Social Welfare Administration Research Articles

The Effects of Flipped Learning in Social Welfare Administration

The Effects of Flipped Learning in Social Welfare Administration

Healthy Ageing and Associated Factors among the Older Adults Living in Government Social Welfare Home for Older Persons in Southern Thailand: An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Institutionalized older adults tend to experience higher levels of impaired health conditions compared to older persons living in the community. Healthy ageing is a global objective, however, there is limited knowledge about promoting healthy ageing specifically among older persons in social welfare homes. Objective: To examine the prevalence and factors associated with healthy ageing among institutionalized older adults in government social welfare home for older persons (GSWHOP) in the complex societies of the Southern region of Thailand. Materials and Methods: The present study was an analytical cross-sectional study that included 126 older participants aged 60 years or older capable of self-help activities. The present study defined healthy ageing as having independent physical function, good mental health status with no depression, normal nutrition status, and good quality of life. Results: Approximately 33.3% of the older residents who were capable of self-help activities achieved healthy ageing. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of healthy ageing between men at 36.2% and women at 30.9% (p>0.05). After controlling for other covariates, the present study found that factors such as length of institutional stay, knowledge of health promotion behavior (HPB), perceived stress, received HPB related information, and exercise were significantly associated with healthy ageing (p<0.05 to p<0.001). Conclusion: The present study revealed that approximately one in three institutionalized older residents in southern Thailand met the criteria for healthy ageing. The findings indicate the importance of social welfare staff, administrators, and policymakers in implementing effective solutions. These include providing practical knowledge of HPBs, promoting regular exercise, and implementing stress management strategies for institutionalized older adults. Targeting individuals after their first year of institutional stay is crucial. These measures can improve the health and well-being of institutionalized older adults in the region. Keywords: Healthy ageing; Institutionalized older adults; Health promotion behaviors; Educational and ecological factors; Quality of life; Southern Thailand

Abusive head trauma: current practice of investigation and management in Taiwan.

Abusive head trauma (AHT) is a worldwide leading cause of fatal head injuries in children under 2years. This study aims to present the development of child protection medical service in Taiwan in the past decade. This study reviews the evolution of the pediatric protection network and the cross-system professional training in Taiwan from 2013 to 2022. The recommendations of Taiwan Pediatric Association on the prevention and management of AHT and the Medical Professionals Manual of Child Abuse and Neglect proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare were reviewed. Considering the impact of the high incidence of severe sequelae and the mortality caused by of AHT, 10 regional centers for child protection medical service were founded in Taiwan to identify, recognize, and properly manage cases of AHT, which is easily overlooked by the healthcare providers. The child protection network across the healthcare, social welfare administration, and judicial systems facilitate the early detection, management, and proper disposition of the children with AHT. An increasing of the incidence of AHT is expected after the setting up of the child protection network and the continuing cross-system professional trainings. There is more consensus of the diagnosis and management of AHT than before in Taiwan. However, there is no end to protecting children from AHT.

A study on the development and operation of field-based learner -centered subjects in the major of social welfare. - Focusing on the subjects of ‘Social Welfare Administration Practice’. -

A study on the development and operation of field-based learner -centered subjects in the major of social welfare. - Focusing on the subjects of ‘Social Welfare Administration Practice’. -

The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas

This article discusses public social welfare provision to homeless EU migrants in Norway. Most of these migrants have no or weak affiliations with the formal labour market, resulting in restricted rights to public social assistance. Drawing on the concept of precarious inclusion, I suggest that rather than being simply excluded from public social welfare, homeless EU migrants are included in the welfare state but in fragile and insecure ways through provisions directed at safeguarding bodily survival. I understand these limited inclusionary policies and practices as forming part of the Norwegian state’s management of ‘undesired’ migrants. Building on interviews with social workers in the public social welfare administration, I reflect on how assessments of cases involving homeless EU migrants signal hierarchical conceptions and differentiation of human worth within Norway’s borders and how territorial belonging emerges as a prerequisite for ‘deservingness’ in social workers’ accounts.

