Over the last decade, many (European) countries have created special committees or conducted special investigations into the occurrence of sexual abuse in residential and/or foster care. Many of these studies concluded that children and young people in care are at a greater risk of being sexually abused, …

Youth departing from secure youth care are often not well prepared for living on their own. This study aims to provide more insight into youth’s perspectives on what they need to improve their chances for successful return to and participation in Dutch society. The study is a first necessary step on a …

Sinds 2009 wordt het Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) in Nederland op de vaktherapeutische opleidingen en in de beroepspraktijk toegepast. Het ETC is een beeldend therapeutische methode waarin zes bipolaire informatieverwerkingscomponenten (kinesthetisch- sensorisch, perceptueel-affectief en cognitief-symbolisch) …

This paper advances the case for a contextualized perspective on client impact of obligatory participation in welfare to work as a form of conditional welfare. We argue that at least three types of potentially variable characteristics of programmes as they are actually implemented matter for understanding …

Background and purpose Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research. The earliest notions of social street work origins from the end of the18th century by the British Salavation Army (Mikkonen et al., 2007). …

Tijdens de World Social Work day presenteerde dr. Wiekens haar kennis over duurzaam gedrag en lokale initiatieven, met name onder groeperingen met een lage sociaal economische status.

Presentatie gegeven op de Social Work Day aan de Hanzehogeschool (20) te Groningen.

Students’ vocational knowledge can be defined as all knowledge students require performing within occupational practice. In the context of vocational education and training, students’ vocational knowledge is often discussed from a perspective of either what should be taught and learned in schools or …

The importance of specific professions for human rights realization is increasingly recognized. Journalists, teachers, and civil servants are all considered to play a role because their work affects individual rights. This is also the case for social workers. The connection between social work and human …