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Respect Detectors: A support and educational group engaging LGBTQ activists to prevent violence in their community
No full textAbstract: Respect Detectors is a manualized community education program designed to inform workshop participants on the specialized needs of LGBTQ-identified people experiencing domestic violence or sexual assault. The pilot of the program, hosted by University of Southern Maine’s Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity, involved a small group of dedicated community members, most of whom were LGBTQ. Information generated by group participants included discussion of the intersectionality of their sexual and gender identities with the experience of being a domestic violence or sexual assault survivor. Details about several experiences of oppression in the context of multiple cultural identities is a particularly valuable component of these discussions. Professional social workers and other mental health providers should consider this information an important insight about cultural sensitivity to LGBTQ clients, particularly those who experience domestic violence or assault. The authors highlight how the group participants motivated each other to continue to be politically active around this issue in their community. Recommendations include being attentive to the specialized needs of LGBTQ people as a group, and how the experience of belonging to a group that is discriminated against further impacts traumatic events like domestic violence.Keywords: LGBTQ; LGBT; support group; domestic violence; sexual violence; oppression; sexual assault; prevention; active by-stande
Reviews
No full textReviews ofGroup WorkSkill and Strategies for Effective Interventions (third edition)Sondra Brandler & Camille P. RomanNew York, Routledge, 2015andEffective Meetings:Improving Group Decision MakingJohn E. TropmanThousand Oaks, Ca, Sage, 2014
Assessing experiential psychotherapeutic group experience
No full textAbstract: This paper describes a study conducted to measure perceptions of graduate students in an experiential therapeutic support group. It has been suggested that groups consisting of graduate level participant learners are the most difficult groups to facilitate, given the unique challenges (Yalom 1995). Students enrolled in a graduate group course, were required to participate, yet upon completion of the semester-long experience, students were invited to share reflections and recommendations, via researcher-constructed questionnaire. These findings indicated that students benefited by experiencing personal growth and gaining knowledge of group dynamics and facilitation. Group members also provided recommendations concerning group configuration and facilitation.Keywords: experiential; group work; higher education; social work; psychology; groupwor
Group work camp memories: Group power
No full textAbstract: Article describes how organizational history and early contact with two AASWG founders influenced author’s attendance at first 2009 group camp in USA. The collective camp experience is described in the context of Tuckman’s group development stages.Keywords:, Group Work Camp; stages of group development; groupwork histor
Editorial: Making Research Count
No full textIn this issue of Social Work & Social Sciences Review we are pleased to announce a much-welcomed and newly-formed arrangement with the Making Research Count (MRC) network which is based within the Social Care Workforce Research Unit (SCWRU) at King’s College, University of London. An objective of the concordat or agreement is to signify the introduction of a working relationship between MRC and the Review, such that different research interests can be fairly mediated and progressed in order to pursue ideas or topics of mutual concern
Developing an analytical framework for understanding the emergence of de‑professionalisation in health, social care and education sectors
Get PDFThis article aims to develop an analytical framework for understanding the context in which a process of de-professionalisation exists within an employment culture dominated by capitalism, globalisation and inequality. It specifically focuses upon experiences arising in health, social care and education sectors typifying that found within the British Welfare State during late modernity. Different theoretical definitions are presented to introduce an argument for a multi-dimensional approach. For example de-professionalisation may cover the removal from professional control, influence, manipulation or a destabilisation of a conventional mode of professionalisation and professional ties. Alternatively it may embody causation to appear unprofessional; or to discredit or deprive of professional status; also privately may be experienced as a weakening of status, respect or tendency away from a position of strength or equal status and be associated with measures for lessening the need for specialist knowledge and expertise. This analysis is based on a review of recent policy and practice evidence to support the notion that de-professionalisation may be defined through a lens of ‘cuts to services’ and job insecurity. It includes a case study covering the strike by NHS junior doctors which it is argued has had an impact on the image of ‘doctors as professionals’, resulting in a potential loss of public trust. De-professionalisation may be defined by financial cuts to staff training and through critiquing models of current training; or by a lowering of morale, a demoralisation or pervasive denigration of the workforce. Lastly this process may be considered as an outcome of low productivity in the workplace where a rise in low-skilled jobs becomes blamed for static wages. Increases in productivity come about as a result of deploying better raw materials, better trained or educated labour or better machines. Ordinary workers seem to have enjoyed few of the benefits of economic growth. Keywords: ideological roots of de-professionalisation; neo-liberalism, Taylorism/Post-Fordism; health, social care and education providers; service cutbacks; reductions in training; workforce morale and productivit
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Get PDFA review of:A Mutual-Aid Model for Social Work with Groups (3rd edition)Dominique Moyse Steinber
New technologies and creative practices in teaching groupwork
No full textAbstract: This paper introduces the use of new technologies and creative practices in teaching groupwork within two applied Irish postgraduate MA courses (Social Work and Community Development). By reflecting on experiences of teaching groupwork through the use of visual biographies, mask making, aural and video podcasting, the authors argue that creative teaching works to integrate experiential, practical and theoretical knowledge of groupwork. A more widespread adoption and evaluation of creative technologies in teaching groupwork to enhance student learning and affirm professional competencies is proposed.Keywords: social work; community development; creative technologies; podcasting; mask-making; visual biographies; group work; groupwor
A mutual-aid group for Latino and Latina adolescent survivors of parental intimate partner violence
No full textThis qualitative study explores the perceptions of Latino and Latina adolescent survivors of parental intimate partner violence (IPV) who participated in mutual-aid groups. Two focus groups were conducted. Data were analyzed utilizing a grounded theory approach. Five conceptual themes arose including: (a) feelings about the parental intimate partner violence; (b) reflections about group activities that helped them cope with the violence at home; (c) the role of the group in enabling a safe home away from home; (d) the impact of the Latino culture on adolescent survivors of parental IPV and (e) adolescent post-group experiences. Findings indicated that overall the group experience was overwhelmingly positive. It helped the adolescents decrease feelings of depression, isolation, improved self-esteem and was empowering. Implications for social workers include utilization of mutual aid groups with Latino/a adolescent survivors of parental IPV.Keywords: mutual-aid groups, domestic violence groups, Latino and Latina adolescents, survivors of parental intimate partner violence, undocumented immigrants, resilience theory; groupwork; group wor