Professor Christa Fouche discusses creative ways to help social work research to have an impact on practice in a special episode recorded live at an international conference.
Social work research must have an impact on practice. Its value comes in informing social work practice and ultimately improving experiences and outcomes for people who social workers work with. How this impact is achieved
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James Caiels discusses his scoping review of strengths-based approaches in social work and social care.
Strengths- and asset-based approaches are widely used in adult social work. There are many models in use, though definitions are not always clear and data on outcomes is largely absent. In this episode I speak
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Dr Bernadette Moorhead discusses her study of social work professional identity in the early post-qualification period
Social workers are socialised into the profession during their training and in their early post-qualifying years in practice. The first few years of a social worker's professional career often shape who they are as a
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Professor Carlene Firmin discusses the implementation of contextual safeguarding in five local authority areas: what works well, and where more work is needed.
Young people experience harm and risks outside of the family home which are not always effectively managed by traditional methods of safeguarding. Contextual safeguarding has been developed as an approach to broaden the context of
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Dr Ciarán Murphy explores how social worker discretion can contribute to creating a ‘child-centred’ child protection system.
Social workers have limited discretion when safeguarding children. Policy, procedures and workflows largely determine the actions which social workers can take. However, this is not always in the best interests of the children being protected.
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Professor Helen Fisher discusses the impact of experiencing violence during adolescence on mental health at the transition to adulthood.
With an increase in reported knife and other violent crime, it appears that many young people are now more likely to experience violence during adolescence. While this inevitably will have short-term implications for their mental
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Ludmila Fleitas-Alfonzo and Tania King discuss their systematic review of papers reporting the association between mental health and caring in young people.
Many young people provide unpaid care for a family member with a disability or health problem. This form of care is often appropriate for the person concerned and is manageable for the young person to
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Liz Beddoe and Lisa Warwick discuss the importance of relationship-based supervision for the retention of experienced practitioners in social work.
It is well established that good, reflective, relationship-based supervision is essential for effective social work practice. It enables practitioners to reflect in depth on their work, including its emotional impact on them, and to discuss
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