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Jönsson, Jessica H. "Localised Globalities and Social Work : Contemporary Challenges." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för socialt arbete, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-21587.
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Wilson, George. "Developing social work education : theoretical uncertainties and practical challenges." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603565.
Full textArroyo, Roberto G. "System Challenges for Bilingual Clinical Social Work in Forensic Settings." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7113.
Full textJackson, Nicole Denise. "Practice Challenges Among Social Work Mitigation Specialists and Interprofessional Supervision Methods." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6049.
Full textBranhammar, Elin, and Angelica Edström. "Social Work with Street Children in Iringa, Tanzania : Challenges and Possibilities." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-23768.
Full textDet finns ett stort antal barn som lever eller spenderar merparten av sin dag på gatan. Situationen för dessa barn är svår, bland annat då deras basala behov inte blir tillgodosedda. Trots att många organisationer arbetar med interventioner riktade mot gatubarn ökar antalet varje år. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka och utforska vilka utmaningar OVC-programmet möter i arbetet med gatubarn, samt på vilket sätt dessa utmaningar hanteras i den dagliga verksamheten. En kvalitativ ansats har valts för att besvara studiens syfte, där observationer och intervjuer med personal har genomförts på OVC-programmet i Iringa, Tanzania. Resultatet visar att programmets mål, att reducera antalet gatubarn i Iringaregionen, i dagsläget är svårt att uttala sig om då det nyligen är implementerat. Dock visar programmets utvärdering på en positiv utveckling. I arbetet mot att nå målet ligger fokus främst på personalens bemötande gentemot barnen. Resultatet visar även att ett empowermentbaserat arbetssätt tillämpas i den dagliga verksamheten. Genom att kombinera kontroll och medbestämmande skapas möjligheten att hjälpa gatubarnen till ett autonomt liv. En av utmaningarna i arbetet är att denna kontroll begränsar barnens frihet som de upplever och värdesätter på gatan. Därmed är relationen mellan kontroll och medbestämmande viktig för att skapa en lyckad intervention.
Limon, Emilee. "CHALLENGES MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKERS FACE THAT LEAD TO BURNOUT." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/687.
Full textRivera, Moret Maritza. "Experiences and Challenges of Social Workers Providing Services to Elderly Veterans." Thesis, Walden University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13813740.
Full textThe social work practice problem of this doctoral action research project was the unmet mental health needs of veterans 65 and older in Puerto Rico. This action research project explored the experiences and challenges of social workers when they offer mental health services to veterans 65 and older. This study was framed using social support theory, integrating the 3 core elements of tangible support, emotional support, and informational support. The data collection technique included a semistructured interview protocol used in a focus group setting. Purposive sampling was used to identify 9 participants who were licensed social workers in Puerto Rico. Through content analysis, the findings were coded and organized into the following themes: educational background; ethics and wellbeing aspects; evaluation, interventions, and treatments; professional social and cultural competencies; social support experiences; multidisciplinary service coordination processes; and the elderly veterans’ unmet needs. The results of this study could be used by social workers and administrators to contribute to positive social change through the improvement of social work practices and the development of innovative knowledge when intervening with veterans 65 and older and their families in Puerto Rico.
Gallegos, Kenny, and Leslie Stephanie Romero-Gallegos. "RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS AND DUAL-STATUS YOUTH CHALLENGES AND RESILIENCY." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/714.
Full textRivera-Moret, Maritza. "Experiences and Challenges of Social Workers Providing Services to Elderly Veterans." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6658.
Full textWoodside, Sarah Jean. "Social Mission or Revenue Generation?: Challenges and Opportunities in Social Enterprise from Competing Institutional Logics." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106872.
