This paper is an introduction to the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Social Therapy and its practical application as a group intervention. Developed from the post-modern Marxist approach and inspired by the Vygotksy development theory, it is a performatory therapy which is very little known in Brazil. In this paper, initially, we will present the historical background in which this approach was developed and its main authors. Later we will present its concepts and methodology and finally its practices, taking the group as the focal point of this modality of work. Having in its proposal the permanent focus in building the group and in its emancipation, the Social Therapy has been presented as a potent group intervention in the construction of social change.
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Designers have grown increasingly interested in social consequences of new technologies. As social impacts become increasingly important it might be fruitful to understand how social impacts develop and how a designer can anticipate these consequences. In health care practices, for instance, it is important to control unintended social impacts at forehand. Social impact is an outcome of the mediating effect of a technology with its social environment. Human behaviour in a social environment can be analysed from the perspective of a social ecological system. To anticipate social impacts simulations of social practices are needed. To simulate practices the persona approach has been adapted to a screenplay approach in which the elements of a social ecology are used to gain a rich description of a social environment. This has been applied for a 'Heart Managers' case. It was concluded that the screenplay approach can be used for a systematic simulation of future social impacts.
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Purpose: The study aims to understand the meaning of event-based and place-based community practices, as well as the resulting social impacts. Design/methodology/approach: An ethnomethodological approach was followed (participant observation and interviews were supplemented by secondary data), with the analysis being exploratory and interpretative. Findings: The festival and the place reinforce the community’s social practices, which have impacts beyond the festival, benefiting individuals, the community and the place, becoming a means for valorisation and diffusion of the rural way of life, and placemaking. Research limitations/implications: In this study the authors focus on social practices in the context of an event and of a place (the village where the event occurs). The authors connect to theories of practice, which they apply in the analysis. The value of the study lies on the underlying mechanisms (how communities exercise social practices in the context of festivals, and what social impacts may lead to) rather than its context-dependent specific results. Practical implications: National and regional authorities can play a role in providing local communities with adequate tools to overcome the challenges they encounter. This can be done by issuing appropriate (events) plans and policies while giving room for the locals to voice their opinions. Social implications: Community-based festivals are key social practices that can strategically impact placemaking, strengthening community bonding, forging connections with outsiders and promoting well-being practices that discourage rural depopulation. Originality/value: There is a scarcity of research that deepens the understanding of the role of festivals in placemaking and their social impacts, particularly in the rural context. This study contributes to closing this gap by focussing on the social practices of a community-based festival in a village in the interior of Portugal.
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Expectations are high for digital technologies to address sustainability related challenges. While research into such applications and the twin transformation is growing rapidly, insights in the actual daily practices of digital sustainability within organizations is lacking. This is problematic as the contributions of digital tools to sustainability goals gain shape in organizational practices. To bridge this gap, we develop a theoretical perspective on digital sustainability practices based on practice theory, with an emphasis on the concept of sociomateriality. We argue that connecting meanings related to sustainability with digital technologies is essential to establish beneficial practices. Next, we contend that the meaning of sustainability is contextspecific, which calls for a local meaning making process. Based on our theoretical exploration we develop an empirical research agenda.
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The article engages with the recent studies on multilevel regulation. The starting point for the argument is that contemporary multilevel regulation—as most other studies of (postnational) rulemaking—is limited in its analysis. The limitation concerns its monocentric approach that, in turn, deepens the social illegitimacy of contemporary multilevel regulation. The monocentric approach means that the study of multilevel regulation originates in the discussions on the foundation of modern States instead of returning to the origins of rules before the nation State was even created, which is where the actual social capital underlying (contemporary) rules can be found, or so I wish to argue. My aim in this article is to reframe the debate. I argue that we have an enormous reservoir of history, practices, and ideas ready to help us think through contemporary (social) legitimacy problems in multilevel regulation: namely all those practices which preceded the capture of law by the modern State system, such as historical alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices.
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De sector Beschermd Wonen en Maatschappelijke Opvang (BW/MO) heeft te maken met een groeiend aantal forensische cliënten. Er is behoefte aan een overzicht van best practices, do’s en don’ts in het methodisch handelen bij deze doelgroep. De vraag die we met dit onderzoek willen beantwoorden is: Welke best practices zijn er in de BW/MO-sector voor de begeleiding van en zorg aan forensische cliënten? In het huidige onderzoek zijn - na een literatuurverkenning - op systematische wijze de ervaringen van forensisch sociaal werkers en cliënten verzameld en bestudeerd. Dit werd op verschillende manieren gedaan in drie fases: Fase 1: Verkenning: groepsinterviews bij 15 BW/MO-instellingen Fase 2: Verdieping: 11 casuïstiekbesprekingen bij BW/MO-instellingen Fase 3: Uitwisseling: een onlinebijeenkomst (forensisch carrousel) De forensische doelgroep binnen de BW/MO bestaat voornamelijk uit mannen met multiproblematiek, zoals verslaving, agressie en psychiatrische problemen. Ze wonen in verschillende beschermde woonvormen met meer of minder zelfstandigheid en (ambulante) begeleiding. De belangrijkste best practices die professionals tijdens de verkenning noemden zijn: het bieden van een duidelijke structuur en heldere kaders, investeren in de werkalliantie (onder andere vanuit de presentiebenadering), goede samenwerking met ketenpartners met duidelijke afspraken over ieders taken en verantwoordelijkheden, herstelgericht werken aan kleine doelen, werken aan destigmatisering, werken met signaleringsplannen en risicotaxaties, zorgvuldig plaatsen van cliënten en de inzet van vrijwilligers en forensische ervaringsdeskundigen. Een deel van de instellingen plaatst forensische cliënten bij elkaar (geclusterd) omdat forensische expertise dan gerichter kan worden ingezet, andere instellingen plaatsen forensische cliënten bij andere cliënten (gespikkeld) om normalisering in de hand te werken. In de verdiepingsfase kwamen de volgende best practices aan de orde met betrekking tot ketensamenwerking: duidelijkheid scheppen over rollen en verantwoordelijkheden, de cliënt zelf laten beslissen bij uitstroom na detentie met bajes-uit begeleiding, en driegesprekken organiseren met toezichthouder, begeleider en cliënt. Best practices met betrekking tot krachtgericht werken zijn: duidelijke grenzen stellen, zoeken naar datgene waar de cliënt zelf regie op kan voeren en bekrachtigen wat iemand bereikt binnen het kader van de bijzondere voorwaarden. Overige best practices zijn: zorgvuldige matching van cliënt en vrijwilliger en werken aan destigmatisering op verschillende niveaus. Tijdens het forensisch carrousel is de bredere toepasbaarheid van de verzamelde best practices verkend. Werkzame elementen van goede ketensamenwerking, krachtgericht en herstelgericht werken in relatie tot risico’s en probleemgedrag, de inzet van vrijwilligers en ervaringsdeskundigen en werken aan destigmatisering werden breed onderkend, maar er zijn ook uitdagingen. Deskundigheidsbevordering is daarmee zowel een best practice als een aanbeveling.
