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Internal evaluation: integrating evaluation and social work practice
- Author:
- LOVE A.J.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(2), April 1998, pp.145-151.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Internal evaluation involves the use of internal staff to evaluate programmes or issues of direct relevance to an organisation. The use of internal evaluation has been growing rapidly during the last decade. This article examines internal evaluation within the discourse of a "new vision" of evaluation that links evaluation closely to management and practice. Explores the unique characteristics of internal evaluation, its strengths and weaknesses, the process of internal evaluation, steps in developing internal evaluation capacity, strategies for effective internal evaluation, and positive and negative roles of internal evaluators. Concludes with a look at some recent developments in the evolution of internal evaluation.
Institutionalised strategies in face-to-face encounters: focus on immigrant clients
- Author:
- JONSSON T.B.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.27-33.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This article aims to explore how officials' institutionalised patterns of acting can be useful for understanding encounters between immigrant clients and representatives of a welfare organisation in Sweden.
Symbolic purposes and factual consequences of the concepts "self-reliance" and "dependency" in contemporary discourses on welfare
- Author:
- HALVORSEN K.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.56-64.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This article discusses how to be self-reliant has been a dominant norm in Western societies since early Christianity. Today the concept has the symbolic purpose of maintaining individualism and the work ethic in capitalism and reducing dependency on the state. Contrasts the original meaning of individual self-reliance with its contemporary use in public discourses on welfare. Using examples from the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway, the article attempts to demonstrate the hegemonic use of the concepts of self-reliance and dependency today provides ideological justifications for keeping people in poverty and outside the mainstream of life.
Social crisis and the formation of medico-social service in Russia
- Authors:
- SHCHEPIN O., SIDOROV P., VYAZMIN A.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.2-8.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Socio-economic reforms have changed the social life of Russia. A large number of social problems in the transition period has negatively affected the social well-being and health of the nation. The critical situation of the health care system does not allow for the maintenance of the public health of the Russian population at the required level. To solve this problem, it is necessary to improve social services in Russia. The training of medico-social workers is currently being conducted within the system of higher medical education in Russia with the support of the Swedish universities.
Social workers and significant others as collaterals of non-responding alcoholics in follow-up studies using mail questionnaires and telephone interviews
- Authors:
- GERDNER A., SODERFELDT B., BERGLUND M.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.34-41.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The subject of this study is non-response to mail questionnaires and supplementary telephone interviews in evaluation of outcome of treatment for alcohol dependence in Sweden.
Formulating the Matthew Principle: on the role of the middle classes in the welfare state
- Author:
- GAL J.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.42-55.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The Matthew Principle, which formulates the role of the middle classes in the welfare state, is discussed in this article. The middle classes are described as primary beneficiaries of the welfare state. This status is achieved through the ability of this social group to influence the policy-formulating process by was of six different channels of influence. It is also facilitated due to the impact of middle-class clients up to the implementation stage of social policy. A case study of employment policy in Israel is used to illustrate the Matthew Principle.
The risks of using TQM philosophy in developing the quality of social welfare services
- Author:
- MANTYSAARI M.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.9-16.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Discusses how Total Quality Management (TQM) seems to be a highly promising strategy for producing better quality in personal social services. However, there are at least four problems in implementing TQM in social services. According to the analysis, presented in this article, TQM must be further developed, particularly with regard to needs analysis; it has to be clarified where the TQM approach stands with respect to matters of workplace democracy and justice, and its methodology has to be reconsidered.
The construction of the medical insurance system in the Republic of Korea, 1963-1989
- Author:
- SON A.H.K.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.17-26.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Discusses the problems faced by Korea's health policy makers and the background to its national medical insurance system.
Quality function deployment for developing a customized social medical service
- Authors:
- HALLBERG N., TIMPKA T.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 6(4), October 1997, pp.292-300.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Describes the use of quality function deployment in orienting clinical social medicine to a quasi-market situation. Shows that different customers have different requirements. Concludes that quality function deployment can be used as a method of defining and developing social services. Argues that a strict accommodation of the demands from the quasi-market would lead to contradictions with the theory used today as the basis for sociomedical services.
Relationships between traumatic life events, symptoms and Sense of Coherence subscale meaningfulness in a group of refugee and immigrant patients referred to a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Stockholm
- Authors:
- EKBLAD S., WENNSTROM C.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 6(4), October 1997, pp.279-285.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Describes a study which aimed to test the long version of the Sense of Coherence (SOS) questionnaire and its relationship to other mental symptom questionnaires, in a multicultural immigrant and refugee sample of volunteer patients at a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Sweden. Implications of the findings are presented, as are methodological issues.