Role Of Social Services Research Articles

ELDER FAMILY FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION: EXPERIENCES WITH SOCIAL SERVICES

Elder family financial exploitation (EFFE) has attracted the attention of scholars and professionals across disciplines. This qualitative study examines the experiences of help seeking by non-perpetrator family members with a focus on the role of social services. 15 in-depth interviews were examined in which social services were mentioned as being involved. Findings provide insight into the role and involvement of social services, whether wishes expressed by victims to participants made a difference in help-seeking, and gaps experienced. Participants described social services professionals as those who (1) received reports of exploitation; (2) provided education and served as a liaison with families; (3) conducted assessments, including cognitive assessment of elders; and (4) acted as connectors to other systems. In some cases, when elders were assertive about their wishes, they had results such as reporting exploitation or transferring power of attorney to non-perpetrator family members. In other cases, elders were prevented from taking such action because of undue influence by perpetrators, disregard of their wishes, due to being uninformed, or opposing helpful family members. Participants explained experienced gaps in two ways: by attributing responsibility to social services in terms of failure to believe victims, do meaningful cognitive assessments, and navigate family dynamics. On the other hand, participants were not able to clearly ascribe responsibility, and questioned whose fault it was, suggesting opportunities for improved systems functioning. Recommendations for improving the role of social services in addressing the help-seeking needs of concerned family members coping with EFFE follow.

Attitudes of Direct Support Staff regarding Couple Relationships of Adults with Intellectual Disability: Implications for the Provision of Support

A major role of direct support staff working with adults with intellectual disability (ID) is to promote their rights to a full life, including couple relationships. To tackle the complexity of direct support staff role perception, and by using qualitative methodology, the current study explored the attitudes of 40 direct support staff toward couple relationships of adults with ID. According to the results, couple relationships of adults with ID was perceived by them mainly as a means of achieving a more normative life style, rather than as a basic and legitimate need for meaningful interpersonal relations. They described couples with ID as having more difficulties than couples in the general population, and their own over-involvement in the relationship as an additional burden. The findings emphasize the importance of helping direct support staff adopt a broader conception of couple relationships and reexamine the strategies they apply to promote the accessibility of adults with ID to couple relationship. The role of social services in changing policy and practice is discussed accordingly. Future research should address other issues related to the attitudes of support staff toward couple relationships of adults with ID, such as sexuality and parenthood.

PERANAN LEMBAGA KEMASYARAKATAN KELURAHAN SEBAGAI MITRA KERJA LURAH DI KELURAHAN PAGESANGAN KECAMATAN MATARAM KOTA MATARAM PROVINSI NUSATENGGARA BARAT

The Role of Village Community Institutions as Village Work Partners in Pagesangan Sub-District, Mataram District, Mataram City, West Nusa Tenggara Province. Decentralization has caused some central government affairs to be delegated to regional government affairs. One of them is basic and social services. The purpose of this study is to describe the role of Village Community Institutions as working partners of headman in Pagesangan Sub-District, Mataram Subdistrict, in basic services to the community and in the social field in the Village. The research method used is an explorative method with an inductive approach that aims to obtain information about the current situation by looking at the links between the variables that exist. Data collection techniques include observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis is done by data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. The results of the study illustrate the role of the Pagesangan Village community institution as a working partner of the village head both in the field of service and social affairs, although there are still obstacles. Suggestions given to Pagesangan Village and village community institutions are to make further technical implementation guidelines on the role of villagesocial institutions, improve work motivation, improve socialization and service quality, and increase community independence and role in social services and activities in the Village Pagesangan.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDREN ROTERS IN BASIC EDUCATION