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The goal of this study is to identify the perspectives that development NGOs attribute to organisational social media, and furthermore elaborate on an appropriate categorisation of these perspectives for social media use by development NGOs. How social media is used in the area of development, where the use goes far beyond the private sector purpose of publicity and converting a sale, is a key issue for NGOs. Fourteen development NGOs from the Netherlands that are actively using social media were selected for this study. Interviews were conducted to collect data from the decision makers and practitioners in these organisations. The grounded theory method combined with a multiple case study was applied for data analysis. The resulting preliminary framework presents us with four emerging perspectives, namely Technological, Individual, Collective and Contextual perspectives attributed to organisational social media use. We theorise that there are relationships between these four perspectives. This paper suggests that the understanding of (organisational) social media use among development NGOs can be better understood by identifying these perspectives and their inter-relationships. The implications of these findings for the literature on affordances and organisational social media use in the context of development and NGOs are discussed. Recommended Citation Sheombar, Anand; Urquhart, Cathy; Kayas, Oliver; and Ndhlovu, Tidings, "Social Media and Development: Understanding NGO practices and perceptions" (2018). GlobDev 2018. 3. https://aisel.aisnet.org/globdev2018/3
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Because social workers respond to local contexts, it is often said that social work is not a global profession. Indeed, social workers adapt their practices to local conditions. However, these local practices are recognised globally. The exchange of these practices and methods enriches social workers, inspires them and strengthens the further development of the profession. To facilitate this exchange, social work has had several international associations and networks for almost a century, which have enabled the sharing of local practices and educational programs. Today, social work works within a basic international framework that guides both professional practice and education. This descriptive article will take the reader through the history of international social work, by mentioning some global social work associations and networks and their achievements. Furthermore, the article will address internationalisation of the social work curriculum and will mention the added values and disadvantages of an international experience abroad. (Includes an abstract in the Slovakian language)
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Abstract: In this article I will reconstruct the Dutch debate on citizenship against the developing thinking about social citizenship in the context of globalization. I will show that the confusion around citizenship in the Netherlands can be seen as a result from a split between an unanimous negative valuation of Dutch citizen participation and the practice in which the participation of Dutch population is high. Recent theory on citizenship and participation localizes citizen participation, through membership, in the heart of citizenship practices (B.S. Turner). This can be understood as that all kinds of practices and activities can be viewed as citizenship practices and citizenship activities. From this perspective it becomes clear that in the Netherlands, due to the nation-state conceptualisation of citizenship social participation is not acknowledged as part of citizenship. In reverse, the case study learns about the theory of citizenship in practices that that theory functions as a framework that visualises different - sometimes conflicting - notions and practices of citizenship and thereby recognises all these as part of citizenship.
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In line with discursive psychology’s re-specification of psychological categories as discursive practices, this chapter focuses on everyday mobilisation as social action. We analyse online communication on Facebook Event pages of local social movements, designed to mobilise for political gatherings such as demonstrations. The aim of the chapter is to explore how language is used to make available the social action of mobilizing for collective events such as demonstrations. In addition to other perspectives on the role of language in mobilisation, the discursive psychological perspective takes into account both the rhetorical and the interactional features of online calls for collective action participation. Members of social movements construct calls for participation in collective action as appropriate or fair by carefully managing their reasonableness. In dit hoofdstuk wordt alledaagse mobilisatie behandeld als een sociale handeling, vanuit een discursief-psychologisch perspectief. Dit perspectief herformuleert psychologische categorieën als discursieve praktijken. We analyseren online communicatie op Facebook Event pagina’s van sociale bewegingen, die ontworpen zijn om mensen op te roepen deel te nemen aan bijeenkomsten zoals demonstraties. Het doel van dit hoofdstuk is in kaart te brengen hoe taal wordt gebruikt om mobilisatie voor collectieve gebeurtenissen mogelijk te maken. In aanvulling op andere perspectieven op de rol van taal in mobilisatie, wordt gekeken naar de interactionele en retorische aspecten van oproepen tot deelname aan collectieve acties. Leden van sociale bewegingen construeren de motieven voor deze oproepen als redelijk en weerleggen daarmee het idee dat ze handelen uit activistische motieven.
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