Bodies of thought is a text that seeks to reflect on thought and action, but in a living, conscious way from the perspective of social work: the need for mutual recognition in which profession and citizenship are part and parcel, and this cannot be achieved without common ground between theories underpinning our everyday practice and popular wisdom.
Primary care social services benefit from several methodologies to provide assistance to citizens according to the needs identified and any necessary diagnosis.
Reading Silvia Navarro’s inspired contribution to the global project on the improvement of primary care services will provide us with a decent spell of optimism and probably encourage us to reread it on subsequent occasions. The author leads us into the realm of reflection on our professional practice, which will allow us to question our professional identity and our role in “that idea of proximity and commitment to citizens that primary care encompassed... in which we all once believed, and some still believe today.”
Based on the track record of social work in terms of achieving the discipline’s goals and the widespread dissatisfaction among the professional community, this article seeks to propose a redefinition of social work. It reveals the need to steer away from the definition that pigeonholes social work intervention into areas focused on specific problems and instead move towards a more comprehensive intervention centred on needs and the community.
This text strives to review an article that was published in the Social Work Journal (RTS) regarding the Basic Method of Social Work in view of the experience gained over the years and as a result of the contributions and critiques that have enhanced it. The review of this method endeavours to create a forum enabling this tool to be useful for social workers and for social transformation.
This article details the experience of community social work carried out in a neighbourhood in Barcelona which was gradually disappearing due to its unstable living conditions. Firstly, a description of the neighbourhood is provided, followed by an account of the historical context and the emergence of the group for promoting social work within the community. The article delves into the complex process giving rise to the disappearance of the neighbourhood and the role played by “the social worker” in it.
The object of this study centres on a research project that sought to provide broader knowledge about the basic social services system from a perspective that has hitherto been scarcely examined: the shelter process provided by basic social services in small towns. Research has been carried out on what is being done currently by way of a shelter procedure as part of basic social services in order to look for answers and build new knowledge that can be replicated in other areas with similar characteristics.
This paper seeks to show and promote, among the professional prison community, the experience of creating and applying a procedure that we refer to as the Protocol for Joint Intervention involving Families (or PICFA from the Catalan, for short) at Lledoners prison. This working protocol encourages relatives of inmates inside the prison to become involved and to gain access to interventions so that joint meetings can be organised among inmates and with professionals from the multidisciplinary teams (abbreviated herein with EMD).
Within child protection work involving families with children at risk, the safety of said children has been traditionally prioritised over the stability of family ties, often leading to coercive and adversarial situations involving families which frequently lead to the child being taken away. The unsuccessful outcomes of these typical practices have given rise to a call for cooperation between professionals and families which must unfold in the form of specific interventions in order to go beyond simple rhetoric.
The age of globalisation has favoured international migration. Current studies on this topic have begun adopting the transnationalism approach. Accordingly, not only is the influence of migrants on the destination location being investigated; the relationships that occur at a distance with the place of origin are being examined also. In this respect, the family has come to form the core component of research on migration and transnationalism.