The study aimed at identifying the causes of the behavior of the rioters in the children of the basic education level in three public schools in Cairo and other private schools, ranging in age from 6 to 15 years; because this age of childhood is one of the most affected by aggressive behavior problems. The researchers used the qualitative approach through the use of a measure of the behavior of the rioters for basic education in a sample of 600 children representing various social and economic levels and the quality of males and females and the interpretation of both the theories of childhood and aggressive behavior. This study has developed a deep understanding of the causes of aggressive behavior in children from their point of view and through their experiences and experiences in interacting with social structures, which had different effects on provoking their aggressive behavior. In their view, the children's views on the causes of their aggressive behavior are complex and intertwined. It was clear that the ineffective means of raising the child affected the development of different hostile behaviors in the children of the study population. Recommendations of the study suggest: Aggressive behavior in children is a way to express their rejection of class-based poverty. They also identified their relationship with teachers who treated them as inferior and restricted their freedom within the classroom compared with children of the middle and wealthy social classes, creating different hostile reactions In their relationship with teachers and other children. Children mimic their behavior in hostile scenes in their families, with comrades, and through visual media. Activate the role of social service in the formulation of social policies to protect children from the causes and risks of aggressive behavior in their relationship with different social structures and work on prevention, treatment and reduction. In addition to conducting research and future studies to investigate the manifestations and causes of aggressive behavior in other age groups that were not targeted by this study.

Impact of Social Service Expenditures on the Suicide Rate: The Cases of Asia Countries

An empirical study reported that the economic crisis in European countries affected their suicide rates and described that an increase in social services expenditures of US$10 per person in labor market programs impacted the decrease in unemployment suicides by 0.038%. However, there has no study that the economic crisis in Asia countries affected their suicide rates. Since 2008, South Korea has been ranked first for suicide rate in the OECD countries. Many studies have blamed the economic crisis that followed from the US financial crisis in 2007 as the critical cause. However, in the case of Japan, the suicide rate decreased in the same time period (2008–2011) even though they faced the same financial crisis. The purpose of this study was to examine why the different situations in Korea and Japan occurred with the economic crisis through testing whether the government’s social service expenditure affects the people’s suicide rate in Asia countries. These efforts will contribute to understanding the critical role of social service.

The social problems of kidney failure patients and the role of social service in facing them: المشكلات الاجتماعية لمرضى الفشل الكلوي ودور الخدمة الاجتماعية في مواجهتها

The study aimed to identify the problems faced by renal failure patients and the role of social service in confronting them. The researcher used the comprehensive social survey method in a comprehensive inventory of social workers, 32 specialists in Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital, King Saud Medical City, King Salman Center for Nephrology, The study used the intentional sampling method for patients with renal failure (60) patients representing the patients who regularly attend the King Saud Center for Kidney and the largest dialysis center in the Middle East. The results of the study showed that the problems faced by patients with renal failure were the most important from the point of view of the patients themselves and from the point of view of social workers is the difficulty of obtaining a kidney transplant, and not feeling safe. As for the problems faced by patients with their families, both sides agree that the most important problems faced by patients are weak social support from the family, but the least severe is the difficulty of communicating with family members during hospital stay. The problems facing the patients in their work also agreed on both sides that the most important of these problems is the inability of the patient to continue to work and the lack of appreciation of the owners of the nature of the patients, as for the problems facing the patient with friends and relatives and Jerth is not to involve the patient in social events, Some relationships break down as a result of the disease. As for the role of social service in dealing with these problems, the most important of these roles from the point of view of specialists is to assist the rehabilitation of the patient to be a human being together in his social interaction with the family and society. The results also indicated a study of cases of patients with psychological and social problems, , Contact the officials of the work to provide them with the regulations and laws on the work of patients, to guide friends not to talk about the disease to respond to the sense of lack, either from the point of view of patients was the most important roles of social service in the face of these problems are the most important assistance specialist To the patient in obtaining financial assistance from government agencies, and to facilitate administrative procedures for the patient.

Welfare and Children's Well‐Being

AbstractThis article discusses economic theories that arise from a household production model about the production of children's well‐being and explores how those theories inform features of income redistribution policy. Economic needs within families with children, concerns about interactions between the needs of parents and children, reasons for conditioning benefits or providing benefits directly to children, and the role of social services are each examined and discussed in the context of the Australian Family Tax Benefit program and recent proposals to reform Australian welfare programs.

Comunicação e mídia: uma questão social no serviço da saúde

This article aims to analyze the communicational process between the basic health units and Public health officials in the city of Bauru-SP as a methodology, we note unsystematic, applying descriptive-exploratory character questionnaires and bibliographical and documentary. As a result, the survey showed the need for improvement in the informational strategies with your users, in addition to a valuation in the role of social service as a mediator and promoter of health campaigns.

