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States in transition: family and health care policy in Moldova
- Author:
- IMBROGNO Salvatore
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 44(2), April 2001, pp.211-227.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The Moldovan government is expected to democratise and modernise a social and health service system that was originally subordinated to a highly centralised, authoritative and planned system in Moscow. The newly independent Moldova has embarked upon the transformation of its political and economic institutions. Legislation has been criticised for diverting funding needed to alleviate poverty into building a market economy. Government policy depends on how problems are conceptualised and their causes analysed, whether critical social dimensions are taken seriously, and on the degree to which the public and private sectors in the human services are integrated through the social work profession.
A matrix for decision analysis in macro-practices
- Author:
- IMBROGNO Salvatore
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Community Practice, 4(4), 1997, pp.49-67.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philapelphia, USA
Introduces a decision matrix to the knowledge foundation of macro-practice as a strategy to highlight the idiosyncratic and parochial perspectives to key decision models available to the practitioner to demonstrate the benefits of an alternative perspective that integrates into one conception of a variety of decision models and as a classification of decision schemata to modes of intervention. An overarching purpose is to demonstrate the significance of horizontal and vertical information transfer for social policy planning and development, social programming and management, and social project planning and operations. From this emerges a macro-practitioner engaged in human creative and rational activity.
A variable oriented comparative strategy in the European Union
- Author:
- IMBROGNO Salvatore
- Journal article citation:
- New Global Development, 12, 1996, pp.11-25.
- Publisher:
- Dialogues
The conceptualisation, specifications, and implementation of social policy in the European Union are being advances as a "third way", constituting a "new synergy" of the social dimensions that constitute a modern welfare state capable of responding to changing social developments. These social developments were identified as a variable oriented comparative strategy for unification. A variable oriented comparative strategy produces new insights to scholarly research in multilevel functions; fresh and challenging pedagogical content; and, finally, a method that offers a major breakthrough toward constructing innovative and experimental models.
A syncretic construct to a multicultural program
- Author:
- IMBROGNO Salvatore
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 4(1), 1996, pp.21-34.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Problems of social inequality and social inequity due to gender, race and ethnicity have become critical areas of study in social work education and practice. A number of competing paradigms have emerged. A syncretic construct was introduced as a means to unravel the complex nature of value conflicts and value dilemmas that are inadvertently produced by isolated and fragmented paradigms of cultural diversity and cultural plurality. The integration of humanism and a syncretic construct served as the organising principle for advancing cultural inclusiveness. This was viewed as a fundamental policy goal for multicultural social work education and practice. A multidimensional model is designed to embrace a syncretic construct with humanism in a social work multicultural perspective.
Teaching modeling in social welfare policy analysis
- Author:
- IMBROGNO Salvatore
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 11(1/2), 1995, pp.15-30.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Modelling is presented as teaching strategy for social policy analysis and development. Linkages are established between policy theories, mainstream analytical frameworks and modelling as a prelude to an emerging technology of computer simulation in social policy development. Modelling is viewed as an imperative in the face of highly complex human delivery systems, the over abundance of information and the increase practicality and applicability of laboratory experimentation in the human services.
A transcultural analysis of families in complex systems
- Author:
- IMBROGNO Salvatore
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 34(1), January 1991, pp.69-82.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This paper analyses the changing societal values impacting on marriage, family structure and child-rearing in contemporary complex systems. In highly complex systems such as the USA and USSR, there are unique factors that give rise to what constitutes the normative values, structural configurations and behavioural manifestations of the family. If the common core to marriage and family structure deals with how individuals deal with the problems of choices and if choice is considered critical to the values of social work, then it would be propitious to design a prototype multidimensional model to analyse and compare value choices in family life in different economic and political systems of comparable scientific and technological development. These choices establish how a multidimensional perspective unfolds for individuals, families and society in perceptions on family life and provides the basis for comparative analysis.
Mediation in court cases of domestic violence
- Authors:
- IMBROGNO Andre Rene, IMBROGNO Salvatore
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 81(4), 2000, pp.392-401.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Social workers in the USA are involved in mediation of divorce and child-custody matters as an alternative to litigation, a mediating process referred to as alternative dispute resolution (ADR). It seems likely that ADR through mediation for cases of domestic violence will be expanded as a social-work practice. It would be a pitfall for social work to stand in lieu of the execution of law without first engaging in the formulation of the concepts and practice models necessary for integrating the very complex legal, economic, political, and cultural manifestations to domestic violence.