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Amaru: rede de conhecimento em terapia ocupacional da América Latina: Amaru: knowledge network in occupational therapy in Latin America
Get PDFThis paper presents the challenges of production and dissemination of knowledge in Occupational Therapy in Latin America, its place in the global scenario and the weaving of a political-epistemic network of communication, discussion and exchange. A sense of groupwork, processes and intervention as a collective network is proposed to analyse and understand the social relational practices that make up the political-epistemic network between key-subjects, different types of knowledge, as well as different ways of producing and disseminating them for the institutionality of the field of Occupational Therapy itself and for its outreach in society in general. To this end, we describe and analyse the actions of the Amaru Network as a collective strategy to face the challenges of the production and dissemination of hegemonic and excluding knowledge in Occupational Therapy in the Latin American context. We take as the axis of analysis the idea of collective as a conceptual category that serves to designate and guide the counter-hegemonic processes of knowledge production in the scientific and cosmological reality of the Latin American region. The Amaru Network, in proposing and sustaining a social practice engendered in a collaborative network between Latin American countries, turns its gaze to the broadening of epistemological bases for other possible modes of knowledge production.
Este ensaio apresenta os desafios da produção e difusão de conhecimento em Terapia Ocupacional na América Latina, seu lugar no cenário global e a tessitura de uma rede político-epistêmica de comunicação, de discussão e troca. Propõe-se um sentido de trabalho em grupo, de processos e intervenção, enquanto coletivo em rede para analisar e compreender as práticas sociais relacionais que conformam a rede político-epistêmica entre sujeitos-chaves, diferentes tipos de conhecimento, bem como distintos modos de produzi-los e difundi-los para a institucionalidade da própria área de Terapia Ocupacional e para seu alcance na sociedade em geral. Para tanto, são descritas e analisadas ações da Rede Amaru como estratégia coletiva no enfrentamento aos desafios da produção e difusão do conhecimento hegemônico e excludente em Terapia Ocupacional que se colocam ao contexto latino-americano. Tomamos como eixo de análise a ideia de coletivo enquanto uma categoria conceitual que serve para designar e orientar os processos contra-hegemônicos da produção de conhecimento na realidade científica e cosmológica da região latino-americana. A Rede Amaru, ao se propor e sustentar uma prática social engendrada em uma rede colaborativa entre países latino-americanos, volta seu olhar para o alargamento das bases epistemológicas para outros modos possíveis de produção de conhecimento
Understanding practice placements where students falter and fail
Get PDFThis paper offers a theoretical exposition of critical realism for social work practice education. The specific focus is on faltering students at the cusp of placement failure, and the urgent supportive role of practice educators and tutors in promoting learner’s reflective capacity as active agents in their learning. A key premise of the paper is that eliminating the oftentimes contested space between what key parties think is happening, and what is actually manifest in reality, is an imperative that can be supported by critical realism. Here critical realist scholars argue that one’s social reality is manifest in proximity to both an observable and socially constructed world, alongside an actual real world, with the former sometimes at odds with the latter. In concluding, the case is restated for critical realism as a theoretical tool for practice education with students who falter and fail
Child and adolescent mental health and social psychiatry
No full textThis article stages a discussion on the role of social psychiatry in present-day child and adolescent mental health care. Taking a broad perspective, it considers the growing demand for mental health services for children and young people and how social psychiatry can be situated in the current framework of psychiatry as a medical specialty as well as within child and adolescent mental health care provision more widely. Avenues available to expand social psychiatry’s reach and impact in the field of child and adolescent mental health are also addressed
In Praise of Subjectivity: My involvement with autoethnography, and why I think you should be interested.
Get PDFThis article is adapted and developed from the author’s inaugural professorial lecture University of Bolton, delivered twice – in November 2022 and March 2023. With the intention to speak directly to readers, Grant begins by defining and unpacking autoethnography, before turning to its component parts, and its historical emergence and philosophical underpinning. He then provides an answer to the question: ‘Why do autoethnography?’ This enables him to overview his single- and joint-authored autoethnographic work from recent years, and his current work, which links to collegiate relationships at the University of Bolton and beyond. After rebutting the main criticisms levelled against autoethnography, the author ends the article by briefly mentioning its international status in 2023
Practice education and the pandemic: Possibilities and challenges in the adoption of a virtual pedagogy
No full textThe corona virus pandemic presented a significant disruption to social work education (Wolf et al, 2020; McLaughlin et al, 2020). Research that emerged from the pandemic offers valuable insight into the possibilities for students and the efficacy of new virtual teaching methods. Yet our current understanding lacks the perspective of the practice educator, tasked with navigating students through placement. This article outlines the findings of a practitioner research project that sought to understand the experiences of practice educators within one Teaching Partnerships of the south eastern region of England during the pandemic, and the role technology played in delivering social work education virtually. Within this qualitative study data was gathered through semi-structured interviews with four independent practice educators. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Practice educators encountered phenomena on placement that generated considerable uncertainty and disruption. Educators then sought to ‘make sense’ of the interaction between these phenomena and the emotional experiences they evoked. As physical access to the practice learning context was prohibited, practice educators also found themselves engaged in finding creative means to becoming digitally present
Acompañando la vida carcelaria desde El Trabajo Social con Grupos: experiencia en la cárcel Pedregal de Medellín, Colombia 2014-2019: Accompanying prison life from social work with groups: experience in the Pedregal Prison of Medellin, Colombia 2014-2019.