Students’ Willingness for Future Volunteering in Hong Kong

Volunteering is playing an increasingly bigger role in social services and schools both in Western settings and in the Hong Kong Chinese context. The demand for volunteers in the sector of social services is continually increasing (Sherr 2008). Little is known about the willingness of secondary school students to participate in future volunteering in Hong Kong. This study attempts to explore the phenomenon of youth volunteering through the theory of planned behavior and Personal and Social Responsibility, and identifies prior experience in community service as a main predictor of the willingness of the students to participate in future volunteering. A total of 1046 students from seven secondary schools in Hong Kong completed a structured questionnaire. Social workers, teachers, and volunteer managers could benefit from this study as they could foster students’ willingness to volunteer after graduation by actively engaging them in community service programs early on in a specific time in their life.

Psychological Empowerment of Frontline Police Officers in Response to Social Service Role Strain in China

Provision of social service is one of the most significant roles of the police. A review of the related literature in policing seems to reveal that empowerment holds significance for frontline officers who are largely responsible for social service delivery. This study examines the possible relationships between police social service role strain (PSSRS) and police social service psychological empowerment (PSSPE) among frontline police officers in China. This study adopts a two-phase (quantitative and qualitative approaches) sequential explanatory design. In the first phase, a questionnaire is used to collect data from a sample of 200 frontline community patrol officers in Shenzhen Public Security Bureau, China. After conducting the quantitative analysis, the author uses in-depth interviews to explore the nature of PSSRS and PSSPE from 12 selected interviewees’ insights. According to the results of the survey and in-depth interviews, the participants report a comparatively high level of PSSRS and a low level of PSSPE. It has been found that there are significantly negative correlations between PSSRS and PSSPE in the Chinese police organization. The Chinese police force is suggested to provide effective interventions for individual experience of psychological empowerment by continuously committing to the organizational philosophy of community policing in response to the PSSRS among frontline police officers.

The Effects of Social Service Contact on Teenagers in England

Objective: This study investigated outcomes of social service contact during teenage years. Method: Secondary analysis was conducted of the Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England ( N = 15,770), using data on reported contact with social services resulting from teenagers’ behavior. Outcomes considered were educational achievement and aspiration, mental health, and locus of control. Inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment was used to estimate the effect of social service contact. Results: There was no significant difference between those who received social service contact and those who did not for mental health outcome or aspiration to apply to university. Those with contact had lower odds of achieving good exam results or of being confident in university acceptance if sought. Results for locus of control were mixed. Conclusions: Attention is needed to the role of social services in supporting the education of young people in difficulty. Further research is needed on the outcomes of social services contact.

Social investment, social service and the economic performance of welfare states

This article begins with an examination of the role of social services as the key instrument of social investment strategy, presenting an empirical analysis of its impact on economic performance. A pooled time series, cross‐section analysis was conducted with the data of 15 welfare states from 1990 to 2007 under the ‘social investment hypothesis’ that more social service orientedness brings about a greater positive effect on the economy. The results show that a larger share of social service spending in the total social expenditure – more social service orientedness – contributes to economic growth and labour market performance, whereas a larger aggregate size of the welfare state may have a negative effect on employment. In conclusion, this study suggests that the relatively ambiguous welfare strategy of social investment could be clarified as a ‘transition from income security to livelihood security’ in which emphasis is placed on social service.Key Practitioner Message: ● This study suggests that the key instrument of social investment strategy is social service; ● The results show that more social service orientedness contributes to economic growth and labour market performance.

