This writing illustrates the investigative process developed in the context of accompanying relatives who are victims of enforced disappearance in an area of high conflict in Colombia, this process carried out for three years by the hand of Social Work students belonging to the PAZS research seedbed.
Ever since its origins social work has put forward actions to alter a situation which, based on several criteria, is judged as undesirable. Its growth and legitimacy have been fundamentally founded on the response to situations of need that have emerged in the light of the development of social organisation models.
In this article we present a teaching innovation experience on the context of the training of social workers at the University of Barcelona from the 2009-2010 academic year, the time when the Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work was implemented in a context of change at university through the implementation of the Bologna process and the creation of the European Higher Education Area. This process of change acts as a driver for the creation of a group of lecturers who reflect on the teaching-learning relationship.
This article compiles the reflections and lessons learned from the experience of supporting social service teams in the promotion of community work as part of their intervention models between 2017 and 2020. Through the systematic organisation of the work conducted, a host of key content- and process-related aspects are identified that may help bring about these changes to the forms of care offered and the organisational models needed to deliver this care.
This article presents a constructed reflection that reworks and develops previous contributions, based on the author’s involvement in the field of Spanish social services as an independent consultant, and on a review of a host of recent bibliographical references.
At present, the most hegemonic notion of innovation is characterised by technological change, coupled with the emergence of new products. This reductionist view was already by refuted by Schumpeter’s theory of economic development from 1912 in which his idea of creative destruction gives rise to an innovation of processes and organisations.
Female family workers as professionals are broadly exposed to the emotional effects stemming from bonds of care. They work within the intimate setting of families in contexts where placing boundaries on their duty is by no means simple, and they do this without assistance. They benefit from scarce protection factors and the legitimisation of their knowledge is light years away from receiving public acknowledgment. Their self-perception of their task is conditioned by this. Nevertheless, they are professionals who hardly benefit from having access to supervisory-based settings.
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.
Social services –the fourth pillar of social welfare– are part of the backbone of social policies in autonomous communities as a whole, based on the areas of authority set out in the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The first laws on social services at regional level marked the beginning of the public system of social services, which is still in its early stages even today.
This article sets out reflections regarding the researcher’s role within the context of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project experience conducted by researchers from the Department of Social Work and Sociology at the University of Deusto on San Sebastian/Donostia campus. This methodology, capable of generating relational dynamics and reciprocity practices, makes it possible to link research in social work to professional practice, overcoming the potential dichotomy existing between both dimensions.
