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Mindfulness in parenting adolescents: love breeds love, hate breeds hate
- Author:
- VYSNIAUSKYTE-RIMKIENE Jorune
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work with Groups, 42(4), 2019, pp.323-333.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
After several years of intensive parental skills training for parents of adolescents, extra topics were arising that were not covered in the program’s curriculum. Stress, uncertainness, and strong emotions in dealing with adolescents and how to make positive contact were important issues that parents were still concerned about when leaving the group. This article describes the experiences of how extramindful parenting group training was used after the formal parenting skills training group ended. Parents were then learning to listen to the child with full attention, emotional awareness of the self and child, self-regulation in the parenting relationship, and self-compassion. (Publisher abstract)
Interprofessional collaboration between residential child care and mental care practitioners: a cross-country study in six European countries
- Author:
- TIMONEN-KALLIO Eeva
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 22(6), 2019, pp.947-960.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The severe mental health problems of many of the young people living in residential settings pose a great challenge and demand on child protection and mental care (MC) services. Drawing on comparative research and debates from six European countries, this study examines demands for integrated care and interprofessional collaboration practices between residential child care (RCC) and MC. In this article, research data will be brought together from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, the UK (Scotland) and Spain. In total, 61 practitioners from RCC and MC were interviewed. Given the complexity of the residential care service context and service system differences across national contexts, the original hypothesis was that this would differentiate the collaboration practices. However, the similarity between the countries is greater than anticipated. The concluding findings are organised by matrix technique into a content-analytic summary table. The main finding was that in spite of encouragement for integrated RCC, obstacles for collaboration and lack of coordination between systems remain, often related to understanding the professional role and tasks, lack of shared knowledge, attitudes and ways of communication. One significant finding in the cross-country comparison was the evident and unrealistic expectations for the ‘other’ provider to help and care. (Edited publisher abstract)
How creative group work helps adolescents create relations with self and peers
- Authors:
- VYSNIAUSKYTE-RIMKIENE Jorune, MATULEVICIUTE Daiva
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work with Groups, 39(2-3), 2016, pp.234-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Practitioners often face questions about how to approach adolescents to join a group where they can develop healthy relationships with themselves and their peers. A growing number of practitioners and researchers value creative, nondeliberative, forms of working with such groups. This article discusses the artful, actional methods the authors use in their work with time-limited small groups of adolescents (age 14–17) who experienced behavioural challenges. These creative methods were used in settings such as secondary schools, counselling centres, and nongovernmental organisations in Lithuania during social skills training groups facilitated by the social workers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Developing entrepreneurship in social work through international education. Reflections on a European intensive programme
- Authors:
- FARGION Silvia, GEVORGIANIENE Violeta, LIEVENS Pieter
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 30(8), 2011, pp.964-980.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper addresses the issue of introducing training on entrepreneurial skills in social work education. It explores how the concept of entrepreneurship can help to identify skills and competences that may be relevant for future practitioners in the present social service environment in Europe. The paper starts by critically introducing the concept of entrepreneurship and by presenting its connections to social work. It then presents an EU-funded Intensive Programmes scheme, New Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Social Work Teaching (INVEST), which took place at Vilnius University, Lithuania. The main goal of INVEST was to offer a critical view on entrepreneurship and to provide an experience aimed at fostering a positive attitude towards the challenges and difficulties that arise in social services, and to develop innovation-related competences. The paper explores the potential of using active experiential learning methods in an international environment and of creating a situation where participants are confronted with ‘real world’ problems so that they can develop entrepreneurial skills. It argues that experiences of this kind provide new stimuli and contribute substantially to developing an entrepreneurial mentality, by which is meant innovative and proactive attitudes as well as skills to develop the resources with which to face social problems in an adverse context.
