The Understanding of Death in Social Work in the Czech Republic during the Socialist Era and in the Era of Consumerism through Heidegger's Authenticity

Jirásek, Ivo; Veselský, Pavel

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“…Research has shown that when work is solely done for financial or other personal accomplishment reasons, it is unlikely to inspire a sense of transcendent meaning and/or purpose, especially in the field of nursing (McGilton, Boscart, Brown, & Bowers, 2014; Xie, Xia, Xin, & Zhou, 2016). Jirásek and Veselský (2013) suggest that work assumes both personal and social significance when viewed as one’s calling. Consistent with this assumption, empirical support exists that calling increases job satisfaction (Park & Jung, 2016), improves career satisfaction (Duffy, Allan, & Bott, 2012), and decreases job stress and depression (Bott et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Effect of Perceiving a Calling on Pakistani Nurses’ Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Job Stress

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The Effect of Perceiving a Calling on Pakistani Nurses’ Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Job Stress

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“…Because time is the ultimate horizon of our being, it ultimately means that we are the beings which pass, and therefore death is of fundamental concern. As such, death is a phenomenon of life for Heidegger (Kominkiewicz, 2006;Jirasek & Veselesky, 2013). Because death haunts life as such, it means that anxiety is also a principle mode of our existing in a world.…”

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“…To think of service users in a dispositional sense, or beingaffected in innumerable ways, will allow the social worker to gain an illuminated sense of who they are engaging with, what matters to said individuals, as well as a sense of the possibilities that are latent in their current situation. (Kominkiewicz, 2006;Jirasek & Veselesky, 2013).…”

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“…If we consider the moods of the service user not as naturalised or objective, i.e., as detached and 'out there' in the external world, nor if we consider the service user in a subjective psychological sense, as merely holding a 'state-of-mind' that is there to be fixed, but instead through discerning that which is both pre-objective and pre-subjective, namely, the sense of being part of a world, being alienated from a world, having a stake in a world. To think of service users in a dispositional sense, or being-affected in innumerable ways, will allow the social worker to gain an illuminated sense of who they are engaging with, what matters to said individuals, as well as a sense of the possibilities that are latent in their current situation (Kominkiewicz, 2006;Jirasek & Veselesky, 2013).…”

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Embodied Social Work Practice Within Risk Society

Smeeton

O’Connor

2019

Journal of Social Work

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This paper critically discusses the limitations of theorising social work from psychological and sociological perspectives and argues that phenomenology offers more opportunity to understand the embodied experiences of service users and social workers themselves. The paper argues that psychology and sociology have a limited analysis of being-in-the-world, which ought to be social work’s primary consideration. The paper offers an overview of the sociology of risk before embarking on an extensive description and discussion of Heidegger’s and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology applied to the lived experience of child protection social workers working within risk society. The argument is put that phenomenology is a useful tool for understanding the lived experience of social work practitioners. Findings: The authors conclude that embodied social work practice containing fear and anxiety can be thought of as akin to taking part in extreme risk sports and that this is an unhealthy experience that is likely to skew decision-making and adversely affect the lives of social workers and service users. Applications: The authors argue that phenomenology can enhance understanding of practice and decision-making and offers insights into the lived experience of social workers. Phenomenology is useful for helping social workers negotiate risk-saturated environments, through a focus on meaning.

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“…Heidegger's thought features rarely in the social work literature and where it does there is a tendency for it to be focused around authenticity as being-toward death (Jira´sek and Veselesky, 2013;Kominkiewicz, 2006). This fundamental ontology of Heidegger's argues that only man knows and cares about his own mortality and therefore can be the only creature said to have being in the world or Dasein.…”

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“A murky business”: A phenomenological ontology of risk in child protection social work

Smeeton

2018

Qualitative Social Work

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This paper is based upon ongoing theoretical work by the author. A growing number of academics are starting to problematise social work within a risk paradigm by highlighting the impact this has on how service user's experiences are atomised into units of risk, rather than having their needs understood as members of families and communities. This paper seeks to develop this discussion by offering a theoretical examination of risk from a phenomenological perspective by unpacking some of the underlying constructions of risk. Using Heidegger’s work this paper attempts to first of all undertake an ontology of risk and then to examine its usefulness in the UK child protection context. The author argues that working within a risk paradigm obscures rather than clarifies understanding. The approach is rooted in an argument that “phenomenology” is the natural home of social work which is interested in the lived experiences of people within their environments or “being-in-the-world”.

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The Understanding of Death in Social Work in the Czech Republic during the Socialist Era and in the Era of Consumerism through Heidegger's Authenticity

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

The Effect of Perceiving a Calling on Pakistani Nurses’ Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Job Stress

The Effect of Perceiving a Calling on Pakistani Nurses’ Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Job Stress

Embodied Social Work Practice Within Risk Society

“A murky business”: A phenomenological ontology of risk in child protection social work

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