This
Encyclopedia defines the landscape of social work with over 160 research-informed entries. Drawing on analytical and reflective perspectives, it demonstrates the profession’s commitment to improving societies globally.
Contributions are provided by leaders in the field, including those with expertise in indigenous and decolonial scholarship. Entries address contemporary global issues, including climate change, migration, women’s reproductive rights, and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. The Encyclopedia also highlights emerging challenges and opportunities related to social work research, education, professional development, practice and theory.
This Encyclopedia is an essential reference for scholars, students and educators in social work. It is also highly relevant for policymakers and practitioners interested in applying social work principles to address a range of sociopolitical and environmental problems.
Key Features:
- Examines social work practice with diverse populations
- Addresses contemporary issues of human rights and social justice
- Sheds light on key dimensions of social work practice, education, professional development, research and theory
This Encyclopedia defines the landscape of social work with over 160 research-informed entries. Drawing on analytical and reflective perspectives, it demonstrates the profession’s commitment to improving societies globally.
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What a tour de force this Encyclopedia is! The extent of its coverage is simply breath-taking, with contributions from across the world, covering a vast array of issues and subjects. The editors have kept a tight rein on this massive body of knowledge; the end-result is a resource book that will be useful for academics, practitioners and students across the globe. -- Viviene E. Cree, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Contents
Preface xiii
SECTION 1 CONTEMPORARY AND GLOBAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL WORK 1
Introduction 2
Donna Baines, Gianinna Muñoz Arce, and Liz Beddoe
1 Abolitionist social work 5
Ian Hyslop
2 Animals and social work 8
Nik Taylor and Zoei Sutton
3 Artificial intelligence and social work: a critical perspective 11
Neil Ballantyne
4 Beyond mandated reporting 14
Sam Harrell and Grace Pappas
5 Climate change, the Anthropocene, and social work 17
Jennifer Boddy and Leah Holdsworth
6 Critical social works neoliberal horizon 20
Heather Lynch
7 Data justice and social work 22
Neil Ballantyne
8 Decarceration and the role of social work 25
Matthew Epperson and Alexa Cinque
9 Digital literacies in social work 27
Amanda M. L. Taylor-Beswick
10 Disaster risk reduction and social work 30
Timothy Sim and Ke Cui
11 Disrupting normative whiteness in social work: educating for change 33
Sonia M. Tascón and Sharlotte Tusasiirwe
12 Ecological social work and environmental sustainability 36
Antoinette Lombard
13 Forcibly displaced people and human rights: the protection and prejudice
paradox 39
George Palattiyil and Dina Sidhva
14 Funeral industry and social work 42
Lise Johns and Brittany Archer
15 Future perspectives of social care and social work 45
Mark Henrickson
16 Futures thinking and foresight practice in social work 48
Laura Burney Nissen
17 Global mobility of social workers 51
Shajimon Peter and Allen Bartley
18 Global perspectives on social work and political conflict 54
Jim Campbell
19 Intersex and variations in sex characteristics 57
Katrina Roen, Sarah Hendrica Bickerton, and Eileen Joy
20 Migration policies 60
Sofia Dedotsi
21 Nationalist (right-wing) populism and the challenges for social work 63
Carolyn Noble and Goetz Ottmann
22 Post-disaster response and recovery in social work 66
Ke Cui, Timothy Sim, and Lena Dominelli
23 Poverty-aware social work 69
Michal Krumer-Nevo
24 Predictive risk decision-making tools in child welfare 72
Emily Keddell
25 Public libraries and social work practice: partnerships for social justice
75
Sabine Wardle, Monique Shephard, and Karen Bell
26 Refugee resettlement and social media 78
Jay Marlowe
27 Reproductive justice and social work 81
E. Goldblatt Hyatt
28 Securitization theory and securitized safeguarding in social work 84
David McKendrick and Jo Finch
29 Social media and social work practice 87
Liz Beddoe and Tarsem Singh Cooner
30 Social protection: pasifika responses 90
Yvonne Crichton-Hill
31 Veterinary social work 93
Bethanie A. Poe, Pamela Linden, and Elizabeth B. Strand
32 War, peace, and post-war reconstruction 96
Darja Zavirek
SECTION 2 POPULATIONS AND PRACTICE IN SOCIAL WORK 99
Introduction 100
Sarah Donnelly, Esther C. L. Goh, Hilary N. Weaver, and Christa Fouché
33 Abortion and social work 103
Liz Beddoe
34 Adoption: transracial and transnational considerations 106
JaeRan Kim
35 Adverse and positive childhood experiences in social work practice 109
Ladan Hashemi
36 Ageing of Indigenous communities 112
Lorena Patricia Gallardo-Peralta and Esteban Sánchez-Moreno
37 Assisted dying in social work 115
Donna McAuliffe
38 Cancer care discourse 118
Rosalie Pockett and Kim Hobbs