Ageing and health status in adults with intellectual disabilities: results of the European Pomona II study
- Authors:
- HAVEMAN Meindert, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 36(1), March 2011, pp.49-60.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
POMONA II was a European Commission funded public health project collecting information from 14 countries using a set of key health indicators specifically relevant for people with intellectual disabilities. This research focused on age-specific differences relating to environmental and lifestyle factors and the 17 medical conditions measured by the POMONA Checklist of Health Indicators. The article describes how information was collected using the POMONA Health Interview Survey and Evaluation Form from a sample of 1,253 participants in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It then presents the results of the analysis, with tables showing characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities in the study, frequency of social contacts with relatives or friends according to age, lifestyle risk factors in people with intellectual disabilities according to age, and general and age-specific prevalence rates of health problems. The authors discuss how healthy older adults with intellectual disabilities are with regard to lifestyle factors, and whether there are health disparities between older adults with and without intellectual disabilities. They note that some evidence of health disparities was found for older people with intellectual disabilities, particularly in terms of under diagnosed or inadequately managed preventable health conditions.
Caring for children of parents with mental health problems - a venture into historical and cultural processes in Europe
- Authors:
- SOLANTAUS Tytti, PURAS Dainius
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12(4), November 2010, pp.27-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the European initiative Work Package 5 (WP5), a part of the CAMHEE programme, which was designed to bring children and families with parental mental illness onto the European agenda. Parental mental health problems are a major risk for children’s adverse development. Intergenerational mental health issues often leads to social marginalisation and exclusion, which constitutes a serious social problem. WP5 participants included Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and Romania. The WP5 emphasised that it is important for every country to learn what the legal, human rights, and service and life situation is for these children and families and to take preventive and promotion action. The paper suggests that, to avoid further stigmatisation, awareness campaigns and training of professionals should capitalise on resilience and support for children and parenting rather than on risks. Psychiatric services for adults should respond to the needs for care and support of the patients' children. Finally, changes in society are needed, including redirecting legislation from restrictive measures towards promotion and prevention.
Organizational factors, leadership practices, and adoption of technological and administrative innovations: an exploratory study of Lithuanian nonprofit social service organizations
- Authors:
- JASKYTE Kristina, KISIELIENE Audrone
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 9(1), March 2006, pp.21-37.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This exploratory study sought to describe the types of innovations implemented by Lithuanian nonprofit social service organizations, their leadership practices and organizational cultures. It also assessed the relationships among organizational innovation, leadership, organizational culture, and size. Thirty-five nonprofit organizations in Kaunas, Lithuania, constituted the sample. Technological product innovation was by far the most often implemented innovation type. While technological innovation was not related to any of the independent variables, administrative innovation was positively related to the value dimensions of team orientation and stability. Taking a closer look at the relationship between leadership and organizational culture variables provided useful insights into why there was little association between organizational innovation and the independent variables. Limitations of the study are discussed along with implications for social work practice.
Teaching in Lithuania - the personal and the professional: the role of the countertransference
- Author:
- LINFORD Sandra
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 19(1), March 2005, pp.31-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Demonstrates the central role of the countertransference as a catalyst for understanding for both teacher and student. The author draws on her experience of a week of teaching basic psychoanalytic concepts to Lithuanian university students in central Lithuania. During the experience the author discovered an absence or lack of understanding between the group she was teaching and herself. On a political, cultural level, she was faced with a Lithuanian understanding of the world that is quite different from a Western European perspective. This personal narrative explores how the author used countertransference to the group, and their countertransference to their clinical work, as a tool to begin to explore common professional issues and to understand the differences.
Social work field education as social development: a Lithuanian case study
- Authors:
- TUNNEY Kathleen, KULYS Regina
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 2(2/3), 2004, pp.59-75.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article discusses social development models and their application to the establishment of social work field education in Lithuania. A model of field education as social development is presented and discussed, with reference to promoting core social work knowledge, values and skills, establishing relationships between educational and social welfare institutions, and identifying the impact of field education programmes on community well-being. Examples from the authors' experience in educational programme development and implementation are presented, along with implications for international social work education. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Social policy influence of the EU and other global actors: the case of Lithuania
- Authors:
- DE LA PORTE Caroline, DEACON Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 25(2), June 2004, pp.121-137.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article examines the impact of the European Union's (EU) external dimension of social policy both in terms of discourse and practice and compares it with the social policy advisory activities of other global actors: the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The article evaluates how far the EU's external dimension of social policy is impacting on the social reform process in a new EU Member State, Lithuania.