Full textSocial enterprises are nonprofit, for-profit or hybrid organizations that use business methods to create social change (Dees 2007; Light 2005; Martin and Osberg 2007; Neck, Brush, and Allen 2009;). If it succeeds, the social enterprise model could prove to be a viable pathway to greater social justice in an era of decreasing funding for government services and nonprofits (Emerson and Twersky 1996; Harding 2004; Murphy and Coombs 2009; Wilson 2008). However, skeptics worry that the perils of privatization, bottom-line thinking, and deceptive marketing potentially embodied by the “business methods” that social enterprises employ may undermine the potential of this new approach to solving social problems (Bateman and Chang 2012; Farmer 2009; Nega and Schneider 2014). The three articles that make up this dissertation examined the ways social entrepreneurs perceived and managed tensions between social mission and market institutional logics. Their ability (or lack thereof) to reconcile these contradictory imperatives could contribute to whether social enterprises ultimately succeed or fail as vehicles for positive social change. Social Entrepreneurs at the Crossroads: Four Approaches to Responding to Dual Institutional Logics suggests that the widely accepted characterization of social entrepreneurs as compassionate individuals motivated to address intractable social problems innovatively (Alvord, Brown and Letts 2004; Lehner and Germak 2014; Mair and Marti 2006; Miller, Grimes, McMullen and Vogus 2012) is simplistic. From in-depth interviews with twenty (inter)nationally recognized social entrepreneurs I derived four distinct categories: Disillusioned Dreamers, Social Capitalists, Do-Somethings, and Bridgebuilders. Half of these respondents did not perceive tensions between logics; another quarter did not wrestle with the tensions they perceived. Only the Bridgebuilders perceived tensions and then persisted in focusing on both logics and sets of actors to harness synergies. As a result, only Bridgebuilders offer a truly hybrid model for social mission work within the current economic context, whereas the others hew toward a single dominant logic. One Size Does Not Fit All: Legal Form and US WISEs focuses on work integration social enterprises (WISEs), organizations that address the chronic unemployment of marginalized populations. The data demonstrated that contrary to the expectation that WISEs would exemplify “contested” organizations (Besharov and Smith 2014), eight of the ten WISEs studied did not experience significant conflict between social mission and market logics. Rather, WISEs generally had one logic that dominated their operations: a market logic in for-profit WISEs and a social mission logic in nonprofit WISEs. Workers’ employability emerged as an important variable, with for-profit WISEs creating jobs for more employable populations and nonprofits offering job training and “wraparound” services to harder-to-employ populations. Only two WISEs experienced substantial tensions, when social entrepreneurs attempted to prioritize a job training/services mission within a for-profit form. This data demonstrates that a job creation approach aligns best with a for-profit WISE form and a job training/services approach to a nonprofit WISE form. However, neither form has succeeded in creating a system-transforming model that successfully combines revenue generation with a robust training/services/job creation mission. This suggests that breaking traditional nonprofit and for-profit patterns to deliver substantial market and social mission outcomes within a single organization is a significant challenge. Stakeholder Resistance to Social Enterprise Hybridity examines how social entrepreneurs perceive the support of key stakeholders in their attempts to balance competing social mission and market logics. Despite evidence of social interest in ethical capitalism, this data suggests that well-resourced stakeholders push social entrepreneurs to prioritize price, revenue generation, and measurement. This includes both traditional organizational stakeholders and hybrid-specific stakeholders. Customers and clients demanded low prices and high value. Donors demanded quantification and impact measurement. Investors expected market rate financial return. Finally, social enterprise gatekeeper organizations (fellowship granting bodies) were focused on the market logic characteristics of sustainability, scale, and entrepreneurial ability, pushing the field toward market logic modes of operating. Social entrepreneurs generally responded by acquiescing to pressure to emphasize a market logic in their interactions. Counter to current literature that suggests social entrepreneurs should problem-solve to avoid single logic dominance, social entrepreneurs generally allowed price, business strategy, competition and measurement to shape their interactions with stakeholders. Given the importance of stakeholder buy-in for organizational legitimacy, the field of social enterprise needs to find a way to create and capture stakeholder support for dual logics rather than depending on individual social entrepreneurs to withstand the push toward marketization. Overall, despite persistent efforts at creative solutions to social problems by some individuals, the research shows a strong undertow for social enterprises to adopt business logics and business models
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology
LIMA, ADILSIMAR SARAIVA MACIEL. "NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS OF MANAUS (AMAZONAS, BRAZIL): LIMITS AND CHALLENGES TO THE SOCIAL WORK." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18272@1.
