Differenzierung, Normalisierung, Andersheit. Soziale Arbeit als Arbeit mit den Anderen – eine Einleitung

Kessl, Fabian; Plößer, Melanie

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-92233-1_1

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“…An important finding of this study is the tension between professionals’ aim to support parents with intellectual disabilities and, at the same time, to normalize them by pursuing their independence from services. This highlights the continuing influence of the normalization principle in Austrian social work practice and reinforces what Kessl and Plößer (2010: 8, transl. by author) designate as “constitutive dilemma of social work.” According to them, interventions inherently pursue the diminishing of a specific group’s difference from the general population.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

“…Tensions between human rights–based support and individualized normalization strategies of (especially CW) social work have been acknowledged and criticized (e.g., Kessl and Plößer, 2010; Oelkers et al, 2010). Nevertheless, this study shows an imbalance in favor of invasive interventions as opposed to human rights–based services.…”

Section: Conclusion: Potentials Of Deconstruction For Shifts In Meaningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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This study critically explores the meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria. The aim was to gain insights into what it means to be a mother/father with intellectual disability in Austria by analyzing how parenting with intellectual disabilities is publicly discussed, how social work professionals perceive supporting parents with intellectual disabilities and how mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities experience parenthood. The findings reveal that negative understandings of disability collide with notions of responsible parenting. Mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities were subject to child welfare interventions, experienced discreditation and were perceived as deviant from normal families. Social work professionals aimed to support parents with intellectual disabilities and, at the same time, to normalize them by pursuing their independence from services. The findings also point to systemic challenges for social work, including time and financial constraints and difficulties in cross-service cooperation, due to the division into child welfare and disability services. Conceptualized as a figure that represents de/constructions of parenting and dis/ability on three levels, the study findings reveal opportunities for social work with mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities to deconstruct long-term support needs as antithesis to hegemonic ideals. In this sense, deconstruction in the context of social work offers potentials for shifts in meaning.

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Section: Conclusion: Potentials Of Deconstruction For Shifts In Meaningmentioning

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Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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“…Another gendered practice that can be encountered in the dealing of social workers with clients is ‘normalization’. If we base our knowledge on the normalization model, it can be claimed that social work clients are individuals or groups of individuals whose behaviour could be categorized as a deviation from given standards of behaviour (Kessl and Plößer, 2010). In the context of current neoliberal policies and their associated activation programmes, the essential criteria for determining normality and deviation from normality have changed and the same applies to the requirements for the individual.…”

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Gendered practices of family social workers: The case of the Czech Republic

Gřundělová

Gojová

2020

International Social Work

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The aim of this article is, through a study of the construction of gender in social work, to identify gendered practices of family social workers in their interactions with clients and to consider the implications of these practices for gendered power relations. Using social constructionism and a critical and interpretive framework, we carried out repeated individual and group interviews, while observing interactions between social workers and parents. A qualitative research strategy was used. Analysis of Constructivist Grounded Theory identified the six gendered practices in interactions with clients.

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“…1.4) werden Prozesse verstanden, mit denen Adressat*innen der Sozialen Arbeit an Normalitätsmuster oder dominante Normalitätsvorstellungen angepasst werden (vgl. Seelmeyer 2008;Kessl/Plößer 2010). Ent-Normalisierung hingegen verweist auf Prozesse und Markierungen, mit denen die Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen bzw.…”

Section: Erfahrungen Der (Ent-)normalisierung Im Kontext Von Stationärer Jugendhilfe Aus Biographischer Perspektiveunclassified

Normalität und Subjektivierung

Rein¹

2020

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Differenzierung, Normalisierung, Andersheit. Soziale Arbeit als Arbeit mit den Anderen – eine Einleitung

Cited by 75 publications

References 8 publications

Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning

Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning

Gendered practices of family social workers: The case of the Czech Republic

Normalität und Subjektivierung

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