No full textThis article presents the classroom experience of the course Social Work with Groups-TSG of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana within the Prison and Penitentiary Complex El Pedregal of Medellin, Colombia, during the years 2014 to 2019, with the participation of 191 students and 1024 persons deprived of liberty-PPL. The main objective of this experience has been to accompany from the TSG to the PPL through different social intervention strategies. Some findings of the process are the recognition of the contributions of TSG and its validity in prison spaces, the importance of contributing from Social Work in complex contexts and promoting collective constructions in the intersubjective encounter, achieving reflections and joint work among those involved. The process has been humanizing for those who have intervened in it, generating learning such as: recognizing the human, strengthening competencies for group accompaniment, demystifying prejudices associated with prisons, recognizing and valuing the professional practice in these spaces.
Este artículo presenta la experiencia de aula del curso Trabajo Social con Grupos-TSG de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana dentro del Complejo Carcelario y Penitenciario El Pedregal de Medellín, Colombia, durante los años 2014 al 2019, con la participación de 191 estudiantes y 1024 personas privadas de la libertad-PPL. El objetivo principal de esta experiencia ha sido acompañar desde el TSG a las PPL por medio de diferentes estrategias sociales de intervención. Algunos hallazgos del proceso son el reconocimiento de los aportes del TSG y su vigencia en espacios carcelarios, la importancia de contribuir desde Trabajo Social en contextos complejos y propiciar construcciones colectivas en el encuentro intersubjetivo, logrando reflexiones y trabajo conjunto entre los involucrados. El proceso ha sido. humanizador para quienes han intervenido en él, generando aprendizajes como: reconocer lo humano, fortalecer competencias para el acompañamiento grupal, desmitificar prejuicios asociados a las cárceles, reconocer y valorar el ejercicio profesional en estos espacios.
Editorial: Special Across Ireland Issue of the Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning
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Using Autoethnography to Reflect on Peer Support Supervision in an Irish Context
Get PDFPeer Support Workers and Family Peer Support Workers have been in place within an Irish context since the early 2000s. In February 2017, the Health Service Executive – the Irish health body - created a new grade of Peer Support Workers who were directly employed by the Health Service Executive to provide support for individuals with mental health challenges. To support this, specific training was co-produced and co-delivered by Dublin City University to these new students. Supervision at this time was provided by the Irish Advocacy Network to ensure the integrity of the supervision process. Despite the growth of the peer support movement both nationally and internationally in the past few years, there has yet to be a clear model of supervision for Peer Support Workers identified as suitable for implementation within an Irish context. A model of supervision for Peer Support Workers is imperative as these professionals specifically utilises their past lived experiences of mental health challenges to support others in their recovery. Additionally, supervision is also required to ensure fidelity to the values and ethos of the profession. This paper has gathered a wide variety of experts in peer support including former and current Peer Support Workers, educators of Peer Support Worker students and service management to begin conversations which will hopefully lead to a clear model of supervision for Peer Support Workers in an Irish context. This will be achieved using autoethnography – which is a methodology that puts the authors at the heart of the research process by allowing them to become participants in their own study. Resulting from this process, it is hoped that several key themes will be created to support further study that will lead to the creation of a clear model of supervision for Peer Support Workers that is applicable to community and statutory services within the Irish context
Under-18 household help in south-east Nigeria and abusive concerns: Implications for child protection and social work: Children with welfare needs in contexts such as out of home care, foster care, or kinship care
No full textThe employment of under-18 domestic helpers is common in Nigeria. Our study provides evidence of abuse of these domestic helpers, and identifies policy and practice gaps that have allowed it. A phenomenological and descriptive research design was used. Data was elicited from 13 respondents. The results show that there were no social protective services available for abused under-18 domestic helpers in South-eastern Nigeria. There were reports of psychological, emotional, and physical abuses, causing them to experience suboptimal development into adulthood. Absence of qualified social workers in local authorities, with the mandate to pursue child protection has contributed to the thriving of abuse of under-18 domestic helpers. The study recommends efforts by stakeholders to develop strategies and identify adequate funds for effective child protection services. Social work advocacy for community education and raising the awareness of the dangers of abuse of under-18 domestic helpers is crucial