Intervention in a Real-Life Context: Therapeutic Space in Poverty-Aware Social Work

Saar-Heiman, Yuval; Krumer-Nevo, Michal; Lavie-Ajayi, Maya

doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcx054

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“…Collaborative practices have emerged as an effective approach to developing social work interventions with families in special distress. Saar-Heiman et al (2017) support the idea that FED can be engaged in a process of change, even if they are in extreme poverty conditions. In this line, Bachler et al (2017) claims that FED have higher drop-out rates than other families.…”

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Social Work with Families in Special Distress: Collaborative Practices

2020

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Collaborative practices have emerged as an effective approach for conducting social work interventions with families in special distress. This study aimed to ascertain the perspective of the social workers located in basic community social services, in relation to the development of a collaborative approach with families in special distress. The main objective was to find out the level of importance and the level of implementation that participants (N = 121) gave to the different intervention criteria included in an Inventory of Collaborative Practices. The results indicate that criteria related to basic issues in social case work (active listening, respect, and empathy) as well as the management and bureaucracy of the specific case are the most valued and performed by social workers. The least valued and performed criteria have to do with issues that involve reflective processes in the helping relationship, both with the family and with the rest of the professionals. Implications for practice and quality enhancement are discussed, as they are key aspects in the development of collaborative interventions in social work.

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Social Work with Families in Special Distress: Collaborative Practices

2020

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“…Moreover, the criticism she absorbed regarding the accumulation of the debt led her to experience guilt and shame. Therefore, intervention in a real‐life context—in this case going to Danit's home and accompanying her—was necessary following a long‐standing deficit of holding at the social level (Saar‐Heiman, Krumer‐Nevo, & Lavie‐Ajayi, ).…”

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Poverty‐aware social work in the child protection system: A critical reflection on two single‐case studies

Saar-Heiman

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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In recent years, scholarly writing that calls for the development of a new child protection framework that contextualizes risk and links it to poverty and social marginalization has increased. Nonetheless, there is a lack of research on the challenges of implementing such a framework in frontline practice. Based on the ongoing, rigorous documentation of the author's experience, as a social work practitioner in a community child protection centre, this article presents two single-case studies that describe and conceptualize the potential contribution of the poverty-aware paradigm to the creation of a social framework for child protection practice. Utilizing critical reflection as a method of analysis, the findings reveal two major tensions entwined in povertyaware child protection practice: the tension between focusing child protection interventions on parenting and focusing them on poverty and the tension between framing risk within a social context and framing it within the concept of the best interest of the child. Based on the case studies, seven poverty-aware practices to cope with these tensions are identified. KEYWORDS child protection, critical practice, critical reflection, poverty-aware social workWe need change … so that the kind of social work we are prompting, that which places human beings and human factors at its heart, can be developed.

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“…In some of the programs, the social workers have semiprofessional assistants who work with the families as well. Smaller caseloads enable social workers to meet with services users in their homes, not for supervisory purposes, but rather to reach out to them; to get to know all the family members, including men and children, who seldom come to the SSDs; and to stand by service users by seeing their predicaments and their struggles to overcome them firsthand (Saar-Heiman et al, 2017).…”

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Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm

Krumer-Nevo

2022

Soc Policy Adm

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Facing the growing domination of neoliberalism and new public management in welfare services, social work scholars and practitioners are engaged in efforts to resist it. Using Schram's concept of radical incrementalism, this article describes and analyzes the development of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm (PAP) in Israel in light of this resistance. The PAP is a critical framework that focuses on poverty as a central axis of the analysis of power relations between service users and social workers. Since 2015, when the Israeli welfare ministry adopted the PAP as a leading model for social work practice in the social service departments, the paradigm has had a surprisingly warm reception, and its implementation has been extended to the health and justice systems as well as to additional welfare ministry units. The article discusses these developments as examples of 'radical incrementalism' that is, strategies of resisting neoliberalism by collaborating with the establishment to 'bend' the power of the state to benefit marginalized groups. The article analyzes the contribution of specific elements of the PAP-its dialectic process of bottom-up and top-down development; its discursive contribution; its organizational framework; and its training model. Finally, the article discusses the radical nature of the PAP.

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Intervention in a Real-Life Context: Therapeutic Space in Poverty-Aware Social Work

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Social Work with Families in Special Distress: Collaborative Practices

Social Work with Families in Special Distress: Collaborative Practices

Poverty‐aware social work in the child protection system: A critical reflection on two single‐case studies

Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm

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