Full textThe increasing expansion of the social activities accomplished by the Not-Governmental Organizations has been a constant in the societies contemporaries, this model of social intervention brings as deep cloth of the redefinition of the paper of the State, social ally to the predominance of the marketing logic and its consequences. In Brazil the scene is not different, in the measure where the State legitimizes the action of these ONGs by means of the establishment of partnerships that they make possible that its responsibilities are repassed and thus developed through to take the effect of social actions co-ordinate by the ONGs. In this thesis the objective is to trace the profile of Organization-Not-Governmental of Manaus AM, as well as of the professionals of Social Service who act in these ONGs, in order analyzing the limits and the challenges taxes to these professionals. For in such a way, a research with the Social Assistants will be made who develop its work next to ONGs that they keep accord with the State secretary of Social Assistance of Amazon (Brazil). To give theoretical support to the constant reflections in this work, a bibliographical and documentary survey concerning the subject was carried through, object of this study. Thus, one concludes briefly that the Social Service was not immune to the society changes, but that it suffers directly, either in the solicitations that are directed to them, either for the changes in the slice of the work market that fits to it, the impacts generated for the relations that if establish between State, market and society, that goes if (reverse speed) constructing in the present time.
Cervantes, Danya Brenda. "Kinship Support Group: Addressing Grandparent Caregiver Challenges." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/332.
Full textNavarrete-Campos, Adriana. "MUSIC THERAPY AMONG THE ELDERLY: WHAT SOCIAL WORKERS NEED TO KNOW." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/313.
Full textHabeeb-Silva, Rebecca Joie. "Resettlement Challenges for Refugees in the United States." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/285.
Full textFord, Jacqueline Yvonne. "Challenges of Child Trauma on Adoptive Families' Social and Emotional System." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/885.
Full textHenwood, Penelope. "Adoption : parents' perceptions of facilitating factors and challenges in the development of the relationship with their baby." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20700.
Full textOgden, Cindi. "A study of the social, economic, cultural and self esteem challenges that influence how African-American youth learn and develop." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2010. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/217.
Full textMonare, Nthabiseng. "Exploring the perceived challenges of single mothers with children diagnosed with autism disorder in the junior phase at Vera School." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20072.
Full textRendon, Romyna A. "Work-Life Balance Among Working Married Women: What Social Workers Need to Know." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/374.
Full textÅberg, Emma, and Tiina Riipinen. ""Shit happens, now we just have to adapt and survive" : Perceptions of residential drug rehabilitation workers on Covid-19 challenges." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36606.
Full textSingh, Sanaya. "Challenges faced by women for vertical mobility in politics : a comparitive study between Sweden and India." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-11226.
Full textBergström, Östling Louise, and Elin Fält. "Social work with female rape survivors : An exploration of what challenges social workers may experience in their work with female rape survivors and the strategies and methods used in this work." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23416.
Full textHamlin, Allyson Foster. "A Phenomenological Study on the Challenges Experienced by Kinship Adopters." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5628.
Full textNwachukwu, Precious Tobechukwu Toby. "A comparison study of challenges facing effective social work practice and administration in bucolic areas in both South Africa and Nigeria." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1579.
