This paper describes research undertaken as part of an MA study in leadership. It draws on interviews with six high profile leaders at the fore front of end of life care sector in the UK. Its findings and emerging themes offer insights about the opportunities for social work leaders in palliative care in the future and how the profession and palliative care sector address current barriers to ta...

Social workers provide services to populations with mental health issues, including suicidal ideations and are thus at risk of experiencing a client suicide at some point during their career. Limited research using quantitative methods has explored the effect of client suicide on social workers, but little is known about their reactions from a qualitative standpoint-a method of study that is es...

This study applies qualitative methodology to the study of sociopolitical development (SPD) among community and labor organizers of color. Participant data (open-ended applications) were obtained from a long-standing training institution, span 18 years (n=200), and equally represent Black, Latino/a, and Asian individuals. This study sought to reveal important dimensions of SPD and to identify c...

This paper presents JAM (Joint Action Matrix Factorization), a novel framework to summarize social activity from rich media social networks. Summarizing social network activities requires an understanding of the relationships among concepts, users, and the context in which the concepts are used. Our work has three contributions: First, we propose a novel summarization method which extracts the ...

This paper explores the use of gift-giving as a theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior in online networks and communities. Not only has gift-giving the potential to frame and explain much social media behavior, but reversely, and perhaps more importantly, mediated social behavior also has the potential to develop gift-giving theory. Information and communication tech...

Background: Social capital has been described as a person’s sense of belonging as a result of the number and type of relationships she/he has, in which trust and reciprocity are especially important. Aim: To illuminate older persons’ experiences of social capital and depressive illhealth after implementation of the CCM. Methods: Data were collected from nine participants resident in two distric...

ahmad shoghi known as amir al-shoara, is one of the most famous contemporary poets of arabic literature. his poetry never served himself or his personal life but was all the time for the sake of others. he never ignored the poetic motives; on the contrary, he studied them very deeply, although he was not a poet with a worldwide reputation, shoghi was one of the famous poets of east and one of t...

background: smoking is the cause for many preventable deaths worldwide. the rate of smoking has not increased in iran in the past two decades, but its increase among adolescents and young adults is a concern. this study investigates the risk factors of initiation and continuation of smoking in iran using a qualitative approach. methods: this is a qualitative content analysis study conducted on ...