Syftet med denna forskningsöversikt är att undersöka hur makt och maktrelationer beskrivs och teoretiseras i forskningen mellan socialsekreterare och klient med fokus på klientens beskrivningar. Denna studie är en integrativ och kvalitativ forskningsöversikt med en abduktiv ansats, där 29 tidigare studier har tematiserats och analyserats med hjälp av maktens fyra ansikten. Studien påvisar att maktbegreppet är ett komplext och svårdefinierat begrepp. Studien visar hur makten kan betraktas utifrån maktens fyra ansikten inom det sociala arbetet i mötet mellan klienten och socialsekreteraren. Vidare diskuteras rekommendationer gällande maktaspekten för det sociala arbetet utifrån olika studier samt rekommendationer för fortsatt forskning. Det är viktigt att klienternas perspektiv, såsom upplevelsen av makt och kontroll, tas upp angående deras möte med de professionella. Eftersom mötet och relationen mellan socialsekreterare och klient är en av de grundläggande faktorerna för ett bra samarbete är studier som denna viktiga att genomföra. Studien påvisar även hur viktigt det är att uppmärksamma maktobalansen, detta för att kunna medföra en medvetenhet hos de professionella inom socialt arbete om den påverkan och upplevelse som klienterna erfar av de ojämlika maktrelationerna. / The purpose of this research review is to examine how power and power relations are described and theorized in research between social worker and client, focusing on the client's descriptions. This study is an integrative and qualitative research review with an abductive approach where 29 previous studies have been thematized and analyzed by means of the four dimensions of power. This study demonstrates that the concept of power is a complex and difficult concept to define. The study shows how power in social work can be viewed with the perspective from the four dimensions of power in the interaction between the client and the social service worker. Furthermore the study discusses different recommendations regarding the power dimensions in social work based on various studies and recommendations for further research. It is important that the clients' perspective, such as the experience of power and control, is noticed regarding their encounters with the professionals. Since the encounter and the relationship between the social service worker and the client are one of the main factors for a good collaboration studies like these are important to conduct. The study also shows the importance of bringing awareness to the imbalance of power, to thenceforth bring awareness to the professionals of social work about the impact and experience which clients experience in unequal power relations.

Darbo tikslas. Įvertinti komandinio darbo svarbą bei ištirti socialinių darbuotojų vaidmenį, Kauno miesto, rajono ir apskrities, psichikos sveikatos centruose. Darbo uždaviniai: 1) įvertinti psichikos sveikatos centrų darbuotojų nuomonę apie komandinį darbą ir socialinių darbuotojų įtraukimą į jį; 2) įvertinti psichikos sveikatos centrų darbuotojų nuomonę apie socialinių darbuotojų vaidmenį ir jų atliekamas funkcijas; 3) ištirti kaip psichikos sveikatos centrų socialiniai darbuotojai vertina komandinį darbą ir savo vaidmenį jame. Tyrimo metodika. Kiekybinis tyrimas. Anoniminės anketos pagalba 2013 m. gruodžio mėn. – 2014 m. vasario mėn. buvo apklausti Kauno miesto, jo rajono ir apskrities, psichikos sveikatos centruose dirbantys specialistai. Išdalinta 110 anketų, tinkamomis analizei pripažintos 102 anketos (atsako dažnis – 77,3 proc.). Hipotezės apie dviejų požymių nepriklausomumą buvo tikrinamos naudojant Chi-kvadrato kriterijų, hipotezė apie dviejų nepriklausomų imčių proporcijų lygybę buvo tikrinama naudojant z – kriterijų. Kokybinis tyrimas. Buvo naudojamas pusiau struktūruotas interviu metodas, atlikta duomenų analizė. Buvo apklausti 6 socialiniai darbuotojai, ne trumpiau kaip 1 metus, dirbantys psichikos sveikatos centruose. Rezultatai. Komandinio darbo efektyvumą gerai vertina 50 proc. respondentų. Respondentai, kurie komandinio darbo efektyvumą vertina gerai ir puikiai dažniau nurodo, kad komandinis darbas vyksta visada arba dažnai (93,8 proc.), lyginant su... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Objective of the work. To assess the importance of the team work and to analyze the role of social workers in the mental health centres in Kaunas city, region and district. Tasks of the work: 1) to evaluate the opinion of the employees of mental health centres about the team work and involvement of social workers into it; 2) to evaluate the opinion of the employees of mental health centres about the role and functions of social workers; 3) to analyze, how the social workers of mental health centres see their team work and their role in it. Research methodology. Quantitative research. The anonymous questionnaires were used in December 2013-February 2014 to survey the specialists working in the mental health centres in Kaunas city, region and district. 110 questionnaires were distributed and 102 questionnaires were recognized as suitable for analysis (the response rate – 77.3%). The hypotheses about independence of two variables were checked using the Chi-square criterion, while the hypothesis about equal proportion of two independent samples was checked using the z criterion. Qualitative research. The semi-structured interview was used and the data were analyzed. Six social workers, who have been working in mental health centres for at least one year, were surveyed. Results. The effectiveness of team work was evaluated well by 50 % of respondents. The respondents, who evaluated the effectiveness of team work as good and excellent, indicate that the team work is carried out... [to full text]