“Fighting the Uncertainty of Tomorrow”: Explaining and Portraying the Social Security System on French Television for Schools

This contribution analyses in detail a series of instructional television programmes for schools produced between the 1950s and the 1980s on national health insurance and the French social welfare system (known as Sécurité sociale). We consider the televisualization of health issues from two alternative perspectives: school television as a type of public health service and access as a matter of social welfare and public health. We investigate how these television programmes, which focus closely on social welfare administration, sought both to educate captive school audiences as future citizens and to shape and form their attitudes towards it.

Strengthening Social Welfare Administration Practice in India: A Context Centric Social Work Approach

Abstract This article explores the possibility of strengthening social welfare administration practice in social work training and education to respond to complex and varied issues located within Indian social reality keeping in view the people in concrete situations of vulnerabilities. Based on the case analysis approach, it situates the history of social work education and practice closely linked to the social welfare administration practice in Mumbai School of Social Work. The experience in this school reaffirms the contribution of social work administration practice towards welfare and development of people, and suggests the need for strengthening the practice suited to the changing needs of the time. Learning from this experience, this article argues for a positive recognition of context centric approach in social work practice.

Incentive-based Social Welfare Administration in Indonesia: Implications for sustainable development in women’s and children’s protection

This article brings together two discrete studies of Indonesian welfare innovations, the conditional cash transfer and the deinstitutionalisation of children, both delivered at the lowest administrative level by social workers. Patterns across the two studies indicated a confounding variable influential in social workers’ innovation implementation and administrative decisions. This variable, incentive-based remuneration, was inhibiting implementation and potentially sustaining the social inequalities and rights violations that each innovation proposed to address. Social workers’ over-reliance on remuneration incentives has inherent problems. Increases to base-rates of pay and realignment of incentivisation in development are needed to support change.

Case of Social Work`s Profession: Local Social Welfare Administration in the Estonian Small Local Government

Case of Social Work`s Profession: Local Social Welfare Administration in the Estonian Small Local Government Vaike Raudava Abstract After the restoration of independence social work became part of the post-communist society again in 1995. The occupation of social worker is still not specified on the level of local government of Estonia in the beginning the 21st century. On the national level there is no law or legal standard setting the requirement to employ a civil servant as a social worker in local government. (This study does not include the new requirements for child protection workers). As a consequence of this problem many municipal employees in the field of social work lack professional training. Gray& Gibbons (2007) have argued that ethical guidelines do not guarantee ethical social work practice when professional intervention requires professional knowledge. Using a general name "social care (welfare) administration," the administrations employ non-professionals, professionals of other fields or non-educated employees. Even more disputable is the practice of including the members of the local council’s Committee of Social Affairs who lack any professional knowledge in the decision-making process of clients’ cases. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jssw.v8n1a3

Research Trend on Social Welfare Administration in Korea - Using both Network and Content Analysis for the Recent 10 years -

Research Trend on Social Welfare Administration in Korea - Using both Network and Content Analysis for the Recent 10 years -

한국 사회복지 행정교육의 발전방향 : 사회복지 기관관리자 양성을 중심으로

이 연구의 목적은 서비스 제공환경의 변화에 따른 사회복지 행정교육 강화의 필요성과 발전방향을 제안하는 것이다. 기관평가, 성과관리 등 서비스 제공의 효과성과 책임성을 강조하는 상황에서 기관관리자의 역할이 중요시되고 있다. 이 연구에서는 한국사회복지사협회에서 2,479명의 사회복지사를 대상으로 수행한 '한국사회복지사 기초실태 및 인식조사' 결과를 이용하여, 사회복지사가 일상적으로 어떠한 직무를 수행하는지를 분석하였다. 직무분석결과, 사회복지기관에서 행정 및 관리업무는 전체 업무 중의 40%로 가장 많은 비중을 차지하였다. 사회복지사는 지역사회조직, 인적자원관리, 기획 및 재정관리 등의 기관운영 업무의 중요도와 난이도가 상대적으로 높은 것으로 인식하고 있다. 그러나 사회복지학 교육과정에서 기관관리에 대한 체계적인 교육은 매우 부족한 실정이다. 또한 사회복지사는 관리자로서 대부분의 생애경력을 쌓아 나갈 것이다. 따라서 사회복지행정교육의 목표는 실천가에 대한 지원활동을 넘어서, 관리자로서 기관관리 지식과 기술을 익히는 것으로 재정립되어야 한다. 기관관리자로서 조직환경과 조직내부 운영에 대한 폭넓은 안목을 기르고, 기관관리의 다양한 영역에 대한 전문성을 증진시킬 수 있는 교육이 이루어져야 한다. 이 연구에서는 학부교육, 전문대학원교육, 실습교육 등 각종 교육과정에서 발전방향을 제안하였다. 【The purpose of this study is to identify increasing needs for training students as managers in social service agencies and to suggest ways to develop the education of social welfare administration. Agency evaluations and performance management has increased demands for effectiveness and accountability of social service agencies, which also has increased the roles of managers in social service agencies. Using 'Korean Social Worker Survey' conducted by Korean Association of Social Workers, this study examines job characteristics of 2,479 social workers. The results show that administration/management activities take about 40% of social workers' daily activities. Community organization, human resource management, and planning/financial management are regarded as more important and difficult than other tasks. However, sufficient education for preparing students as social service managers is not provided in undergraduate and graduate level of college education. In addition, social workers make their life long careers as managers. Thus, the education of social welfare administration needs to refocus on the provision of knowledge and skills required for competent social service managers. This study suggests future directions for developing education of social welfare administration in undergraduate and graduate level of college education including field practice.】

