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Kooperationsformen und Nutzungsstrukturen in der Schulsozialarbeit
No full textWie arbeiten schulinterne und schulexterne Akteurinnen und Akteure mit der
Schulsozialarbeit zusammen? Dieser Frage widmet sich ein vom Nationalfonds unterstütztes Forschungsprojekt. Es will damit erstmals eine Gesamtschau zur Schulsozialarbeit in der Deutschschweiz vermitteln
When do pupils talk about their problems? Explaining pupils’ intentions to seek help from school social work services
Get PDFSchool social work aims to be a low threshold point of contact and advice for pupils. In practice, however, pupils often avoid seeking help when needed. Although the factors that influence help-seeking are well established in the literature, there has been very little research on this for school social work. Adapting the behavioral model of health services use, the present study addresses this gap by examining individual and contextual factors promoting or inhibiting pupils’ intentions to seek help from social work services directly integrated into their schools. A total of 4,420 pupils (grades 5 to 9) from 32 schools in Switzerland completed a questionnaire in which they were asked how likely they would be to seek help when they face a family problem, peer problem, or difficulties in everyday school life they cannot solve on their own. Results from the multi-level analysis reveal
that, overall, pupils’ intentions to seek help are rather low. Predisposing factors and enabling factors influence willingness to seek help, with trust emerging as the most important facilitator. It is therefore important that all pupils can establish a trusting relationship with their school social worker and gain positive experiences with him
or her
Performance Information Use under Financial Stress: How Do Public, Nonprofit, and Private Organizations Differ?
No full textPerformance management is becoming increasingly important in long-term health care because of rising quality standards and scarce resources. The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic illustrates the dynamic nature of emerging events in the health sector and underscores the importance of managing for results in suboptimal conditions. This study investigates whether managers in public, nonprofit, and private sector nursing homes differ in how they use performance information when their organizations are under severe financial stress. Based on the survey and archival data for 579 organizations in Switzerland, this study reveals substantial cross-sector differences in the use of performance information for managing efficiency and service quality. Our key findings suggest that managers in all three sectors utilize performance information differently when under financial stress. While financial stress hampers managers’ use of performance information for managing efficiency in the public sector, it fosters greater use in the nonprofit and private sectors, with the latter being even more responsive. Nonprofit organizations give more attention to preserving the quality of care, apparently fearing that increased emphasis on efficiency could undercut quality. The implications for theory and practice are discussed
Schulsozialarbeit in der Schweiz. Angebots-, Kooperations- und Nutzungsformen
No full textDie Schulsozialarbeit hat in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten in der Deutschschweiz stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Mit diesem Buch liegt erstmals systematisches Wissen zu diesem relativ jungen Handelsfeld der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe vor. Im Rahmen eines nationalen Forschungsprojekts wurden Daten zu Kooperationsformen zwischen Schulsozialarbeitenden, Schulleitungen, Lehrpersonen und ausserschulischen Einrichtungen erhoben sowie Nutzung und der Nutzen der Schulsozialarbeit aus Sicht der verschiedenen Zielgruppen untersuch
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
Performance Information Use under Financial Stress: How Do Public, Nonprofit, and Private Organizations Differ?
No full textPerformance management is becoming increasingly important in long-term health care because of rising quality standards and scarce resources. The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic illustrates the dynamic nature of emerging events in the health sector and underscores the importance of managing for results in suboptimal conditions. This study investigates whether managers in public, nonprofit, and private sector nursing homes differ in how they use performance information when their organizations are under severe financial stress. Based on the survey and archival data for 579 organizations in Switzerland, this study reveals substantial cross-sector differences in the use of performance information for managing efficiency and service quality. Our key findings suggest that managers in all three sectors utilize performance information differently when under financial stress. While financial stress hampers managers’ use of performance information for managing efficiency in the public sector, it fosters greater use in the nonprofit and private sectors, with the latter being even more responsive. Nonprofit organizations give more attention to preserving the quality of care, apparently fearing that increased emphasis on efficiency could undercut quality. The implications for theory and practice are discussed
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