Zelfredzaamheid en stil verzet van sociaal werkers

Hoijtink, Marc; Tonkens, Evelien; Duyvendak, Jan Willem

doi:10.1007/s12459-018-0160-8

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“…Research among social workers does indeed show that, with regard to policy, the practice engagement of social workers is limited (De Corte et al, 2017;Gal & Weiss-Gal, 2015). Research also shows that when social workers have doubts or critiques about social policy, they tend to use silent and passive strategies such as humour, cognitive flight, orworsequitting their job (Hoijtink, 2018). Although the political dimension of social work has been getting more attention in the Netherlands recently (Hermans, 2020;Van der Tier & van Lieshout, 2020), in succession of the attention for politicising work in Flanders (Vandekinderen et al, 2018).…”

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Dream ore reality? The presence of Social Practice Development in social work practice

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European Journal of Social Work

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This study explored the extent to which social workers conduct Social Practice Development (SPD), an approach translated from nursing, to foster practice improvement in social work. Alumni of bachelor's programmes in social work were asked to complete an online survey about SPD. Based on exploratory factor analyses and item analyses, mean scores and standard deviations of SPD activities conducted by social workers were calculated. The results show that social workers perceive SPD to be part of their daily practice and conduct about 60% of the measured SPD activities on a regular basis. Work has to be done, especially with regard to research skills, theory use, and alignment to the broader organisational context. By focusing on these SPD activities, MSW programmes can play an important role in enhancing SPD and, in turn, fostering practice improvement in social work.

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Dream ore reality? The presence of Social Practice Development in social work practice

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Roose

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European Journal of Social Work

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“…This means that "professionalism" and practicing "good care" as framed in policy and in practice can be misaligned. Through acts of resistance or deviance, professionals can realign the two (sometimes opposing) understandings of good care, through strategies such as exaggerating and translating a family's situation into policy language, filling out instruments in hindsight when they are asked to fill them out by managers or concealing information (Carey & Foster, 2011;Hoijtink, 2018;Strier & Bershtling, 2016). Aligning policy and practice is often portrayed as a covert, individual and emotionally laborious and stressful action, which comes more naturally to some than others (Bosselaar, 2018;Leeson, 2010;Mänttäri-van der Kuip, 2016).…”

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Social work is characterised by uncertainty and ambiguity, social workers are mandated to intervene in the lives of families, requiring them to make morally charged, complex decisions with and for families. The field is beset by high workloads, time pressure, negative media attention, and cost-containment measures. In recent years, acknowledgement of the complexities of social work and the challenges faced by professionals has grown, prompting attempts to reorganise the field through frequent reforms, and to reduce uncertainty of practice through standards and accountability measures. Concurrently, there is a greater recognition of the importance of professional judgement, and the need for reflexive practice that engages different knowledges, to allow for more tailored care. The Dutch social care system is currently facing a crisis, and the government has implemented temporary programs to redesign standards and practices. These experimental spaces are the main research site of this thesis, which aims to explore how Dutch social care actors navigate the friction between reforms, standards, accountability, and professional autonomy in highly charged moral settings in social care. This thesis aims to explore how Dutch social care actors navigate the friction between reforms, standards, accountability, and professional autonomy in highly charged moral settings in social care. The research for this thesis was conducted in three studies in the Netherlands: a study on the use of intuition by youth care professionals and two action research studies focused on reform, discretionary space and accountability in social care and child protection. Ultimately, I argue that we need to treat the system similarly to families in need: when professionals look at families, they are expected to look at them as a complex network with a history, with values, different roles and complexities. Families are not expected to get it right immediately, but can work in incremental changes together with those in their network and care providers. However, when there is a crisis or the need for sudden, larger changes, there is space and authority to make these decisions. There is a collective responsibility, reflection and shared decision-making towards the shared aims. This means that the social care system requires engagement in continuous incremental, collective, reparative work that explores alternative notions of success and failure, and in line with that to reconsider underlying values and notions of accountability and governance, to build a system that fosters a space in which vulnerable families, professionals, managers and administrators can be supported.

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Zelfredzaamheid en stil verzet van sociaal werkers

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Dream ore reality? The presence of Social Practice Development in social work practice

Dream ore reality? The presence of Social Practice Development in social work practice

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