Nigerian Prison Service ( Nps ) and the Challenges of Social Welfare Administration : A Study of Abakaliki Prison

This paper examines the “Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) and the challenges of social welfare administration: A study of Abakaliki prison, aimed at ascertaining the extent to which welfare services were being administered in Abakaliki prison and the factors affecting it. Survey design through structured questionnaire was used to extract relevant data for the study. Hypothesis was tested using chi-square (X 2 ) statistical tool. The study discovered that Abakaliki prison has been unable to meet minimum U.N standard in welfare services because of congestion. There is a continuous use of bucket latrines which expose inmates to health hazards. Apart from inadequate funds, it was discovered that mismanagement of welfare funds has exposed inmates to unhealthy situation, which can result to epidemics and untimely deaths of the inmates. We therefore recommended that government should build more structures in the prison to accommodate the ever increasing number of inmates, states governments should be allowed to create state detention centres as alternative to prisons, constant training and retraining of prison staff in line with current global best practices for prisons becomes necessary.

Pupils’ Self-Esteem in the Early Years of Education within Different Interventions

Finland, with the population of 5,3 million inhabitants, has a very high standard education system. Kindergarten and class teachers get their education at universities. Kindergarten teachers study up to the bachelor’s degree (180 credits) and class teachers up to the master’s degree (300 credits). In the past, it was common that these two groups worked separately and hardly had any co-operation. In recent years, it has been noticeable that the gap between these two institutions along with the teachers working in them has narrowed. One explanation can be that administrators have started to see young children’s education as a continuum. Recently, in Finland has been made a significant reform concerning education: early childhood education has been moved in most of the communities from the social welfare administration to the administration of education. A remarkable renovation has also been the idea of putting pre-primary and primary education into the same building. In Finland, every child has an opportunity (in theory) to attend a kindergarten but children are obliged to start school during the year when they turn seven. It has been discussed if children should start school earlier because ca. 98 % of the six-year-olds already participates in pre-primary education. Another main question has been how to make the transfer from kindergarten to school easier for a child. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n2p83

The Effects of Informatization on the Social Welfare Sector: with a focus on the Integrated Social Welfare Management System

Integrated Social Welfare Management System is an information system that comprehensively manages information and services regarding diverse welfare benefits provided by the government. It is designed to improve efficiency of social welfare administration and the service delivery system. The system is found to have significantly contributed to efficiency of the welfare delivery system by reducing the workload of public officials who are responsible for welfare administration in local governments and changing the way they work for the better. This study analyzes the costs and benefits of the Integrated Social Welfare Management System and describes what it has achieved for the provider and recipients. The system has enhanced efficiency of the welfare delivery system and enabled case management, the function social welfare public officials are supposed to do. Ultimately, the system will play a key role in building a consumer-centered welfare administration environment in the future.

