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Social workers as double agents: critical inquiry, social work education, and the youth question
- Authors:
- WILSON Tina E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 39(1), 2020, pp.85-96.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Contemporary iterations of the youth question present social work with a generative challenge to imagine the education needs of youth as social work students, and at the same time, to imagine the intervention needs of youth as service users. This paper engages this challenge through an empirical case that confronted us with the researchers own preconceived understandings of young people and social work: a funded project to support the program evaluation capacity of a national network of youth centers in Canada. Working through three tensions that emerged in this work—(1) assumptions about youth and workers, (2) participation as a best-practice, and (3) how local data collection practices are networked to ambiguous, ongoing social processes—the researchers reflect project learning and youth studies literature together to explore the possibilities of ‘critical inquiry skills’ in social work education. As the researchers develop the concept here, critical inquiry skills are a means to encourage young people to see themselves as simultaneously within and outside of the categories and approaches they are taught and subjected to, and by extension, to invite and support newcomers to make the discipline and profession their own. (Edited publisher abstract)
Youth sexual development: a primer for social workers
- Author:
- BRANDON-FRIEDMAN Richard A.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 64(4), 2019, pp.356-364.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Sexuality and sexual expression are core aspects of most clients’ lives, yet most schools of social work fail to cover sexual development, leaving social workers uninformed about this essential area of human development. This is particularly the case when the sexual development of youths is concerned, as youth sexuality is often considered too controversial to explore. Considering a positive approach to youth sexuality that seeks to enhance youths’ sexual development and promote their achievement of full sexual and reproductive rights, this article seeks to provide social workers with a resource they can use to enhance their understanding of youth sexual development and its applicability to social work practice. The two main theoretical orientations used to understand sexual identity development are covered as well as the research support for each. Following the explanation of theory is a discussion of how the two theoretical orientations can be integrated to form a more expansive base for the understanding of sexual identity development. A final section provides guidance on how an advanced understanding of youthful sexual identity development can enhance social work practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. (Publisher abstract)
It was an honour to help
- Author:
- PEMBERTON Camilla
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.7.10, 2010, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to Paul Child, a Hampshire social worker, who has won council worker of the year award for dissuading a 13-year-old boy from a suicide attempt.
Ways of enhancing hope among social workers working with adolescents in residential treatment centres
- Author:
- LIPSCHITZ-ELHAWI Racheli
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 39(3), April 2009, pp.451-466.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article suggests ways to enhance a sense of hope among social workers working with adolescents in residential treatment centres. The author describes difficulties in treating this population of adolescents, focusing on how these difficulties contribute to the therapist's sense of hopelessness. The importance of enhancing the therapist's sense of hope in order to facilitate successful treatment is stressed. The author maintains that it is possible to ‘work’ towards creating hope and to ‘foster’ its growth.
The reader scoops a top award
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.4.09, 2009, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Social worker Janice Hutton describes how she received a Reading Hero award from Reading for Life, for her work with young people who have mental health problems.
Working together as culture brokers by building trusting alliances with bilingual and bicultural newcomer paraprofessionals
- Authors:
- OWEN Carol L., ENGLISH Meme
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 84(5), September 2005, pp.669-688.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
The authors' reflect on the challenges and rewards of partnering as casework supervisors with bilingual and bicultural newcomer paraprofessionals in resettlement work with refugee young people. Such individuals are generally recruited for their linguistic abilities and cultural knowledge, but they can lack formal clinical training or licensing credentials. Drawing on their own experience as supervisors of bilingual and bicultural newcomer paraprofessionals from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, the authors compare their early attempts to establish trust and communication with insights gained in more recent supervisory experiences. Recommendations are offered that promote mutual understanding between newcomer paraprofessionals and their Western-trained supervisors.
Collaborative data mining in an adolescent mental health service: clinicians speak of their experience
- Authors:
- CIRO Dianne, NEMBHARD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 3(3), 2005, pp.305-317.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
As full participants in a collaborative clinical data-mining project intended to promote staff reflection and to improve services, clinicians discovered just how valuable their practice expertise was in maintaining project relevance. In this paper, they describe challenges they faced as non-experienced researchers and writers and how their practice skills enabled them to overcome these challenges. Benefits derived include: enhanced skills (in both practice and research), sensitization to previously overlooked areas of practice, and an increased sense of professionalism.(Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Working with young people: legal responsibility and liability
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical guide giving advice and information on the legal position of those working with young people and the possible consequences of their actions.
Getting through: young people need to talk
- Author:
- FOSTER Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, April 1997, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The results of new research reveal that social workers are often the key channel to successfully communication with teenagers. The author looks at the findings of the research and says that training materials may improve the way professionals get through to teenagers.
Handling violence and aggression: Adolescents Project training papers
- Authors:
- WIENER Ron, CROSBY Ian
- Publisher:
- National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 35p., diags, illus, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London