This study examines the emotional labour of social workers serving families living in poverty.
Based on in‐depth interviews and focus groups, the study concentrates on frontline social …

The relationship between deprivation and health and educational inequalities has been well
evidenced in the literature. Recent UK research has now established a similar social …

In all European countries, social assistance legislation specifies that the receipt of benefits is
conditional upon the willingness to work. Nevertheless, the manner in which such policies …

This study reports the development of a new Blame Index to determine attributions of the
causes of poverty along a single structural-to-individual dimension. A multisite pre-/post …

Within this paper, a new course for first year social work students that targets the
development of a nuanced understanding regarding issues of poverty in the United States …

The purpose of this article is to appraise two competing frameworks related to poverty
attribution: individualistic theories and structural theories. Using the Theory Evaluation Scale …

Drawing on political opportunity theory, this study examined how the political context created
by the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests influenced social workers' …

This study aims to explore the impact of climate change anxiety on various aspects of social
work and examine the relationship between anxiety and socio-demographic variables. The …

The attitudes that social work students hold about race and poverty impact the effectiveness
of their practice in the field. This study assessed color-blind racial attitudes and attitudes …

The professional socialization of social work students involves the communication of social
work values. A trend in teaching about poverty as a context rather than direct content …