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Ambivalent elements of social communication in social worker-client interactions
No full textIn: Sociální práce = Sociálna práca = Czech and Slovak Social Work : nabízíme spojení teorie a praxi : ponúkame spojenie teórie s praxou. Brno : Asociace vzdělavatelů v sociální práci, 2025. ISSN 1213-6204. Roč. 25, č. 4 (2025), s. 127-142.OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to advance the understanding of the ambivalent elements of social communication used by social workers in client interactions. THEORETICAL BASE: The theoretical framework of ambivalent elements of social communication is grounded in the scholarly knowledge of social communication, with the transactional model serving as its foundational principle. METHODS: The research was conducted using a qualitative study design, incorporating various data collection methods such as recording social worker-client interactions, making observations, and interviewing social workers. OUTCOMES: The research findings indicate that ambivalent elements of social communication are present in every interaction between social workers and clients, constituting an integral component of the communication process. These elements operate on both conscious and subconscious levels. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: Incorporating supporting elements into communication does not inherently ensure a positive communication outcome, nor is it directly proportional to communication effectiveness. Some supporting elements of communication exhibit ambivalence. These findings carry significant implications for social work practitioners, particularly in enhancing the effectiveness of social communication, in which integration of client feedback and continuous development of communication skills serve as guiding principles. Concurrently, there is an effort to raise awareness of the ambivalent elements inherent in social communication
Melanie Klein: biografia a jej vybrané koncepty aplikované do sociálnej práce
No full textIn: Mládež a spoločnosť = Youth and Society : slovenský časopis pre štátnu politiku a výskum mládeže. Bratislava : Centrum vedecko-technických informácií SR, 2025. ISSN 1335-1109. Roč. 31, č. 2-3 (2025), s. 17-33.Melanie Klein (1882 – 1960), významná priekopníčka detskej psychoanalýzy a kľúčová predstaviteľka teórie objektových vzťahov, zásadným spôsobom ovplyvnila chápanie raného detstva a jeho dopadu na formovanie osobnosti. Článok sa zameriava na stručné ukázanie jej života a na vysvetlenie základných teoretických konceptov, akými sú rané vzťahy k objektom, mechanizmus štiepenia a projektívnej identifikácie. Tieto východiská, hoci pôvodne nesmerovali k sociálnej práci, poskytujú cenný teoretický rámec pre túto oblasť. V sociálnej práci nachádzajú uplatnenie predovšetkým pri práci s deťmi a rodinami, kde pomáhajú pri porozumení vzťahovej dynamiky, empatie a nevedomých procesov klientov. Príspevok poukazuje na význam Kleinovej konceptov pre podporu efektívnej a citlivej pomoci ľuďom v rôznych životných situáciách.
Melanie Klein (1882 – 1960), a pioneering figure in child psychoanalysis and a key representative of object relations theory, significantly influenced the understanding of early childhood and its impact on personality development. This article provides a brief overview of her life and explains her fundamental theoretical concepts, such as early object relations, the mechanism of splitting, and projective identification. Although her work was not originally aimed at social work, it offers a valuable theoretical framework for this field. In social work, these concepts are particularly applied in practice with children and families, facilitating the understanding of relational dynamics, empathy, and clients’ unconscious processes. The paper highlights the relevance of Klein’s contributions for fostering effective and sensitive support to people in diverse life situations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Volunteering as a tool for activating young NEETs: from basic habits to employability
No full textIn: QUAERE 2025 : recenzovaný sborník příspěvků interdisciplinární mezinárodní vědecké konference doktorandů a odborných asistentů / rec. Jiří Králík, Jerzy Olszewski ... [et al.]. Roč. 15. 1. vyd. Hradec Králové : Magnanimitas, 2025. ISBN 978-80-87952-42-9. S. 526-536.This study examines young people in NEET situations (Not in Employment, Education or Training) in Slovakia, analysing their demographic, socio-economic and psychological challenges, as well as the long-term consequences of NEET status. The research is based on qualitative analysis of focus groups with young people in the Banská Bystrica region and explores volunteering as a tool for their activation and enhancement of employability. The findings demonstrate that volunteering contributes to the development of basic work habits, increases self-confidence, provides practical experience, and improves the professional profiles of young NEETs. Respondents perceive volunteering as a bridge between inactivity and integration into the labour market, appreciating its motivational and social benefits. The study confirms that volunteering is an effective and comprehensive instrument for supporting the employability and social inclusion of young people outside education and the labour market, recommending its systematic integration into policies and programmes targeting this group.VAIA 09I03-03-V05-00009 Early Stage Granty - UMB v Banskej Bystric
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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