How to ... be a reflective practitioner.

Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change

福祉関連職におけるMaslach Burnout Inventoryの因子構造の比較

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

3. Do I use effective communication strategies? Is there always “time just to talk”? Do I seek family observations/information in assessment? In monitoring? Do family members have opportunities to ask questions or seek clarification? Do I present information at a time and in a format preferred by the family members? Do I keep my work with family members respectful, yet informal, and free of professionally precious jargon?

The adult learner.

Stigmatizing attitudes can create barriers to forming partnership with service users and to developing people’s empowerment. So, social work education must help students overcome their stigmatizing attitudes. A useful strategy for bringing about changes is service users’ and carers’ involvement in social work education, providing students with direct exposure to stigmatized people in roles that emphasize their humanity and strengths, rather than their deficits. The present study assessed the impact of a one-day meeting with service users and carers members of self-help and mutual-aid groups on freshman social work students. Students completed an adapted version of Attitudes to Mental Illness Questionnaire before and after the meeting, and answered several qualitative questions. Data comparisons suggest that after face-to-face contact with service users and carers, social work students showed reduced stigmatizing attitudes. Implications for further research and social work education are discussed.

Learning from service users’ involvement: a research about changing stigmatizing attitudes in social work students

Social workers not only help service users, they also help each other, and they know the group as a space through which opportunities to give and receive help multiply In Italy, the initiative ‘So

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Social workers helping each other during the COVID-19 pandemic: Online mutual support groups

The education system's responsibility for social workers to be is a central argument in the academic arena. The purpose of the article is to present an innovative perspective about social work education promoted for several years in the Catholic University in Milan. The education experience with students, social workers to be, gave life to a particular workshop ‘Social Work Orientation’ characterized by different and innovative activities. The experience presented focuses on relational principles such as empowerment, peer facilitation, involvement of service users, and facilitation, following the idea that teaching and learning could be a simultaneous process. Revealing is the experience of ‘service users as professors’, a meeting day in the university between students and service users, a sharing of life stories and relationships. The future social workers learn from the service users, accustoming themselves to considering the service users as people able to cope with their life situations even before en...

Teaching and learning: an exchange of knowledge in the university among students, service users, and professors

Social work literature includes many publications on risks, dangers and protective factors of children and families who are involved with child protection services. Less is known about risk and pro...

Risk and protective factors among child protection social workers: a quantitative study

Tom Kitwood is a key figure in the development of thought about dementia, but generally no references are made to his work outside of elderly care. This article argues that Kitwood's thought has much to offer to all the professional caregivers, regardless of the users’ category they are caring for, and to the broader field of professional social work. Some key themes from the writings of Kitwood are examined, namely the critique of the ‘standard paradigm’; the conception of malignant social psychology; the respect for otherness in the positive person work; the person with dementia as a resource for reciprocity processes; the new culture of dementia. For each of these issues similarities between Kitwood's approach and relational social work are identified. Relational social work considers the helping process and the well-being development as co-constructions, in which the contributions not only by the helper (or the caregiver, or the social worker), but also by the helpee (or by the care recipient, or by t...

Elena Cabiati

Papers

Learning from service users’ involvement: a research about changing stigmatizing attitudes in social work students

Social workers helping each other during the COVID-19 pandemic: Online mutual support groups

Teaching and learning: an exchange of knowledge in the university among students, service users, and professors

Risk and protective factors among child protection social workers: a quantitative study

Kitwood's thought and relational social work