Full textAn analysis of the social service practitioners’ practice tools in Africa towards the enhancement of professional responsibility to the client system is essential including investigating the ethical dilemmas experienced by the practitioners daily. These tools serve as sources of evaluating social work practice and administration that spur practitioners to provide a virtuous professional service and as enlightenment for the effective, efficient and reflective practice. The National Association of Social Workers (2008) and the South African Council of Social Service Professional (SACSSP, 2005) and their ethical values and principles served as this study principal document that directed this research venture. The researcher sought to understand the nature and extent of the challenges facing social work practitioners and administrators and compared their experiences within two different geo-political zones of Africa. Hence, the research philosophy engaged the “diamond metaphor,”in the sense it is multifaceted and within a blended research paradigm. It depicts the uniqueness and value of each study area. The study employed the comparison-evaluative approach depicting a Multi-Phase-Transformative mixed methods research design characterised by a six way dimensionalapproach of explorative, evaluative, descriptive, comparative, qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to reconnoiter the experiences of social work practitioners 135 and 47 administrators which in total 182 respondents from three different regions namely: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Lagos State and Imo State (Nigeria). Each setting for data collection differs within a multi-level mode and each data including the tested hypotheses were refined to actualise the subject situation and the analytical discussion of the methodology components. Data that was gleaned from the dispersed research tools used for the study were analysed by the utilisation of descriptive statistics, multiple comparisons and post hoc test correlations in testing the stated hypotheses with the Statistical Programme for Social Sciences (SPSS Version 21.0). However, the thematic gleaning of the responses was deciphered through discourse analysis (Soini and Birkeland, 2014:215-216; Gross, Alba, Glass, Schellenberg and Obrist, 2012:3). The findings of the study revealed that rural social work interventions are directly weakened by a poor support system that the social workers experience, thus, the lack of proper literacy and qualification levels in the rural areas largely contributes to weaker social work interventions in both Nigeria and South Africa. Furthermore, the study revealed that administrators avail themselves to more continuous professional development than the social workers do, while the overall qualification attributes for the respondents needed upgrading to cater for specialised areas. The study revealed that the lack of the analysed and aligned training needs of individual practitioners serves in fact to clog personal development plans which the subsequently affects the development of work plans and the signing of performance agreement job descriptions, thus, the policies are not then applied. The study’s results indicated that the administrators’ gendered pattern impacted significantly on the ethical code outcome in the study areas. Outcome analysis confirmed that thesocial workers’ understanding of ethical code application has significantly correlated with their integer years of practice experience, whereas, the perceived difficulties presumably had partial correlations within the study areas. Moreover, the ethics concerning the integrity of profession, the professional responsibility, the service delivery and the competence/confidentiality explained for the integer years of practice experience. Furthermore, the integer years significantly ensure that social workers are coping with ethical dilemmas on familiarity and their professed complaint anxieties on the Ethical Code in the three study areas. Conversely, the study advocated for the assimilation of interactional justice approach that would enhance advocacy on social justice, human rights and professional accountability as well as stimulate competence within the bucolic social worker’s career. Social justice cognizance should be visible within the equity on performance. The study’s recommendations included advocating for quality rural social work interventional support and improvement on qualification and literacy level in the rural areas; also that there should be the recognition of a greater prioritisation of NASW/SACSSP ethical codes. As such, experienced practitioners should mentor newer practitioners to enhance effective and efficient professional responsibility with client-systems. Additional studies should explore the professional responsibility of practitioners amid the Service Charter for Victims of Crime (victims’ charter) designed to uphold social justice and to nurture a human rights philosophy in guaranteeing the material, psychosocial and emotional needs of victims. Hence, further research on utilising the study’s finding models for urban domain and proper professional training, adherence to these models and awareness of legal ethics is recommended. Further studies should focus on examining administrators-practitioners relationship outcome to policies regulations as they are geared towards the Code; likewise to inspect social entrepreneurial activity using the Service Delivery Model to re-bolster industrial social work.
Richey, Chastity. "Challenges in Discharge Planning with Adolescents Receiving Recurring Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4943.
Full textSvedberg, Linda. "Grandparents Left with AIDS-orphans; Challenges and Strategies Handling Poverty and Stigma." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Social Work, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-91.
