The ways in which social workers experience a range of emotions that are evoked in their
professional relationships with children and families is an area that is little focused upon and …

This paper aims to utilize social theory to inform relationship‐based social work practice with
children, young people and families. We see 'direct relationship‐based working'drawing on …

A key issue for the social work profession concerns the nature, quality and content of
communicative encounters with children and families. This article introduces some findings …

Communication skills are fundamental to social work, yet few studies have directly evaluated
their impact. In this study, we explore the relationship between skills and outcomes in 127 …

A consistent observation in the social work literature is that remarkably little attention has
been paid to the day-to-day practice of social work or the experiences of social workers. This …

Huumeista riippuvaisten ihmisten elämäntilanteisiin kytkeytyy usein monia toimijuutta
heikentäviä sosiaalisia ja terveydellisiä ilmiöitä, kuten kodittomuutta, vähävaraisuutta tai …

Tutkimus tarkastelee kiireellisen sijoituksen päätöksentekoa sosiaalityöntekijöiden arkisena
työnä ja työkäytäntöinä. Tutkimus kiinnittyy osaksi arviointia ja päätöksentekoa koskevaan …

Writing this book has involved quite a few personal examples of relational interdependent
and imagined mobilities. To begin with, we wrote the whole book being (at least) 280 miles …

Given that research identifies parental experiences of shame and humiliation in the child
protection process, this article reports on a qualitative study that investigated how and why …

The COVID-19 pandemic changed dramatically the ways social workers engaged with
children and families. This article presents findings from our research into the effects of …