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How can existential or spiritual strengths be fostered in palliative care? An interpretative synthesis of recent literature
No full textThis dataset is for replication and follow-up research purposes. It consists of all key documents from data collection to data analysis of the research project. See the readme document for the relevant procedure and document description
Lesson plan social inclusion and the UN Convention and people with mild to severe intellectual disabilities
Get PDFWaarden traceren, twijfels ontrafelen:Over ‘Reinventing the Good Life' van Jeannette Pols
No full textRethinking veteran return trips from a relational perspective: partner’s role in challenging military discourses
No full textThe voices of women with a military partner are often unheard in research on military deployments and their aftermath, even though partners are seen as key pillars of support to military veterans, both by military institutions and society. Research on the experiences of partners is usually done from a clinical or psychological perspective, studying (secondary) traumatization, moral injury, or/and the consequences of living with someone suffering from PTSD. However, how partners themselves assign meaning to military deployments is often overlooked. We engage with this paradox by empirically studying organized group return trips to Bosnia. Recent developments indicate that military organizations gain more interest in partners’ experiences–at least on paper. Since 2023, the Dutch government has granted hundreds of Dutchbat 3 veterans (those stationed in Srebrenica in 1995) and their partners the opportunity to return to Bosnia, as a gesture of recognition and care. We analyse the role of veterans’ partners in changing hegemonic narratives on return trips to Bosnia, and add a gendered perspective to this field of research. While military discourses on the return trip mainly focus on improving the wellbeing of veterans, our research shows that partners are pertinent to invoking repair of the suffering experienced. Recognition entails renewing social relationships. By applying a relational approach, we show the return trips’ potential to renew conversations between couples. However, we also demonstrate that attempts to counter hegemonic narratives often result in a confirmation instead of a transformation of earlier acquired perspectives
Ein Netzwerk-Wir: Religion im Zeitalter der Superdiversität
No full textThe Netherlands has changed profoundly in recent decades. The large cities of the Randstad have be-come ethnically ‘superdiverse’. There has also been a drastic change in the religious sphere, which is also characterised by diversity. What underlies these developments and what social consequences and challenges result from them will be described below. The explanations are based on two multidiscipli-nary research programmes on ‘hybrid religiosity’ and the ‘new we’ in the Netherlands, which were car-ried out atthe Theological Research Institute of the Dutch Dominicans (DSTS) and deal with the chal-lenges and effects of these diversification processes
De zorg is mooi, belangrijk en economisch vitaal: dat mag best wat kosten
No full textWerk in de zorg zal naar zijn aard vaak niet efficiënter kunnen, schrijft hoogleraar Evelien Tonkens. Het hoeft dan ook niet goedkoper
Exit, loyalty and focus:Dutch social workers’ responses to swing-of-the-pendulum policies
No full textMany social workers are confronted with tidal waves – cyclical or swing-of-the-pendulum policies – in the course of their career. Policies oscillate between harsh and lenient, emphasising safety and family unity, equality and tailor-made arrangements. In addition, social work organisations are being organised and reorganised in recurrent modes as well: from large-scale to small-scale, with or without team coordinators, from a generalised to a specialised division of tasks. In this article, we pose the question how social workers respond to cyclical changes in policy and management. We use a dataset of 35 interviews with Dutch social workers – trained in the early 1990s, early 2000s, and early 2010s – about their careers. We found that some social workers respond to cyclical changes in policy and management by exiting their profession or contemplating exit. Others adjusted to the policy circles and management fashions, sometimes grudgingly, sometimes because they endorsed the new policies, and sometimes because they just went along. Yet other social workers practised focus, that is: they sought refuge in the core of their profession, delivering the best possible social work, ignoring the tidal waves as far as possible. The latter response seems to be based on a strong professional identit