Intervening in youth problem behavior in Sweden: a pragmatic cost analysis of MST from a randomized trial with conduct disordered youth

Olsson TM. Intervening in youth problem behavior in Sweden: a pragmatic cost analysis of MST from a randomized trial with conduct disordered youthInt J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 194–205 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare.Within the context of a randomized trial, this study assessed the costs of treating conduct disorder with multisystemic therapy (MST) or treatment as usual (TAU) for 156 youth in Sweden. From the perspective of the municipal Social Welfare Administration, all intervention costs were collected for the 6‐month period starting at randomization. MST was found to cost, on average, US$8,847 per youth. A course of intervention including MST was found to cost significantly more (US$5,038 per youth) than TAU. Although MST was found to reduce the use of and costs associated with non‐placement interventions, MST was not found to reduce the use of or costs associated with placement interventions. This is contrary to findings reported from studies undertaken in the USA. Intent‐to‐treat (ITT) and treatment‐of‐treated (TOT) analyses are presented.

Curbing Corruption Through Social Welfare Reform? The Effects of Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Good Government

Conditional cash transfer programs, an innovation in social welfare administration, have received considerable acclaim as a means of enhancing human capital and reducing leakage of public resources through corruption. While numerous studies examine the effects of the program on human capital indicators in Mexico and various other countries that have adopted the approach, little is known about the effects of these programs on levels of corruption and on political life more generally. Using data from Transparency International Mexico, the Federal Register of Civil Society Organizations, and the national census, this paper analyzes whether conditional cash transfers have any bearing on corruption but also on two other aspects of political life argued to affect government probity in the long term: the density of civil society organizations and the empowerment of women as indicated by levels of active involvement in civil society. The conclusions are encouraging with respect to reducing corruption but rather dismal regarding the effects on civil society and the empowerment of women.

A Study on Historical Transition of Social Welfare Administration in Korea

A Study on Historical Transition of Social Welfare Administration in Korea

The Prospect for the Theory of the Social Welfare Policy from the Viewpoint of the History of Social Welfare Administration(Part2,Forum on Policy and Theory)

The Prospect for the Theory of the Social Welfare Policy from the Viewpoint of the History of Social Welfare Administration(Part2,Forum on Policy and Theory)

Mortality, mental disorders and addiction: A 5-year follow-up of 82 homeless men in Stockholm

A 5-year follow-up study was performed on 82 homeless men, with mental problems, who had been contacted by an outreach team run by the Social welfare administration of Stockholm 1995/1996. Data have been collected from the Cause of Death Register, death certificates, forensic autopsy reports, hospital medical reports, Hospital Discharge Register, interviews with social workers and with those men who were able to participate. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was 4.7 times higher than expected. The highest mortality was found in the group where drug addiction was dominant; 46% had died. In the group of men with severe psychiatric disorders, with diagnosis such as schizophrenia, none had died. Compared with the others, they had spent less time in homelessness. Among the survivors, 75% were still homeless at the follow-up in spite of considerable treatment interventions from the social services and health authorities. Residential institutions or treatment seemed to have some protective effect concerning misuse, diseases and injuries. Among the still homeless, the mental health problems combined with substance use problems had increased with 17%. The life and housing situation for the whole group seemed not to have improved, even if fewer of them were staying in hostels for homeless people.

Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada

In the early part of this century the mother was the educator and moral centre of the Canadian household. Between the onset of the First World War and the development of the modern social security state in the 1940s, however, an ideological shift took place. While Canada endured the effects of two world wars, industrialization, and economic and political crises, welfare entitlements based on family reproduction were replaced by state policies that promoted paid labour in the workplace. To a nation gripped with new and great anxieties, the mother no longer appeared capable of functioning as its vitally adhesive force. The necessity of stabilizing the paternal position of the father as breadwinner in order to sustain the family and support economic progress became the progressively dominant view. Although this thinking effectively helped a portion of the population achieve economic autonomy, its damaging effects were wide reaching. Women, unskilled labourers, and the chronically indigent had been left resourceless. The author's explanation of gender's role in the conception of modern Canadian welfare policy takes current scholarship into novel territory. Her analyses of the perspectives of maternal feminists, clergymen, organized labour, businessmen, university social scientists, welfare administrators, social workers, and government policy makers are fascinating to read and contribute greatly to our understanding of the current debates in welfare policy making.