Integrated end of life care: the role of social services

Roberto Nuno-Solinis, Director O+berri, Basque Institute for Healthcare InnovationCorrespondence to: Roberto Nuno-Solinis, Director O+berri, Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Ronda de Azkue,1 - Torre del BEC 48902 Barakaldo Spain, Phone: +34 94 453 85 00, Fax: +34 94 453 04 65, E-mail: nuno@bioef.org‘To allow people the deaths they want, end of life caremust be radically transformed…’. (Leadbetter C [1])It is estimated that 75% of the population in industria-lised countries will die from chronic diseases andmost of them with multiple chronic conditions [2]. Endof life care for multimorbid patients is particularly com-plex and in most health and care systems fragmentedand uncoordinated. More importantly, highly medica-lised and hospital-centric care often leads to overtreat-ment and over use of resources, but this overtreatmentrarely avoids unnecessary suffering.To address people’s preferences, open conversationsand advance care plans are needed. These shouldbe flexible enough to cater for different culturalapproaches to dying and to allow the implementationof appropriate care models that can improve the endoflifeprocess,increasefamilies’andrelatives’satisfac-tion and avoid unnecessary inpatient and emergencyutilisation [3].Palliative care aims to prevent and alleviate thesymptoms of illness for people when curative treat-ment is no longer possible. This care should alsoaddress the wider psychological, social and spiritualneeds of people as they approach death. Althoughmost evidence and expertise come from palliativecare for oncologic patients, this type of care is alsouseful for people with advanced chronic conditionsand at risk of deteriorating and dying. Advances inthe identification of these patients through the devel-opments of several instruments have facilitated theimplementation of palliative care in non-oncologicpatients.Although palliative care can be delivered successfullyin different institutional settings such as hospitals andhospices, or at home, there is an increasing interest inthe latter. Most people prefer to remain in their homeat this time of their life. Various models of home-basedend of life care exist, ranging from those that primarilyoffer nursing and personal care to others that involvemultidisciplinary specialist teams. The impact of theseprogrammes shows that more people are able to dieat home as well as a reduction in the utilisation ofunplanned hospital care [4]. Recent reports in theUK have covered the results of several successfuland well-known models such as Marie Curie [5] andMacmillan [6].However, these models are not widely deployed inmost high-income countries and as a consequencemost people with advanced diseases still die in hospi-tals. Although effective care integration is recognisedas a key success factor for end of life care [7], manyinitiatives are stand-alone programmes and the poten-tial of social support services is often neglected. Infact, palliative care has been largely considered to bea group of services provided only from health care sys-tems and out of the social care responsibilities.Nevertheless, social support services are perfectlypositioned to help develop a more efficient and inte-grated model of palliative care that takes into accountresources and networks (caregivers, communities,etc.) beyond the health care system.In the Basque Country (Spain), a social innovation pro-ject provides an example of how the involvement ofsocial support and companionship services in end oflife care can achieve impressive results, such as reduc-tions in health care utilisation estimated at 8.000 eurosper case [8]. This programme called SAIATU (‘to try’ inBasque language) has filled the gap in end of life care,migrating several hospice values and skills to homecare. A simple service that is fast response and familycentred basing the care on the actual needs of thefamily and empowering them in caring for their loved

Transition Management and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: Lessons from Social Farming

PurposeThe article reflects on transition management in rural areas and the possible implications for extension services able to support social innovation and rural change, starting from experiences on social farming in different areas of Italy.Design/methodology/approachBy presenting three case studies we investigate the role of social services in rural development. The design follows a research action involving local stakeholders (private and public) in a process of collective learning.FindingsThe article highlights the difficulties and opportunities encountered in the process of transition management. In addition, it identifies key elements able to facilitate in redefining extension services supportive for social innovation and transition in rural areas.Practical implicationRural areas are facing difficulties in dealing with the current crisis. In addition, the collapse of the welfare state contributes in reducing the viability of rural areas. In this scenario the article suggests: to re-think rural development initiatives; to improve the linkage between public and private actors in creating economic and social values; a possible process of transition able to create a new collective knowledge, innovative solutions and new rules and attitudes among sectors – agriculture, health, education – and actors – private and public.Originality/valueIn the perspective of the 2020 EU strategy on social innovation, the research offers insight into the adoption of approaches and methods that can ensure more equitable paths towards inclusive and sustainable adjustment in rural areas.

Bringing Peace Closer to the People: The Role of Social Services in Peacebuilding

There is a growing recognition by policymakers and practitioners at the national and international levels that we must better understand the role that social services can play in fuelling instabili...

