, institutional barriers, supports for their work with children, and inter-agency collaboration. An equally important aspect of the analysis, and one generally neglected in psycho-social studies, relates to the socio-economic context of the palliative care social workers' work, including the effects of the immigration status of families on children. In the main, concerns about the present and future care of children come to the attention of palliative care social workers via members of the multidisciplinary team in which they are based. The numbers are reported to be relatively small in contrast to the total number of referrals received. The extent to which support to children is provided varies considerably; some palliative care agencies do not encourage palliative care social workers to work directly with children prior to bereavement and others restrict direct work with children post-bereavement. The main emphasis for all workers, however, is on support to the parents to help them understand their children's needs during the terminal phase of the illness. The well-being of children at this time of emotional stress is included in the palliative care social workers' definition of 'safeguarding children'. In addition, the wide-ranging examination of the palliative care social workers' involvement with the families illustrates the extent of the dedication involved in an under-resourced and little understood area of their work. Whilst palliative care social workers reported receiving basic training on child protection within their agency, with some themselves providing this training, further training on safeguarding children is not always available or known about. The amount and type of professional supervision and support is also varied, particularly in relation to child-care matters; not all have access to supervision from another social work professional. There are a small number of examples given in the study where children are considered to be at risk in some way. Children cared for by lone parents are recognised as being especially vulnerable, particularly if future care plans are not in place before the death of the parent. Also identified as vulnerable are children of parents whose immigration status is in question as their future location may be in doubt, placing children and the surviving parent under additional stress. One of the major difficulties for palliative care social workers is securing support services from local authority children's services. Whilst there are examples of collaboration and co-operation, the findings in this study echo those of others which examine the relationship between adult and children's services. In this study, palliative care social workers speak of frustration and disappointment in the responses they receive, and they are concerned that the needs of children of dying parents are not understood. This study contributes to the debate about the focus of children in care services for adults and how staff may be supported in their task of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This study also adds to the limited existing knowledge about palliative care social work practice.