Full textBy 2010 it is estimated that one third of the African children will be orphans as an effect of HIV/AIDS. The crisis is already a fact and most orphans are absorbed by the extended family where the grandparents become the primary caretakers. This qualitative study was carried out in Kenya to explore the situation of these grandparents and to define their current resources and needs. Eight grandparents living in rural village or urban slum caring for their orphaned grandchildren were interviewed. The results showed that these families live under extremely poor conditions lacking food, other vital neccesities and a basic social network. Local churches and support groups emerged as the grandparents main sources to enhance strength and support. Key factors causing the acute poverty is HIV-related stigma and lack of access to land.
Allibhoy, Zaheen. "South Asian American strengthening family program discussing the challenges of acculturation| A grant proposal project." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527871.
Full textThe purpose of this grant was to design a psychoeducational workshop for South Asian immigrant families. The literature review goes over cultural factors that play a part in making the transition difficult to immigrating to a Western country. A search for potential funders was done by going on California State University Long Beach library website. This allowed the grantwriter to create a list of potential funders. The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation's focus on children, families, culture, and the underserved populations made it the best choice. The grantwriter chose to collaborate with the South Asian Network in Artesia, California. It is a nonprofit organization that has the ability to serve people in nine different languages. Actual submission of this grant was not required for the completion of this project.
Chirwa, Masauso. "Inclusive Education : A Study of Opportunities and Challenges for Children with Disabilities. A case of Zambia." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, SA, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12230.
Full textAranki, Sandra. "A qualitative study of international social work challenges in an area affected by conflict : The example of East Jerusalem." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för socialvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4200.
Full textShifrin, Lori Beth. "Caring for HIV positive infants : Cotlands Hospice staffs' perceptions of challenges and stressors which they experience in the workplace." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10709.
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This study explored Cotlands Hospice staff's perceptions of challenges and stressors which they experience in the workplace, in caring for HIV infants. This aim of this study was to highlight some of the key struggles that healthcare workers are faced with in the HIV workplace in caring for HIV positive infants. The study also explored the participants' current coping strategies used to cope with stressors from within the workplace and supportive resources available to aid the participants were identified. Lastly unmet needs identified by participants were explored and discussed.
Mukushi, Adam Tafadzwa. "Psycho-social challenges faced by caregivers of children with Cerebral palsy in Dzivarasekwa Suburb, Harare, Zimbabwe : implications for social work practice." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2390.
Full textDisability is most prevalent in low income countries and communities. Cerebral palsy c is one of the disabilities that is affecting a sizeable number of children in low income countries. This study sought to explore the psycho-social challenges faced by caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Dzivarasekwa Suburb in Zimbabwe. The study had the following objectives: to identify the psycho-social challenges facing caregivers of children with cerebral palsy, to appraise individual characteristics of caregivers which predispose them to stress, social exclusion and other psychosocial challenges, to establish which coping mechanisms are employed by caregivers of children living with cerebral palsy in response to the challenges they are facing and also to suggest possible solutions/ strategies social workers may employ to improve caregiving of children with cerebral palsy. The study used a qualitative approach in exploring the psychosocial challenges caregivers face. The qualitative approach was useful as participants were able to participate freely giving a more realistic picture of their challenges. The research used an exploratory-descriptive case study design in exploring challenges faced by caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Dzivarasekwa Suburb. Data was then collected using in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions. Participants were caregivers of children with cerebral palsy, a hospital psychologist as well as social workers for a local NGO supporting the rehabilitation work at a local hospital. Data were analysed used the Thematic Context Analysis method. The research concludes that caregivers are subjected to stressing conditions, lack the financial means of caring for a child with CP; caregivers employ negative strategies to the problems they face which include using the children to beg, prostitution among others. The study recommends that, government should lead initiatives for supporting children with disabilities and their families, formation of support groups for parents of children with cerebral palsy, and continuous training of frontline workers in disability to avoid burn out.
Carrillo, Cabrera Ulises. "Ethnic fragmentation and social expenditure : notions of social solidarity and membership and the challenges of ethnic diversity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:57f7e643-e4ae-4e3f-82e0-26a24255db4a.
Full textNyatsanza, Memory Nyasha Lynnette. "Surrogate parenting : exploring the perceptions of challenges faced by grandmothers of AIDS orphans with regard to child rearing in Khayelitsha." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11699.
