Ethics in an age of austerity: Social work and the evolving New Public Management This article examines the growth of interest in social work ethics in the context of neo-liberal policies and the growth of managerialism ...

The global financial crisis: response of social workers to the financial capability of vulnerable households in South Africa The current global financial crisis is regarded as the worst economic slowdown since the Second ...

How social workers experience supervision: results of an empirical study in the healthcare sector Very few studies provide insights into how social workers experience supervision as a means of supporting their professional ...

A model for dealing with parallel processes in supervision Supervision in social work is essential for successful outcomes when working with clients. In social work, unconscious difficulties may arise and similar difficulties ...

Space or gap? About communication and cooperation between managers and professionals Social workers often find themselves captured between a managerial logic, which is often instrumentally orientated and bureaucratically ...

Confusion between tongues about participation “Participation” is a popular word in Dutch local policy, even more since the introduction of the Social Support Act (Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning) and Participation Act ...

Ch@thulp … vijfvoudige uitdaging voor de opleiding sociaal werk van de Arteveldehogeschool The implementation of chat help in welfare organizations in Flanders challenges the University College Arteveldehogeschool in ...

Quality of relationship-building in low-threshold addiction and mental health care The goal of this article is to report about a quest to find a measure for evaluation of the quality of relationship-building in health ...

The linguistic dance of social work Language is a very important matter in every science. It facilitates the transfer and circulation of knowledge, which is necessary for the permanent evolution in a profession. In social ...