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Social work core competencies in disaster management practice: an integrative review
- Authors:
- SIM Timothy, DOMINELLI Lena
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 32(3), 2022, pp.310-321.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Purpose: Though social workers are increasingly engaged in the disaster management, there has been a lack of professional guidelines for social work practice and training in this emerging field. This study aims to develop a rudimentary social work competence framework to plug this gap. Method: the researchers conducted an integrative review of 183 international empirical studies and practice reflections, comprising a systematic search, selection, review, and content analysis, guided by ecological systems theory. Results: This rudimentary framework consists of 73 competencies, including 33 micro-level competencies, 18 meso-level ones and 22 macro-level ones, covering knowledge, values and skills in four disaster management phases. Conclusion: Compared to other competence frameworks, this framework further elucidated and classified the salient knowledge, values, and skills in disaster management training and practice for social work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work core competencies in disaster management practice: an integrative review
- Authors:
- SIM Timothy, HE Minying, DOMINELLI Lena
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, early cite November 2021,
- Publisher:
- Sage
Purpose: Though social workers are increasingly engaged in the disaster management, there has been a lack of professional guidelines for social work practice and training in this emerging field. This study aims to develop a rudimentary social work competence framework to plug this gap. Method: We conducted an integrative review of 183 international empirical studies and practice reflections, comprising a systematic search, selection, review, and content analysis, guided by ecological systems theory. Results: This rudimentary framework consists of 73 competencies, including 33 micro-level competencies, 18 meso-level ones and 22 macro-level ones, covering knowledge, values and skills in four disaster management phases. Conclusion: Compared to other competence frameworks, this framework further elucidated and classified the salient knowledge, values, and skills in disaster management training and practice for social work. (Edited publisher abstract)
When the mountains move: a Chinese post-disaster psychosocial social work model
- Authors:
- SIM Timothy, DOMINELLI Lena
- Journal article citation:
- Qualitative Social Work, 16(5), 2017, pp.594-611.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake provided an opportunity to develop a Chinese psychosocial social work model in post-disaster contexts using constant feedback from service users including school children, their parents and teachers for more than seven years. Through critical reflection based on the practice wisdom acquired during that time, discussion with workers and service user feedback, this paper delineates a model which emphasises a step-by-step approach for social workers and mental health practitioners to promote local participation; culturally relevant ways of being, knowing and coping; self-help; mutual help; inter/transdisciplinary approaches among stakeholders; and ethical behaviour. This model may resonate with post-disaster situations within China and overseas. (Publisher abstract)
The opportunities and challenges of social work interventions in disaster situations
- Author:
- DOMINELLI Lena
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 58(5), 2015, pp.659-672.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Professional social workers’ positive contributions to humanitarian aid are seldom publicly acknowledged. If unaware of cultural sensitivities, locally defined needs and power relations, they are decried as oppressive. The author uses a research project to examine opportunities and challenges social workers have in developing empowering practices with victim–survivors of the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka. Whether reducing risks, mitigating disaster, providing relief or long-term reconstruction, social workers have much to offer. The author suggests that the United Nations should include social workers more centrally within its humanitarian remit because social workers are professionally responsible for enhancing human well-being holistically. (Edited publisher abstract)
Promoting environmental justice through green social work practice: a key challenge for practitioners and educators
- Author:
- DOMINELLI Lena
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 57(4), 2014, pp.338-345.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Environmental crises associated with disasters exacerbate existing socio-economic and cultural inequalities. This article argues for the inclusion of environmental justice in contemporary social work practice as one way of promoting inclusionary social work that meets some of the challenges of the 21st century. It does so by exploring the implications of environmental degradation and its reinforcement of structural inequalities in Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and draws on a three-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council in the UK that led to the development of a multidisciplinary approach to disasters that is described in the author’s recent book Green Social Work. (Publisher abstract)
Internationalizing professional practices: the place of social work in the international arena
- Author:
- DOMINELLI Lena
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 57(3), 2014, pp.258-267.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Internationalising practices are seldom explicitly considered in social work theory, practice and education. This article examines internationalising practices, using both historical materials and empirical data recently obtained through a project involving humanitarian aid in a disaster to demonstrate that when people want help in such situations, they prefer locality-specific, culturally-relevant forms of interventions under their own control. Responding to their wishes means that social work educators and practitioners from overseas have to interrogate their internationalism to ensure that they do not damage the people they aim to help further, but work with them in local empowering partnerships that they control. (Edited publisher abstract)
Globalization, contemporary challenges and social work practice
- Author:
- DOMINELLI Lena
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 53(5), September 2010, pp.599-612.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article explores the effect of globalisation on social work practice. It examines how globalisation has affected service delivery in personal social services; labour process, as these affect social workers as employees and in practitioner-user relationships; the internationalisation of social problems for practitioners to address, such as people-trafficking and environmental issues; and the changing nature of the nation-state. The emerging economies of China, India, Brazil and Mexico are introducing their own challenges. Additionally, indigenous people and poor people are fighting back through anti-globalisation movements, indigenous movements and new ideas about organisation work and meeting human needs outside core capitalist social relations in their neo-liberal forms. This article considers globalisation in terms of these issues and the impact of the current financial crisis on a more closely connected and interdependent world. It also explores the role of the state in these developments and considers the implications of these for social work practice in the 21st century.
Working with violent men form a feminist social work perspective
- Authors:
- ORME Joan, DOMINELLI Lena, MULLENDER Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 43(1), January 2000, pp.89-105.
- Publisher:
- Sage
For 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 social 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.
Globalization and the technocratization of social work
- Authors:
- DOMINELLI Lena, HOOGVELT Ankie
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 16(2), May 1996, pp.45-62.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Demonstrates the significance of globalisation on the process of intervention and the labour process in social work. Argues that as a result of global market forces, needs-led assessments and relationship building have given way to budget-led assessments, increased managerial control over practitioners and bureaucratised procedures for handling consumer complaints. Sees these changes as seeking to reorient social work away from its commitment to holistic provisions and social justice towards technocratic competencies which are the purview of the externally direct bureaucrat.