Social Worker Shame in Child and Family Social Work: Inadequacy, Failure, and the Struggle to Practise Humanely

Gibson, Matthew

doi:10.1080/02650533.2014.913237

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“…Shame is a self-conscious emotion that has attracted increased research attention in recent decades, with emergent findings showing strong evidence for the pervasive nature of the emotion. Shame is a 'self-conscious' emotion, in that it requires self-awareness and a capacity for self-representations, and it is inherently linked to issues of living up to moral standards important for self-definition and identity [16]. Fear of Failure, Motivational Beliefs, and Sociocultural Influences serve as Antecedents of Achievement Goals.…”

Section: Results and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Scientific Character through Empowerment of Shame Culture in Higher Education

Mardhiah¹,

Hadiyanto²,

Hakam³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Humanity, Education and Social Sciences (Ico

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The advancement of digital era has contributed in developing the quality of human resources, accelerating the process of searching knowledge, and affecting demographic and social value aspects. This change requires the Islamic education curriculum to adjust with the challenges and needs in the digital era, especially in the development of scientific character. Scientific character is manifestation of physical and psychological scientific work ethos in creating and implementing science, technology, and art. This study aims to investigate how scientific work ethos can be empowered through fostering shame attitude. This research uses descriptive-qualitative approach and the data were collected by using interviews and questionnaires. To support data analysis, data triangulation was used. The samples were the students of Islamic Education Study Program of Universitas Negeri Jakarta, who were selected by sampling quota technique. The research results show that, in developing the scientific character through shame culture, there are reinforcing components or stimuli that help the process. These reinforcements or stimuli are religious doctrine, reward, and punishment. These components serve as a drive or motive for certain thoughts or actions related to shame and are religiously or socially influenced. The empowerment and habituation aspects that can be used to develop scientific character are 1) the factors which trigger shame in academic activities 2) the factors that maintain the shame culture in relation to God, other people and self, 3) the function of shame culture to motivate positive behaviors, and 4) the function of shame or fear as a control and filter in creating and implementing science, technology, and arts.

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Section: Results and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Scientific Character through Empowerment of Shame Culture in Higher Education

Mardhiah¹,

Hadiyanto²,

Hakam³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Humanity, Education and Social Sciences (Ico

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“…Since the late 1980s, the ambiguity of the SWs' professional and public role [ 7 ] has represented a recurrent and challenging conundrum for SWs. The awkward feeling in facing the users' needs and expectations may trigger unease and what Gibson [ 8 ] identifies as “moral distress.” Moreover, scholars [ 9 ] argue that the very core of social work lies in the relationship with users. In addition, SWs have to struggle in order to achieve respect and public recognition of their role, despite the informal setting they work in and the sometimes very unstructured and differentiated outcome evaluation procedures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The lack of social recognition and the sense of “not being good enough” [ 10 ] make them feel responsible for negative outcomes or even for splitting the children's family up [ 8 , 11 ]. Defensive strategies are often adopted in facing fear of gaining a bad reputation [ 12 ] and shame may arise from the belief that their own abilities, skills, and knowledge are not sufficient to ensure best practices and children's and users' safety and recovery.…”

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Dissatisfaction in Child Welfare and Its Role in Predicting Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction at Work: A Mixed-Method Research

Berlanda

Pedrazza

Trifiletti

et al. 2017

BioMed Research International

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Child welfare organizations are increasingly concerned with challenges emerging from the assessment of social workers' dissatisfaction. This type of service represents the work area where social workers are at greater risk of burnout. Although several studies account for high social workers' burnout scores, they do not systematically dwell upon its sources and roots. In addition, scholars point out that a considerable number of work related issues may be perceived both as a source of dissatisfaction and satisfaction. We assume that there is a need to deepen the understanding of how dissatisfaction's sources may exert an impact on both personal job satisfaction and professional self-efficacy, which are positively associated with well-being at work. The present mixed-method research has two aims: (1) the extensive exploration, applying qualitative methodology, of the perceived sources of dissatisfaction; (2) the attempt to identify the extent to which those sources predict job satisfaction and professional self-efficacy. It is our purpose to further explore which differences emerge by age. The research involved child welfare workers, that is, SWs employed in public child welfare agencies in the North East of Italy. Results show the predominant role of interpersonal trust and mutual respect, as main predictors of both professional self-efficacy and job satisfaction. Practical implications of findings are discussed.

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“…In social work, Walker's (2011) practitioners report how they are labelled "baby snatchers" by peers, who respond with derisory and mocking comments to their work; practitioners' subsequent resistance to revealing their roles creates cultures of silence indicative of the profession's disempowerment and inability to resist attacks. Gibson's (2015) social workers are anxious about making the wrong practice choices in a popular and political climate willing to shame and discipline practitioners because of perceived failings, specifically child deaths; these feelings are intensified in a vortex of under-resourced services and managerialist performance cultures. Overall, these research studies represent workers as committed practitioners who do difficult jobs in tough times and challenging contexts.…”

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Recollection-as-method in social welfare practice: dirty work, shame and resistance

Dobson

2017

QRJ

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to introduce a methodology for critical welfare practice research, "recollection-as-method", and to use this to demonstrate the social relations of social welfare institutions.Design/methodology/approach -The paper analyses a series of personal recollections from the author's experiences of academic life and welfare work to establish a methodology for critical welfare practice research. This uses concepts memory, dirty work, shame and complicity, and is grounded in critical feminist and critical race work, and psychosocial and socio-cultural approaches to governance.Findings -The paper establishes a methodology for critical welfare practice research by demonstrating the significance of using an ontologically driven approach to governance, to achieve a realistic and complex understanding of statutory welfare work.Research limitations/implications -Recollections are post hoc narrations, written in the present day. The ethics and robustness of this approach are deliberated in the paper.Practical implications -The focus of the paper is on statutory welfare practice that involves the assessment and regulation of homeless people. Principles and arguments developed in this paper contribute to reflective and reflexive debates across "front-line" social welfare practice fields in and beyond homelessness. Examples include assessment of social groups such as unemployed people, refugees and asylum seekers. Arguments also have application for criminal justice settings such as for prison work.Social implications -This foregrounds practitioner ambivalence and resistance in order to theorise the social relations of social welfare institutions.Originality/value -The recollection-as-method approach provides a methodology for critical practice research by demonstrating an alternative way to understand the realities of welfare work. It argues that understanding how resistance and complicity operate in less conscious and more structural ways is important for understanding the social relations of social welfare institutions and the role of good/bad feeling for these processes. This is important for understanding interventions required for anti-oppressive social change across the social worlds of policy-practice life.

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Social Worker Shame in Child and Family Social Work: Inadequacy, Failure, and the Struggle to Practise Humanely

Cited by 35 publications

References 83 publications

Developing Scientific Character through Empowerment of Shame Culture in Higher Education

Developing Scientific Character through Empowerment of Shame Culture in Higher Education

Dissatisfaction in Child Welfare and Its Role in Predicting Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction at Work: A Mixed-Method Research

Recollection-as-method in social welfare practice: dirty work, shame and resistance

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