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‘A Community no matter what’: fostering social work professional connections in Italy in COVID-19 times
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic and the associated socio-economic crisis are posing unprecedented challenges both globally and locally, raising many unknowns and imposing difficult trade-offs. One of the side effects of this pandemic, with the ensuing physical distancing rules and quarantine, has been the condition of isolation that is affecting vulnerable populations disproportionately across the world. Against this background, one of the major tasks for social work is to keep up connections, find new ways to sustain relations and networks, and mitigate against inescapable feelings of loneliness and their consequences. Social workers themselves are affected personally and professionally by this crisis, facing new living and working conditions. They experience feelings of uncertainty, fear, and the risk of isolation. The aim of this paper is to present examples of practices intended to promote a sense of community, as such a shared emotion can support present and future social workers. These examples serve to underline how, now more than ever, a central challenge for social work is to strengthen the professional community, find ways to overcome isolation and ‘to take care of those who care’
The ancestral hemochromatosis haplotype is associated with a severe phenotype expression in italian patients
No full textRuolo 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)
Ferritin in Malignant Cells
No full textThe study of ferritin in malignant cells was stimulated by early indications of the existence of tumor-specific ferritins and by suggestions that this protein could be considered a tumor marker. Subsequent work greatly increased knowledge of ferritin structure and biology and showed that ferritin expression is altered in malignant cells, but did not confirm the early expectations. Here we review data from the literature and present some new results about ferritin and malignancy, with particular attention to the differences in structure, expression, and functionality of ferritin in normal and malignant cells
T-ARMS-PCR for the evaluation of rs12979860 IL28B genotype: An optimized protocol
No full textLetter to the Edito
IL28B rs12979860 polymorphism influences serum TNFalpha levels in chronic hepatitis C
No full textLetter to the Edito
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
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