39 Care-experienced young peoples mental health: co-producing system change
121
Pearse McCusker, Autumn Roesch-Marsh, and Christina McMellon
40 Childhood-onset disability: engaging families with lived experience 124
Lyndal Hickey
41 Child-to-parent violence and abuse: social work challenges and responses
127
Declan Coogan and Tara Kelly
42 Corrections and social work 130
Vivian Geiran
43 Cultural conceptualization of child neglect: when wrong is deemed to be
right 133
Esmeranda Manful and Alhassan Abdullah
44 Decision-making and bias in child protection systems 136
Ian Hyslop and Emily Keddell
45 Diasporic experiences of Indigenous women: an intersectional gender
perspective 139
Alicia del Pilar Rain
46 Disability: contrasting approaches 142
Hisayo Katsui
47 Disability: future care provision planning for children 146
Clara Jung Won Choi
48 Elder abuse and neglect 149
Stephan Geyer
49 Family rights in children and families social work 152
Ariane Critchley
50 Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and social work 155
Anita Gibbs
51 Financial counselling as an intervention to enhance financial wellbeing
158
Katri Viitasalo, Anniina Kaittila, and Jin Huang
52 Gender-based violence and social work 161
Sarah Wendt
53 Homelessness and social work 164
Robyn Martin
54 Hospice social work at end-of-life 167
Geok Ling Lee
55 Indebtedness 170
Lorena Pérez-Roa
56 Indigeneity in statutory care: centring Indigenous knowing, being, and
doing 173
Kerri Cleaver
57 Intimate partner violence 176
Ariana Zane and John Devaney
58 Men, masculinities, and interpersonal violence 179
Alankaar Sharma
59 Mental disorders and cultural beliefs: social work strategies to combat
stigma 182
Nontembeko Joyce Bila
60 Migrant experiences of 1.5 generation 185
Hyeeun Kim
61 Older people and their families 188
Alisoun Milne and Sarah Donnelly
62 Out of home care 191
Lorna Stabler
63 Precarious livelihoods and social work 194
Catherina Schenck and Derick Blaauw
64 Primary healthcare and the role of social work: strengths, challenges, and
collaborative potential 197
Nele Feryn, Joris De Corte, and Rudi Roose
65 Rural social work 200
Margaret Alston and Tricia Hazeleger
66 Safe supply in the context of harm reduction 203
Donna Baines and Mohamed Ibrahim
67 School-based avoidance and social work 206
Jennifer Rafter and Joshua Law
68 School social work: re-examining the multifaceted layers 209
Jennifer Rafter
69 Self-neglect and hoarding 212
David M.R. Orr
70 Sexual and gender diversity in later life: resilience, resistance,
engagement and support 215
Trish Hafford-Letchfield
71 Social determinants of health and social work 218
Karen M. Sewell and Toula Kourgiantakis
72 Street childrens hope in poverty-related contexts 220
Dieuveut Gaïty
73 Substance use 223
Wulf Livingston
74 Teenage motherhood: stigma and wellbeing 226
Jemma Hamley
75 Young carers: rights, relationships, and resilience 229
James Cox and Kalia Kaparounaki
76 Youth justice and social work 232
Jioji Ravulo
77 Youth participation in cancer care 235
Kate Thompson, Ilana Berger, and Lynette Joubert
SECTION 3 EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL WORK 238
Introduction 239
Liz Beddoe and Darla Spence Coffey
78 Artificial intelligence in social work education 241
Tarsem Singh Cooner
79 Artificial intelligence in social work: ethical considerations 244
Egl umskien
80 Artificial intelligence: opportunities and challenges for integration in
practice 247
Caroline Webb and Deborah Hadwin
81 Arts-based pedagogy and fiction literature 250
Eveliina Heino and Laura Tarkiainen
82 Co-creating social work curriculum 253
Louise Whitaker and Brenda Morris
83 Critical approaches to social work regulation and licensure 255
Donna Baines and Natalie Clark
84 Critical social theory in social work education 258
Paul Michael Garrett
85 Decolonizing the social work curriculum: important processes 261
Joleen Ryan and Sophie Goldingay
86 Distance education in social work: increasing student engagement 264
Kim Robinson and Sevi Vassos
87 Doctoral education in social work: emerging trends 267
Susan P. Kemp
88 Ethics in social work 270
Sarah Banks
89 Global standards for social work training and education 273
Darla Spence Coffey
90 Indigenization of social work in China 276
Jie Lei and Xuejiao Yi
91 Interprofessional collaborative education and practice 278
Darla Spence Coffey
92 Leadership for systems change 280
Christa Fouché
93 Management in social work: a conceptual framework for balancing service
capacity and quality 283
Lambert K. Engelbrecht
94 Podcasting content in social work 286
Mim Fox
95 Resilience for social workers: personal and organizational dimensions 289
Louise Grant
96 Retention of social workers: examples from 20 years of research 291
Pia Tham
97 Student mental health in social work education: impacts and implications
294
Liz Beddoe and Susan Gair
98 Student poverty as a social justice issue 297
Susan Gair and Liz Beddoe
99 Supervision in social work 300
David Wilkins
100 Teaching critical reflection 303
Christine Morley
101 Work-integrated learning in social work education 306
Kathryn Hay and Tracie Mafileo
