Validating tortured refugees: reconnection in social work policy and practice

Article Abstract:

Social work practice fundamentally requires connection by the social worker with the person, group or community and the interplay between them and their situations. Achieving this task requires practical and theoretical knowledge based on values and vision of purpose. However, increasing specialization in social work has led to a situation where practitioners and policy makers frequently operate separately from each other. The process of validating tortured refugees both as a necessity and as an ideal example of the need for connection between social work policy and practice is analyzed.

Evaluation, Social policy, Minorities, Social work, Social work with minorities

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Beyond theory and practice integration in social work: lessons from the west

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Certain empirical studies have shown that what social workers have learned in social work courses in the west appears to have very little connection to their actual practice. Theories, however, can contribute substantially in other important ways usefully. Social work educators and social workers in non-western cultures could learn from the lessons of the west regarding social work theory and practice integration and at the same time enhance their knowledge with their own cultural wisdom.

International aspects, Social workers, Social work education

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Dialectics in social work

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This article discusses utilizing dialectics in social work practice to strengthen relationships. The author maintains dialectics is about contradictions and opposites, such as yin-yang, which can result in new knowledge, and can be applied to interpersonal relationships and organizations in which change can be brought about to strengthen interconnections.

Hong Kong, Social aspects, Interpersonal relations, Contradiction, Dialectic

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