The online lifeworld gives adolescents various opportunities to meet their developmental needs. Not all young people benefit from these opportunities. They encounter negative experiences, have difficulties fulfilling their needs and engage in risky and harmful behaviours in the online lifeworld. This poses challenges for Dutch youth work professionals, as little is known about the digital lives of Dutch adolescents and the challenges they encounter when meeting their developmental needs in the online lifeworld. In this qualitative study, a photovoice method was used to collect screenshots from adolescents (N = 175) concerning their experiences and needs in the online lifeworld. Six types of developmental needs in the online lifeworld were distinguished. The article concludes that understanding how adolescents use online affordances to fulfil their developmental needs is a starting point for all youth work professionals in providing adequate support to adolescents in the online lifeworld.
Woedend is hij, op mensen die een bontjas dragen. Als hij zo iemand ziet op straat, loopt hij erop af en wijst hij hen op de verwerpelijkheid van hun gedrag. Aan het woord is Maarten, 24 jaar, een fervent dierenbevrijdingsactivist en veganist. We spreken hem op een terras van een van de weinige cafés in een klein dorpje in het zuiden van het land. Maarten woont om de hoek, maar hij wil ons liever niet bij hem thuis ontvangen, omdat hij niemand zegt te vertrouwen. Hij vertelt dat hij eigenlijk nooit een uitgaanstype is geweest. Zo is hij bijvoorbeeld nog nooit naar een discotheek geweest. Hij rookt niet, heeft nooit drugs gebruikt, en drinkt geen alcohol. Ook drinkt hij geen drankjes met prik. Een van de mensen voor wie hij bewondering zegt te hebben is Volkert van der G., de moordenaar van Pim Fortuyn, die hij tijdens het interview steevast Volkert noemt, alsof het een bekende van hem is. Het gezin waarin Maarten opgegroeid is, bestaat uit vader, moeder en twee zonen. Zijn ouders zijn een aantal jaren geleden gescheiden. Maarten vertelt dat zijn moeder hem van jongs af aan zijn liefde voor de natuur heeft bijgebracht. Maar tegelijkertijd werd hij als kind al geconfronteerd met dierenleed.
Welcome to this second issue of the new journal, European Social Work Research (ESWR), which was launched earlier this year through a partnership between the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA) and Policy Press. The rationale and focus of the journal are discussed more fully in the Editorial for the first issue (Uggerhøj et al, 2023). It was an aspiration from early in the life of ESWRA (Taylor and Sharland, 2015) to have a journal dedicated to social work research in Europe and to have a dynamic interplay between a journal and the conference series. We are delighted to see this now coming to fruit! This second issue of the journal is a special issue that focuses on papers delivered at the Eleventh European Conference for Social Work Research, which was held in April 2022 at the University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The main theme for the conference was 'Enhancing and sustaining social inclusion through social work research'. We live in complex times, both socially and economically. The conference theme was chosen in the context of growing inequality, where social inclusion is more important than ever. One of the tasks of social work research is to address societal challenges and to contribute to finding solutions for these challenges. The conference also focused on the seven themes that give the conference series its cohesion 1 and included lively debate at more than 20 ESWRA special interest groups (SIGs).The European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR) is the annual Conference of the ESWRA and the key event by which members of the association meet each year. After the years of involuntary distancing due to the pandemic lockdowns, the ESWRA and the Local Organizing Committee for the Conference were very pleased to welcome 650 participants and presenters from 39 countries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. The conference provided an interesting platform for discussions about a wide range of aspects of social work research in a European context. A first day of SIG activities was followed by multiple parallel sessions in which the state of the art of social work research was (re)presented. Keynote speakers addressed: social inclusion in times of under-resourced social work (Veldboer); reflections on an inclusive society and different perspectives of social work (Bartolí); social work research, voice and epistemic injustice (Fargion); a study hall SPECIAL ISSUE • Enhancing and sustaining social inclusion through social work research
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