8 articles in this issue
Morten Tønnessen, Sarah Catherine Patricia Duff Hean, Siv Oltedal, Angela Pen~a
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Morten Tønnessen
English:This article provides an overview and analysis of human development, inequality and peoplés perception of social and economic risks in Latin America and the Nordic countries. While Nordic countries rank very highly on the UN´s Human Development In... see more
Trond Heitmann
English Social work in Latin America is commonly associated with the struggle for citizenship, democracy, equality and universal access to social services, often with a strong political-ethical reference to structural change. Hence, the informal personal ... see more
Marit Ursin
EnglishThe point of departure of this paper is that childhood is socially constructed and continuously re-defined through public policies, laws, practices and ideologies. The paper explores the perspectives on children, upbringing and socialization as ref... see more
Ingunn T. Ellingsen, Ingunn Studsrød, Carolina Muñoz-Guzmán
EnglishThere is a lack of research comparing Latin American and European countries alongside how family policy relates to social work practices. This study fills in the research gap, and compares Chilean and Norwegian social workers’ conceptions of childr... see more
Siv Oltedal, Lennart Nygren
EnglishSocial workers around the world work with families and family complexities in their everyday practice. In this cross-national study, we explore social workers’ family intervention practices related to family definitions and functions, and how socia... see more
Ida Bruheim Jensen, Ingunn T. Ellingsen, Ingunn Studsrød, Manuela Garcia Quiroga
EnglishThis study explores understandings of children and childhood among 21 social workers from five child protection services in Chile. To help grasp multiple ideas about children and childhood, we use Q methodology and the ‘child visibility’ concept. T... see more
Siv Oltedal, Angela Peña, Sarah Catherine Patricia Duff Hean
EnglishThis paper explores the differences and similarities in three social work processes as viewed by social workers in Norway and Cuba. Contrasting social work processes in these exemplars of de-familialized and familialized welfare contexts offer insi... see more