TThe Impact of Community Care Policy on Older People in Britain. 1970s-1990s

Towards the end of the 1970s the concept of community was emerging as the preferred alternative to institu- tionalized service provision. For feminist writers it presented a potential problem in that the family was identified as the location within which this community-based care would be provided and that the burden, therefore was likely to fall on women. Community care has been presented as the ideal form of provision on the grounds of cost-effectiveness, moral responsibility (family members have a duty to care for one another) and as a safeguard against the abuse of individual that may occur in in- stitutional settings. The community bandwagon continued to gain momentum throughout the 1980s. The National Health Service became separated and there was subsequent criticism of the fragmentary nature of social provision. The Griffiths Report of 1988 identified the role of social service as an enabling body rather than a service provider. In keeping with government policies, Social Service Departments were to make use of both private and voluntary sectors in purchasing services, and this was adopted in the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act.

Empowering the Frontline Police Officers to Cope with Police Social Service Role Strain in China

Provision of social service is one of the most significant roles of the police. A review of the related literature in policing seems to reveal that empowerment holds significance for frontline officers who are largely responsible for social service delivery. This study examines the possible relationships between police social service structural empowerment (PSSSE), police social service psychological empowerment (PSSPE) and police social service role strain (PSSRS) among frontline police officers in China. This study adopts a two-phase (quantitative and qualitative approaches) sequential explanatory design. In the first phase, a questionnaire is used to collect data from a sample of two hundred frontline community patrol officers in Shenzhen Public Security Bureau, China. After conducting the quantitative analysis, the author uses in-depth interviews to explore the nature of PSSRS, PSSSE, PSSPE from twelve selected interviewees' insights. According to the results of the survey and in-depth interviews, the participants report a comparatively high level of PSSRS and low levels of PSSSE and PSSPE. It has been found that there are significantly negative correlations between PSSSE, PSSPE and PSSRS in the Chinese police organization. The Chinese police force is suggested to provide effective interventions for individual experience of psychological empowerment and reorganize the current paramilitary-bureaucratic model by changing the management practices for structural empowerment in response to the PSSRS among frontline police officers.

Do disabled people need social workers?

This paper reflects on the role of social services departments and social workers in the system of direct payments. By means of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act, 1996, care services can be commissioned directly by the user. Social services departments have a role in setting up the local direct payments system and individual social workers may promote and facilitate its use by disabled people. There are indications from regional evaluations, however, that for a variety of reasons, organizations and their individual employees are sceptical and reluctant to implement this legislation. Given this, together with the government’s commitment to the system as a means of promoting the full citizenship of disabled people, the authors question whether social workers and social services departments have any future in this area of social care.

Supporting Family Stability: Case Studies in Custody Planning with HIV-Affected Families

Custody planning programs for HIV-infected parents help families overcome the obstacles to making future plans for their children in the event of the parent's debilitating illness or death. Using the family resiliency model, custody planning is viewed as a form of adaptation to illness which can reduce stress and uncertainty for children and parents. Case studies of four parents' participation in a custody planning program illustrate patterns that can inform service provision, including the role of social services in facilitating that process, while recognizing the uniqueness of each family's experience. As people with HIV are living longer, service needs have shifted to developing and maintaining family adaptation and stability, with custody planning as one component. Service providers with HIV-affected families must recognize the impact of low socioeconomic status on service access and use, with sensitivity to stigma, substance abuse, and mental health.

Fron `Settlement' to `Integration'

In recent European literature on migration, two main trends characterize the ways in which migrants are increasingly portrayed. The first tends to define migrants in terms of their belonging to `communities' while, in the second trend, migrants and refugees epitomize ideas of diaspora and hybridity, as resistance to constructions of place-bound `communities'. In the context of these trends, women migrants hold ambivalent positions as particular `others'. In our article, we attempt to problematize the `purity' of these approaches. Based on research with Albanian migrant women in Athens, we examine the ways in which they construct very local, but also transnational and imagined communities while they seek to settle and find ways of integrating in the new setting. Using material from focus groups and biographical interviews with women migrants, as well as with women employers, we discuss: (a) the importance of informal practices of support and assistance at the neighbourhood level; and (b) the role of social services (health and child care), as they affect migrant women's efforts to negotiate a place for themselves and their dependents, to forge a sense of belonging and redefine communities and gender relations.