This study explores how social work approaches and methods developed and practiced in one context can be interpreted, transferred and implemented in another. Additionally it focuses on how cultures and societies are organised both in individualistic and collectivistic societies and its effects on different approaches and conditions for social work. The data was collected from Namibian social work students that have participated in the Linnaeus Palme exchange program, which is an ongoing cooperation between the Swedish University West and University of Namibia. The results show that what the Namibian students foremost learn during their exchange studies in Sweden has to do with client interaction, critical thinking and dimensions of increased self-awareness. The assimilation of knowledge and possibilities to transfer and implement what they have learned in Sweden in a Namibian social work context is understood with the help of the theoretical concepts of the marginal man and transferability of knowledge. Shaped by the Namibian hybrid society, where the respondents are part of an ongoing negotiation between different antipoles and mediation between various cultural contexts, I argue that they are marginal social workers. Through their marginal experience they are in possession of qualities that are crucial in their process of transferability of knowledge and further create conditions for implementing new knowledge in the Namibian work practice.

This dissertation presents an analysis of the material practice of hospitality in the Catholic Worker movement during the 1930s. Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a radical Catholic social activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in 1932, and one of the movement’s goals was to provide hospitality to poor and unemployed people. Day’s understanding of hospitality, and consequently the practice of hospitality at Catholic Worker houses, was shaped by Day’s experiences as a radical during the 1910s and 1920s, her conversion to Roman Catholicism, and her notions of gender; each of these factors led Day to understand hospitality as consisting primarily in materially grounded practices that lead to the mutual identification of host and guest. Of particular importance to Catholic Worker hospitality were the materials of space and food, which, in addition to promoting the mutual identification of individual hosts and guests, also shaped the identity of the movement itself, the content of the Catholic Worker newspaper, and Day’s and her followers’ critique of bureaucratic, state-sponsored responses to social injustices. Furthermore, the practice of hospitality also provided members of the movement with an epistemological grounding for their critiques of social injustices by allowing them to encounter real presences—subjective, transcendent realities that members of the movement understood in theological language as encounters with Christ. As Day and her followers practiced hospitality, they had to contend with a number of forces of institutionalization that would place conditions on their hospitality and limit its transformative potential. Finally, this analysis contributes to ongoing discussions about the place of hospitality in the teaching of composition by noting that the teaching of writing is subject to similar forces of institutionalization; the ways that Day and her followers responded to such forces—especially through an emphasis on domesticity and religious faith—are important to consider because they suggest that writing teachers need to consider the spiritual roots of transformative hospitality.

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In home support is now being provided to not only people with disabilities but also to those who are ageing or have a psychological impairment. It is preferred by both government and support recipients as a viable alternative to the more costly and disruptive institutional support. This study looks at the various parties that are involved in managing the boundaries when providing support in unconventional workplaces; workplaces that are also homes; homes that are controlled and managed by the person receiving the support, not the person supervising the worker. The distance the home is from the organisation, the place from which the employee is supervised becomes a physical boundary. Boundaries are also psychological; a home is a space that forms a safe refuge from the world, a home is comforting and secure; a space that contains precious possessions. The workers are working within someone's intimate space. This creates difficulties for both the workers and their supervisors. The study takes a psychodynamic approach. What is happening at an unconscious level influences the behaviour of the various parties and can change and distort the desired outcomes for the client. The material for the study was gathered from interviews, Murray's Thematic Apperception Techniques (TAT) (Teglasi 2001) style exercises and drawings from eight clients, five coordinators and five support workers. Two workplaces were observed and seven case studies collected. A survey of 389 support workers was conducted and analysed. The results highlight the preoccupation of organisations and through them service coordinators, with controlling risk in the workplace. This puts them at odds with clients who feel they have control over their own homes. Both clients and coordinators vigorously defend what they see as their territory. The coordinators are left feeling envious of the support workers who have a close relationship with their clients, a relationship about which, they as former support workers have personal knowledge. The support worker's role is to support. They are only able to do this by defending and smothering their own emotional responses through a veil of niceness. They are unable to express many of their own feelings, which might not only be regarded as shameful but also condemned by their employer. Most staff, both support workers and coordinators lack the skills to manage and understand their own emotional responses. Although there is no easy answer to the dilemma raised within this context. I hope by identifying what is happening organisations might be able to at least understand the origins of individual carers', clients' and coordinators' behaviours and take steps to provide a safe container in which these feelings can be explored and discussed. The in-home care industry has difficulty in recruiting and retaining staff. Organisations therefore need to invest in supporting staff who work in these situations.

Zugl.: Benediktbeuern, Philos.-Theol. Hochsch., Diss., 2008

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 25, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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