Full textThe research investigated the perceptions of the challenges faced by grandmothers caring for AIDS orphans in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. The aim of this study was to make a contribution to an understanding of the challenges faced by grandmothers who are performing a surrogate parent role. The research focused on the grandmothers? perceptions of the types of challenges they faced in caring for AIDS orphans as well as their perceptions of the causes of these challenges. Lastly the research aimed to investigate the strategies employed by the grandmothers in dealing with these challenges and to ascertain whether or not grandmothers are aware of existing resources that are available to assist them with their challenges.
Contreras, Gabriela. "THE CHALLENGES FACING SINGLE HISPANIC PARENTS AND THEIR NEEDS TO IMPROVE FAMILY SERVICES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/733.
Full textAndersson, Emmy. "Virtual Collaboration – The Paradigm of Modern Work Environment : Cohesion and Challenges in Distributed Teams." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35728.
Full textHasewinkel, Sian Elizabeth. "An exploratory case study at Timour Hall Primary School of the perception of parents of children with ADHD concerning their parental challenges and coping strategies." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13667.
Full textThis phenomenological study seeks to understand challenges and resilient adaptations of parents of children with ADHD at a Primary School in Cape Town, and to examine the role of the school and the school social worker in supporting parents not only in developing parental resilience, but also developing resiliency in their relationships with the school as an adjunct to forging effective parent- school partnerships. The macro systemic background to this study is the Department of Basic Education’s policy on Inclusive Education, which calls for parent-school partnerships in educating vulnerable children. Two theoretical frameworks guide this study: resiliency theory, given the increasing calls for resiliency research in resource- poor contexts; and Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological framework, as ADHD is a complex phenomenon in which parents and school, both micro- and meso-systemically, buffer the impact of ADHD. The research methodology is an exploratory qualitative cross-sectional single case design with multiple respondents. Eighteen parents were the unit of study, selected according to a purposive and discriminant sampling design. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview schedule, and recorded during an in-depth interview. This study confirmed chronic and overwhelming personal and parenting challenges, but also challenges around medication, and parent-school interaction. Participants struggled more than they felt they succeeded, as adaptations shadowed and were overshadowed by, challenges. Participants increasingly used the services of the school social worker, and preferred to access personal help via their children’s mental health provider, underlining the importance of the school as an intervention site. Participants indicated that school social work services should provide counselling, a support group for parents, advocacy and mediation between parent and teacher/school, and develop opportunities for parent-school partnerships. School social work services were valued because they were based on knowledge and experience. Relationships with the school were tempered by ambivalence and frustration; participants wanted proactive teachers providing in-depth and accessible contact and trained in ADHD classroom management. Implications of this study for the school, the social work profession and the Department of Basic Education are discussed.
Horn-Johnson, Tancy Clarissa. "Identifying life challenges of women at a branch campus through life course interviews| Implications for service delivery." Thesis, Capella University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10125257.
Full textAn increasing number of women are returning to school as nontraditional students to complete their bachelor’s degrees. These women may have specific needs related to life transitions and re-entry into postsecondary education that traditional students do not. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the experiences of women who are nontraditional students, including their everyday supports and challenges. The guiding research question for this study was: Upon identifying the challenges for women at a branch campus, what changes can the university make to better serve the women? Study participants included 12 students currently enrolled in a bachelor’s program in social work. Participants also included four university social work faculty and five campus administrators from the study site. A participatory action research methodology was used to collect data from multiple stakeholders. Interviews with social work faculty and university center and branch campus administrators were conducted. Data were coded using open and axial coding. NVivo 11 was employed to help facilitate the coding of the data for the study in order to assure accuracy in identifying common themes. The two main themes to emerge from this study were Experiences and Challenges. Participants’ experiences included personal and academic. Personal challenges that the women described included abuse, childcare, and health. The two forms of abuse described were substance abuse and domestic abuse, and the health subthemes included personal and family issues. Women’s academic challenges included finances, academic writing, and class schedules. Study results may be used to raise stakeholders’ awareness of students’ needs, explore and change university processes, and develop workshops to assist nontraditional female students with career development and financial literacy.
