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The visibility of the child in multiprofessional meetings - Italian welfare units collegial discussion under scrutiny
No full textBackgrounds -
The child wellbeing is a central issue for social workers and professionals in family welfare services.Child protection decision are often made after consultation in multi-professional teams. With differences according to child protection systems existing in each country, teams have diverse functions and purposes. Nevertheless some topics are commonly debated, one of which is the visibility of the child and the child view when decisions and transitions in the protection project are at stake. Referring to the Italian context, this study aims to highlight how social workers in Italian local welfare units represent children and their view, especially when child protection decisions are discussed.
Method -
In order to answer to the research questions ten multi-professional meetings in social services (statutory, health and no-governmental) in different Italian regions are investigated through participant observation. The meetings have been recorded and transcribed to capture child protection practices and the nature of child representation with specific regard to child view. A qualitative thematic data analysis has been implemented through NVIVO software. The study is part of a wider research project promoted by CNOAS (National Professional Social Work Order) and FNAS (National Foundation of Social Work) to Investigate qualities and problems of the work of social workers in the field of child protection
Findings -
Results show that social workers and professional discuss child protection cases for different and concomitant reasons i. e. share professional knowledge and experience to promote understanding and decision making, request for professional contribution and support. The study highlights various levels of representation of child conditions and family life, also adverse experiences are described. It emerges however a limited representation of the child view in collegial discussions.
Conclusions and implications -
The research highlights the need to improve the capacity to bring the child’s view and to promote competent engaging and listening with children and youth. In some cases, social workers experience challenges in interviewing children due to resistance and stereotypes related to their authoritative functions such as enacting children’s out-of-home placement. Moreover, the study indicates how the organisational nature of professional groups and their aim in the service system influence the professionals discussion, stressing the necessity of the collaboration among social and health service
professionals together with teachers and third sector practitioners.
References -
Bastian Carmela (2020) the child in child protection: invisible and unheard, Child and Family Social Work, 25, pp. 135 - 143.
Nybom Jenny (2005) Visibility and child view in the assessment process of social work: cross national comparisons, International Journal of Social Welfare, 14, pp. 315 - 32
Ruolo e qualità del Servizio Sociale nelle attività di tutela dei minorenni
No full textLa tutela dei minori presenta un intreccio particolarmente complesso, denso di diversi importanti significati impliciti, che interseca le rappresentazioni socioculturali esistenti in merito alle responsabilità della famiglia, al benessere dei bambini e al ruolo dello Stato. In questo intreccio, il servizio sociale gioca un ruolo centrale e delicato. Come parte dell’ampia rete dei servizi, gli assistenti sociali contribuiscono ai compiti di promozione del benessere,
valutazione, protezione e cura dei minori, assumendo importanti responsabilità professionali.
Insieme ad altri, essi contribuiscono alla definizione della soglia che rende legittimo un intervento della sfera pubblica nella dimensione privata della famiglia. Tuttavia, l’eterogeneità e la frammentarietà del sistema di protezione minorile, caratterizzato da procedure e pratiche multiformi, fa sì che le responsabilità dei professionisti, in particolare degli assistenti sociali, impegnati in questo campo appaiano spesso confuse e contraddittorie.
Anche per questa ragione, l’impegno degli assistenti sociali mostra diverse aree critiche. Lo si evince da eventi esterni, come le frequenti rimostranze e denunce da parte dei cittadini, le aggressioni agli operatori e le maldestre attenzioni mediatiche. Ma anche da aspetti interni, come la presenza di un elevato tasso di burn out e la richiesta di numerosi operatori di ritirarsi da questo settore d’intervento.
Alla luce di questi elementi, nel 2017, l’Ordine Professionale degli Assistenti sociali ha evidenziato il bisogno della comunità professionale Ha quindi deciso di “avviare un confronto nazionale fra esperienze e buone prassi sul tema, con l'obiettivo ultimo di definire ‘standard operativi’ per alcuni aspetti dell'intervento professionale, attraverso protocolli/ disciplinari operativi o linee guida, così da consentire la costante verifica dell'appropriatezza dei percorsi attivati e delle prestazioni erogate”. La ricerca ha preso quindi avvio nel 2017, con la finalità di cogliere i principali snodi critici e
le qualità del lavoro degli assistenti sociali, considerando diversi ambiti di osservazione e allo scopo di fornire all’Ordine Professionale la base empirica a supporto delle prese di posizione istituzionali dell’Ordine, in particolare nell’ambito delle politiche sociali e della giustizia minorile, nella comprensione delle strategie e strumenti più utili al miglioramento dell’azione professionale e nell’identificazione degli assetti organizzativi favorenti un’adeguata azione
professionale. In particolare, si è deciso di considerare tre diverse accezioni di ruolo: il ruolo prescritto, che fornisce la cornice formale di riferimento e il mandato istituzionale e organizzativo, il ruolo percepito e auspicato, considerando i diversi soggetti con cui l’assistente sociale interagisce e il ruolo agito nella pratica (Piva, 2001)
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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