Can religious social workers practice affirmatively with LGBTQ service recipients? An exploration within the regulatory context

Gamete and Embryo Donation and Surrogacy in Australia: The Social Context and Regulatory Framework

Exploring the development of social alignment within an innovation context

There has been increasing attention in IS literature around the technology-business relationship and the concept of social alignment. However, little attention has been given to how or why social alignment should be developed. Further examining the concept this paper explores the development of social alignment within an innovation context. Using canonical action research the study is based wit...

Comparative Study of Burnout Rate of Psychiatric Social Workers with Other Areas of Social Work Practice in Tehran

Introduction: Psychiatric social work is one of the most important areas in which social workers as a member of the treatment team provide specialized services in providing a supportive environment for people with mental disorders and their families to meet their needs and return to society. Because one of the factors influencing the quality of social services provided to social work target gro...

Patterns of the meaning of good practice, with an emphasis on High school Social studies books

The purpose of this article is to identify and describe the meaning of good in social studies textbooks of the first secondary school. The methodology of this article is based on the combined quantitative and qualitative approach. According to the obtained findings, it is determined that: 1- Good as public and social participation 2- Good as a transsexual matter 3- Good as a transhuman practice...

Exploring the Sacred-Secular Dialect in Everyday Social Work Practice: An Analysis of Religious Responses to Managerialism among Outreach Social Workers in Hong Kong

We examine the recent proliferation of religious discourses among front line social workers in the former British Colony of Hong Kong in order to explore the nature of 're-enchantment' in modern social work practice. In-depth qualitative interviews with twenty social workers who identify as 'Christian social workers' in a variety of social work organisations (both religious and secular) reveal ...