Riggio, Nicolette Rose, and Brenda Irene Avalos. "PARENTING CHALLENGES AND RESILIENCIES OF LATINO IMMIGRANT PARENTS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/469.
Full textBuyani, Nomathemba. "Challenges for implementing project planning in the NGO sector in the Overberg Municipality." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5011.
Full textNon-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) played a vital role in the history of the welfare sector in South Africa and are working alongside the government sector to combat social ills. The role of the NGO sector is to ensure the provision of a comprehensive network of social development services that enable and empower the poor, the vulnerable, and those with special needs. The ongoing financial shortages from NGOs were a growing concern for all the stakeholders in the welfare sector. The goal of this study was therefore to explore and describe the challenges in implementing project planning in the NGO sector. This study followed a qualitative research approach and used exploratory and descriptive research designs. Participants were purposely selected from the various NGOs in the Overberg Municipality. The data collection took place in focus group discussions and individual interviews with the aid of an interview guide. Data was analysed according to the eight steps of Tesch (in Creswell, 2003). Findings were verified according to Guba’s (1981) model of trustworthiness based on the criteria identified in Krefting (1991). The findings that were generated during the research study indicated that challenges for implementing project planning in the NGO sector had an impact on their service delivery. An enabling factor for implementing project planning and the writing of business plans was the fact that training in project management assisted project managers to market their services and permitted supervisors to fulfil different roles. The second theme that emerged from the study was disenabling factors or problems facing the planning and writing of the business plan. It demonstrated a lack of knowledge among social workers who lacked those skills and coordination and planning amongst NGO in the same area. The implementation of a basket of services influenced project outcomes, lack of resources and infrastructure for implementation of projects. The third theme that emerged from the study was stakeholders’ influence in project implementation and the influence on efficient and effective project outcomes. It included social work goals versus client goals, the relationship between the board members of the NGOs and social workers, the relationship between the Department of Social Development and social workers in the NGO sector, and relationships between the social workers and their supervisors. Recommendations included short- and long-term recommendations. It was concluded that NGOs experience challenges with regard to implementation of project planning.
Okwuchukwu, Uchenna, and Mohamed Sheriff. "Experiences of first-generation West African parents on raising children in Sweden : Understanding the perspectives and challenges to enhance social work practice." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36759.
Full textBellas, Noel. "Successes and challenges in implementing community art programs for youth in low-income communities : implications for social work practice." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100738.
Full textLIMA, MICHELLE BORELY FERREIRA DE. "SOCIAL WORKERS CHALLENGES IN THE WORK WITH STREET CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN A RECEPTION CENTER IN RIO DE JANEIRO." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13553@1.
Full textEsta dissertação tem por objetivo estudar os desafios de assistentes sociais que trabalham em uma Central de Recepção no município do Rio de Janeiro, voltado para o atendimento a crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua. Partimos da observação, em nosso cotidiano de trabalho, de que há um novo perfil de crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua. Ao longo dos últimos anos, temos constatado o crescente envolvimento desta população com o mundo das drogas, seja como usuários ou como parte do tráfico de drogas. Verificamos que este envolvimento, com freqüência, os leva à expulsão da comunidade onde residem. Destacamos ainda, como fenômenos atuais, o advento do uso do crack e a presença de um número maior de meninas em situação de rua. Como metodologia, utilizamos uma abordagem qualitativa, ilustrando nossa discussão com entrevistas realizadas com assistentes sociais e a diretora do Central de Recepção. Os resultados foram agrupados em quatro categorias, que são: (1) Visões das assistentes sociais sobre as políticas públicas e serviços oferecidos; (2) Questão da abordagem; (3) Falta de retaguarda e (4) Precariedade de infraestrutura no atendimento a este grupo; (4) O mundo das drogas: a grande incógnita?