SECTION 4 RESEARCH IN SOCIAL WORK 309
Introduction 310
Louise Harms, Ilse Julkunen, and Christa Fouché
102 Academicpractice research collaboration 313
Nanne Isokuortti, Ilse Julkunen, and Maija Jäppinen
103 Ageing and social work research: challenges and opportunities 316
Sarah Donnelly and Alisoun Milne
104 Case study research in social work 319
Mary Liya Kanakkappally Antony, and Christa Fouché
105 Clinical health practice research 323
Alys-Marie Manguy and Alison Hocking
106 Constructivist grounded theory in social work research 326
Annaley Clarke and Karen Healy
107 Creative collaboration in research 329
Catrine Torbjørnsen Halås
108 Creative writing in social work research 332
Mona B. Livholts
109 Critical policy analysis: inequity, advocacy and frameworks for practice
335
Jennifer Davidson
110 Critical realism and social work research: a brief introduction 338
Stan Houston
111 Decolonizing citational practices in social work scholarship and research
341
Gurnam Singh
112 Design decisions for research: strengthening congruence 345
Laura Ann Chubb and Christa Fouché
113 Evidence in community research: criteria for credibility and
actionability 348
Laura Ann Chubb and Christa Fouché
114 Ethnographic methods to observe social work practice 352
Harry Ferguson
115 Experimental designs in research 355
Celia Chan
116 Fundamentals of quantitative data analysis in social work research 359
Ladan Hashemi and Allen Bartley
117 Historical methodology in social work 363
John Gal and Roni Holler
118 Historiography as a social work research approach 366
Darja Zavirek and Susanne M. Maurer
119 Interpretative phenomenological analysis as a research approach for
social work 369
Sarah Vicary and Gillian Ferguson
120 Multimethod participatory research designs: selection and sequencing
considerations 372
Laura Ann Chubb
121 Multiple case study methodology 376
Tobias Pötzsch
122 Narrative methods in social work research 378
Michaela Rogers
123 Participatory research in social work education 381
Niamh Flanagan and Elaine Wilson
124 Photovoice and social work research 384
Michele Jarldorn
125 Practice research: the organizational context 387
Bowen McBeath and Michael J. Austin
126 Practice-based research in social work: enhancing field education and
service delivery 391
Lynette Joubert and Alison Hocking
127 Reflexive thematic analysis for social work research 395
Eileen Joy
128 Researching with First Nations youth 398
Mishel McMahon and Corina Modderman
129 Service users as collaborators in social work research 401
Maja Andersen, Kirsten Mejlvig, and Lars Uggerhøj
130 Synthesizing the literature to inform social work practice and research
404
Katheryn Margaret Pascoe and Deborah Lynch
131 Systematic literature searching for social work 408
Katheryn Margaret Pascoe
132 Theory of change and social work research 411
Kelsey Deane
SECTION 5 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS IN SOCIAL WORK 414
Introduction 415
Antoinette Lombard, Jioji Ravulo, and Liz Beddoe
133 Activists, advocates, and agitators: social works enduring radical
kernel 418
Michael Lavalette
134 Anti-oppressive social work: theory and practice 421
Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, and Natalie Clark
135 Anti-racism in social work 424
Prospera Tedam
136 Attachment and human development: challenging Western perspectives 427
Peter Choate and Gabrielle Lindstrom
137 Children and young peoples agency 430
Esther C. L. Goh
138 Cognitive behavioural therapy 433
Barbara Staniforth
139 Co-production in social work practice 436
Shulamit Ramon
140 Counselling in social work 439
Barbara Staniforth and Jo Appleby
141 Critical incident reflection 442
Ilse Julkunen, Lars Uggerhøj, and Nina Schiøll Skjefstad
142 Cultural humility in the context of social work 445
Yayoi Ide
143 Dissenting social work 448
Paul Michael Garrett
144 Epistemic injustice and social work 451
Silvia Fargion
145 Feminism and social work 454
Ruth Phillips
146 Geopolitics of social work knowledge 457
Gianinna Muñoz Arce
147 Grief, loss, and social work 460
Panagiotis Pentaris
148 Indigenous resilience 463
Hilary N. Weaver
149 Intersectional feminist perspective on womens mental health 466
Emma Tseris
150 Intersectionality and social work 469
Claudia Bernard
151 Motivational interviewing and social work 472
Donald Forrester
152 Power and social work 474
Stephen A. Webb
153 Psychodynamic theory and social work practice: the relational turn 477
Lina Hartocollis
154 Reciprocal filial care framework 481
Hong-Jae Park
155 Reflective practice: theoretical perspectives 484
Gillian Ruch
156 Social and community development for sustainable and transformative
change 487
Antoinette Lombard
157 Social protection across the lifecourse 490
Caroline McGregor
158 Spirituality and social work: theory and practice 493
Holly Nelson-Becker
159 Strengths perspective in social work 496
Robin Miller
160 Trauma-informed social work practice 499
Louise Harms and Kath Sellick
Edited by Christa Fouché, Professor of Social Work and Liz Beddoe, Professor of Social Work, School of Education and Social Practice, University of Auckland, New Zealand
