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Working with violent men from a feminist social work perspective
No full textFor two decades feminism has addressed the problem of male violence in inter-personal relationships by working with women. However, men continue to violently abuse women. This article argues that work with men is a legitimate focus for feminist social workers, and male social workers who are prepared to work in pro-feminist ways, and discusses pro-feminist groupwork as a model for bringing about change
Planning for sibling continuity within permanency: Needs led or needs unmet
No full textItem not available in this repository.Although the requirement that siblings be accommodated together whenever ‘reasonably practical and consistent with [the child’s] welfare’ is
written into section 23(7)(b) of the Children Act 1989, neither the Act nor
its accompanying regulation and guidance documentation makes direct
reference to sibling continuity planning in terms of placement together or
of contact as a proactive and deliberate means of maintaining such links.
In practice, proactive commitment to the importance of sibling
relationships can be demonstrated in a range of forms of care planning
for sibling groups. Having revealed a lack of any tangible policy or
practice theories, the research reported here progressed to a more detailed
focus upon decision-making processes as they impacted upon practice
and as they were perceived by looked after sibling groups, their families,
social workers and carers, so as to ascertain what professionals were
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Groupwork as the method of choice with black children in white foster homes
No full textWhilst professional child care thinking has rightly moved increasingly towards ‘same race’ placements as the placements of choice for black children in care, the needs of those young people who are already established in long term transracial foster homes and of their carers have frequently been ignored. The authorities which made these placements in the past have a continuing responsibility in the present to support them, with appropriately targeted intervention. Some of the key advantages of a groupwork response are explored, and the impact of one particular group on the self-image of its young black members is evaluated. The conclusion is reached that the existence of such a group allowed essential black identity work to be commenced at an earlier stage than is normal in one-to-one work. Some of the features of the group itself are critically examined in relation to its overall aims, and a further, complementary groupwork model is put forward. The conclusion is reached that all such efforts must take place within a context of far reaching agency policies which attempt to combat institutional racism and to offer developmental input to foster carers and social workers as well as to transracially placed young people themselves.Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication (though where we have current email addresses we have added them). Abstracts are word-for-word transcriptions of the original abstracts without any attempt to update terminology
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
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