This dissertation aims to study the challenges of Social Service Agents who work in a Reception Center in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. This Center is responsible for the reception and the referral of children and youth who were caught on the streets on their own. Based on our own experience, we start with the assumption that there is a new profile of children in the situation of the streets. In the last few years, we have observed that many of them have developed a growing involvement with the world of drugs, both as consumers and as participants of the drug trade. Many of them end up being forced out of their homes. In Addition, we would like to highlight two other aspects: the increasing presence of girls among the street population and the growing use of Crack by this group. Regarding the methodology, we used a qualitative approach and illustrated our discussion with interviews conducted with social workers and the director of the Reception Center. The results were grouped in 5 categories: (1) The social workers views about public policies and social services ; (2) Outreach work on the streets; (3) Lack of support; (4) Precariousness of infrastructure in services aimed at this group; (5) The world of drugs: the big enigma?
Valladares, Siomara Evelin. "Challenges in the tenure process the experiences of faculty of color who conduct social science, race-based academic work /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1320974511&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textWissel, Alanna Rey. "Working in Residential Childcare: What are the Challenges and Rewards?" Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1386174131.
Full textCaballero, John. "CHALLENGES FOR MALE THERAPISTS WORKING WITH COMMERCIALLY AND SEXUALLY EXPLOITED FEMALE ADOLESCENTS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/696.
Full textSantana, Alejandra. "THE CHALLENGES THAT PROMOTORES FACE WHEN IMPLEMENTING THEIR PROGRAMS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/550.
Full textJones, Anita Payne. "Caregivers' Challenges in Accessing Services for Children with Autism." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7021.
Full textLindberg, Linnéa, and Jennifer Henriksson. "”Att man får lite påminna sig själv, det är jag som leder mötet” : En kvalitativ studie om socialarbetares upplevelser och hantering av tolkade möten." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-87012.
Full textDelibasic, Amina. "HONOR-RELATED VIOLENCE AND OPPRESSION IN CHILD CARE INVESTIGATIONS : A qualitative study of the challenges and possibilities faced by social services when investigating honor related violence." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-55102.
Full textLwemamu, Helen. "Gender and work challenges in the informal sector of Uganda : a study of disabled men and women in Mubende and Mityana districts." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8109.
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Compared to disciplines like gender and health, fewer studies have been done on disabled men and women's participation in the informal sector. This may be explained by the fact that for a long time, few disabled men and women in Uganda engaged or participated openly in income generating activities (IGAs). Many started getting involved in the 1990's and as the available literature shows, those who have done so are very enthusiastic and this has encouraged others. This study focuses on the gender and work challenges disabled men and women encounter in the informal sector of Uganda. The study is based on a review of existing literature and actual fieldwork carried out in the Mubende and Mityana districts of Uganda. It seeks to: (a) explore the types of business activities in which disabled men and women are engaged; (b) explore the nature of work challenges disabled men and women encounter in the informal sector and the nature of strategies they utilize to overcome these challenges; (c) ascertain the benefits that disabled men and women have gained in respect of participation in the informal sector; (d) establish the policies and laws that govern disabled men and women with regard to their work in the informal sector; and (e) establish how resources are allocated by various governmental and nongovernmental Organisations among disabled men and women in Mubende and Mityana districts. The study was carried out in Mubende and Mityana district, the central region of the densely populated disabled men and women. In this study in-depth interviews and focus group methods were used to collect qualitative data. Evidence from the study confirms that disabled men and women were engaged in similar IGAs although a few of them were engaged in different IGAs. The similarity in IGAs was likely to be a result of the limited range of IGAs that disabled men and women could engage in considering the nature of their impairments, limited finances and the limited skills that they had. The visually and hearing impaired men and women were mainly involved in a single IGA in the informal sector and most of the physically disabled men and women were engaged in multiple IGAs. This was linked to visually and hearing impaired men and women lacking or having insufficient capital and skills to engage in multiple IGAs, as compared to physically disabled men and women.