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Italian and Swedish social workers’ perceptions of power: Between welfare and child protection systems, professional mandate and clients
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA).
2016 (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016.
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18182OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-18182DiVA, id: diva2:1464112
Available from: 2020-09-04 Created: 2020-09-04 Last updated: 2024-01-16Bibliographically approved
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1. Social work assessment of families with children at risk: similarities and differences in Italian and Swedish public services
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Social work assessment of families with children at risk: similarities and differences in Italian and Swedish public services
2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The thesis aims at understanding and explaining social work assessment of families with children at risk, at the level of practice, considering social workers' role in their national welfare system.· The thesis embodies four articles and is informed by a comparative perspective between Sweden and Italy. The first three articles are based on a vignette study focusing on social workers' assessment of three cases of children at risk and the fourth article draws on a broad cross-national survey focusing on social workers' perception of power. The comparison shows great similarities in assessment and line of reasoning when it comes to cases involving infants and small children, while differences are more evident when it comes to adolescent behaviour. Italian social workers are in general more oriented to intervene than their Swedish counterparts. However, Swedish social workers perceive that they have greater power towards their · clients than their Italian colleagues. Differences in the assessment at level of practice are only partly explained by national welfare systems. Also local organisational structures, cultural understandings, and the role assumed by professionals in respect.to their mandate, seem to be influencing factors when it comes to soda! workers' assessment of families with children at risk.

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Malmö university, 2016. p. 83
Series
Malmö University Health and Society Dissertations, ISSN 1653-5383 ; 9
Keywords
child maltreatment, adolescent alcohol consumption, Italy, Sweden, social work, assessment
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7306 (URN)21484 (Local ID)9789171047342 (ISBN)9789171047359 (ISBN)21484 (Archive number)21484 (OAI)
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2022-06-27Bibliographically approved

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